All about da bass

Yes I will for sure be focused on school. Thanks!

Thank you all for your answers! Sorry for not getting back with you guys sooner.... I have decided to stop fishing high school tournaments after I fish my championship that I qualified for this February... It will be held on a river system close the Gulf Coast. I just don't have that thrill when I get out there on the water anymore, and it's getting costly due to me losing my sponsors. I have to focus more on school now. Goodbye guys! I will be back in about two years most likely lol. I will need some help in fishing college ponds then ? The championship was moved due to testing going on in April...

Know how ya feel......

Thanks I will try to look at it that way. ? I'll just a have to fish hard and just grind.

Go for it bro. I wonder if you would have lifted your rod up a little bit if he would have fought like a catfish or what....? Good luck with the monster fish.

I have a few more tournaments before I go to the championship in April. I'm just scraping by with the things I'm doing to catch fish in the 8 hours I get to fish for the LMBs. I'm currently sitting at 17th out of 115 boats in my tournament trail. Just would like to see how other tournament anglers break down a lake. Since of school, I only have Friday to pre fish. So guys lemme know what you guys do. I'm all about trying to figure out a easier way to catch fish. It's really hard for me this past few weeks.

Yup, I think these guys have pretty much cleared it up here for ya dude...??

I had something very similar happen with a Carolina rig. I was dragging it by a tree in about 12 foot last year about this time. The fish did the same exact thing. Catfish don't show a lot of aggression when they pick up a bait, they just swim off. Now when they get hooked they will first go towards deep water like any big fish, when they get closer to you that's when they start their famous rolling technique. When I set the hook on my fish, he turned it into over drive swimming deeper. When I turned his head towards me then I could tell he was a catfish. This actually happened in a tournament at Pickwick lake close to JP Coleman.

My favorite moving baits for the winter are the lipless cranks and slow rolling spinner baits. I'll throw a crawfish colored crank bait for the crawfish bite and slow roll a white or white and chartreuse spinner bait with golden Colorado blade for those few that still have shad in the lake. If moving baits don't work, I like to go with a shakey head paired with a Zoom straight tail finesse worm or the trusty t-rig with some subtle presentation.

I have had something similar happen to me this year with fishing lakes, ponds, creeks, mud holes. Anything I was fishing in just wasn't producing for me. I absolutely tore them up last year, I don't know what I did last year that made me catch them better. I'll just have to solve that amazing puzzle we call getting a bite.

I have found that the best way is to...... go home, sit down on the couch, grab a coffee, and watch football works fairly well on those hard bite days. I know, as a tournament angler you have to figure something out but when I'm not fishing one I prefer to stay home. IMO

The Abu Garcia Pro max is my favorite, I think it's right on $70. I'm not to sure though.

Definitely something I have never heard of. If it's catching you fish, then I say keep doing it. I don't understand why you would c-rig a hollow body frog though. I thought the reason they made it hollow was to float. I'm with @Bluebasser86 on this one with the toad. It would be very different that they have never seen. Btw, how's it going guys? It's been a long time since I've been on the forums. Been real busy with school and my tournaments.

I use them dock demons, they are xtra short and have a ton of give.?

Haha, someone out there will. My grandfather taught me something similar to this and it works great on those hard days.

He just said he is a co angler. Do they have bank fishing tournaments now? Kidding?

When I get hung and I don't feel like trolling over the other side of it and pull, I just pull a little tension on it and grab the line that's at the base of the rod and pull back and snap it like a bow. It usually sends enough vibration to pop it off or loose.

Amen to that. We were fishing around about a dozen this weekend in a tournament. I just told my partner to keep fishing until one gets to close. We saw a couple 8 footers and a few small ones. One I thought was just a log, so I got the bright idea to throw my t rig over it and work it of the "log". Soon as I pulled it over it rolled over and swallowed it and ended up spooling me.

I throw green pumpkin with it dipped in that just about every time I fish muddy water.

Agreed

I agree with that, but also on the color thing, first it depends on what the forage is that your trying to present as. Say there is a lot of shad in this lake, use colors like white and white and chartreuse. If there is alot of blue gill in the area throw some chartreuse and orange out there and give it a try. Throw these baits for the best vibration: spinner bait double Colorado gold color blades, rattle trap play around with the size and quantity of the rattles, chatterbait gold blade, buzz bait for this bait I'll bend the metal frame just so the blade knicks it and makes more sound when it spins. Throw a whopper plopper bone color. Good luck

The one by Perfection Lures it has legs on the head to make it stand up better. I jacked up a good bag in my tournament this weekend on them.

Casting a KVD 2.5 out under trees and reeling them just enough to cause a wake. ( I forgot my wake bait box at home)

Drag a jig, they still in the craw fish bite where I live.

See I don't want him watching me catch fish. I was on a good school towards the end of the day.