bluebasser86

My Big Game Prowler II is rated 550-600 pounds. I'm 220 and take my 70lb Golden Retriever plus my gear in it and feel like it could hold plenty more.

It was a 10XD, there's a video of him landing that fish and also the hook removal where he says it's a 10XD. That was a big treble in his palm, made me squirm a little when I saw it. Looked like a pretty dumb move to get it there, unhooking the fish and it caught his hand and instead of just removing it before it looked buried, he jerked his hand away and dug it in good. Maybe the excitement of putting that big fish in the boat caused a lapse of judgement. Apparently there were lots of spectators fishing the spot right along with him during the tournament, and also right on top of where he was fishing when he left. I know it's a public lake, but it sounded pretty bad from the reports.

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Great pictures! Enjoy the time, I just turned 30 but still enjoy fishing with my dad, unfortunately our schedules just don't line up as often as I'd like.

Looks good, it just doesn't produce nearly as well though.

Not many snakes on the banks in December-February

I got talked to in a tournament recently by a guy who thought I cut him off. He decided to say something on the water and then again at the ramp too. Decided to check on Google, we'd started approximately 739 feet in front of him, over 2 football fields. We fished towards him, not down the bank, so there was still lots of new water behind us. This is on a 2,600 acre lake with an 18 boat tournament plus recreational fisherman, we were boat 16 so it was pretty crowded by the time we got out there. Thought I was being very generous, apparently I was wrong. I think he was just really butthurt because I caught a keeper right in front of him. In in the end, it all that mattered was we won the thing. If someone cuts me off really close, I usually just go elsewhere. I can catch them other places, not going to let someone else ruin my time on the water.

Walking the banks is one of my favorite things to do during the winter time. I'll fill a few 3700 boxes full of baits every year just walking the banks. Last time I was at Table Rock I found a couple War Eagle spinnerbaits, a LC 100 pointer, a LC 100DD pointer, a red craw pre-rap wart, and a MB 110 Magnum along with several other cheaper baits. I ended up catching a lot of my fish that trip on the Megabass before the lip fell off. Same trip my buddy walked 100 yards by the ramp at Shell Knob and found 16 baits. Same guy did that at a little lake in OK and found 18, including a pre-rap wart and a custom painted 10XD. Get out and stretch your legs a little and you'll be amazed what you find.

I had my line hang in the air once right before a storm hit. We threw our stuff down and headed straight for the truck. Barely got it loaded up when one of the worst storms I've ever been in rolled through. Couldn't hardly see the front of the truck it was raining so hard and stuff was blowing everywhere. I was sure we were about to get picked up by a tornado. My dad had a rod shocking him like that once too. It was an Ugly Stick with a metal Spirex and every time he tried to pick it up he had about an inch long blue spark light him up. That was the end of that day as well.

Fished the BBB with a buddy and we found the same, cuts with gravel in the back. We caught a bunch of keepers on a C rig lizard in 1-10 feet of water, just never got the big bite. My buddy had a spot that went 3.01 off a bed and missed the $500 check by .01 pounds

Those sunfish are crazy how aggressive they are. I got a 6" sunfish on a 5" Optimum BLT, this whole picture was a train wreck and my buddy broke off what was easily an 8 pound largemouth his very next cast.

My brother in law has caught a few of them while fishing for bass out of the pit by Big Brutus. I've never seen one though but he says that pit has at least a decent population of them.

If you're talking about trout swimbaits, yeah they work, and they don't have to be little ones. This one ate an 8" Huddleston.

Do they come in large sizes for those of us that are gifted with XL sized noggins?

I wish my fish had turned out to be a monster bass like those 2. Still, further proof that Ned doesn't just catch little fish.

Second fish looks like a meanie to me?

Why would someone like BB with a reputation like he has, who has caught the fish he has, have any reason to want to stretch the truth about the size of a fish he caught? I swear anymore you could have a picture of a fish on a certified scale, with the certification next to it, a Game Warden, and a priest there to witness the weigh in, pictures and videos of all it, and someone's going to call the lot of you liars. Great fish Bill, I'd be happy to catch one half that size next time I'm down there, and thank you for the release to give the rest of us a shot at her!

Thought I had a new Kansas state record smallmouth on a tube one night last summer, should have known. I have a reputation for being able to catch drum on anything, anywhere though. Never had one that could match the aggressiveness of this guy though, not sure how he got that bait that good.

Flatheads are always a nice bonus fishing for bass at night. I've caught a bunch of them in the teens and low 20's, mainly on jigs, but a buddy of mine caught a 30 something on a spinnerbait several years ago. There's never any doubt when one of them hits a jig.

Never had much luck on either. No doubt they'd work, just haven't been anything special for me. Still carry some and occasionally give them their shot to prove themselves, hasn't really happened yet though. So many of the lakes around me have zebra mussels anymore it won't be long before I can't throw a bait that touches the bottom, be faster to just take the bait straight out of the box and throw it into the lake.

I don't think a lot of people realize it is actually possible to catch a legal eye and release it back. I don't eat them, but I do catch them on accident on occasion. I've had nearby anglers about lose their minds when I plop a keeper eye back into the drink. Pretty much the same deal with crappie, except they reproduce a lot faster than walleye.

One of our fish from Friday with just a bit of snow falling in the background to give an idea of the mess we were fishing in. Poor guys fishing with me came down from Omaha to try to get away from the cold

Sounds like a nice day. I was out here in NE Kansas and it snowed so hard for about 2 hours straight that I could barely see the bank. Fish were biting steadily all through the mess though. Was actually glad when it started snowing because it was raining for the first 2 hours. That snow is much more tolerable than a freezing cold rain and wind.

Yes, exactly. They could shut their doors tomorrow and they'd take with them no baits that I'd sorely miss. The Shad Rap will always have a place in my box, but I could easily get by with cheaper imitations like the Flicker Shad. Between them screwing up or killing off so many great baits, to their ridiculous hype advertisements every time they come out with a new bait, just no longer a fan of a once great lure company.

You lost me at "Rapala".