12poundbass

Shark knot or Trilene knot

That’s quite the name. You fly fishing guys have a naughty dark side to ya! They do look good BTW.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll order a bigger piggy bank for this year. ?

My goal is to crack the code of offshore structure fishing. To quit beating the fricking banks 5 lb smallmouth 6 lb largemouth Get better with my electronics

I agree giving things up shouldn’t require a special day. You’re only going to give something up when you’re ready. I tried and failed a few times to give up chewing tobacco. I set days where I’d be done, those days come and went, then I woke up one day and said “this is stupid and I’m sick of it”. That was 5 years ago and I haven’t chewed since. Since you love buying fishing gear but have all you need, I think I can help you out. I’ll send you my address along with a list of gear I want. ? Congrats on the sobriety!

I didn’t have cousins like this growing up, I’m glad 6poundbass does!

Living on the lake ain’t so half bad. When the wind blows the this white pine makes it all worth while. This Pine makes the lake whisper to me and I love it!

I played hockey through my teens and suffered a separated shoulder (grade 3 tear of the AC joint) . I was 17. I was scheduled rehab and went one time. I knew all and was ten foot tall and bulletproof like all of us were. I’m 37 now and pay the price for it! Listen to the doctors and your PT people! Please listen.

We don’t have weather tech for our Buick but something similar and they are great! It takes near seconds to clean when the wife hits the car wash every other day thanks to the car wash pass she has. I’m not sure what my stepmom paid but she said it wasn’t cheap, but it’s money well spent in my eyes so far!

The usual for me.

Let’s see the finished product.

I think it looks good. What aren’t you happy with?

“Harvesting” could be seen as PC, but I think it’s more of a respect thing. I’m no hippie, tree hugger, or a PC person by any means at all. More the opposite. I think the term harvesting is more of a respect thing towards the animal you are taking. And harvesting just sounds better. My son harvested his first deer this year (which he did) sounds better and more respectful than ‘my son killed his first deer this year’. That’s my opinion

That’s a funny episode of King Of The Hill. If I remember right it was Hank that was sold “special” fish bait. He was out fishing all the other guys and kept going back to the shady side of town to buy more from a guy on the street corner. Turns out it was crack cocaine and by the time it was all done the bass were addicted to it a jumping in the boat for it. ?

My stepdad is the one who really got me in to fishing since my dad doesn’t fish so I grew up walleye fishing. We had a cottage on a lake in my area and would do a lot of pan fishing but walleye was the main target throughout the year. We’d make several trips up north during the open water season and eventually they bought property on Big Bay de Noc in Michigan’s UP.

Just got an update that mine will show up today. Not bad considering I ordered them Tuesday. You know it’s winter and the fishing is done for a few months when a guy checks on shipping progress for rubber bands for his crankbaits. ?

I just have the Tatula CT 100. I’m more of a budget guy and found them on sale this summer so I snagged one. It’s a really nice reel for the price. I have mine on a 7’ MH rod with a softer tip. I don’t know if that’s the right pairing (I probably should go shorter) but that’s what I learned on, and it’s a multipurpose setup, and I don’t really know any different.

Good write up sir, I really enjoyed that! As for me I’m a mess of 2-4. I’ve been at it enough years that just catching a bunch of little bass doesn’t seem to do it, but I’m not consistently catching bass every trip out so I don’t feel I’ve ‘earned’ the right of passage to stage three. Stage four, I do a ton of reading on here and learn new tips, tricks, and techniques and I go out and say “I’m going to catch them this way today” and I mostly stick to that technique for that day which I’m sure isn’t the best idea. As I’ve mentioned quite often on here I’m trying so hard to get off shore and fish structure but when the skunk starts creeping towards my boat I quick head for the bank (which I want to quit that habit) so it’s not necessarily stage four but a modified stage 4, it’s a ‘I want to catch them the way I know how’. This is my biggest hurdle. I won the Senko battle, I’ll win the bank beating battle too. I intentionally left stage five out of the beginning. I’m a father of a ten year old son so of course I’m at stage five as well. I enjoy teaching him about fishing and I enjoy watching him catch bass. He loves learning from Jacob Wheeler on YouTube and a couple others. It’s a cool moment when we’re fishing along and he’s points out a lay down and he lets me know that we need to pitch the deepest part of the lay down first then work shallower. I do a double take like “where did that come from?” Things like that makes my lost progress well worth it. I didn’t hunt this year because I took him out and he harvested his very first deer and we don’t need anymore meat than that. I was perfectly fine with that because I enjoyed seeing him get his first deer and the reaction and look after pulling the trigger and seeing the deer go down is a helluva lot better than me doing it. I’m not fully satisfied with my progression through this bass fishing venture but that’s just me. I guess it’s a good thing because it keeps pushing me to learn more, follow through, and figure this thing out! This venture over the decades has been fun, heartbreaking (the one that got away), maddening, expensive, and very rewarding! I’m glad I caught the bug at such a young age.

Get a Tatula. I did this year because everyone recommended one. That gave me the confidence to actually make a real attempt at skipping. I watched a video Brian Latimore put out about skipping docks then I went out on my dock and stuck with it until I got it. That’s all I did for 2-3 hours over two nights was just skip off from my dock. Of course I had backlashes but not terrible. After getting it down pat I switched to a cheaper reel and I was skipping no problem. That being said I know the Tatula was the key to keeping mistakes to a minimum while getting the muscle memory. Mark Zona said on his show once you get it figured out, this is something you need to keep doing even if it’s just practice or you’ll your accuracy. We’ll see what happens when the ice melts. Hope this helps.

I did the Amazon deal that night. Delivery said Sunday so not too bad.

The wife woke me up at 5:30 asking where the shovel was because we got a fluffy 5” of snow and the Pugs wouldn’t leave the front porch. So up I got to shovel a landing pad for Pug poop. I guess I got a nice early morning workout in. We’re supposed to get another 1-2” of snow with a mix of rain throughout the day. Next week we’re looking at a possibility of mid to upper 40’s.

Follow the white Triton that has Academy Sports plastered on the side of it. ?

Mrs. 12poundbass, myself, and 6poundbass headed out to Hobby Lobby looking for @A-Jay‘s infamous rubber bands. We looked all over the place and stumbled upon this... 6poundbass and I got a kick out of it! We checked two stores, no rubber bands the right size.

^^^^ This Your picture is sideways because you didn’t turn your phone sideways. Turn it counter clockwise next time and you’ll be good.

The single guys bought them. ?