I'm Thinking I Need To Start Fishing Deeper.....

[Fish Chris]

Well Bass_Akwards, like I keep emphasizing, it's really just the time and place....

That, plus the fact the no other, serious, experienced bass anglers that I know of, at least on this lake, use crawlers. Sure, plenty of crawlers get used on this lake, but almost always just wadded onto a hook, and casted out from the bank, and the pole stuck in a pole holder. Then, an hour later, they reel in this waterlogged hunk of garbage and say, "Yep. It's still there", and they cast the same hunk of #$@& back out for another hour. To me, that's not even crawler fishing.

Peace,

Fish

Anyone else jealous that one of Chris' biggest problems in fishing is the 48oz difference between the gargantuan 6+ pound toadmonsters he catches on a regular basis, and the 9+ pound dream fish that he's probably gunna catch in the next year? (I have faith brother!)

[Bass_Akwards]

Well Bass_Akwards, like I keep emphasizing, it's really just the time and place....

Peace,

Fish

Let me preface this by saying I'm a HUGE believer that "being ON big bass is how you catch big bass" as opposed to the bait choice you use etc. BUT, I only believe that to a point.

In any case, I've heard you say "it's really just the time and place" a lot Chris. Do you REALLY believe that? If so, it's very interesting to me.

Personally I think you're selling yourself a little short, or just being modest. I might not say that if I didn't know you've caught the number of huge bass you have, but you have, and therefore it can't JUST be time and place can it? Even in the "personal best" thread you mention "but if you had been in that spot, at that time, and casting that lure, "YOU would have been the one to catch THAT fish"

Really? I'm not so sure. To me "time and place" is the real talent but that's beside the point. I feel that if you put a large percentage of anglers in that spot you caught your lake record, with the same bait, at the same time, odds are, they wouldn't have hooked that bass much less fought it correctly, and then landed it. Just an opinion, I could be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time.

[WRB]

Every bass angler has a preferred lure or bait and spends more time on the water fishing it. Time and place to catch giant size bass simply is; the bass is located where you are fishing at that time.

The reason I caught all my giant bass on the same type hair jig over a 22 year time period is; I fished that same jig the majority of the time, because I have complete confidence that during pre spawn, where I fish, big bass are feeding on crawdads and at times planted trout.

I also fished swimbaits the balance of that same time period and continue to fish both jigs and swimbaits to this day. The difference is; the giant bass population where I fish has been over harvested and very few are in the lake today; wrong time and place to catch them.

Tom

[bilgerat]

Let me preface this by saying I'm a HUGE believer that "being ON big bass is how you catch big bass" as opposed to the bait choice you use etc. BUT, I only believe that to a point.

In any case, I've heard you say "it's really just the time and place" a lot Chris. Do you REALLY believe that? If so, it's very interesting to me.

Personally I think you're selling yourself a little short, or just being modest. I might not say that if I didn't know you've caught the number of huge bass you have, but you have, and therefore it can't JUST be time and place can it? Even in the "personal best" thread you mention "but if you had been in that spot, at that time, and casting that lure, "YOU would have been the one to catch THAT fish"

Really? I'm not so sure. To me "time and place" is the real talent but that's beside the point. I feel that if you put a large percentage of anglers in that spot you caught your lake record, with the same bait, at the same time, odds are, they wouldn't have hooked that bass much less fought it correctly, and then landed it. Just an opinion, I could be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time.

If you were to go back and read Chris's posts over the last few years, one constant theme is his philosophy of doing things different than anyone else.

Live lining a nightcrawler on an ultralight rig for trophy bass. Who in their right mind would do such a thing ?

The man doesn't even own a baitcaster.

One pitfall of the "Information Age" is there is sometimes too much information out there. It's easy to lose your focus. It happened to me over the past few years. This year I started fresh with a minimal tackle approach. I'm back to the few things that have worked for me in the past and it's paying off for me. No disrespect for those who carry large bags with hundreds of baits. It just doesn't work for me.