Mixed feelings about bed fishing ???

[roadwarrior]

Wassup with that?

9.5 lb green trout...another "everyday" fish... :

Great fish, but an even better picture. We need a separate section for you and the rest of the Cali guys. For some of us, that might be "This Year's Bass." There are a couple of guys on the Forum that might think that's a pretty good day and I might be one of 'em!

Nice fish, great post.

[patbfishing123]

Bed fishing/ sight fishing is where its at.  Well atleast when your going for big fish.  Its always a good time to rome around the shallows looking for that monster fish then sticking a tube or wacky worm in its face trying to get her to bite.  And its gotta be the furthest thing from cheating... its a lot of work to try to get a big fish that you can see to eat your bait.   First of all because you can see the fish you get pretty excited so its hard to stay focused with all the excitement and second usually if you can see the fish, the fish can see you.  The best thing to do and this a trick that I learn from my good friend steve kennedy from the bassmaster elite series, which is to locate the fish on the bed and to proceed by the fish or back up still realizing the general location of the bed.  Get far enough away from the bed so that you cannot see it but still know where it is.  Then start casting, but cast sidearm and make sure that you are on the side of the nest where when facing the nest the sun is in front of you so that you do not cast a shadow into the bass's nest.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Fish Cris can give Professor Hannon a run for the money :

[bassmaster8100]

First of all Chris thats a really nice fish. I have no problem with bed fishing as long as you are practicing catch and release, let them big mommas get back to that bed and take care of those eggs. What I do have a problem with is people who ****** fish off of beds by intentionally foul hooking em, come on lets play fair. A guy did this in a tournament I was fishing a few weeks ago and they let him get away with it, upset quite a few people including myself.

[hi_steel_basser]

First of all Chris thats a really nice fish. I have no problem with bed fishing as long as you are practicing catch and release, let them big mommas get back to that bed and take care of those eggs. What I do have a problem with is people who ****** fish off of beds by intentionally foul hooking em, come on lets play fair. A guy did this in a tournament I was fishing a few weeks ago and they let him get away with it, upset quite a few people including myself.

That guy shoulda been DQ'd instantly. Snaggin's cheatin'. PERIOD. I have never intentionally snagged a fish, or weighed a snagged fish.