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[Swamp Girl]

It'll just be fun to catch a bass on something other than a wakebait, worm, underspin, or spinnerbait. I wish I could use a Mepps, but there's no way I can retrieve one of those through August's weeds. I'm yanking off weeds from the majority of my casts already with my single, point-protected hooks.

[Pat Brown]

@ol'crickety you'll be a frog master in no time.

 

Scum Frogs have the best hook up ratio and durability of any I've used so far.

 

Send me your info in DM and I'll ship you a couple.  🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks, @Pat Brown. I am cucumber cool when it comes to fishing poppers and Ploppers. The bass will hit and I'll wait until I feel their weight. I never react too soon. With frogs, however, I lose my cool. I think it's because frog fishing is your face. I can cast a Plopper half of forever, so when a bass hits, as they almost do at the end of my cast, they're yonder. With frogging, I'm sitting in the weeds and I can't cast as far and they're as likely to hit inches from my canoe as they are at the end of a cast. 

[gim]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

With frogs, however, I lose my cool.

 

It definitely takes some getting used to.  Its difficult to get a good hookset with them and quite often the strike is violent and explosive, even right next to the boat or canoe.  Its sent my blood pressure up more than once when I wasn't paying attention.

 

Just keep in mind that many of us are froggin' from a far more stable platform than a canoe.  And we're often standing up too.  And we're using heavy or MH baitcasting outfits with heavy braided line.  50% is pretty good on strike to hook up ratios here.

 

Compare that to your canoe, sitting down, and a spinning setup...well its really just not a good comparison or recipe for success so don't be too upset if its not working out very well.  If you get to 50% in a canoe consider that a grand success.

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks, @gimruis.

 

The biggest problem I have with my canoe is the bass pull me into trouble. Last time at my pond, I hooked a big bass at least ten feet from wood and it pulled me into the tree in about three seconds. How can a bass between three and four pounds pull an 85-pound canoe with me in it? No wonder we love them. 

 

Whenever I have someone in the bow and they hook a fish, I pick up my paddle and move them to open water. 

 

I know tomorrow morning I won't even have a 10' buffer. I'll start in the thicket. Like this:

 

 

Anyway, I'm hoping for a 50% landing percentage, but I'll more likely achieve 25% and feel lucky to attain that. 

 

Overall, I am quite pleased with my weed-fishing. I have come far in three years, landing fish today that would have freed themselves a couple years ago. Plus, I enjoy the challenge. It's like solving a Rubic's Cube at night in the back of a pickup driving flat-out and pell-mell across a just-plowed field. 

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

Scum Frogs have the best hook up ratio and durability of any I've used so far.

^^X2^^

They're the softest frogs out there which can really help when use spinning gear. Still need to set the hook, but they're more likely to at least get them as they collapse so much easier than typical frogs.

Launch Frog (americanbaitworks.com)

[BluegillsTightlines]

GREAT morning today. A 16", 20.5" and 21 inch bass on a Mike iaconelli Gilly swimbait. analog scale for some reason said every one of them were 1 lb 

[Swamp Girl]

@BluegillsTightlines: GREAT morning for sure! 

[Backroad Angler]

Got home from work, a rough day. Hit the pond real quick for a little bit. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Backroad Angler: Why is this your screen name? What back roads do you use?

[thediscochef]

I fooled this bass 

[LrgmouthShad]

@thediscochef yessir!

[Backroad Angler]

9 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@Backroad Angler: Why is this your screen name? What back roads do you use?

Thought it was a catchy name to use for the forums. No significant reason why I chose it lol. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

On 8/8/2024 at 9:09 AM, ol'crickety said:

It'll just be fun to catch a bass on something other than a wakebait, worm, underspin, or spinnerbait. I wish I could use a Mepps, but there's no way I can retrieve one of those through August's weeds. I'm yanking off weeds from the majority of my casts already with my single, point-protected hooks.

What about "Snagless Sally"? Bait puppy made me buy two so if you need one, let me know.

[Swamp Girl]

6 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

What about "Snagless Sally"? Bait puppy made me buy two so if you need one, let me know.

 

I need to use Sally more. My preliminary tests suggested that a spinnerbait outfishes her, but I will try her again.

[MIbassyaker]

13 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@Backroad Angler: Why is this your screen name? What back roads do you use?

 

3 hours ago, Backroad Angler said:

Thought it was a catchy name to use for the forums. No significant reason why I chose it lol. 

 

 

A true backroader never reveals his trails!

[Swamp Girl]

6 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

 

 

A true backroader never reveals his trails!

 

Ha! So true. I was just wondering if he adventured down Canada's logging roads.

[Susky River Rat]

Rivers blown out had to do some lake fishing 

[Swamp Girl]

Pretty photo, @Susky River Rat.

[Peacedivision]

Slightly better one from my favorite rat hole today

[Fried Lemons]

A couple fish from my old stomping grounds. I found them on a flat in 12’ and on the ledge dropping into the old river channel. 

 

[BrianMDTX]

I got about 3 hours of sleep total last night. Just could not stay asleep. So I decided to stay as close to home as possible. So…another 45 second drive to the pond lol. 
 

Haven't had much success here lately and as far a quantity is concerned, only 4 in 4 hours. But, I did catch my new topwater PB this morning. Not huge (just under 4 lbs.) but yeah, it’s my biggest topwater bass. Decided to start out on a PopMax and it was a good choice. About 10-12 casts in, as soon as I made the first twitch, it was gone. No big blow-up.  Just gone like sucked down the drain. She put up a great fight. 
 

Nothing on a jig this time. One on a Zoom Z Craw worm in California 420 on a Texas rig and two on a WR black Senko. All fought hard. The topwater bass started pulling drag! 
 

[Swamp Girl]

I've had big ones suck a surface lure. One moment, all is well. The next moment, there's weight on my line and all is even better. Much better.

 

Congrats, @BrianMDTX!

[Choporoz]

The two lakes I fish most often have a lot of great ledges and walls close to bank and I've spent a lot of time over the last several years working those drops and shelves.  I really enjoy working 30 foot off the bank, sitting over 40' of water.  As much as I do it, I'm still learning every time out.  This weekend I stumbled into a repeatable pattern I'd never noticed before.  The only drops with reliable bites from good fish were those with small grass flats at the top.  Had to tick the grass without getting fouled and then drop almost straight down to 15-20 foot rock or wood outcroppings. There were sub 2# bass in the grass, but the bigger ones were all deeper.  T-rig and jig did most of the damage, but I was able to cast a big spoon parallel to the walls and trick a few.

[Swamp Girl]

That bass is HUGE, @Choporoz!

 

I fished a bog this morning, but the weeds were insane. Weeds above water, on the water, and strata of weeds below the water. I picked weeds off two-thirds of my cast. I hooked what I think were two big ones and my mechanics were good, but I just couldn't keep them out of the weeds, which work like a Monopoly "Get out of Jail Free" card or a can opener or a safe cracker. I caught 17 bass on a shaded shoreline, in current, and in pads. I start with the first bass, then the best bass, and finally a pic of the bog.