DFWdarin

After them reading the topic last night. I figured I couldn't sleep. Might as well go caught these this morning around 4:00 a.m.. OSP Beaver and jackall archleons at Lake Ray Hubbard. What a blast!

Hey welcome! I'm new too but welcome anyway 😜

Man I love bass fishing at night. I've been doing it for years. I've been doing it since hell. I was a teenager. But I do it mostly nowadays just because I got a son I'm raising and you know it just doesn't always work out for me to get out there in the lake whenever. I should be home cooking dinner and stuff. So I go often at night. It also keeps my wife off I disagree. She's jealous of fishing or something I don't know. Explain it but some of you guys out there know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I've caught huge bass too at night and especially at high pressured areas where I know bass are but they're just not going to bite like off. Rip rap on some of these public legs that I fish here in North Texas. Well my home Lake mostly but Lake Ray Hubbard. A little tip that works for me. If I'm struggling to get a bite, a tie on a short weight leader line to my drop shot with a black power worm and or a black OSP Beaver 4 in usually. And those always seem to come in clutch for me. You can free rig the beaver and you can free rig. The worm I wouldn't though though. I would fish a Texas rig with you know whatever size weight you think you need for your condition and or you use the drop shot. Anytime. I really really need to get a bite and I'm having trouble getting a bite at night time I tie on one of those and it's usually money. Now with the beaver it's a little different. I guess you can use a bronco bug but I wouldn't. The texture of the OSP Beaver is so much better. You may not catch as many fish with one, but you'll catch fis©h with them guaranteed. Now I fished that free rig or I like to fish it with a big bite bait shorty head. It's kind of their Ned Head but it is a ewg three\° Hook and it works really well. So I would rig it on that free rig and or works really good with the split shot too . Also, if you're going to be fishing public lakes from the bank at night, do yourself a favor. Wear you some rubber boots like you know things you might spread concrete in or something. You know something that covers your ankles and a little bit of your leg because moskins are out there but there's even other things too. I mean last year I got charged by three rats scared as s*** out of me anyway, it's not as bad as when I was pond hopping as a teenager and got ran into the water by horses. I thought we were coyotes I guess at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. I hope you guys tear them up Darin Ray .

Dang, I was using voice recognition and my post is pretty bad grammar wise. I'll have to check that rod out. Thanks for the tip

Your hello everyone, I stumbled upon this forum searching questions about certain rods. Glad I found it. Been reading around. I like this place. Hopefully I can stay engaged and active on here. I get distracted with my family. I've been fishing since I was able to remember. Probably I know going on the boat at age one but I don't have many memories of it. Growing up my father took me fishing a lot. I love to go a lot. Much more than my other brother. Have a good excited. Like butterflies in my stomach. Just thinking about going. And most time you know I'd fish for whatever by but sometimes you know if we're fishing for bass primarily well I had to learn how to fish for bass. So at age 6 I think it was when I learned how to do my first Texas rig with the purple whitetail worm. At that time as many, many years ago 40 something years ago. Tru-turn hooks were all the rage. My dad showed me how to Texas rigged weedless and I remember I was using a tru turn hook cuz I was so excited being able to use one because my dad would never let me use them. Anyways, he would take me to Lake Crockett national reserve Lake only for wilderness activities like fishing, bird watching you get the picture. No jet skis in other words. Man, we would tear them up. And I could say I was bit by the fishing bug coming out of the womb I guess. You know my other brother. He never took to it like I did. You know kind of like my son. I've been taking my son fishing since he was 2 years old on the boat and everything. And he's 13 now and he doesn't really like fishing that much. Stephanie doesn't like it just doesn't ever care to go. So weird to me. But I don't force it on him. Although I've been thinking about doing it again lately. Lol. So my personal best bass is like borderline 10 lb is like nine something. I believe it was 22 and 1/2 in Long 23. And a primarily fishing out of the kayak nowadays and some bank fishing too. I like going to spots that no one else can get to.. so from the store you heard above my first bass experience was with plastic worms really but I would catch one here and there on a rooster tail or roadrunner. These are lures. My dad would let me use when we went fishing because he knew I had a better chance of catching something. And that's all I really wanted to do. But I love bottom bouncing. Probably my favorite technique fishing for bass. I know top water and dirt, bait, bites and so on and so forth are what most people like. There's something about jigga soft plastic and the motion. It was intended to be jigged at and then getting that bite whether it be from Texas rig or a jig. You feel that thunk then if everything goes right you can see your string kind of move off and you can move forward with it and then that slack line hook set and you know right then if you got them. I tell you what fighting an 8 pounder on a kayak is an experience. I feel like I had a trolling motor one time attached to me. Lol. Anyways, if you read this far, sorry for the long ass biography of me. But I love fishing at Lake Ray Hubbard. And I've been doing it for 43 years and I'm just now 49.

I have the p5 the x-bites and the Whippet. The ex bites is deceiving because you think it's going to be fragile with the weight of it but it's actually a super strong rod. That's one thing in about to destroy your series the p5 anyway the durability is really really good. and with the weight of the rod and power of the rod and every niche category they got one for these were outs are durable strong they do the job and they're amazing when it comes to sensitivity. when I cast out a soft plastic I can literally feel the bait hit the water. It's crazy. I've gotten to where I can feel a lot more accurately what the size of the fish is almost that's hitting my line. Anyway, I know people say they're really expensive but they're expensive here but over in Japan. They're not that bad. They're about 330 bucks. And I let the cat the bag. If you actually go to a Japanese tackle store online and purchase one. Just save yourself $100 to $200. Easy