Story time

[PressuredFishing]

I thought yall would have got a kick out of this, bed fishing has begun and I had caught many many bass these last few weeks but grew bored of the lack of challenge and decided to just huck a  swimbait at a pond. As I'm throwing my s waver 168 It gets snagged on submerged bullrush Wretchedly  annoyed i spent 10 minutes working all angles but no luck finally I decided that I am not loosing a 30$ lure with upgraded high end hardware and a hook magnet system Idecide to go "wade out" for it. Took all my phone and stuff off and start walking out, there is about two feet of schmuck and decomposed snot on the bottom, feeling Grose and unsettling. I quickly underestimated how deep this pond is as I drop from knee deep to chest deep, and up to my neck. Eventually I just fully commit and use my rod as a staff to guide me and the line as I go underwater. I pull the lure out of the submerged bullrush and start swimming back to shore. My feet are covered in a sutty black slime and am praying to not have obtained any fun antibiotic resistant bacteria from that fiasco. Oh did I mention it was a cold front and water temp was 62. But it's all part of the swimbait game right? 

[fin]

I've waded into some stuff that I've really regretted before. That's a scary feeling when the bottom goop sort of grabs you. Quicksand comes to mind.

[Bird]

This is why I don't spend $30 on a bait...... keeps me dry ?

[throttleplate]

thats why i have a wife ?

[PressuredFishing]

1 hour ago, Bird said:

This is why I don't spend $30 on a bait...... keeps me dry ?

Hindsight 2020 this may not have been the worst desicion, may just stick to the good old 60 cent Texas rig lol.

[newriverfisherman1953]

2 hours ago, Bird said:

This is why I don't spend $30 on a bait...... keeps me dry ?

Yep me too. I don’t throw it if I’m not willing to lose it. 

[geo g]

All you need is a few hundred gators to change your decision making process.  In the everglades your not going wading into grass and weeds for a lure!

[LetMeSeeThatBass]

Same thing happened to me but it was an I-slide 262. I said f it and decided I’d rather lose a $100 swimbait. Needless to say my swimbait phase didn’t last long. I’m back to my Texas rigs ?

[Sphynx]

Done that for a whopper plopper, and a couple of S-Wavers, having the benefit of being a chameleon in the sense of not truly having any region in the country to call truly home I'd say that I will continue to swim for baits up north, and out west/southwest...but you get me from about Houston or so east until Florida and suddenly the money doesn't seem so valuable, had a big gator take a pass at me drunk and fishing for catfish as a young buck Sergeant in Louisiana one time, that thing was every bit of 8+ feet, and it changed the game with regards to how I fish in that region of the country let me tell you.

[Jigfishn10]

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Brain-eating amoeba. Jus’ sayin’. 

[PressuredFishing]

13 hours ago, LetMeSeeThatBass said:

Same thing happened to me but it was an I-slide 262. I said f it and decided I’d rather lose a $100 swimbait. Needless to say my swimbait phase didn’t last long. I’m back to my Texas rigs ?

U lost it :O, tell me where it at man ill swim in freezing water with gators and crocs for that guy lmao

[Bankbeater]

As long as I find more baits than I lose I'm good.

[thediscochef]

5 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Brain-eating amoeba. Jus’ sayin’. 

This is my biggest fear in summer fishing at DFW ponds...that water gets warm and it does happen. I don't throw much that I'm unprepared to lose

[BrianMDTX]

52 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

This is my biggest fear in summer fishing at DFW ponds...that water gets warm and it does happen. I don't throw much that I'm unprepared to lose

That it do. The risk may be low, but no money lost on lures is worth diving in some bathwater-warm pond rife with microorganisms to me. 

[thediscochef]

7 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

That it do. The risk may be low, but no money lost on lures is worth diving in some bathwater-warm pond rife with microorganisms to me. 

I'd rather be snapped at by a snake tbh

There's at least antivenom and I'm in DFW, there's hospitals. Naegleria fowleri is 95% mortality *with* treatment. No thanks.

[N Florida Mike]

1 hour ago, BrianMDTX said:

That it do. The risk may be low, but no money lost on lures is worth diving in some bathwater-warm pond rife with microorganisms to me. 

I swam in that kind of water for years and never had any problem.

On second thought, maybe that’s why I seem to be slowly losing my mind!?

[Sphynx]

8 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Brain-eating amoeba. Jus’ sayin’. 

Joke will be on that amoeba, all that work and nothing in my head to eat.