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Buzz Bait Frog spinnerbait

Spinnerbait. Fished fast on top, or slow rolled on the bottom, and everything in between. I'm lucky to be able to fish water that the bass have not seen many lures. If I had to fish pressured water, there is a good chance my confidence bait would change.

6th. Sense have great hooks on all of their crankbaits, and are mid priced.

Pictures of a new impeller for 70 horse Yamaha outboard, and one I just replaced on the water pump of a C32 Acert Caterpillar Diesel marine engine. I replace both every two years or sooner, depending on engine hours. The CAT impeller costs $700, a complete pump runs around $4000. Hope this makes outboard owners feel better about preventive water pump expenses.

Some guys got all the luck. Suppose he owns a brewery too.

Rapala DT series. 6th sense Cloud 9, Norman DD 22, bomber 7 A. Are some of my favorites. Buy two or three of many popular brands and colors. Then only buy one of another kind. The one you only buy one of will be the one the bass like and so will the snags.

My spinner baits catch lots of fish before retirement and I can still save the blades swivels beads and sometimes skirts. They will last as long as a few bags of soft plastics and I snag and lose my crank baits at about the same rate as my spinner baits get ruined. Nothing last forever if they’re bent that means they’re working just like baits with scratched up paint those are the good ones.

I usually carry four rods in my kayak. One medium fast casting, one medium heavy fast casting, one heavy flipping stick, One medium spinning rod. The flipping stick is having to do double duty now that I fish an Alabama rig. It works, but the bait monkey wants me to buy a specific rod for the a rig. Problem with buying a rod heavy enough to handle the Alabama rig is, It would also work great four giant swim and glide Baits. Not sure if I can afford to go down that road.

Have you ever used a gill net? Most gill nets are made of mono. Commercial fishermen change colors of mesh often depending on clarity and color of the water. Purse seine nets are made of braid because it doesn't matter if the fish see the net. Fish do learn to avoid gill nets. Proving a large brain is not required to learn basic survival instincts. I do not think bass will shy away from braided line where I fish(1-2 foot vis). I don't have experience fishing for bass in clear water. I will be interested to see what bass fishermen that do fish clear water think. Other species of fish in clear water are spooked by braid. I have seen this happen many times. I can only guess it is because braid is more visible.

I wish. I was trying to show a young guide it was possible to load a full propane tank into a float plane with out help. I got the tank in but also taught the guide how to tear tendons in a shoulder. An old hunting guide I know was fond of saying ,the first rule of guiding is, if you are going to be stupid you better be tough. Unfortunately, as I get older, I'm not any smarter, and not near as tough.

I haven’t been fishing since I hurt my shoulder in early July. I had surgery a month ago. Not getting any better I will need another surgery in a couple of weeks. This is the longest I’ve gone not hunting or fishing since I was 12 years old starting to go crazy.

Fall here means afternoon thunder showers Flooded grass buzz baits frogs and big bass rain stops in November then the fishing gets even better. I hope to be able to start fishing about the time the rain stops.

Congratulations on your new kayak. If you haven’t done so already, I recommend going out on a nice day flipping over and practice getting back in a few times. I know it is a very stable vessel but so was the titanic.

I was flying my cub to a river in AK. Winds were calm clear sky all was good allowing my mind to wonder. The engine sputtered. I Reflexively lowered the nose and switched fuel tanks. Engine went back to humming the way it should. My passenger woke up from his nap and asked what was up. I replied I was just wondering If we should start with fly or spinning.

I use the 7 inch only because they don’t make an 8 inch.

I have seen salmon spawning with enough tackle to stock a shop. The mortality rate on spawning salmon is 100 percent so it would be impossible to tell if they could live for years. The salmon had travelled 100 miles up stream from where they were hooked so apparently the tackle is not doing much harm. I think the male salmon with most hardware probably gets the best looking girls. Fish are tough. I am sure the damage to my ego is far greater than the damage to a monster Bass that breaks off. Of course if it breaks me off it must be DD.

A friend told me about a lake with giant bass then showed me picture of his wife with one well over 10 pounds I went to check it out and there were signs no fishing allowed. I was gong to leave but decided I would talk to a man loading his truck. I asked him if it was OK to fish if I let the bass go. He told me he was the manager of the lake and I was welcome to fish as long as I killed any bass I catch. I was not allowed to keep tilapia. Only a few people had limmited permits to commercial fish for Tilapia, and they want the illegally planted bass gone. The lake is a big bass paradise that I have practically to myself and I don’t have to pay a dime. My friend who told me about the lake fishes salt water and only goes bass fishing a couple times a year. I don’t know how much money they make off of the tilapia but I would wager the double digit bass are worth more.

