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Locohead
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posted June 05, 2010 10:27 PM
Thank you Tim. It was very kind of you to offer and then follow through. I still owe a small package myself to Fred. The package arrived this afternoon and then we went to our fishing hole this evening.
I've spent a life time disproving a theory I once had. It seems whenever I've gone shopping for lures of any kind, I'd think to myself, "If I were a fish, I'd go for that one!" Ever since I was a kid, I'd pick a lure just because I thought it was cool looking.
We left the house at 7:30pm and fished until dark. After every ten casts or so, I'd change the lure to find out what the fish were biting on (justification - probably boredom or short attention span). So did Jacob and Alana. But Joshua picked this big ol' Silver Rapala looking thing with monster treble hooks even before we left the house, he informed everyone that he was gonna use that one. I told him if he caught anything with that, it'd be big. He told me, "Yeah that's my plan, I wanna catch a big one!" He is the only one that never changed his lure and I'll be darnified if it didn't work for him!
Thanks again Tim!
[ June 05, 2010, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Southern Minneesota Know it all
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posted June 05, 2010 10:49 PM
I'm glad they worked out for you and the kids Danny and congrats to Joshua. Thats a fine bass he got.. Maybe in a year or two Joshua can teach Andy how to catch some bass so he don't have to eat those mudd suckers. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Oh that reminds me don't let the kids play with the rubber worms and lizards some of them are scented.
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Locohead
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posted June 05, 2010 11:06 PM
Perhaps you two knuckleheads can have a good roll in the mud on another thread.
I was really hoping Andy would chime in and give me some advise on hunting bass in super thick moss from the shore.
It was a fighter that's for sure! He jumped out of the water 3 times. Pretty cool.
It really is a great package Tim! I know all that stuff wasn't cheap to accumulate.
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Kokopelli
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posted June 06, 2010 07:11 AM
LocoDude; That is too cool when the kid outfishes the old man. We're talkin' long time memories here. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Couple of things;
Moss. Depending on how 'public' your fishing spot is, moss can be used to your advantage. Get a trap drag. A homemade rebar one would work fine. If the chain is on it, that's ok too. Add about 50 foot of decent rope. Now stand on the shore where you would like to cast. Toss the drag out and make a 'shooting lane'. Start in fairly close & work your way out. When you get one done, move off about 20 yards and repete. If the drag gets hung up, the kids get to go swimming. When you get a few lanes cleared, go back tomorrow. The bass will lay in the shade under the moss. Any lure in that lane should be fair game. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Cleaning fish; We don't normally clean bass like we do trout. Give this a try & I think that you'll like it a whole lot better. Once you've done a few, it takes about 60 seconds and you get boneless filletts.
Put the fish on the table, on it's side, facing you, & hold it by the head. Take your filletting knife and make a cut just behind the pectoral fin, straight in, top of the back to the bottom of the belly. Go to the spine & stop. Do not cut thru the spine. At the spine, turn the knife 90 degrees & cut toward the tail with a nice smooth sawing motion, just missing the dorsal fin. You'll be cutting top of the back, thru the ribs, & out thru the belly, along the spine. Don't worry about the ribs, you'll get them later. At the tail, stop at the skin, and with a smooth flick of the wrist, flip the fillette over, away from you, skin side down. Now start cutting between the skin & the meat from the tail, away from you, with shorter sawing cuts the length of the fillette. When the skin is removed, locate the ribs & make a cresant shaped cut to remove them. Flip the fish over and do the other side the same way.
It helps if you have some bluegills or perch to practice on, but once you get it figured out, you can almost do it blindfolded. The boneless part is nice too.
(Funny thing; I've been fishing all of my life & still don't have a clue as to how to spel 'Filletteing Knife'. I'm hopeless ![[Confused]](confused.gif) )
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Kelly Jackson
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posted June 06, 2010 07:53 AM
Loco,
Looking at that pile on the desk, take a 4/0 worm hook and rig one of those sluggo's weedless. Thow it to the moss edge and let it sink. Wait a bit and twitch it alone slow.
Need a pretty heavy rod and line.
Set the hook hard and have fun.
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Steve Craig
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posted June 06, 2010 08:19 AM
Here you go Danny. We caught 43 bass and kept a limit of the biggest in the fist pic and 67 bass were caught the day we took the second pic.
First pic was in Indiana and the second was in Tenn.
All fish were caught both precision trolling and casting to the located schools of bass.
Trolling was done with Spoonplugs to locate the fish, and once located, we cast Carolina Rigs to the fish. All fish were taken between 20 and 42 feet deep. When the fish became active, we would catch them in 20 or so feet and when the movement period was over, then you had to get your lure down to where they were in 40+ feet of water.
Third pic is of my son with his first 8 pounder. Caught on the troll with a 200 Series Spoonplug in 13 feet of water on Apache lake here in AZ.
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TA17Rem
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posted June 06, 2010 08:47 AM
Danny there are some weedless hooks in the box, I think I stuck them on the craw fish. Just take them off and use on the black slugo's like Kelly said there are also some bullet weights of different sizes so you can make a Texas rigg or a careolina rigg.. The green Lizards work good around bass beds and create a terr. strike, just hopp them along on the bottom..
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Leonard
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posted June 06, 2010 09:30 AM
I had a combo fish fry at my house a few years ago, relatives came down from Vancouver, so I had some just caught Calicos and my buddy had some freshwater Largemouth bass out of Lake Silverwood.
The Calicos (from Catalina) were much better eating, believe it or not? The side by side comparison was easy to do. I would never have believed it?
Good hunting. LB
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Kokopelli
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posted June 07, 2010 03:22 PM
I'll take yellow perch over largemouth bass anyday when it comes dinner bell time.
Loco; If you get a chance, google 'Jann's Netcraft'. Really neat outfit. Tons of do it yourself stuff. Easy to drop a paycheck there if you're not careful.
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Cdog911
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posted June 07, 2010 04:02 PM
Largemouth bass are the zucchini of sportfish. Taste like anything you cook them with, and by themselves, like nothing at all. Green sunfish and bluegill are very good - better than catfish IMO, but fall short of a good walleye.
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Andy L
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posted June 07, 2010 04:48 PM
Loco, so I dont have to argue with the toothless wonder, if you want to know anything from me, just shoot me an email and I will be happy to help.
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Locohead
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posted June 07, 2010 08:39 PM
Thank you Andy.
Hang in there Bro'! I understand sciatic pain but I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to have all those problems in the neck and back. Dang, a poor guy can't cough, pee, talk even without moving your neck and back - constant 24/7 pain... You've got my sympathies and prayers bro'. Fer real, fer real!!!
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