Any Tips On Growing My Arsenal.

[Amir1234]

Hi I'm fairly new angler living in the Chicago suburbs and, I'm 14 years of age and need help growing my arsenal.  I fish a pond that has murky water and has lots of algae.  I can catch a fair amount of bass with live minnows, but am looking to use artificial baits since i cannot always purchase minnows due to lack of transportation. Here is what I have now, 

 

• 7' Abu Garcia Veritas rod with a Black Max reel Medium power with fast action
• KVD 2.5 crankbait (white with chartreuse stripe)
• 1/0 2/0 and 4/0 gamagatzu wide gap hooks
• 1/0 trailer hooks
• buzzbait (Black and red)
• Spinnerbait (white with chartreuse stripe)
• KVD perfect plastic rodents (green pumpkin) 
• KVD perfect plastic fat baby finesse (candy craw)
• Flukes (white and black)
• artificial craws (june bug)
• Zoom swimbaits (watermelon)
• 4" powerworms (watermelon)
• Powerworm trailers (watermelon)
• 1/4 oz weights
• 12 lb mono
• snap and barrel swivels

If you could please recommend things i can add to expand and also new rigs to try, money is a problem, but Christmas is the solution

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Fish what you have man! You've got a lot of areas covered there and all of them should catch you fish.

 

Put in the time with what you have and trust me, the fish will come.

[aquaholic]

Offset wide gaps and plastics. Pretty much all i throw in heavy weeds. If you can cast cranks with out catching weeds, do that and try to match the lure with what baby fish you see running around.

[Amir1234]

ok thanks guys, because lately i have been pouring money out without thinking

[MCS]

I agree with speed, you got a nice selection.

 

Only thing I will mention is a smaller bullet weight like 1/16 oz. paired up with the fat baby finesse or the power worms will make a deadly texas rig. The light weight helps get it down but allows you to get movement going without imparting a lot of movement on your part. You can drag and slowly swim it easy and it doenst pull up as much junk as a heavier weight. I would save the 1/4 oz for rodents or windy days.

[ColdSVT]

• get a good paying job...seriously fishing is tough on the wallet lol

[Amir1234]

I agree with speed, you got a nice selection.

 

Only thing I will mention is a smaller bullet weight like 1/16 oz. paired up with the fat baby finesse or the power worms will make a deadly texas rig. The light weight helps get it down but allows you to get movement going without imparting a lot of movement on your part. You can drag and slowly swim it easy and it doenst pull up as much junk as a heavier weight. I would save the 1/4 oz for rodents or windy days.

i find that the weights always get hung up on the algae

[Amir1234]

 

• get a good paying job...seriously fishing is tough on the wallet lol

 

yeah i clean the whole house for 50 bucks a week, its pretty good for 14

[MCS]

i find that the weights always get hung up on the algae

 

Yeah the lighter weigh might help that. Also once the cool weather sets in some or most of the algea will die off. So fall, winter and spring you should have an easier time. It is typical though. Sometimes jerking it free helps getting it through the weeds algea free and then letting it sit for a 30 seconds will get you bit.

[MCS]

yeah i clean the whole house for 50 bucks a week, its pretty good for 14

 

That is not too shabby, I am lucky if my wife lets me keep 50 bucks outta my paychecks every two weeks

[Amir1234]

Yeah the lighter weigh might help that. Also once the cool weather sets in some or most of the algea will die off. So fall, winter and spring you should have an easier time. It is typical though. Sometimes jerking it free helps getting it through the weeds algea free and then letting it sit for a 30 seconds will get you bit. 

 

 

 

OK thank you so much, hopefully someday I can teach my kids some of these things

[Amir1234]

That is not too shabby, I am lucky if my wife lets me keep 50 bucks outta my paychecks every two weeks

I guess this is the part where i'm supposed to enjoy it while it lasts

[Felix77]

ok thanks guys, because lately i have been pouring money out without thinking

 

Welcome to fishing ... 

[MCS]

OK thank you so much, hopefully someday I can teach my kids some of these things

 

Anytime man, stick around there is lots of good info here, and quite a few members in your area too.

 

I guess this is the part where i'm supposed to enjoy it while it lasts

 

Yes LOL

[ColdSVT]

yeah i clean the whole house for 50 bucks a week, its pretty good for 14

nice! 50 bucks can get lots of good tackle each week lol

 

save up for a small alum boat or a kyak!

[Amir1234]

nice! 50 bucks can get lots of good tackle each week lol

 

save up for a small alum boat or a kyak!

I would, but I fish a small pond and cant drive on my own so maybe in a couple of years

[The Young Gun]

I'm almost 16 and in the last year I spent every pay check I could on bass fishing stuff on every part I could. I wish I could re do it. Just go slow, you can only fish 1 bait at a time you don't need 300 to catch fish. Fish the techniques and baits you have confidence in, don't buy 200$ in drop shot setups and weights if your not goin to use it.

[Bassfink86]

 

• get a good paying job...seriously fishing is tough on the wallet lol

 

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