My favorite is the old Bagley Balsa B 2. I have a few left, but don't fish them much at my local lake because there are to many abandoned gill nets to snag. With the right touch, a balsa square bill can be worked through unbelievably thick cover, but are no match for a ball of gill net hung in underwater tree branches. For economic reasons I use a lot of Academy sports H20 squarebills. I prefer them over many brands of crankbaits regardless of cost. My problem with Academy is they don't ship to CA. Most of my gear is brought down by a friend that lives in CA and has another home here in PV. My only chance to get Academy baits is when I go to the states myself. I even had a large order sent all the way to a friends house in Alaska, and I picked them up there, and brought them down to PV in my luggage. Sounds expensive, but the shipping was free, and I had to go to Alaska for work anyway. This year I got hooked on 6th. Sense square bills I love the hooks, and the mini mag size has caught me two over 10, and dozens over 6 pounds. I have also landed many fish on all of their other sizes. It does hurt the pocket book, when I loose one but I never think about the cost when I'm on the water.

I don’t get a chance to bass fish very often. When I do I like to make the most of it. I leave the house at 4 AM get to the lake at daylight. Fish untill dark eat my lunch in the kayak. Set up a tent spend the night start fishing at daylight.Leave at 4 PM get home at 8 PM a very tired angler.

I do not have the experience to any give informative information on visibility of line for bass. When I bass fish I use all 3 types of lines for reasons not related to visibility. For Yellow fin tuna I do have the experience, about visibility of line and have strong opinions on the subject. I also assume tuna have equal size brains, so I wont consider brain size a factor. If you are fishing for tuna that have received fishing pressure from sport anglers, and have dodged nets their entire life, they will not hit a live bait tied straight to any braided line. Many days they will not hit a live bait tied to a mono leader, and some days I have had to drop down from 130 to 50 pound floro to get bit. If I go 300 miles off shore to a set of islands that are normally off limits to fishing, they will hit 130 pound floro and mono leaders, but not braid on live baits. If the baits are suspended under a balloon or kite making them only visible on the surface line makes no difference as long as you pay attention and keep the baits flopping on the surface. If I am trolling lures at 8 kts, on the surface or under the surface I don't care what type of line I have on and neither do the tuna. I will even use 200lbs. wire leader if Wahoo are in the area. Bottom line is while drifting or slow trolling live bait, the tuna have lots of time to decide if they want to eat, and take a very good look before they attack. If a lure is moving fast they quickly strike and line makes no difference. It is easy to tell if the line is making the difference because I will have several rods out with the same bait and hook, making the line the only variable. Some days are tough and going down in line size means loosing fish, it is difficult to land a 200 pound fish on 50 pound, but You have to get bit in order to catch. Pressured fish learn quick. I don't know how, or if they are smart or not, but I do know they adapt to pressure. 15 years ago an angler in my area would use 200 lbs mono leaders, thought kites were toys for kids, and wouldn't even know where to get a helium tank filled. Now even the small panga commercial fisherman have kites, helium, and fish light floro carbon. The fish have adapted some how, even if they do have small brains. I can only guess that the chance of a bass being line shy in clear water with slow moving lures would be higher when compared to fast moving lures especially lures on the surface. As others have said heavy line that would impede action or fall rate will have much greater negative effect than line visibility. In the muddy water I bass fish, I assume line visibility is not a factor. One more opinion formed from actual experimentation in a swimming pool. Braided line is highly visible no matter what color. In clear water white braid is the hardest to see especially looking toward the surface. Green is the most visible in a pool, but obviously may be the least visible mixed in with green vegetation or on a dark bottom ( I don't think using a black marker to mark the last few feet of line will help. Doesn't everyone say bass see black worms best?) Floro is less visible than mono, but not by much with my human eyes. I don't know how the fish see it, but I do know even poor Mexican commercial fisherman spend their hard earned money on very expensive fluorocarbon and the only reason is for visibility.

Get the windsurfers phone number. wind sports people are the best weatherman on the planet. They pray all week for strong winds while you pray for light winds.

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A bullet proof vest. Because I would need one if I bought one more reel.

Predicting general weather over a large area can be fairly accurate depending on time of year and where you live. With a complete weather briefing and studding some charts myself, I would have great confidence in an accurate assessment 24 hrs in advance in non mountainous terrain, in winter. Add summertime temps. mountains, and large bodies of water, and accuracy goes way down. Predicting weather for small specific locations is even more difficult and inaccurate. I spent many years hang gliding. Predicting the weather for flying in Southern CA in the winter was good but I still spent many days sitting at launch hang waiting instead of hang gliding. Arrow towing in central Florida was a different story. We would all be sure the next day would be epic. Some days the weatherman was right, but many days he wasn't. The thermals made by the sun heating the ground we depended on for flying would start about noon. Some days they would cause clouds to over develop blocking the sun making for short flights. Some days they would develop in to thunderstorms which of course would be deadly, other days we flew for hours. The weather man would predict morning sunshine with clouds in the afternoon, with possibility of thundershowers in the afternoon, winds from light in the morning to 10 -30 mph in the afternoon. Those predictions were 90% correct. Problem was the difference between 10 mph winds, and 30 mph winds in a hang glider are significant. Fishing is no different. Sunny skies with a possibility of afternoon thunder storms can be a great day of fishing unless you happen to be in the middle of an afternoon thunderstorm. How accurate the weather man is depends a lot on what your expectations of accuracy are. Some places in the country are so difficult you could use a dart board to predict the weather.