finally....UNskunked!!

[Red]

well i got to go out to the lake this afternoon for about 4 hours.....i started with a jig and got nothing...then a couple nice fisherman in a VERY nice bass boat pulled up to the dock to load their boat....they told me to try something in watermelon....i said ok thanks...and put on a t-rigged watermelon seed trick worm...the only thing i have in watermelon....nothing....so i t-rigged a berkley blue fleck power worm...the bass were all over that thing like a fat chick on a bar stool!!!  i have cought 3 bass in the last month of fishing almost everyday...today i cought 6!  they were all dinks but man it was fun to finally catch a few bass....the biggest one was a whopping 13 inches....this was also my challenge for the month...well i was challenged to catcha 2lber on a t-rig....gonna have to check with avid to see if this counts... ;D....and thanks to him for all the t-rig tips he gave me on fishing the t-rig..i did exactly what he told me to and it worked perfectly!!

Cliff

[David P]

Hey man, next time you'll catch 6 all over 2lbs! Once you start to gain confidence in catching fish, it makes all the difference in the world..

Coming from someone who just recently (past year) also has started to learn and pick up on bass fishing, it takes a bit of time, but once you start, you just can't stop catching!

Congrats on the good day man.

[Guest avid]

Hey man, next time you'll catch 6 all over 2lbs! Once you start to gain confidence in catching fish, it makes all the difference in the world..

Coming from someone who just recently (past year) also has started to learn and pick up on bass fishing, it takes a bit of time, but once you start, you just can't stop catching!

Congrats on the good day man.

My sentiments exactly  

[David P]

Hey man, next time you'll catch 6 all over 2lbs! Once you start to gain confidence in catching fish, it makes all the difference in the world..

Coming from someone who just recently (past year) also has started to learn and pick up on bass fishing, it takes a bit of time, but once you start, you just can't stop catching!

Congrats on the good day man.

My sentiments exactly  

It's the truth, and the more I see you and others write it on these forums, the more I realize how confidence is better then any lure ever created. I kept catching 2lbers today, and just kept knowing I'd get a big one, and did. Confidence is key!

The only times I get skunked are when I sit there saying to myself, d**n today sucks for fishing, they won't bite, etc...

[Red]

thanks guys...and right after i made that original post..at about 11 pm...my step dad-in-law called..."wanna go catch some hybrids tonight?"  of course i say..."sure..be there in an hour"  he lives an hour away...went there...got to the lake about midnight...had a hard time gettin some live shad...but we finally did...and i cought 4 nice hybrids...the biggest going just under 5 lbs....was a great day for fishing!!  but now i am freakin tired!  i just got home and have to take my wife to work in a few then do laundry....the go fishing with her dad this afternoon, then i will probebly go this evening by myself!!...man i love fishing!!!!

Cliff

[Red]

well i didnt get out today...i decided to let my wife take herself to work...i didnt go fishing with her dad, instead i slept all day....then watched a movie (we only have one vehicle, so i couldnt go anywhere) then i did the laundry at 7pm tonight....but i wll be on the water tomorrow for sure!   ;D

Cliff

[Guest avid]

hybrids are fun fishing,

but I'm gonna let you in on another secret (your gettin' all my stuff dude  )

A big, dark t-rigged worm worked slowly is a great bass catcher at night.

I love topwaters at night, but if it's really dark and I'm hanging up too much, I'll switch to t-rigged black shad culprit or something plump and juidy with some vibration.

The only problem is that line watching is out  so you have to feel the bite, but just keep enough slack in the line so the bass doesn't feel the rod when he hits.  The best thing I have found, is to cradle the line between my thumb and forefinger.  It's sort of the braille method of line watching.  8-)

[Red]

well, actually line watching is easy the way we were doing it...we put these fluorescent lights over the side of the boat..it attracts the shad, which in turn attracts the hybrids....once the shad move in we use this little dip net deal and catch them, put em on a hook with slip sinker and let em go to bottom....sit and wait, or catch more shad....but with the lights you can see your line quite nicely...of course when a big ol hybrid gets a hold of that shad your rod is gonna double over anyway, so it was pretty east dectecting the bite....but i will remember your tips if i am ever LMB fishing at night!

Thanks

Cliff

P.S. i wont tell anyone all of your tips your givin me... ;D

[David P]

hybrids are fun fishing,

but I'm gonna let you in on another secret (your gettin' all my stuff dude  )

A big, dark t-rigged worm worked slowly is a great bass catcher at night.

I love topwaters at night, but if it's really dark and I'm hanging up too much, I'll switch to t-rigged black shad culprit or something plump and juidy with some vibration.

The only problem is that line watching is out  so you have to feel the bite, but just keep enough slack in the line so the bass doesn't feel the rod when he hits.  The best thing I have found, is to cradle the line between my thumb and forefinger.  It's sort of the braille method of line watching.  8-)

I love dark trigged worms, but I don't go black, I just like darker worms in darker greens and blues, that's what's been working great for me at night.

Wacky rig a 6" Senko any dark color, and you'll catch bass all night!

[Red]

here is a pic of the biggest hybrid i cought...was just under 5lbs