Weld's Winter So. Florida Fishing Trip

[Senko lover]

Nice fish! Those golf course ponds house lunkers.....

[BassObsessed]

What bait were you using in the second video? They were on it quickly.

[A-Jay]

Are you having fun or What ? ! ?

 

 Such a gorgeous morning / day to Fish.  Bass that are obviously Very cooperative . . .. . . .

 

 You are living the Dream my Man - Thanks for Sharing it all . . . .

 

A-Jay

[Weld's Largemouth]

What bait were you using in the second video? They were on it quickly.

Swimjigs, Spinnerbaits and rage craws, all reeled at a quick pace, they were into moving baits

[Weld's Largemouth]

Are you having fun or What ? ! ?

 

 Such a gorgeous morning / day to Fish.  Bass that are obviously Very cooperative . . .. . . .

 

 You are living the Dream my Man - Thanks for Sharing it all . . . .

 

A-Jay

Thank you thank you! I am having a blast and its only day 2!!!

[Weld's Largemouth]

Caught that bigun this morning, 22 inches long, 6 lbs flat. Caught on my favorite, senko in plum apple.

 

 

Absolutely beautiful morning

 

The bigun and its conquerer

 

I also caught a mayan cichlid on a shakey head... i have no clue how he managed to hook himself

 

Video from this evening coming soon, got another bigun :DD

 

 

[Weld's Largemouth]

The bass this evening were killing it on the war eagle screamin' eagle spinnerbait... they hit that thing so hard...

 

Video:

 

Today's fish:

 

Who knows what tomorrow morning will bring? 

[Thornback]

Thanks for taking the time to share all the info, pix, and vids. You are living a fisherman's dream.

[everythingthatswims]

Throw those swimbaits!

[Weld's Largemouth]

Throw those swimbaits!

I have been, they haven't been getting bit as much, I threw some plastic swimbaits on owner beast hooks and had a few hits, had one almost hooked but they just grabbed the back end

 

I did get one on the River2Sea S Waver, its a glide/swimbait, so it counts lol

[everythingthatswims]

I have been, they haven't been getting bit as much, I threw some plastic swimbaits on owner beast hooks and had a few hits, had one almost hooked but they just grabbed the back end

 

I did get one on the River2Sea S Waver, its a glide/swimbait, so it counts lol

The 168 definitely counts and it murders them once you learn the bait. 

[Weld's Largemouth]

The 168 definitely counts and it murders them once you learn the bait. 

Im gonna focus on it this afternoon, im about to head out soon

[SirSnookalot]

Even though I live in the area I never fish golf courses. just not around before the golfers get there, but today was different.  I didn't go out to the ocean this morning fished a golf pond at sunrise instead, caught several real nice bass on top water.  That is not the interesting part, what made this day good was I caught peacocks.  I haven't seen peas in West Delray in 5 years, I was surprised.  I caught them right near where Welds fishes in a canal.  I stopped at an area of a canal that I had never been before, caught a few decent bass then I caught a pea.  Had a couple of other hits that I'm sure were peas, too much debris in the water so I moved.  Same canal 1/2 mile away, first cast was pea than a few more.  In total caught about 7 or 8, not big but with peas there always can be a larger one around.  Bite stopped and that was that.

[BammerBass]

No offense but those 15-17" bass sound a bit underweight for their length. Muat have been somenskinny ones.

[jbw252]

Hey Weld - congrats on the catches!  Thanks for sharing the videos & keeping us informed with the statistics.  Hope you're enjoying yourself.

[F14A-B]

Welds are you including in your data collection the times, temp, moon phases, etc.? (Ambient temps) Should be rather easy to incorporate this into your records, in a few years you may wish you had.

[Weld's Largemouth]

No offense but those 15-17" bass sound a bit underweight for their length. Muat have been somenskinny ones.

Im not the one whose gonna take offense, its the bass who will haha, i did have some skinny ones and some fat ones it varies

[Weld's Largemouth]

Welds are you including in your data collection the times, temp, moon phases, etc.? (Ambient temps) Should be rather easy to incorporate this into your records, in a few years you may wish you had.

I have a conditions section where i put time, temperature, cloud cover, water clarity and water depth. No moon phases though..

[BammerBass]

Im not the one whose gonna take offense, its the bass who will haha, i did have some skinny ones and some fat ones it varies

well then down the road when they are 5 and 6 lbers they will remember that distinctly and bite everything you throw at them a haha

[Weld's Largemouth]

well then down the road when they are 5 and 6 lbers they will remember that distinctly and bite everything you throw at them a haha

haha yes

they will never remember my senko however

[BassObsessed]

Good job. Looks like you're having a blast down there.

[A-Jay]

Nice Job Weld ~

 

I really enjoy the videos and especially your enthusiasm.

 

Looks like a ton of fun.

 

Thanks for sharing it.

 

A-Jay

[Weld's Largemouth]

Great evening today! The big ones were 5lb 2oz and 3lb 8oz. Caught them on a new plastic also. The Big Bite Baits 4" Kriet Kreature.. I already am in love. Bought for $1.48 for a pack of 10 on tackle warehouse. They still are $1.48, you guys better buy them quick because i am buying them out of stock .

 

I rigged it on a 4/o gamakatsu ewg worm hook, and a 3/8 oz tungsten bullet weight. I cast it out, let it sink, jig it up, let it sink, jig it up, and repeat. Bounced it off the bottom and the fish could not resist it for a second. I intially started fishing with soft plastic swim baits and spinnerbaits but the bass kept swiping and grabbing the back end. I do have a trailer hook on my spinnerbait but i think they were just hitting the blades or something because i had no hookups. Once i switched to the Kriet Kreature, things changed, the bass were eating them.

 

I also have a story that makes me cringe and makes me really mad. While fishing today i came across a grandfather and his grandson fishing with their walmart combo rod and a walmart shad swimbait thing. So the boy hooked into a nice fat bass, probably about 3 lbs or so, and when he pulled it to shore he asked his grandfather to get the fish, and the grandfather said "just lift it by the line" the boy hesitated and said he didnt want to hurt the fish, but grandpa insisted. So the boy begins to lift the poor fish by the monofilament line and SNAP the line breaks and the fish swims away with a swimbait in his mouth. This made me soooo mad i was going to say something to the grandfather but i felt like its not my place... UGH i was so mad and i still am....I wanted to take that stupid walmart combo and snap it in two, and then give the old man a lecture on how to properly treat fish... lol I was very unhappy.

 

[Weld's Largemouth]

Yesterday I was struggling to figure out what they really wanted, until i tied on a zoom fat albert grub, that i had bought last winter on clearance at DSG but had never used before. Caught a total of 14 bass, including a 4lber. I am now obsessed with grubs

[Weld's Largemouth]

Another great day today! I got to fish with MIBassin also, who happened to also be in Florida too. I was getting lonely catching all these lunkers by myself, and he caught his PB today too! 6lbs Flat! he also caught a 5lb 7oz bass and i caught a few good ones too: