king fisher

When I was a kid, cranks were all my friends and I fished. We called them bass plugs and I dreamed of having one of those giant tackle boxes filled with plugs. I could fish nothing but Crankbaits and be happy on all but one lake I fish now. The one lake is one big mat of floating vegetation part of the year, and I don't think I could make a crankbait work then.

You may hit the best day of the year. 25 degree temp. may be cold enough to cause some baitfish to die off. If that is the case the bass will decide to have a party, and you will want to be invited.

Back when I was young, single, and not very experienced at managing my money. I would stay up late and drink beer with the Bait Monkey. I would look at the BPS and Cabelas catalogues just to see what they had. Next thing I knew I would be on the phone ordering like a kid at Christmas, while the Bait Monkey danced on the couch and drank my beer. I always thought it should be illegal to take orders over the phone that late. The bars closed at 2:00 AM, why shouldn't BPS have to close at Midnight? Now with the internet making it even easier, I am sure glad I have matured. Doesn't hurt that Bait Monkey is scared of my wife.

Here in Mexico, a 7 inch Senko fished with a bait caster, and 20 pound line is as close as I get to finesse. Just got to love big dumb bass that don't see lures.

Diawa BG. Best salt water spinning reel for the money. I have saltwater spinning reels that cost 3 times as much as the BG and prefer the BG, I have been a big Shimano fan all of my life but I have to admit they can't compete with the Diawa BG in the price range.

It doesn't matter how many rods I own, I'm sure that if I buy one more I will become an elite bass angler. My wife tells me if I was ever going to have the bass fishing skills to become an elite bass fisherman, it would have happened many rods ago.

Went to Bara de Navidad for 3 days to fish for Marlin and Tuna. Only caught 4 small striped marlin, and no tuna. On the way home to PV decided to fish for Rooster fish, and snapper. Good luck with both.

WRB AJ CATT Blue Basser 86 TN River 46 If I could fish with these five, why would I want to fish with a pro? I have Saltwater fished with Skeet Reese a few times, and he is a great guy to fish with.

A ditch is where I unintentionally parked my car a couple of times when I was a teenager. If an underwater ditch attracts bass as well as they attract cars, then a ditch would be a great place to fish.

The problem is the Tilapia they are trying to protect are not a native species. I do understand their point of view. The dam was built to try and improve the lives of the local people. They planted Tilapia to give the people that until then relied completely on farming, a chance to make some money on commercial fishing. Some one plants bass for recreational purposes, and they fear the bass are eating their profits. The bass are there and are not going away. They catch and kill as many as they can with nets, but a few survive and learn to live in the trees where they can't get caught by nets. The lake is not good for numbers. The few that survive have more to eat than a lake with a big population of bass would. Many days I only get a couple bites, but they are usually big. Completely by accident a trophy bass lake was born.

My favorite lake the bass were planted illegally. The commercial fish manager of the lake, wants all the bass removed because he believes they eat to many Tilapia. He lets me sport fish, as long as I let any Tilapia I catch go, while encouraging me to keep any bass I catch. I have to make sure no commercial fisherman see me release a bass. Most of the time I'm the only one on the lake, or am to far away for anyone to see me release a bass. I have killed a 10 pound bass because I caught it while a local was checking his net right next to me. I gave him the bass and he was very happy. I hated to kill it, but I don't want to offend any of the local people and loose access to the lake. I was very critical of the management practices of the lake manager, but a friend pointed out, I hook a DD bass about 1/4 of the days I fish, there, so maybe the management isn't so bad, even if it is accidental.

I don't like the wind, but the bass don't care what I like, and where I fish, the bass like the wind. All my biggest bass have been caught when the wind was blowing more than 15 MPH.

They make inflatable fishing vests with the same pockets as a regular fishing vest. I have used one from Stearns for years in Alaska, but I do there there are other brands in the same price range, and a few better ones that are more expensive.

When I buy chartreuse lures, they have to lean towards the lime green side of the color spectrum, and away from yellow. I won't fish ones that are more yellow than green.

Many people use black and blue jigs, soft plastics, and chaterbaits. For some reason most people think spinnerbaits have to be white. Try a black and blue spinnerbait sometime. You may be surprised.

When I was a kid, I had one inexpensive rod and reel. I fished lures that were way out of the weight range, but still managed to cast them out and catch fish. I always spent my money on lures first. I'm not saying I recommend this practice, just the way it has been for me. I like well matched rods, and reels. I am addicted to lures.

In stories about big fish getting away, the most common sentence is. He's taking line, I think I will tighten the drag. Most common sentence in big fish landed stories. He was way to big for my gear, but I took my time, let him run, check out my pictures.

I rely mostly on my GPS. but do use buoy's too. I am lucky, the lakes I fish I can through a buoy out in the morning, come back and fish it in the afternoon, and know that the spot will not get fished while I am gone. I have even forgot to pick up a buoy, and come back two weeks later, buoy and fish still there, and good chance nobody even noticed it, let alone fished there.

Buy it. If it doesn't work out from the bank, then you have an excuse to buy a boat.

Yes if you consider starting off fishing a spook slowly, my finesse presentation , then switching to a buzz bait until the wind picks up, change, and finish the day with a spinnerbait, or square bill. That is cold water, winter fishing in my part of Mexico.

I plead the 5th.

You are a better man than me. If I had a place where I consistently caught brown bass the size you do, I wouldn't even take my wife there, let alone someone from TN.

#3 Vibrax or Mepps inline spinner stops the skunk. I recently forgot my age and jumped in the water to free the line off of the ruder to keep a tuna from getting away. It was embarrassing the amount of help I needed to get back in the boat. We landed the tuna, and I proved I am still young enough to do stupid things. I wonder when I will get the wisdom, that comes with age.

Buy here the expensive worm rod you have always wanted. She will appreciate the fact, that you bought her the best, and she may let you use it on the days she can't go fishing with you.

I use straight braid for punching, flipping in thick cover, and some top water. I use braid to leader for some bottom contact, and moving lures, spinning gear, and most saltwater applications. In general, I probably use braid about 1/3 of the time. I can make it work for all situations, but most of the time I prefer another type of line. For the situations I do use braid, it is far superior than other types of line. Example would be punching, for strength, and no line stretch, big game reels for reel capacity, and spinning reels for casting, and twist. For other applications the advantages, are not so great, and I can take it or leave it. Absolutely hate it for some situations, fishing soft plastics, when I want to have some slack in the line, and all of the time with crankbaits.