Bass fishing confessions

[Boomstick]

On 12/20/2019 at 11:05 AM, BassNJake said:

 

 

I am waiting for the poop lure he mentioned in this video to drop. In the meantime, he catches them with a (fake) severed finger here.
 

 

Anyway my confessions...

-I hardly ever get a fish on a T-Rigged senko (no problem on a jig, drop shot, ned rig etc).

-I fish a frog far too often even though my bite rate is about he same as a T-rigged senko and my catch rate is even worse... but they're so fun when they do bite!

 

[Happybeerbuzz]

I launched my boat this year and forgot to put the plug in.  The run to fetch my truck and trailer was the fastest I have moved in a decade or more. 

[Hook2Jaw]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

I actually love fishing a Carolina rig...

Same here.  It's currently my favorite deep water rig.

[BassNJake]

16 hours ago, J Francho said:

I actually love fishing a Carolina rig...

I think I fell asleep reading this .... hahahaha

 

I gut hook every other fish on a carolina rig so I don't throw it anymore. #shortattentionspan

 

[J Francho]

7 minutes ago, BassNJake said:

I think I fell asleep reading this .... hahahaha

Like watching paint dry, while being glued to your spouse's favorite cooking show.

[Cgolf]

On 12/22/2019 at 9:43 AM, MN Fisher said:

My MAN!!!

 

No leaders here either.

 

On 12/22/2019 at 9:40 AM, Glenn said:

I never use leaders. 

Add me to this list in not believing in them. I have been tinkering again over the last year with them and still can't see a difference in catch rate. I know folks swear it makes a difference, but I think it is just a confidence thing. Honestly the line is the least unnatural part of a rig. Think of the weight and hook with plastics and multiple trebles on a crank, to me those are going to be seen by the fish way before the line is.

 

The only time it might have gotten me and extra fish was landing a 30+ pike on a crank. I am guessing the fireline would have been cut, while the flouro was abraded, but held.

[J Francho]

There's plenty of reasons, beyond getting bites, to use leaders, but that's for another thread.  I prefer not to use them, if possible, but I can tell you many of the arguments against using them due to extra knots or weakening line causing break offs are bunk.  My salmon and steelhead terminal rig has no less than FIVE knots.  Break offs generally occur in the line itself, or caused by user error, not letting the fish take line when needed.

 

Two more confessions:

 

I rarely, if ever wet my line with saliva anymore.  With the lines I use, it seems unnecessary.

 

I used a poop jig this past season.  I did catch fish.  Mostly yellow perch and dink bass, but it worked, and was fun on a light spinning rig.

[Sam]

17 hours ago, Boomstick said:

 

I am waiting for the poop lure he mentioned in this video to drop. In the meantime, he catches them with a (fake) severed finger here.
 

 

Anyway my confessions...

-I hardly ever get a fish on a T-Rigged senko (no problem on a jig, drop shot, ned rig etc).

-I fish a frog far too often even though my bite rate is about he same as a T-rigged senko and my catch rate is even worse... but they're so fun when they do bite!

 

[Cgolf]

As for my confessions

 

-After being a cheerleader for and using the Ned rig a ton the last few years, I probably tossed it less than 5% of the time this year. Always found other things that worked I guess as this was one of my better fishing years.

 

-Zman baits have fallen out of my lineup. Using sliders with plastics, I cut off and retie and keep the baits in a bin on deck to be reused later. The obvious problem with Zman is they need to be stored seperate and it just got to be too much of a pain.

 

-I still value my Ugly Stick spinning rod for jerkbait and spybait fishing. It also makes a great river rod with plastics. There is something about the action of the rod that just works for me with these presentations.

 

- With the sliders I tend to use a snap, I believe there are performance benefits, that I of course realized later after the initial laziness. Have compared to direct tie and doesn't impact #of hits. In 15 plus years can only remember 1 snap failure.

[kdubracing]

On 12/22/2019 at 5:37 AM, Hook2Jaw said:

I hear of people who are right handed using left handed casting reels all the time so they use their rod with their strong arm, don't have to switch hands after the cast and all that mess, etc.

