What's your bass fishing superpower?

[A-Jay]

54 minutes ago, wvhunt said:

Putting conservation and the health of the fish first.  On lots of trips I'll catch nothing.  I feel this puts less stress on the fish and ensures that there will be more healthy fish in the future.

Sweet ~

I do that for 4-5 months at a time.

In fact I'm doing it right now !

😎

A-Jay

[Skunkmaster-k]

My superpower is attracting game wardens. I think it’s my winning personality. 

[Swamp Girl]

12 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

My superpower is attracting game wardens. I think it’s my winning personality. 

 

I saw one once and wanted him to ask me for my license, but he just pulled away. There was a TV show featuring Maine's game wardens and I was hoping to meet one of the guys I'd seen on the show. Sigh.

[Skunkmaster-k]

Well bless your heart !  

I try to avoid them at all cost. 

[islandbass]

Like Wolverine, I have a mutant healing factor. I absorb every harmful and  damaging blow received from skunking out but I  quickly heal those wounds, pick myself up and go at it again. 

[LrgmouthShad]

I effectively filter information to determine what is helpful and what is not

[WRB]

I credit my skill in detecting and getting solid hook set after making a long cast over 40 yards using twin spin spinner baits. Why…the old twin spin was a vertical helicopter falling lure that required keeping in touch with the line vibration from the blades. When the blades stopped before hitting bottom a bass had it. I couldn’t move enough line to get a hook using the rod and developed the reel set cranking the line tight then firm rod sweep to complete the hook set.

I adopted my horizontal jig presentation from the twin spin strike detection feeling live movements and hook set. Without that experience would have missed all my giant bass catches.

Tom

 

[Swamp Girl]

7 minutes ago, WRB said:

I credit my skill in detecting and getting solid hook set after making a long cast over 40 yards using twin spin spinner baits. Why…the old twin spin was a vertical helicopter falling lure that required keeping in touch with the line vibration from the blades. When the blades stopped before hitting bottom a bass had it. I couldn’t move enough line to get a hook using the rod and developed the reel set cranking the line tight then firm rod sweep to complete the hook set.

I adopted my horizontal jig presentation from the twin spin strike detection feeling live movements and hook set. Without that experience would have missed all my giant bass catches.

Tom

 

 

Wow, Tom. That really surprises me. Just to be clear, you caught all your biggest bass on a falling spinnerbait, right?

[TnRiver46]

38 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Wow, Tom. That really surprises me. Just to be clear, you caught all your biggest bass on a falling spinnerbait, right?

Everyone knows the bass are too smart for that! 😂 (just kidding, kind of )

 

Tom got them all on hair jig with pork trailer 

 

 

On 2/13/2025 at 6:32 PM, Skunkmaster-k said:

My superpower is attracting game wardens. I think it’s my winning personality. 

I’ve got that one too 

[Swamp Girl]

10 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve got that one too 

 

If I were a game warden, I'd ticket you for having excessive fun. If excessive speed and excessive fish in the livewell are crimes, excessive fun should be too.

[WRB]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Wow, Tom. That really surprises me. Just to be clear, you caught all your biggest bass on a falling spinnerbait, right?

No on a hair jig with pork trailer. I learned my hook set technique using a falling twin spin spinnerbait.

Tom

[Swinghead]

I’m capable of finding and hooking any and all cover in any lake or pond. 

[Fairly Reliable]

I love multi-directional wood covering on Mesotrophic lakes.

[Jaderose]

On 2/13/2025 at 9:10 AM, DinkDonkey30 said:

My super power is the ability to collect all the random and bad luck in the universe so others don’t catch it. Some examples would be birds flying directly into my stationary boat, a heard of cattle randomly appearing at the boat launch stopping me from loading and leaving( also having to get them back home I grew up on a cattle farm), pop up rain storms without a cloud in the sky, random dogs and one younger kid in my boat while tied off at docks, dink pan fish on glide baits, random people at gas stations asking me to take them to various places while I’m filling up my truck and boat( I probably get 30 or more of these a year). I even had someone leave a xxx video under the windshield wiper of my truck at a large public lake parking area. 

 

I'm going to counter this with my own tale of extreme luck swings all in a single day.  I was back in a cove on a small local lake one day in my 2-man when a VERY attractive young woman came by on a paddle board.  Topless.  I tried not to stare. She gave me a big smile, asked me if I was catching anything, etc.  She was totally at ease and completely Unembarrassed...lol.  I sat there and felt guilty until I realized that I had done nothing wrong and said nothing inappropriate.  An hour later I buried a rattletrap treble up to the hilt in my thumb with a 2 lb bass also still hooked.  Had to load my boat with it still in and head off to the ER for that one.

[Swamp Girl]

On 2/17/2025 at 7:09 PM, Fairly Reliable said:

I love multi-directional wood covering on Mesotrophic lakes.

 

Welcome to Bass Resource! Are you talking about laydowns?