12poundbass

A slow day in Chicago?

A woman’s purse isn’t complete without a couple bags of Senkos!

Date night with the wife last night. She won big bass for the night.

Nice work!

I like it!

Michigan bass slam perhaps?

@MIbassyaker that is a warmouth. I had heard of them before but never saw one until 6poundbass caught one last year off our dock. I initially thought “funky looking bluegill with a huge mouth”, then I got to looking on line and realized what it actually was. Only one we’ve caught so far.

Thankfully the wife does mine (what’s left) and my son’s hair. My SIL is a “hair stylist” as they’re called here apparently instead of beauticians. She complains wayyyyyyy to much about how hard her job is for me to even consider asking her for a haircut.

Welcome aboard

So my wife and son replaced my Kastking rod that broke about a month ago with a 7’6” HF Lightning rod (father’s day gift early) 20lb braid and the hooks and lures previously mentioned. Maybe there’s too much backbone? I figured the fast tip would help with that. No appendages were ripped off. Now that you mention it, I did see a fish (couldn’t tell what it was) pick up my bait and move it, but never really committed to engulfing it. I didn’t see a bed, but the water is pretty stained. My son was throwing a blades jig and lost a few as well. The one I did bring in the boat was barely hooked in the lip, so it’s quite possible they just didn’t want to commit. I’m still going to go to a 4/0 hook.

I go with some swimbaits in a perch flavor and target weed lines.

Great read, and sounds like you got lucky and paired with some good guys.

Quit drinking the cheap beer the night before and you won’t have the squirts the next day. ?

I’ve never had issues with EWG, to each their own I guess.

The water temps were 10-15* cooler. Our overnight lows dipped into the upper 40’s the past couple nights, and highs were in the mid 60’s compared to 93 only a couple days ago. I didn’t have much of an issue with the Rage baits. The D-bomb, that was a different story. I’m going to give these a shot, thanks!

10-12 ga marine wire is the norm.

I did do that a few times. I can’t be certain that the problem occurred while it was moved up.

I usually only use 4/0 and I have several, but tied on the 3/0. I’ll switch and see if that does the trick.

Brand new Gamakatu.

Today I went out for a few hours on our lake. I decided to try a new set up I haven’t really given much attention in the past. I had a bites and had three largemouth and one decent rock bass on. Only one I was able to hook good to where I had to take it off the hook. The others let go at the boat or came unhooked at the boat, pretty frustrating. My rig was a simple weighted Texas rig. I had a 3/0 EWG, 1/4oz bullet weight pegged at the hook, and I was switching between a Missile Baits D-Bomb, Rage craw, and a Rage bug. I lost a bass on all three and the D-Bomb was the only one I was able to land a bass on. I will add almost all our bass are post spawn (I did see a few small ones on beds), and we have had a MAJOR cold front come in. We’re on day two or three of temps 20-30* colder than they were, blue bird skies, and very very windy. So what say you Bassresource? Is the hook up ratio normal for this rig, is it the cold front, post spawn, should I slide the weight up?

Sounds pretty good!

Apparently we had to drive through the land of Oz last night to get to one of our lakes. Actually, while we waited 15 or so minutes for this house to get out of the road, a lady approached us and had said she bought it from the Amish and was moving it down the road to her land. I’ve seen it all now.

That job sure makes mine seem pretty safe.....but also very boring. ?

Glad to hear it’s still a go.

Pad Crasher, hands down.