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We went fishing out of Puerto Vallarta for two and half days. First day was spent mostly getting fuel and traveling to the fishing grounds. Landed one 50 pound tuna. Drifted on the fishing grounds for the night, landed 4 dorado, 9 tuna and one sailfish, on the second day, then drifted again the next night, landed 5 dorado, and two tuna, the next day, before heading back home at noon.

I caught my PB on the MiniMag, and have caught many large bass on the Cloud nine Magnum. I know it is a bass fishing sin, but trolling a Cloud 9 Magnum catches big bass.

I haven't tried this one, but I may buy a couple for this spring. Has anyone had any success with this?

Sometimes it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

I don't know about other animals, but I do know most of the time, bass are not around me.

If you can't be successful hunting any North American big game with a 3006 you may need to hunt a different area, improve you stalking skills, and or work on your marksmanship. Regardless of the reason, or combination of reasons, the caliber is not a contributing factor to lack of success. I have witnessed animals as small as cayotes to as large as Alaskan moose and brown bears, effectively harvested with a 3006. As the old saying goes, beware of a man with one gun, because he probably knows how to use it.

Has anyone ever fished the Reblel Blackstar? I remember when it came out. Huge add campaign in all the fishing magazines. I was a big fan of Rebel lures, and wanted to buy one, but the Monkey had less influence on me when I was young and broke. I almost pulled the trigger one day, but decided the graphite line tie had to just be a gimmick, and the colors looked straight out of star wars. If I ever run across one now, I'm going to buy it and give it a try just to see if I made the right decision way back then.

http://fishermanshack.net/spinner-building-components/blade-selection-c467/ Go to this website. Don't be misled by all the titles saying spinner blades for salmon. Bass will not know the blades were advertised for salmon. If you don't see what you want, call them and Don the owner will be able to tell you if he has what you want. They have many sizes and colors that are not listed online. I bought blades from him for 25 years, and he was always very helpful. He also has great deals on bulk swivels, clevises, wire, snaps, and beads.

You can learn all you want to on the internet, but you still have to go out, backlash your reel, set the hook to soon on a top water, and finally land a bass, before you really learn what bass fishing is all about.

Do not fly home. Book you and the Monkey on a freighter along with a dozen shipping containers full of tackle. It will take some time, but crossing the ocean with that much tackle could be considered therapeutic, and definitely well worth it.

1. Spinnerbait including inline spinner 2. crankbait including lipless 3. plastic worm including creature baits 4. top water 5.swimmbait If I have to be more specific, than I give up, can't be done with 5. Maybe 50, but even then I would have to make some tough choices.

I grew up fishing a lake near my home in a small town located in Eastern WA State. The lake had trout, crappie and bass. I started out fishing with a worm and bobber, for what ever would bite. After catching my first bass on a lure, I became hooked on bass fishing, and met my friend the Bait Monkey at the same time. When I was 25 I quite my job, and drove to Alaska. I guided fisherman and hunters there for the next 25 years. Even though there are no bass in Alaska, I still kept up with bass fishing by reading articles and looking at catalogs. I always would imagine how a new lure would work on my old home water, and hoped I would be able to bass fish again someday. One day while fishing for king salmon, on the Togiak river, a client asked if I would like to captain his sport fisher in Puerto Vallarta for the winter. I took him up on his offer, and spent a few years working in Mexico in the winter, and Alaska in the summer. Eventually he bought a boat that needed a full time captain, and I had to decide if I wanted the job. I hated to leave Alaska, but I was ready for new adventures, so I moved to Mexico year around. I eventually found some time to go bass fishing in some lakes near PV. I had some success so I bought a Kayak, and now bass fish every chance I get. After a few times bass fishing in my kayak I caught a new PB. My old PB of 5.5 pounds was caught on a spinnerbait in the summer of 1977. My new PB was 10. 7 pounds and also caught on a spinnerbait a few years later in June of 2020. I skipped right over the 6 to 9 pound class bass, for a PB, I guess it is better to be lucky than good. Even though the bass in Mexico are huge, and the fishing is good year around, I still think of the waters I fished growing up as my home waters, and I still think about how every new lure I buy would work if I were fishing my old stomping grounds in WA. I have fished for bass for 50 years, but only consider myself and average bass angler. Many of those 50 years were spent fishing for trout and salmon, which I consider myself and expert, with both conventional and fly gear. I consider myself and experienced saltwater captain, but the true experts on the saltwater here in PV are the local deckhands I hire. They are some of the most remarkable fisherman I have ever met in my entire life. Short answer would be my range is from Alaska to Mexico.

I use a 7' 6" Diawa Tatula Flipping Stick. Not really high end, but it gets the job done for me.

I plan on trying live Tilapia. I first have to learn how to catch the bait, then how to fish with it. I am not talking about simply suspending a bait below a bomber, throwing it out and sitting in a lawn chair. I want to learn how to skillfully fish the bait, and target the largest bass in the lake. I will fish lures most of the time, but I do want to expand my my bass fishing skillset, learning how to effectively fish live bait.

