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Depends on what type of rock. Broken up basalt rock, that is very common in WA where Glen is from cuts braid like a knife. Other smoother types of rock have little effect.

I use an 8.5 foot rod for deep cranking while sitting in my kayak with no problems. I can cast a mile, and have landed double digit bass with out a net. I leave my long rod at home if I'm gong to be paddling under tree branches. It is a pain to catch tree branches with rods that are stored vertically. On days I deep crank, I most likely wont be going under tees anyway. Out in the open, rod length makes no difference to me, whether in a boat, kayak, sitting or standing.

Skinny Dippers for me. I use them for everything from A rig to punching. I'm sure there are better swimbaits I haven't tried, but if I can't catch them on a Skinny Dipper, I simply try another technique. Bait Monkey is trying hard to get me to buy more expensive swimbaits, but so far I have been able to avoid that road. A year from now, I may be a big fan of some other swimbait. Seems like it only takes one big fish, and I am in a different band.

My number one is on a log at the bottom of the lake. I'm trying to find a new number on. Maybe I just need to buy more.

When I first started fishing a lake rumored to have big bass in it, all I could catch were baby bass. I asked members on this forum, if I should try big swimbaits, and wake baits to help catch the big ones. Most members said location was the key not the lure. They were right. The next time out, I quit fishing the shoreline, and fished some standing trees if deep water with the same lures I had been fishing. First cast I caught a 26 inch monster on a Rebel Jumpin minnow. An hour later I caught the bass in my avatar on a spinnerbait. I lost two more the same size on square bills. All the same lures I had fished the previous trips catching only baby bass. I have since landed double digit bass in this lake on buzz baits, crankbaits, and Senko's. The most big bass have come on spinnerbaits, but that is because they are the easiest bait to fish for the suspended bass in the large branches of the standing trees. Buzz baits and Senko's have worked well, when the bass on in the shallows, buzz baits because I can cover water, and Senko's when I think a bass is in one particular spot. The one exception to my rule of the best lure is the one that is the most practical in a certain location, is when casting crankbaits in standing timber. A crankbait is not a good lure to fish in timber because they will snag, but big bass do love to smash them when they deflect off of the branches, and for whatever reason don't want a spinnerbait deflected off of those same branches. I guess I would say they are the right tool for the job, if you don't mind loosing tools. Before I give up on a tree, I always throw a crankbait and see what happens. If I snag it doesn't matter because I was going to leave anyway. On my lake location is the number one factor, wind is the number two factor for picking a bait for big bass. Strong wind it's spinnerbaits ,light wind means top water and crankbaits, and no wind means soft plastics. Wind many times would be considered the number one factor, because the typical strong afternoon wind dictates the location, which in turn determines my preferred lure.

I have enjoyed fishing with a bait caster for 45 years. During that time, the only thing I can say I have mastered is back lash removal.

The water in my favorite lake has been 65 - 70 degrees all winter. They have been in the shallows all winter. No need to transition. Right now they are spread out, and tough to catch. I don't know when they spawn, I have never seen a bed, but the water only has a foot of visibility half the year. I have much better luck finding and catching them, in June, when they school up in deeper water.

I consider it a successful day if I catch a bigger bass than the kid fishing at the launch with a soda bottle for a rod and reel, and a lure made from a tooth brush. I would say if I catch moor bass than him, but I might never have a successful day if I did.

I fished a lake one time that I am sure had no fish. I had been gone from the area for a few years, and came home to visit one spring. I decided to fish a lake I had good luck at before I left. I checked the regulations, and it was still listed as open year round general rules and limits apply. What the regs. didn't say was it had been treeted with poison a week earlier to get rid of trash fish. The lake was due to get planted with trout and bass later in the spring. I put in a hard 10 hrs fishing, throwing every thing in the box in a 100% fishless lake. I didn't mind getting skunked, but I couldn't get my fishing partner to keep his mouth shut. My reputation as a fisherman was ruined for ever that day. 30 years later I still get asked by some farmer if I want to fish in his cow's water trough, am I going to go to the river and try to catch a whale, or if I go fishing with you in Alaska, can you please take me to a place where fish swim.

When I get skunked( yes it does happen in Mexico) I buy more tackle and ice cream. If I get skunked and loose a giant bass on the same day, I buy more tackle, and Vodka.

We took Redneck south to Bara De Navidad this week. Fishing was good. First day. 2 Blue Marlin. Biggest 250 - 300 pounds. 1 striped marlin, 130 pounds. 1 Sail fish All bill fish released. 9 big dorado. Day two. 8- Yellowfin Tuna. Biggest around 100 pounds. 1- Dorado. Stopped at a rock pile on the way home to Puerto Vallarta, and picked up a nice snapper. Great trip. Hope to go again in a couple weeks.

Will you be staying in Mascota? I have some free time in March, might be able to help you out. No guides at Corinchis, but I would be able to hook you up with a kayak.

Problem is in Florida and Texas bass are not subject to thousands of gill nets. I doubt you will see Largemouth bass caught from Lake Fork on the menu in a restaurant. Many lakes in Mexico have a very low population of bass. The fishing is good only because there is very little sport fishing pressure. The small lake I fish can not handle constant pressure from sport anglers. It would be like taking a farm pond in Texas, that has great fishing for the owner of the pond. Then netting 90 percent of the bass leaving only a few DD. bass to catch. Then instead of the owner and his family fishing once in awhile, put a lodge on the pond and have constant angler pressure. Some bass will survive, and like you said they will have to eat, but they wont have to eat lures.

