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Hopefully Orleans doesn't sue me when I put this new single out there.

Fish with me, I want to be your partner Can't you see the bite is just starting? Night is falling, and I am fishing Fish with me Fishing could never be so giving I feel free, I hope that you are biting Pick the bait up, and kick your tail up Fish with me Let it lift you off the boat Starry eyes, and bass are all around us I can take you where you want to go Fish with me, I want to be your partner Can't you see the bite is just starting? Night is falling, and I am fishing Fish with me Let it lift you off the boat Starry eyes, and bass are all around us I can take you if you want to go Fish with me, I want to be your partner Can't you see the bite is just starting? Night is falling, and I am fishing Fish with me

Eh not really. Sometimes you have to finesse the big ones into biting.

My fishing buddy is a really solid fishermen, but as far as the status quo for "proper" gear for whatever technique he's fishing, it's all over the place. The man fishes frogs on 10lb mono and doesn't break off or miss many hooksets. It's stunning when you're told you should be using 50lb braid for frogs. He's all about light mono on baitcasters for everything and doesn't seem to struggle. And definitely doesn't just catch dinks.

Most of them have no idea that they're messing with your fishing. Annoying as it can be, people do kayak for the fun of it and they are entitled to do so. The water isn't just for us fishermen. I never say anything because it's shared water and if they don't fish, they probably don't know.

I had to go deep to start getting bit again as well. The heat has wreaked havoc on fishing.

This Sunday is my first tournament. It's a 4 mile long lake, semi-clear, averaging 19ft deep, with Crappie and Muskie being the predominant fish. The bass population is up and coming. Some vegetation, some sand and rocks. Supposed to be warm and sunny. In Illinois. How would you approach this? By no means a trophy lake. It's up and coming for bass fishermen. They did a shock a couple of years back and a 7 pound LMB came up. That was the talk of the land. So obviously, no monsters.

That's what I say too. Catching bass is exceptionally easy. Catching nice bass is not.

You can catch 5 bass in 15 minutes. Fishing for bass is more fun than fishing for catfish. Throwing a piece of bloody guts and then sitting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, is no fun. There's a plethora of ways to fish for bass. Tons of artificial lures for different situations. I haven't accomplished anything by letting a bait sit on the bottom for an unknown amount of time waiting for the scent to catch the attention of something. I have accomplished something by locating the bass and figuring out what they want to hit on and how.

Y'all got anymore of them bass?

Plot Twist: OP got drunk and super glued it and forgot.

Flag football is my side hobby. I generally keep my head buzzed. 2 years ago I was out playing in 100 degree heat with the sun beating down. Ended up with heat exhaustion at best. Completely red all over, second degree burns on my scalp, oozing from my head all over, faint heart beat, massive headache, nodding in and out. Bad bad bad. Ever since I am on top of 100 ounces of water per day and cooling off every 30 minutes.

Somethin's goin' on. Brutal winter with some of the worst freezes of my life, horrible spring, now a blistering, record breaking June.

I want to get into what KVD does: bigger spinning reels for better line management and casting distance. The 35 is obviously a bigger reel, meant to hold bigger line. But will 15 pound Power Pro braid work well being that it's 4 pound diameter?

I don't pull line. The fish does. And the sound is beautiful.

Nope. Might be the best sound in the world.

Bass do this all throughout the summer in one of the ponds I fish. They get so shallow that you can see their dorsal fins poking out of the water. They're always facing the bank too. Just sitting and waiting to attack. Minnows are all along the shore, and frogs sit right at the bank too. You'll see or hear the bass blowing up on minnows or frogs all the time. The pond is crystal clear. Aside from getting a great visual on them to 100% identify them as LMB, I've also caught them while they do this. I'll cast past them or onto the shore and drag a weightless trick worm right to them and they destroy it. Those who haven't seen it, well that sucks, but bass do do this. Because *you* haven't seen it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. The world doesn't revolve around your personal experiences.

I pulled one out of a muddy river near a dam under a bridge that was barely even green and had no stripe. I've seen many others as well, but not to that extreme. Fairly common.

If I'm not getting bit, I keep trying different things. If it continues to be slow, I pop a squat, drink some brews, and start junk fishing a wacky rig. I'll throw it here, there and everywhere while relaxing and enjoying the freedom of the outdoors.

Mostly spinning due to my preference for weightless plastics and finesse techniques, and living in the north where vegetation isn't typically too thick - lots of clear water ponds, quarries, and lakes for Largemouth, and rivers and creeks for Smallies. I'll use a baitcaster when necessary due to unusually thick vegetation, worming, jigging, and reaction style moving baits.

You shouldn't be adding weight to a Senko. 3/0 EWG, no weight. The slow fall and shimmer is the entire point of the Senko.

I'm aware that they make left handed baitcasting reels. That's not the point. The right tool for the right job is the point. And for finesse, my preferred style, spinning is far away the better and right tool.

What do you bass fish with the most, a baitcasting setup or a spinning setup? For me, it's spinning. Probably 75/25 in favor of spinning. I really love to finesse fish over power fish. The only time I pick up a baitcaster is when the vegetation gets thick or I'm throwing a crankbait, swimbait, or heavy top water, or fishing a river. I really love light line and weightless or lightly weighted plastics. Senkos, trick worms, Ned Rig, etc. I'm not a trophy bass hunter or a tournament fisherman. I'm usually on a pond or a small lake having a blast catching a ton of bass, many of which are 3+ lbs despite the belief that finesse catches dinks. Once in awhile if I've had my fill of bass, I'll throwing big baits out deep to try and hook into a monster, which at that point is all baitcaster.

It would be unusual to *not* get hung up and lose lures. If you never lose anything, you're not throwing them in the right places.