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Barrett was really nice on Wednesday. I was a little worried since it was 44F at Pigs at 0430. But...the water was a pleasant 70 F and the fish were happy as well. First fish came on a popper and was a bit over 3 pounds. He hit it like he was angry at it and I have to say it was the most ...

Solid angling as usual.

Always fun fishing with you. Incredible to see that big rat swimming. You find the best lures. Except for that bone popper, I may have been some help on that specific one.

45 degrees at 4am brr
Met up with Chuck and Dave at launch
Motored the Scadden to hauser, blue bird skies, wind came up mid morning
A few on the popper first thing but majority of my fish today was on 4 inch fluke, 10 inch black/blue power worm (El Salto Special) and black lizard working back out ...

Got out early morning as usual. Quite busy on this Saturday, but great to see a bunch of friends. It was warmer, but not warm. Water temp was 70F. Pedaled over to Hauser and started catching 2 pounders on the popper and the 110 jerkbait. Got a lot of short strikers on the topwater. Over to Becky's ...

Glad to see that the Magic Lake is heating up. It is a special place populated by happy Anglers. We can almost call it the Barrett Family. It just goes to show what a properly managed Lake can produce socially as well as recreationally. Real Fishermen are a great group of people, everywhere I’ve ...

Barrett lake is a little tricky at times, you really have to try to follow the reports and see what they are biting or know the lake but mostly season, i enjoy watching TACTICAL BASSIN on youtube i have learn a ton from them,i watch a video where it shows how bass move during mid spring and use the ...

For your son i would get him a ugly stik spinning set up ultra light 5ft he will have some fun with small fish i have that set up and have caught dinks to 4 pound bass and its sooo much fun also the dock runner is a awesome set up its 3ft but packs a punch again i have caught dinks to 4 pound bass ...

Nice report you always crush it on the topwater bro what size popper do you use?

Hey Shawn…ditto on no swivels. Always tie direct to line. And I fish 8 to 12lb at all SD lakes for bass if you aren’t already. As for lures, I bet you are throwing what most of us are but the bass have been finicky this year at times. The minnows I set you up with are great on boilers. Several other ...

A lot of great advice here. As I grew as a Bass Fisherman, I think the most important thing was fishing with others that had more skill than me. The second thing was to force myself out of my comfort zone and really learning new techniques. The third was constant refinement of those techniques. I ...

Nice report bro looks like topwater should be picking up a lot more this month. That last picture is asking for a snake to be thrown 😆

I know, a snake would be great. I had fun with the crazy crawler. I have a megabass I-wing, but I didn't have it with me. Last week, Chuck was throwing a rat and ...

Those googin baits are usually on sale at karls amazing baits. Com or mystery tackle box ... i pick up a couple of those last month for 3$ a piece also the biospawn popper was on sale for 4$ too

Great job out there and thank you for the intel! Cheers!

AND THEN.. wait till you add changing barometric pressure, moon phases, wind (or lack thereof), sun, rain and overcastness (is that a word) into the equations!

Basically, bass fishing is not for the faint of heart. Some of us like a challenge- well, most of us. It''s the thrill of victory (landing ...

Nice to finally meet you out there. The wind stayed up all day. T rig craws and dropshot Robos got us 19. Biggest about 3.5lbs.

Trying out my brothers Pro Angler. I normally have a double seater mirage that I use. It is lighter but definitely not as stable as the pro angler. Going to have to get a pro angler. It was definitely easier on my back than my old mirage. Headed out in the dark and through the fog. Spent a bunch of ...

Launched at Piggy's on my new super tube around 6 ish in the am. Sure wish people(Ram truck) would learn how to park near the launch so 2 people can launch at the same time. Headed across to the rocks, pick one up trolling over. Water started out at 71 in the am and last I saw it around 4 in the ...

Got out at 0430 in what turned out to be incredible fog on the water. I was a couple minutes ahead of Chuck and it was some time before we could meet again. It kept rolling in and it felt a bit unsafe to cross the lake. I used my depthfinder GPS to not get turned around at all.

Headed over to ...

Yes that fog was insane! I was more fearful about boaters not having lights. I stuck around main lake until sunlight, found new areas otherwise I would never fished. Caught a nice 3.5 on the new crawler.

I heard a couple boats go by that I never saw. I don't think we had more than about 10 feet ...