What Setup Was Your First Bass Of 2014 Caught On?

[mod479]

Frabill sub zero ice rod and reel! 2 Lmb through the ice on Black Lake. They both ate a little jigging spoon tipped with maggots...winter needs to go away soon.

[bigbill]

Fishing? We're still fishing for ice cube fish here. It's tearing up my lines. The ice is still up to the shoreline solid. The bass coming out of there mud bed and winters sleep maybe late this year. I'm going trout fishing so I can feed my six adopted cats. I take in unwanted abandoned cats. I find little kittens when fishing.

The oil man just came. Not much new fishing stuff this year. I thank God I had the money to fill the oil tank. I burn wood 100% but this year I let the furnace run a little due to my health. From what the oil man said many people aren't filling there oil tanks. The depression/recession is still here.

[0119]

From what the oil man said many people aren't filling there oil tanks. The depression/recession is still here.

 

No way just ask the republican governor's, they've single handedly saved the U.S. economy.  They'll probably bring Ardent back to the states!!!!

[BassThumbAddict]

quantum team kvd, 7'0 MH veritas, rattletrap

[HPfishin]

skeet reese 6'8 jerkbait/topwater rod, shimano curado e50, 8lb vicious pro elite fluoro, luckycraft pointer 78sp. wore them out on it too! wouldn't recommend the vicious in 8lb though, I found out it gets frayed very easily, I guess I will stick to seagaur or stren fluorocast for anything under 10 lb test

[fish365]

Koppers Live Target lipless crank, Bluegill New Years Day

[iceintheveins]

Dynamic Lures J spec suspending jerkbait, on a 7' M BPS Bionic Blade Spinning Rod, Pflueger President 6940 reel, 15 pound power pro braid with a 12 pound P Line CFX Fluoro leader.

[NEjitterbugger]

TBD

 

 

[Jaheff]

Okuma Helios air / crucial rod, bitsy flip jig with some yum beaver trailer.

[pbizzle]

Went fishing last Saturday.

• First cast of the day - Bass Pro XTS Minnow - Chrome Black Back - 10" LMB
• Second cast of the day - Bass Pro XTS Minnow - Chrome Black Back - 20' OAK

Also caught one on a white/chartreuse Big Bites crappie tube with a 1/16th oz. head.

[normmcclean]

Shakey head with bold bluegill roboworm had to clear skim ice before I could cast

[tholmes]

1/2 oz. Rapala DT Fat in Helsinki Shad, 10 lb. mono, 7' M Abu Vendetta, Abu 4600 CI reel.

 

Tom

[jtesch]

Ice went out yesterday, first 3 bass today. Tan Tabu jig with a brown netbait Paca craw on a new Tatula 7'4" rod and a Revo Premier with 50# Samurai

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Havent caught a bass yet, but i went ice fishing for perch and i caught one on a rod that i made ot of a piece of a broken Avid. Had a Daiwa Procyon on it with 6lb braid.

[basshole8190]

I believe mine was on the okuma bbr mh 7'6" with a savage gear glide swimmer

[Tylertut]

Just went out for the first time this year to a small local pond, I didn't expect to catch anything but caught this little guy on my first time using a senko.

Caught on:

Damiki Angel EX 6'6" Light 

Lews Speed Spin with 6lb Flouro

Wacky rigged watermelon with black flake senko

 

 

[Jay Ell Gee]

Mega strike Mega Bug in Green Pumpkin / red.

Thumped a nice little two and a half pounder with the head of a four pounder. Poor guy was starvin' like Marvin.

And before anyone says anything, that is not the ONLY reason I caught that fish.

[Blues19]

FInally get to post on this, I keep seeing it and get frustrated since the weather has been terrible. Anyway, Used my new Revo S and 7' MH Veritas, throwing a Watermelon Red Baby Brush Hog

[hatrix]

Lews Tournament Speed Spool

Shimano Crucial MH/XF

Seagur Red Label 12#

Missile Baits D-Bomb in Watermelon

1/4 oz Tungsten

Trokar Flipping Hook 4/0 (I think)

[RipSomeLips]

Caught 6 in 20 minutes about 5-6 weeks ago (best start I've ever had in KS this time of year), and then busted off the only worm I brought like it. Only caught 1 the next 40 minutes.

I was drop shotting with a 16inch lead vertically below a dock in about 15 feet of lightly stained water. I was using a small 4" stik-o from BPS. I find the smaller stik-o's to be much softer than the 5" version. I had 10lb fireline on an old rapala spinning combo and a 6lb berkley vanish fluoro leader.

[MediumHeavy]

Vision 110 in Elegy Bone using a MB XX Flat Side Special with a Curado 200 I HG and 30lb SX1. Caught three bass and one trout that day. Wasn't trying for the trout, but it was a pretty nice rainbow.

[OK Bass Hunter]

Shimano Compre Heavy/Extra Fast

Shimano Calcutta 200 Silver model

Spiderwire 12lb Fluorocarbon

1/4 oz JWill swimbait head

4" Keitech Bluegill Easy Shad

[Bass Junkie]

7'2" MH Quantum Tour Edition Shaw Grigsby rod

2nd Gen. Abu Revo Premier

20lb Sunline Supernatural Mono

1/2oz. Persuader Lures Jay Yelas spinnerbait

3lb Female on a typical pre-spawn location. Next cast was another 3lb female.

[cbass12]

First:

7' MH/F BPS Carbonlite

BPS Pro Qualifier 7.1:1 

3/8 oz "Biffle Head" wobble jighead and Lake Fork Tube Craw

Fish was only about 16"

 

Biggest:

7'1" MH/XF St Croix Rage 

BPS Pro Qualifier 7.1:1

Homemade Finesse jig with a craw trailer

Fish weighed 4 lb 4 oz

[rippin-lips]

I've only caught 1 fish in 2014 and that was last Monday. Waters have finally thawed. Falcon bucoo micro 7' med/mod with a daiwa lexa. It was a rainbow trout on a kvd 1.5 in orange belly craw. Hopefully tomorrow I'll hook a few bass when I go out.