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Honestly, I think that's it. That's all that has been working for me that's for certain.VinnyBass wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:30 pm Nice job! You’re doing better than anyone I’ve talked to there in the last few weeks. Skunks and one fish or two fish is the best I’ve heard. Guessing small baits is the key to success. Thanks for sharing and tight lines.
Most are hanging at around 12-15 feet right off of dropoffs into deeper water. Just bouncing the jig over and off the ledge.
And I know you're been catching some. You were landing one just as I was leaving last week. Don't try to sandbag me VinnyVinnyBass wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:30 pm Nice job! You’re doing better than anyone I’ve talked to there in the last few weeks. Skunks and one fish or two fish is the best I’ve heard. Guessing small baits is the key to success. Thanks for sharing and tight lines.
'Ol Sandbag Vinny....Dannicus wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:08 pmAnd I know you're been catching some. You were landing one just as I was leaving last week. Don't try to sandbag me VinnyVinnyBass wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:30 pm Nice job! You’re doing better than anyone I’ve talked to there in the last few weeks. Skunks and one fish or two fish is the best I’ve heard. Guessing small baits is the key to success. Thanks for sharing and tight lines.
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words coming from a guy who bites the heads off of Roboworms will never hurt me.Mcfish wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:30 pm'Ol Sandbag Vinny....Dannicus wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:08 pmAnd I know you're been catching some. You were landing one just as I was leaving last week. Don't try to sandbag me VinnyVinnyBass wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:30 pm Nice job! You’re doing better than anyone I’ve talked to there in the last few weeks. Skunks and one fish or two fish is the best I’ve heard. Guessing small baits is the key to success. Thanks for sharing and tight lines.
I am unimpressed, anyone can bite the heads off Roboworms. Show me a man who bites the heads off Gulp! worms.VinnyBass wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:28 amSticks and stones will break my bones, but words coming from a guy who bites the heads off of Roboworms will never hurt me.Mcfish wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:30 pm'Ol Sandbag Vinny....Dannicus wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:08 pmAnd I know you're been catching some. You were landing one just as I was leaving last week. Don't try to sandbag me VinnyVinnyBass wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:30 pm Nice job! You’re doing better than anyone I’ve talked to there in the last few weeks. Skunks and one fish or two fish is the best I’ve heard. Guessing small baits is the key to success. Thanks for sharing and tight lines.
Awesome info, but for me... I'm just in it to have fun. It's my zen activity and BFS has it's place especially when the goal isn't a PB, but just to get on the water in my float tube and have fun.bendopolo 44+ wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:06 pm The small stuff works but if you want the Big Girls, throw them some meat. The Females will suck down Crawdads to get calcium for their eggs, mostly though, they will eat any meal that is easy to catch. A minimum of effort. They are slowed down by the cool water. If you were to dive down(I have) and watch them, they seem pretty lethargic. Most of the time sitting on the bottom right above the thermocline. You’ve got to get that bait right in front of their nose, while not giving them any reason for caution. You need enough heft to set the hook in their bony mouths. You also need heavy enough gear to keep them away from structure. For me that’s 15 pound Flourocarbon. So you need a big enough bait to use that heavy line. My go to is a 10 inch black worm smothered in Dr. Juice. I stitch that very slow, 5-8 minutes a cast with periods of Deadsticking. I imagine the Bass hovering over my worm, ready to inhale it.
The small stuff is great for numbers. In 60 years I’ve only landed one Bass in excess of ten pounds on light line(6 pound). The rest led to heartbreak. You can get them to bite on light gear but it is tough to land them. The big Girls are different. They are strong and smart. I’m well over a 100 trophy Bass on the 15 pound. Most of these were around rock piles in 12-25 feet of water with good weed beds nearby if you can find spots where the Thermocline intersects the Rockpile. You have found gold! Fish it hard, fish it slow, hit it from different angles. Fish it in the rain. It will produce sooner or later. The rest were on the big Swimbaits, fished by theirs rock piles, but those are a lot of work. If one of my Angling Brothers gets their PB after reading this, my job is complete. I really like everybody to catch Fish. Big Fish.
Yep agreed!Moose wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:32 pm Big fish hunting is a totally different mind set. You have to be willing to go out and not get bites, or maybe only one or two bites in a day. For me, I just have fun catching fish, big or small. I just enjoy figuring out the bite and setting the hook into a fish.
It takes a certain type of fisherman to target big fish, especially successfully. I have been very lucky to have caught 4 fish over 10lbs but I don’t have the mind set to sit and fish for one or two bites. I have too much fun just catching.
