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I have been picking up a few fish using a Trick Worm on a Charlie Brewer 1/8 oz Spider head. You can Texas rig the worm on the Spider head, and it's relatively snag less. Less snaggy than a conventional Texas rig, kind of like Dave's Ned heads, they will snag up every once in a while, but it's not that bad. And if you lose one, you aren't out much dough. Only draw back is it's a slow drop with that 1/8 oz head.

Minor thing, but when you "Like" a post it shows that you "Reacted" to it, not that you "liked" it. Looks like you can choose from 4 emojis to add to your "React". None of those is a "like". I liked the old "Like" feature.

One of those days where I couldn't really nail anything down, fished different kinds of structure using several techniques and baits. Caught one here and there and ended up with a dozen bass, biggest went about 2.5 lbs. The rest were 12-14" spots and LM's. Got the most on a Trick Worm fished on a Spider head. Got a couple of a c-rig, a couple early on a wobblehead with a Megabug, and one or two drop shot fish. A couple of brush piles that were in the 10-20 foot range held a few, a few out on gravel, and the early fish were back in a main lake pocket. There was some scattered TW activity, I was able to throw a Nutech Zinc spoon a few times on TW fish, had a couple of bites, got one about halfway to the boat that jumped a good three feet out of the water and tossed the spoon. I could be wrong, but I am thinking we may see some main channel, summer early morning, TW activity soon, I think they are just getting started. Lots of shad out in the channel for them to eat. Surface temp as close to 90 as it can get, I saw it hit 89.9 at one point. When I got to the ramp there was a husband/wife team (assuming they are married) launching. Husband in the boat, wife backing the trailer in. Husband yelling instructions: BACK! BACK! TURN! TURN! NO, TURN THE OTHER WAY! I SAID THE OTHER WAY! PULL UP! PULL UP! OK, NOW BACK! BACK! They got it done, you have to learn sometime right? View full article

We all accidentally kill fish whether tourney fishing or pleasure fishing. the point is, we need to take care of the fish best we can and if there are dead fish floating around the ramp then someone didn't do a good job. Could of been a tourney fisherman, could've been a fun fisher that brought them in for a glory shot. We're all in this together chasing green and brown fish, and we should do our best to take care of fish so we can all catch them again.

I have to admit I would not have taken them home if I was in Moguy's shoes. Large bass are nasty in my opinion as table fare, especially if they have been belly up in near 90 degree water for a while. But, the guy who caught them should have taken them home, or at least disposed of them somewhere away from the ramp, I hate it when you get to a ramp and there's a bunch of dead, stinky fish smelling up the place.

Just a note, BVPD does not enforce the POA rules.

There's a hermit that lives on top of Shell Knob (I think he's a retired fishing guide that spent too much time in the sun). Anyway, you hike up to the top of Shell Knob and pay him a dollar and he will dispense fishing wisdom. He chooses the topic for his wise remarks so you never know what you'll get, but what the heck, it's only a buck. Here's what he told me last time I was up there: "He who uses Spider Wire will have spider web in reel." "He who uses Vanish will see lures vanish into woods."

Thanks for the report, I agree, the dog days are here. I'm ready for fall.

There's a cricket In my garage - noisy little sucker.

None of us gets outdoors enough either, so we spend our time hijacking threads. How about those Royals, sweeping the Chisox this weekend!

Good to hear you got into some. Shame about the dead bass, probably rode around in a livewell too long in this hot weather.

What kind of fish were the dead ones?

KVD spanked them, apparently using a spy bait. I guess those things can catch fish at times.

I gave up on boxing about 25 years ago.

Very nice, always fun to run across one of those mega-schools.

A boatload of money for sure. And you have to wonder how many times a year they get out in them? Probably less than 20 days I bet spent in those boats per year. Throw in boat cost, hauler cost, fuel, oil, insurance, I bet it works out to a couple grand per outing, if not more. Good way to burn through some cash.

I might make it out a day or two next week myself. I have set my expectations low, very low, so any bass will be a bonus.

Look at the tow vehicle in the last pic. Serious bucks put into that hauler/boat combo.

Well we ended up chasing the little white ball rather than little green fish. Looks like we may get some rain early next week, might help with the fishing even though looking at the reports some of the guys are doing pretty darned good.

If all else fails, you can get the plants from Burpee.com.

Good to hear he is back home.

My top guy is in 60th place. I really have a knack for picking them.

That's a good idea, might pack some crawlers next time if we go and try for some gills.

I have family in town this week, took my 18 yo nephew fishing today. He fishes about once a year, but loves to fish. Last week I got into pretty good numbers of fish and was hoping to do the same today. No such luck, it was super slow, fish gone from where they were last week. We put a half dozen dinks in the boat total. Could not find them shallow, could not find them deep. The nephew still enjoyed himself, but wish we could have found more fish. We might give it another try later this week.

I'm happy with what you decide, I'm so far down in the weeds that I am resigned to being a donator. But, I'll go down fighting! I have the Fabulous Five picked for this week (I hope).