How many on spinnerbaits?

Depends on what lake I fish. One lake 15 pounds is my average, another lake, I rarely catch 5 bass in one day, I usually only get two to three bites a day, but the average bass I do catch is about 7 pounds. My best lake which is somewhere south of Menderchuck, had my best average 5 bass bag this year, averaging around 30 pounds, with my best one day bag at 42 pounds. I only fished this lake at the peak time, and was very lucky the few days I fished there. I'm sure if I fished it more often, my average would be 15 to 20 pounds.

A spinning rod, 8 pound mono, and a Rebel Deep Wee R crankbait is all I needed to catch bass when I was young. If it weren't for the Bait Monkey on my back, that is all I would need now.

Would a picture of a spinnerbait help?

The Bait Monkey, because he tricked me in to drinking the cool aid many years ago when I was young and didn't know any better.

I use Tim's loose your shirt insurance. 100% guarantee zero reimbursement if insured items are lost or stolen. No premiums, or money down. I loose all my tackle, one lure at a time, I wonder if I could get snag insurance.

Bass are not like bees, or ants working together as a group, all doing the same thing at once. Not all bass will be doing the same thing at the same time. Same thing can be said about people. We are all individuals, but certain reactions to our environment and our communal habits can have a large portion of people doing relatively the same thing at the same time. If I were going to try and sell beer on a Sunday in November, I would try and find as many people in one place as possible to sell my beer. Two places that are popular on Sunday are church in the morning, and Football stadiums in the afternoon. If I want to be successful I will have to find out which stadiums have games that day. I wouldn't sell many bottles of beer if I went to a stadium with no game that day. Just like trying to find bass chasing spawning shad on a lake with not shad. Football stadiums would be an easy place to sell beer. Kind of like an easy afternoon bite on a warm spring day. With a little more research a good salesperson will find out what brand of beer sells best in the region the game is being played, therefore refining the sales pattern more. Selling beer at church in the morning may be difficult. I would probably have to switch my product line, and try selling something else It would be a big benefit for my profits to learn to sell another product on Sundays because after football season is over my pattern for easy afternoon football game beer sales is gone. Yes there are thousands of people that don't go to church or football games, that might want to buy my products, but on Sundays in November, I at least know there will be large numbers of people at church and the stadium. Bass are similar. If one is chasing shad on a warm afternoon, than there is a good chance others are too. If a certain insect hatch occurs every evening for a few days in the same location, then you can bet a large number of bass will be there. You may still be able to catch larger bass on craws, in deep water at the same time, but for numbers the evening insect hatch would be a great place to fish. You may have to not only pattern the bass, but it helps to pattern the prey as well. Some days the bass will bite completely at random, and there does not appear to be a pattern, just like some days the salesman cannot find a large concentration of customers, and has to simply go door to door. A good bass fisherman will try to be observant and find a pattern, just like a smart salesman will research his market.

Being observant and figuring out a pattern, is what makes great anglers different than average anglers. If I catch a few bass in 10 feet of water, I may assume the pattern is fish 10 feet deep. I go to a dozen other spots that are 10 feet deep and don't catch any fish. The problem isn't there was no pattern, the problem was I wasn't observant enough to notice what the pattern was. In reality the place I originally caught the bass was a main lake rocky point, with a strong current passing by. I could have caught bass in 5 feet of water off that rocky point, but I quickly assumed depth was the pattern, and didn't take in the rest of the information I should have noticed from catching those first few bass. I could have spent the remainder of the day fishing rocky points with current and catching bass, instead of going to random places in the lake that were 10 feet deep. This example is an extreme over simplification, and doesn't take in to account the pattern may change as the sun angle, wind, current, or many other factors change, but the idea is the same. I may catch two bass and not notice any similarities between the two, but a great angler may notice a multitude of things the bass had in common. A great angler will also notice a pattern where he is not having success, and will not continue to fish similar places. There will usually be some kind of pattern, it may be as simple as fishing the end of the lake that has open water, while the other end is covered in ice, or as complex as fishing for bass on beds, on a south facing bank, protected from a west wind, with a gravel, bottom in 65 degree water on a full moon next to isolated wood, with a white soft plastic. The important thing is to observe the soundings and use any and all information available to determine similarities and develop a pattern.

