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I understand that it happens and I'm pretty much over it. Just a bummer. Consolation is knowing you can catch the big ones.

My PB is just about 7 pounds. I just got back from bank fishing a pond. I was using 6 inch lizards. Hooked into a giant, got it close, realized it was way bigger than my PB, and then with one final jump and head shake it got off about a foot away from being landed. For a split second every part of me was ready to jump in and grab it real quick before I realized how dumb that would be.

What the heck is the deal with SMB attacking the face of hooked LMB?

My buddy and I found a fairly large crystal clear pond. Fishing wacky Senkos we were pulling out healthy Largemouth and Smallmouth from it. Caught upwards of 40-50 each, mix of both species. I've of course seen bass following hooked bass before, but something especially interesting was going on. Sometimes when we would catch a LMB, as it got closer we could see a SMB attacking it's mouth as if to steal the bait from it. Never vice versa. Btw this place is forever our secret. Bass bit every type of lure readily and plentifully, no signs of fish being caught before or any signs of humans having been there.

You know how many people are too late to retaliate before they are killed themselves because they didn't want to react? Gasoline can be deadly and painful. Who knows what the next move would have been.

1 keeps me doing what I'm doing and where I'm doing it, if I get a 2nd pretty quickly it will hone me in, and a 3rd is definitely a pattern.

Wouldn't be hard to justify shooting the jerk at all. Poured gasoline on people who would then fear for their lives thinking he was gonna spark a flame.

I have a friend who rigs up all of his worms that way and swears by it.

Green Pumpkin is the best and most commonly sold, bought and used color.

I've seen bass eat my worms far too many times to believe that the second tap is the fish generally spitting it back out. They get a portion of it in their mouth, and then slurp up whatever portion is still left outside of the mouth. Hence tap, tap.

You may be getting the wrong idea. My abilities are simply average or perhaps above average in terms of bass fishermen. Perhaps I am blessed to have excellent waters. It's the same anywhere I've been though, if the population is good and healthy. I think at worst anyone can throw a wacky Senko and catch some bass from any decent pond. That's not to say you'll be walking away having caught anything but some dinks and maybe a 2 or 3 pounder. But the fish is a very catchable and predictable species.

Hunting the lunkers is a challenge, but, in my opinion, the fish itself is not challenging. They're just fun. You can go to any bass pond and throw soft plastics and catch several fish. You can go to any lake and, with a little knowledge, identify where they will be. It is indeed hard to consistently find the quality bass, but I'm speaking generally. As for your comment about moving on to something else should it become easy for you, well, we have different reasons for bass fishing, then. For me it's a passion. It's something that I love. Difficulty or lack thereof has no impact on this passion of mine.

Also, most bass anglers are sport fishermen so how a fish tastes is irrelevant.

Plentiful, easy to catch, put up a good fight, can be handled with ease, lots of fun techniques to use to catch them. They're just a fun fish and the fishing is still enjoyable if you're not necessarily catching.

I'm just going to run in here for a bag of Senkos and Trick Worms. $165 dollars and packs on packs on packs of plastics, and a plethora of crankbaits and swimbaits later, here I am after just going in here for a couple of things. ? Nobody warns you about what will happen after the first time you pick up a rod and catch a fish. ?

I can usually tell if the tap is a bass or a bluegill. Also, in my experience, I rarely miss a fish after feeling the tap tap.

My panties are fine. Apparently you didn't understand my thoughts because you asked me a question about something I didn't say, as if I said it, and you're right, I can't understand your point of view because you didn't give me one.

That bass is a savage. ??

Because I have a thought that doesn't end at the first sentence? Read further and you'll see somebody's complete thought.

If it was a decade ago, and they've depleted the food source, you may not actually have many big ones, if any.

If you read the rest if my post, that is not what I said at all.

Natural colors in clearer waters and darker colors in dirtier waters will likely get you more bites most of the time. So, yes, I'm confident in the right color in the right situation, and thus I fish better, and yes, color does matter, but it isn't the top priority and less traditional colors for the conditions will still likely work, even if a bit less.

Regrets his skin mount and is trying to convince himself that it's better.

Night fishing can produce amazing quantity and quality. Naturally the worst parts are the bugs and lack of visibility. Another pro, however, is the lack of sun and heat on a pleasant summer night. Preparing for the bugs is like preparing for the sun. Proper spray and apparel makes all the difference. The only true suckery is losing a lot of your main sense - eyesight.

I actually just talked to one of the guys working on it. The plant life died and sucked the oxygen out. They went in cleaned it out, have an aeration system, and got with the DNR and will be restocking it when it's ready. So the answer is, it turned.