NittyGrittyBoy

I had a depth finder, broke it, so I said heck with it. No electronics for this guy either

Fished at Vogel State Park, literally a 10lb + bass just cruising the shallows, I had a fit, threw my whole tackle box an fish didn't care just swam off. Beautiful country around here.

They usually are pushed way up and out of the river, cruising shallows eating bait, way up in creeks. As the river crests and starts to receed the bass will come back to the river and all will be normal again. I've always found when the rivers rising the fishing sucks, but as it starts to fall the bass fishing picks back up.

Vacationing on lake chatuge right now

Got skunked again yesterday, fished 30-40ft clear water. Drug a Carolina rig, deep crankbaits, chatterbaits, t-rigs, flukes in the shallows. Had 2 hits on the fluke. Hard fishing, I'm use to shallow muddy rivers, not crystal clear deep ponds

Yep power pro braid guy here. Constant wet hands, but I suffer through while I reel in the fish..

Okay, so let me be the guy to ask, what's wrong with using a fluke?

I'd keep it simple, start having some fish fries, keeping both large gills, crappie, and small bass, give it several months and see if you can notice a change. If not try introducing another strain of bass and see if that will help with genetics

Choice of location has a huge impact. The Lake I went to see's contsant heavy pressure and weather both days was the worst. Big fish there but extremely hard to catch. Like glaucous said I could a went to different lake or pond and probably caught more fish. Sometimes I like trying to catch big fish in hard to catch places. To me that's what makes you a better fisherman, when you can't get a bite. It makes you have to work harder and try to figure the fish out. My 0.02 cents worth

Went twice this pass week, caught 1 dink... It happens

Yup never have used a senko here either

We have plenty of gar around here, and like blue said braid doesn't stand a chance. Steel leader is about you best bet, or really thick mono. We actually have a local that makes gar lures and it works great. Just fraid rope really tied to look like a silver floating fish.

Nice. Thank you for not long arming it. Great bass!

I went yesterday evening, got there starting throwing weightless fluke, ended up throwing a weightless fluke. So my go to is ..... Weightless fluke

Glad you found the jig bite. I haven't lost any lately

I fish em until I hang em up and straighten them then I swap em out Hooks make a difference, I take 3 hook stick baits like rapala's and swap out to 2 hooks slightly larger. Catch same amount of fish and snag 'less'

I'd take five 2lb'ers

Not familiar with the lake but maybe can offer help dock fishing. Your limited to where you can fish, so you need to bring the fish to you. Scent will be your number one weapon. Chum, and lots of it. Several options, can of wet dog food, punch holes in it and throw it out Stuff a bunch of bait in pantyhose and throw it out. Whatever you do, just need to attract the fish to your area

I have the 5-speed Minn Kota edge, 70/24v. On a 16ft tracker. Pulls like a champ in rivers/current $619.00 shipped to the door- Tackle warehouse

Hope everyone had a great memorial day. Thank you to those who paid the ultimate price for the liberty's this Country enjoys. Thank you for your service

@RahlowI'm not laughing, you don't need much more than that to have a good time really!

Unless you tournament fish I don't see the need for outrageous amounts of tackle, but that's just my opinion. I keep 3 baitcaster combos and 1 spinning reel. Heavy 7'3 for flipping MH 6'6 for crankbait/chatterbait MH 6'6 fast for topwater Spinning combo is T-rig/shaky head To me that's enough rods I'm not fumbling around, I don't have to constantly retie, and I can fish multiple depths. I'll usually get a new reel/rod every year or so, and my old stuff gets turned into my inshore stuff lol. Just how it works for me

Good point on the bream tearing off ribbontails. We have some monster warmouth in our rivers. The warmouth will pick up the tail an swim off, you'll be thinking ole moss back just swam off with it, set the hook kvd style, and reel in your new ned rig... That's another reason ultravibes are popular in South ga. I actually caught my PB 11lb on ultravibe.

Congrats! It's always nice to keep the PB growing!

Yep, I don't fish holidays or weekends for that very same reason. Sounds like to me you handled it extremely well. Well written fishing story too! Catching bass behind them was greater than any word you could have said...