My fishing style differs from most in a few ways. Most people Walk the dog with a spook. I usually spook a dog making it run, when my inaccurate casts lands on it's back. Most people will tell you that 10 pounds of drag is by far more than an angler will ever need, may be true for bass, but is way to light for dogs. Many people fish swimbaits, I prefer to go swimming for my baits. Instead of slow rolling a spinnerbait along the bottom, I slow roll my kayak, sending multiple spinnerbaits along with the box to the bottom. Some people fish at night to escape the heat and catch big bass, I fish at night to escape ridicule, and catch big bushes. Many people barely tick the top of submerged vegetation with a lipless crankbait, I prefer to make casting lanes in the vegetation by dragging all of the vegetation back to the boat. The standard way to fish a crankbait is to deflect off of cover. I have to deflect and cover when my wife askes me why I need to buy dozens of new crankbaits. I have read over and over how important it is cast so your lure enters the water quietly with very little splash. The theory being a stealthy presentation will not scare the bass. I prefer to make lots of noise on entry, and don't want to catch a bunch of scaredy cat bass anyway. I am after brave bass. Most anglers skip their lures under overhanging trees, and under boat docks showing respect to the dock owner by never hitting a dock. I throw my lures in the middle of overhanging trees, and loose all respect by casting high and hooking the dock owner. A good angler changes line when the line shows signs of getting old and weak. I change my line much more often. I change it every time I get a backlash that I have to remove with the help of a sharp knife. Most anglers skillfully work their lures through many types of cover such as a submerged brush pile. I prefer to loose my lures on the brush pile. After awhile the bass will get used to their home being decorated with my lures. When I come back and retrieve a lure by the brush pile, a bass may think someone is steeling one of his decorations and attack my lure. Most anglers retrieve buzz baits on the surface for the entire retrieve. I let mine sink while picking out a backlash, then retrieve it back to the boat only splashing on the surface next to the boat. Many old time anglers wait until the rings disappear before working a top water bait. I go one step further. By the time I pick the backlash out of my reel the split rings have rusted off the bait. It takes skill to slowly drag a football jig through rocks, and hop it off the bottom when it starts to get snagged many time triggering a strike. I prefer to snag the jig and drag my kayak until I am on top of the jig, and then hop in the water to try and retrieve it triggering much laughter by both fellow anglers and bass. To most people a drop shot is a finesse presentation, to me it is what happens at the end of the day when I don't even have enough finesse to keep from dropping a shot in the water, while at the same time spilling the whole bottle. Some anglers reel a chatterbot straight back, and some stop and go like a jig. I simply snag them on a log like all the rest of my baits. Most people fish and catch their bass in the water. I like to attempt to catch the elusive walking bass on shore first, before getting my lure in the water. Most anglers avoid loosing lures, I like to leave most of my lures at the lake that way other less fortunate anglers can find them and catch bass with them. I feel it is my way of giving back to the community. The other day my wife put a stop to this practice by pointing out that we are the les fortunate, and the other anglers will buy their own lures long before I will be allowed to replace mine, while staying home and doing some work around the house would be a great way to give back to my community. To some a Texas rig is a snaggles presentation that can be fished almost anywhere. To me a Texas rig is simply a challenge to prove not only the soft plastic but the whole rig can be lost anywhere anytime. Most anglers skillfully, gently, work their lures around cover and snags, while setting the hook strongly into bass. I like to make strong hooks sets on snags, and skillfully, work my lures right out of a bass's mouth. Most good bass anglers, make short accurate casts that catch bass, I make long inaccurate casts that catch a variety of objects that don't even remotely resemble bass. Most angler use a variety of rods, reels, and lures because of the numerous techniques the have perfected to catch bass. I use a variety of rods, reels, and lures based on what is left over from my last fishing trip. Many times what I call a variety is more than one but less than three. Most anglers bring the bass they hook all the way to the boat, land them, accurately weight them, and take pictures of them. I prefer to release the bass I hook when they are about half way back to the boat, (which is much better for their survival of the bass )estimate the weight then double the estimate, and at the end of the day borrow a fish from a friend for a picture. Game wardens ask most people for their fishing license, and if they caught any bass They only laugh, and ask me if I am OK. Some people Junk Fish, My fishing gear and fishing skill is Junk so maybe I am not so different. When most anglers arrive back home after a day's fishing, their family asks them how many fish they hooked and caught. My family asks me how many times I got hooked, and if I was caught. Many Kayak anglers stand while they fish, I go one better. I stand, and do an awesome belly flop while I fish. Some anglers are experts with electronics. I am not bad myself. I would bet their isn't anyone out there that can drop their phone in the water and get it in a bag of rice as fast as me. Some anglers fish from shore, I fish on shore. Some anglers use a plug knocker to get crankbaits that are hung on the bottom back. I use a plug knocker so I can not only loose the crankbait, but loose the knocker, break a rod tip, and flip my kayak, kind of a multi purpose tool. Some people exaggerate the success of their day on the water, this is usually not considered outright lying it is simply and anglers prerogative. I always tell the 100% truth about my day on the water, because there are times the truth is greater than fiction, and some things are impossible to make up. Most fisherman quit fishing at the end of the day, I quit fishing when I run out of tackle, which on a good day is closer to the end of the day than it is the start of the day. Yes I do things different than a majority of anglers, but like most anglers, I always have a good time while fishing for bass.

I loose fish, snag, backlash, tangle line, cast high up in trees, cast two feet past my target, two feet short of my target, try to catch fish on dry land, miss strikes, set the hook in to almost anything that is not a fish, and swear far more than I see anglers do on You Tube videos.