12poundbass

Power fisherman here. I really want to get into finesse fishing and I have everything to finesse fish I just haven’t brought myself to slow down.

I’ve saw your pictures this year and you’ve killed it with the green bass for sure! Nice work.

2020 was an odd year all around, I’m sure most of you would agree. Misses: We got a late start this year because we were told we couldn’t fish or we would be fined. We won’t go any further with that one. I did catch my first smallmouth out of a lake so that was good. That was the only one I got so that was a bummer. We also lost a couple poles, two just broke, and one went overboard (I sure miss that one). I’m still struggling to get away from beating the banks. I’ve successfully been Senko free for two years now. If I can beat that addiction then I can beat the urge to hit the banks. Hits: Got the negatives out of the way first. The fish weren’t plentiful this year by any means, neither were the chances for us to go out, but there were plenty of things that were positive. I really took a liking to the vibrating jig particularly @Siebert Outdoors he has. I’ve used vibrating jigs before and never had much luck. After finding luck this year it became my go to and I’ve taking a liking to it! Screwing around on our dock I decided to try skipping. It took a while to get the hang of it, but I’ve become fairly good at it and it’s paid off a couple times already so one more tool I can add to the arsenal. 6poundbass has learned to do it as well. 6poundbass has continued to grow as an angler as well. Like I have previously said 2020 was just an odd year all around! The only big fish that sticks out was my PB pike. My goals for 2021 are to try and get at least one new PB bass, learn a few more presentations, and break this awful addiction to beating the bank. So let’s hear your year in review. What are your hits, misses, and goals for next year?

Interesting. Well, how was it? I’ve had calamari and it was pretty good, but I think anything breaded and deep fried is.

I’ve had my Echomap units for almost two years now and remove them every trip and have yet to have an issue. Dielectric grease has been recommended by Garmin so it might not be a bad idea.

You triggered a memory. When I was about 14 my brother and I got caught pushing his Mazda 323 down the driveway on our way to drop in hockey at 4 am. It was an hour drive to the rink and we were going to do it before school. As he was popping the clutch we got caught. Those were the good old days!

Good to know. @MN Fisher I believe there is a new Striker and Echomap coming out in the coming months so it might not be a bad idea to look elsewhere around Black Friday for some good deals on Garmin. Also call Russell Marine Products, BBG Marine, and GPS Store and see what kind of deal they can give you. These guys are usually the cheapest and usually can give you better deals than their advertised price if you call.

I’ve read that if you call them directly they will sometimes add the 20% to products not on the list. The worst they’ll do is say no.

Pretty talented. I can’t even get a chord transition down. ?

I say get it. With the money you save you can put it towards the Bassresource Christmas exchange, am I right @deaknh03? ?

The SV stands for Side Vu Striker 7CV stands for Clear Vu (down imaging) If you get a SV unit you will have Side Vu

The only time I could wake up with no issues was to go hunting or fishing. I’ve passed that torch on to my son. Now that I’m older Sleeping in for me means maybe an hour later than I get up on a work day. Even if I have one too many diet Millers I’m wide awake at the same time. I don’t remember the last time I woke up and it was already daylight.

Thank you Veterans!

Good point

Impeccable timing. Word on the street is Humminbird is releasing something big and new in February.

Looks like your boat fell off the trailer on the side of the road. Lol

Back when I was going through chemo one of my bosses who puts hot sauce on everything game me a bottle of Dave’s Insanity sauce and said “take some of this and it’ll knock that cancer right out of you”. He said this jokingly of course, but my stepmom put a teaspoon of it in a 3 gallon pot of chili and had to dump most of the tomato juice out and start over because it was too dam hot! The label jokingly said great for removing oil spots on your driveway. I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually did!

Alright Deak, you win, I’m in. We’ll have to harass @slonezp until he caves.

Cool thanks, I’m going to give these a shot. Thanks!

Hmmm I’ve never seen these before! Do you use them for punching too?

I’m putting together a TW list for the up coming Black Friday sale and I’m looking for opinions on flipping hooks or what you guys use for flipping and punching. I have some flipping hooks but I’m not sure I’m fond of them. I exclusively have always used 3/0-5/0 EWG hooks for so plastics when not using jigs, so going from EWG to flipping hooks for flipping and punching (which I just started doing this year) is a big change. So what say you?

Touché

I don’t have enough posts.

Frank’s