 

I cast and hold my reel in my left hand.  I shoot left handed.  I'm pretty good at doing both of those things and they're the only things I do seamlessly with my left hand.

 

I'm a righty.  My mother is a lefty.  My guess is when she and dad split, I got sent home with BB guns and fishing rods and reels and she ended up showing me how she used them.

I'm the opposite. I'm left handed, and can't even pick my nose right handed. But I use right handed casting reels. I also change my spinning reels to crank with the right hand. I'm the only lefty in my family. I guess I just grew up cranking with my right hand and got used to it.

[DanielG]

5 hours ago, kdubracing said:

I'm the opposite. I'm left handed, and can't even pick my nose right handed. But I use right handed casting reels. I also change my spinning reels to crank with the right hand. I'm the only lefty in my family. I guess I just grew up cranking with my right hand and got used to it.

Left handed. But I have a righty reel. I do like to manage the pole with my good hand so I pole with the left and crank with the right. It would seem that the pole is the thing that you want to work. The crank is just a hand movement.

[Rick Boggs]

On 12/21/2019 at 4:41 PM, fin said:

Before you throw them out please contact me My name is Rick & I have been wanting to do some resin work on a tall bar top with a log that I had lost several lures over the years after a very wet winter the snag broke free & became a issue at a place I fish after using my trailer boat wench to drag the stump ashore it turned out to be a large slab with a partial root burl attached I had a friend that owns a local sawmill cut it long ways at the longest points & wound up with a nice slab that I will be turning it into a bar top there are large chunks that are parts of the burl that have broke free in it's past as a lure snatcher.I would like to fill With clear resin& old lures.I f you would consider selling me a box of your never going to fix one I would be very happy to make a deal with you get back to me if your interested in unloading some of your hoard .thanks Rick in Northern Ca.

Found lure hoarder here.

 

I've got hundreds of lures that I've found. At one time the box on the left was for lures that were not worth keeping, and the box on the right were ones that I might eventually put new hardware on, but the two boxes have gotten mixed up. I've got hundreds of good lures that I never use. There's no reason to keep all these things but I just can't throw them away.

 

[fin]

20 hours ago, Rick Boggs said:

Before you throw them out please contact me My name is Rick & I have been wanting to do some resin work on a tall bar top with a log that I had lost several lures over the years after a very wet winter the snag broke free & became a issue at a place I fish after using my trailer boat wench to drag the stump ashore it turned out to be a large slab with a partial root burl attached I had a friend that owns a local sawmill cut it long ways at the longest points & wound up with a nice slab that I will be turning it into a bar top there are large chunks that are parts of the burl that have broke free in it's past as a lure snatcher.I would like to fill With clear resin& old lures.I f you would consider selling me a box of your never going to fix one I would be very happy to make a deal with you get back to me if your interested in unloading some of your hoard .thanks Rick in Northern Ca.

I would be happy to give you some for free for such a great project, but I'm not willing to eat the shipping charges. I wonder if there's some way to ship like C.O.D. for the shipping charges.

[Jermination]

On 12/26/2019 at 4:58 PM, Boomstick said:

The booyah's do work but my problem is the skirts fall apart on them if you so much as breathe on them. They do make some single and double bladed colorado bladed spinnerbaits that are productive early and late in the season when they won't chase any other moving bait.

ive not really had a problem with the skirts thinning on me as much as the hooks getting rust while doing nothing but sit in my spinnerbait box. There are times on a few of the lakes down here in early spring where there is absolutely no point to throw anything other than a solid chart/split tail zoom double colorado booyah

[Boomstick]

1 hour ago, Jermination said:

ive not really had a problem with the skirts thinning on me as much as the hooks getting rust while doing nothing but sit in my spinnerbait box. There are times on a few of the lakes down here in early spring where there is absolutely no point to throw anything other than a solid chart/split tail zoom double colorado booyah

I actually run the booyahs for lighter colored single colorado bladed spinners. I usually lose them before I have a problem with rust on the hooks since I fish them a lot early in the year when the water level is very low but I was amazed how quick the skirts thinned -- even fishing them in deeper water. My dual colorado bladed spinnerbaits I currently have are War Eagles and they were quite productive for me late in the fall and I've had them a few seasons now.