Bass Fishing Blasphemy

[Scott F]

I have never weighed a bass and when my picture is taken holding a fish, I don't "long arm" the fish to make it look bigger than it really is.  Shameful I know.  They'll probably take away my fishing license for admitting this. 

[Deleted account]

No techniques, no patterns. I'll continue to catch them wrong thank you.

[RoLo]

32 minutes ago, Scott F said:

I have never weighed a bass and when my picture is taken holding a fish, I don't "long arm" the fish to make it look bigger than it really is.  Shameful I know.  They'll probably take away my fishing license for admitting this. 

 

 

What's your number buddy? 

[lonnie g]

1 hour ago, Darren. said:

 

Welcome aboard, David!

 

Kudos on the Zebco!  

 

1 hour ago, david in va said:

I still use old Zebco 33s ,the ones made in the USA, and the old crème worms and minnows But I am old as dirt too

I still have my dads old 66 and 606, I'm old too

[Turtle135]

1. I only carry two identical baitcasting outfits (7'1" MH Fast, Lews Super Duty, Trilene XT Mono)

2. I have never caught a fish with a wacky rigged stickbait (probably because I never use that presentation).

[2tall79]

1 hour ago, j bab said:

 

I'd like to hear more about that!

 

Any floating bait is a topwater bait....until it isn't.   Throw a crankbait next to a log, dock, stump, etc......pause a bit, twitch it a couple times before you begin your retrieve.  You'll be amazed how many fish you'll catch on a topwater crank bait.

[JoeD320]

4 minutes ago, 2tall79 said:

 

Any floating bait is a topwater bait....until it isn't.   Throw a crankbait next to a log, dock, stump, etc......pause a bit, twitch it a couple times before you begin your retrieve.  You'll be amazed how many fish you'll catch on a topwater crank bait.

Gonnna have to try this 

[Columbia Craw]

I've never fished a bubble gum colored fluke in my life.

[HookRz]

Whoo_hool! Love this site!!!!!

 

[JoeD320]

1 minute ago, HookRz said:

Whoo_hool! Love this site!!!!!

 

[MassYak85]

I used a 5'6" ultralight spinning setup to fish worms (not little dinky worms either) before I knew any better. 

[CTBassin860]

13 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

I used a 5'6" ultralight spinning setup to fish worms (not little dinky worms either) before I knew any better. 

My GF throws crankbaits on her pink UL and catches them.

[RMax]

6 hours ago, the reel ess said:

I don't own but a few jigs and rarely, if ever, use them.

I use straight braid on three combos with no leaders and cheap Big Game mono on the others.

I use old BPS spinnerbaits with cheap swivels. I caught my PB on one.

Once again, same.  I rarely use jigs, although I am planning on using them more this year.  Omaha waters are more suited towards fishing texas rigs.  I have three out of my four setups with braid.  It seems our only difference is that I tie a leader on my spinning rod and on my MH rod, and that I can't ever catch a fish on a spinnerbait.  I don't enjoy throwing spinnerbaits and try as I might, cannot catch a single fish on one, of any size.

[MassYak85]

2 hours ago, MassBassin508 said:

My GF throws crankbaits on her pink UL and catches them.

I caught plenty of fish doing it but you can imagine the problems I ran into using that setup with 10lb braid on A1 tossing a wacky rig around the clusters of thick lily pads. Anything over 2lbs would pull drag, wrap me up, and I'd have to go get it, and if I was lucky it would still be hooked up. Usually it would get off. 

[littlefisher]

Maybe this isn't too crazy. But I'm never thrown a drop shot.  I'm waiting for the Spring Classic sale to specifically buy a setup that I will 100% dedicate to drop shotting this year. I recently moved to the Metro Detroit area and there are tons of lakes with lots of rec boaters so I think it can be super useful to learn.

[scaleface]

33 minutes ago, littlefisher said:

Maybe this isn't too crazy. But I'm never thrown a drop shot.  I'm waiting for the Spring Classic sale to specifically buy a setup that I will 100% dedicate to drop shotting this year. I recently moved to the Metro Detroit area and there are tons of lakes with lots of rec boaters so I think it can be super useful to learn.

Me either . 

[RichF]

I REFUSE to use a senko.

[Mocktopus]

Since 2002 until 2016 I used  spinning reel on  baitcasting rod. I've caught my 3 pb's on this setup.

[JoeD320]

6 hours ago, Mocktopus said:

Since 2002 until 2016 I used  spinning reel on  baitcasting rod. I've caught my 3 pb's on this setup.

And the winner is^^

[ClackerBuzz]

i use braid on all my rods with 12-30ft leaders. my connection knot passes through all guides, wind level and directly onto my spool, every-single-cast. 

[samwise2u]

When setting the hook have been know to give the little fishes flying lessons from one side of the boat to the other. I do apologize and explain to 'em that I thought their granddaddy had bit the soft plastic and that their eyes would uncross after a couple of minutes.

[Guest]

I fish mono attached to a braid leader.

[drew4779]

22 hours ago, 2tall79 said:

I use deep diving cranks as topwater

It's worked for me as well.

 

I have never, in nearly 30 years, caught a fish on a lip-less crank or a fluke.  I can't explain why I continue carry them or throw them.

[Bankbeater]

I use mono when topwater fishing.  Even with frogs.

[UPSmallie]

Maybe not too contradictory to some but in the summer my rods never leave my car.  It's a moving tackle box.  Whenever I'm driving and I feel like bank fishing I never have to go home to pick up my gear.