Rapala DT series does not pull as hard, and casts well with a medium power rod.

I prefer to use mono for square bills, but do use straight 40 pound braid on a couple lakes. The lakes are full of old gill nets, and the strong braid saves me from loosing my baits to snags. I catch plenty of fish with the straight braid.

I caught my first perch in 1969. Started bass fishing in 1976. Moved to Alaska and started guiding anglers for trout an salmon, in 1988. Became a captain of a private sport fishing yacht based out of Puerto Vallarta MX. in 2006. Only bass fished while on vacation visiting family in Eastern WA from 1988 to 2018. Started bass fishing Mexican lakes in 2018. I continue to work as a captain, fishing for saltwater fish on the west coast of Mexico. I bass fish out of a kayak every chance I get.

I was told today, that my favorite big bass lake Presa Pocho, near Tepic Nayarit has been discovered by a lodge owner in the area. He has made arrangements with the local manager of the lake to get exclusive rights to the sport fishing. Commercial fishing was already on a permit basis. I'm not sure if he will be able to keep people from fishing on their own, or if he will only have exclusive rights for a commercial sport fishing operation. Either way I don't expect the fishery to be able to sustain the trophy numbers, with the extra pressure of a guiding operation. The lake is only a little over a mile long, and a half mile wide. Their are not many bass, but they grow big. I caught many more bass over 7 lbs. than 1 to 5 pounders. I don't know why but almost every bass I would catch was big. Four or five bites a day was a good day, but when one was over 10 pounds and the rest over 7 I considered it world class fishing. Most days I was the only sport angler, a couple other kayak fisherman would fish the lake once every couple months. The lodge owners home lake has incredible numbers, but no trophies. He wants a place to take people for a shot at a DD.bass. He said it will be catch and release, and he will only take a few people a week, but I'm sure his costumers will pressure him in to taking more people than the small lake can handle. Even if they catch and release, the camera mortality will be enough to hurt the fishing. Not to mention the bass will become educated to bass fishing techniques quickly. The lodge owner told a friend of mine, he wants to bring some bass from Baccarac, and plant them in the lake to improve the genetics of the bass. For the past 2.5 years I have landed a bass over 10 pounds one out of every four days I have fished there. I don't know how he plans on improving on those genetics. I know of one bass over 14 pounds taken in the last year by one of the two other kayak anglers that fished there, and I have hooked true giants that got away myself. I new this day would come due to the close proximity of the small lake to a large reservoir with multiple lodges. I was hoping to get a couple more years of incredible fishing before the end came. My wife and I bought a small piece of property near another lake with decent bass fishing, but no real trophy potential. I am looking forward to fishing the new lake often, but will always miss fishing my once hidden lake loaded with 10 pound bass that lived their whole life with out seeing a lure. I only wish I would have found the time to fish there more often. If I ever find a place like that again, I will fish it every chance I can possibly get. I will never again say I should have set aside more time to fish a lake, because I now realize time in paradise is limited.

Any lure that costs more than $10. I have bought lures that cost more( Jack Hammer, Spro Rat) and they have not caught more or bigger bass than similar lures, that cost less. Add to that, the fact I'm scared of loosing them, so I don't fish them in places the fish live, making them basically useless. If I can't catch a bass with one of the hundreds of lures I own, that cost $10 or less , it is because of my angling skill, not because I need a more expensive lure. I just remembered the A rig. I will make an exception for it.

I am curious if those who say they will do anything it takes to catch bass as long as it is legal, will you troll, or use live bait. Both are very effective, but many refuse to do either.

Call me pig headed, but I'm not going to fish a pink Helicopter lure on a Zebco Barbie rod, I don't care how many fish it catches.

I don't mind helping out with house work, as long as she gives me a break, by hanging out with the Bait Monkey looking at lure catalogues, and drinking beer.

What is amazing to me, is how I try and interpret a review with an open mind, and logic, and how the Bait Monkey interprets a review. A review of a crankbait could say -- Over priced, lousy hooks, doesn't stay tuned, colors fade, and bill broke after only one cast hit the bank. I did catch a 10 pound bass on this crank, before it broke. Me.-- Not worth the money, I already have more Crankbaits than I can fish. Bait Monkey. New crank, special hunting action triggers Double Digit bass feeding response. Don't be cheap. You only live once. How much is your PB bass worth? You need a replacement for the crankbait you lost last weekend. The negative part of the review is a trick. The angler doesn't want many people to start fishing with the bait. He only mentioned the DD bass because he couldn't miss an opportunity to brag. Get it before the good colors are on back order.

I was hoping to find a blue marlin, but I think they have all gone south. We were able to release a couple striped marlin, and catch some dorado for the freezer. I'm trying to talk the boss in to chasing the blue marlin bite south to Bara De Navidad next week. If not, I might have a day off to go bass fishing.

I don't need a spread sheet. I can remember every lure I have ever bought, what I caught on it, if I still have it, where I lost it, and if I need to buy more. My wife brings my fishing lure memory up, when ever I forget to stop at the store, or have to ask her where my keys, glasses, etc. are.