bluebasser86

Yellow bass remind me a lot of white perch. We have a few lakes in Kansas with white perch and they can really be a hassle. They're both terrific bait for catfish and stripers. Big bass like to eat them also. The big largemouth in Wilson Lake, KS eat a lot of white perch and the guys in Texas fish a lot of yellow bass swimbaits.

It's likely the amount that they won that classifies it as a felony. In a lot of instances, once a theft gets above $1,000, it becomes a felony. As for "Bubba", people are so protected in jail and prisons now, unless it's an indirect supervision setting, they're probably safer in jail than they are outside within reach of the people they cheated.

I've done well fishing it with fast chops and slower gliding retrieves. I seem to miss more on the slower retrieves than the fast retrieves though. They're a nice bait, not the original but for a normal weekend angler that probably won't throw them a ton, they'll do a lot of things the original will do.

$60 is pretty cheap in the big swimbait business. I picked up a phantom rainbow a couple weeks ago and have been doing well with it in my local lakes. No big fish yet, but it's just a matter of time.

My best bait last time I was on Table Rock was a KGB Chad Shad and it wasn't even close. I spent 2 days fishing the standard fair with very mediocre results. Of course, I waited until the final day to pick up the big stuff and they were eating it like they were starving to death. These are a few of them, I missed many more, lost a few in route to the boat, and had countless followers.

This was my biggest on Monday. Bait was sitting motionless on the bottom and she really thumped it in 6' of water right next to my kayak. Shot a big puff of mud from her gills from inhaling the bait off the bottom when she hit the surface. Just a hair under 20". I'm still learning them but it really amazes me how many of the fish I catch on them are when it's completely motionless on the bottom.

Caught a couple nice ones out of some 39* water here in NE KS yesterday. The biggest one had mud on her belly when she hit the surface and ate the bait hard while it sitting motionless on the bottom. I was doing very short lifts and drops. It's a bait I'm still learning but it is a fun bait to fish when they'll eat it.

A friend of mine lives on a private lake in South Carolina that stocked all Tiger Bass when they built the lake. Really can't tell a difference other than they grow faster and they seemed to attack more aggressively when they decided to eat. They weren't easier to catch at all and didn't seem to have any ill effects on the other fish species in the lake. They all pulled harder it seemed also. Not sure what effect they would have on an existing population of fish though.

Not sure if it will be of any interest to anyone but I usually video my trips. The big bait video especially turned out pretty good with some fish eating the bait at boatside and lots of fish missing the boat. https://youtu.be/3p09KRC0OKU

Made a trip down with the family, stayed in the Cleavenger Cove area. Bite was tough for me at first, most fish coming off the 86 highway bridge on a dropshot. My oldest son came out one afternoon and used up a whole tub of crawlers real quick catching big bluegills. Last morning I was really struggling and decided if I wasn't going to catch anything it was going to be for a reason. Switched to a Chad Shad and it was like magic. Fish chasing the bait all over and caught several really nice fish the last few hours I had to fish.

I fish a good number of kayak tournaments. I always try to time my crossings when nobody is coming. I also have a bright orange kayak, so that helps. The guys in the blue/green/white camo colors though, they're almost invisible.

If it's like any kayak tournament I've fished, the light is required during low light conditions and a lot of them require the flags as well. It still can be difficult to see them, especially in waves if they're crossing the main channel.

Those water turkeys are a plague. They showed up on one of my favorite small reservoirs in central Kansas a few years ago that had a low population of bass but the average size was incredible. A few years of those things hunting the low population of smaller bass that already existed, now it seems as if bass are almost extinct from the lake. The birds remain to hunt the abundant shad and stunted crappie but bass are basically gone and shocking samples by the state reflect that. Not sure if they'd do the same on a huge reservoir, but they're not a good thing.

Quill I had good success with the Stunna in the KC area about a month ago while my buddy was struggling with a 110+1 (I was throwing the 112+1 Stunna). I use slow sinking baits a lot in my home lakes in NE KS when they're not in a biting mood because they sink down onto their noses as they slowly rise to the bait, kind of meet them in the middle and make them react. Don't know if that's why they eat it, but that's the reason I've worked out in my mind why it works.

It was way colder and windier than what they had forecast it to be. As per usual though, those nasty days sure seem to get the fish biting and we saw very few boats. I don't remember seeing another boat while we were on the water Saturday afternoon at the dam.

Pretty late report here, training in a new position at work all week and I've been swamped learning everything. Put in for a few hours at the dam Saturday night and caught some fish on a mix of Neds and swimming a 4" smoke grub. Ned took big fish with a largemouth a little over 4. Saturday we launched in KC and caught them pretty good in the morning on jerkbaits. They seemed to prefer the Berkley Stunna 112+1 over the MB. Got tough when the sun came out. I'm a shallow water guy, like if I can't touch bottom I feel like I'm too deep, but I got off the bank and started dropping on some deep fish with a drop shot and flat worm. For the last 2 hours of our morning, I doubt there was 5 minutes between fish and a lot of back to back catches. They weren't monsters, but good numbers of fat, keeper sized spots anywhere from 25-60 feet of water.

I wasn't even fishing, sitting in my boat in the shop rigging up baits. Took this 110 off and put it in the 3700 box, closed it, didn't notice the hook had slipped out the back side. So when I tried to drop the box into my boats center storage, the whole box stuck to my hand. Amazing how leathery that skin was. Those little Katsuage hooks flexing while I was trying to push it through with my off hand. Ended up tearing more than it pushed through.

I still have some. I think I still have some in the packages on the pegboard in my garage too.

I've done it a bunch of times, mostly topwaters or traps it seems like. I got a couple on video. I've done this one a couple times too, not on the same bait but not a real common way to get 2 in the boat quick.

They do things different across the pond. I like throwing big swimbaits, but my elbows and wrist get sore after fishing anything over 4ozs for a few hours.

They had 2 in stock, those sold, now they have one back in stock 🤷‍♂️ They use it to draw fish out of cover and then come back later to try to catch them with something else, not so much to actually get fish to strike it. It's a sight to watch a bait that size being cast.

Yeah, Aaron Britt. The video I posted is actually from his Youtube channel. I guess he's proud of it or something? I've had some rough boat rides from getting caught out in weather or staying out longer than I should have, I'd be willing to bet we all have, but that was just plain 'point the nose the direction I want to go and put the hammer down, consequences be darn', boat driving it looked like to me.

He seems to have a thing for being a bad boat driver and wanting to show it off to everyone though.

I was foolish enough to drive an hour south from my house to the power plant lake on Saturday knowing that everyone with a boat would be there. Then it was thick fog with idiots everywhere. I watched boat after boat blast WOT into this stuff. I guess their Livescope must mark other boats at 70mph or something?

Agreed. I'm lucky that both him and his younger brother like going. He's been fishing since he was 2 and he's 7 now, so he pretty much considers himself a pro 😆