BASS OPEN

[abkeenan]

2 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

You can catch a bass on everything from a hotdog to an expensive Whopper Plopper or Megabass, but you for sure can't catch them if they aren't where your fishing. 

I only use Hebrew National hot dogs. Can't get bit on Nathan's, Hunter or Ballpark dogs. They don't have the same salt content or shimmy as the real deal Hebrew's all beef franks.

[vernon]

14 minutes ago, abkeenan said:

I only use Hebrew National hot dogs. Can't get bit on Nathan's, Hunter or Ballpark dogs. They don't have the same salt content or shimmy as the real deal Hebrew's all beef franks.

Well played!  Oops. That was a little loud. 

[abkeenan]

2 hours ago, vernon said:

Well played!  Oops. That was a little loud. 

I'm serious. People use crappie niblets....well...I use bass hot doglets. I tip all my treble baits with them. Should see how I skewer a full hot dog on a wire leader attached to a 2/0 treble with a helicopter lure trailer. Can't believe I just gave let that cat out of the bag on an open forum. 

[vernon]

4 minutes ago, abkeenan said:

I'm serious. People use crappie niblets....well...I use bass hot doglets. I tip all my treble baits with them. Should see how I skewer a full hot dog on a wire leader attached to a 2/0 treble with a helicopter lure trailer. Can't believe I just gave let that cat out of the bag on an open forum. 

Banjo Minnow trailer on the helicopter trailer and you're talking deadly. 

[mixermarkb]

You guys are gonna call total BS on this, but I promise it is a true story.

My wife, is from the bootheel, and grew up fishing with her dad. Fishing for her, is sitting on the bank, dunking something stinky for catfish, and maybe cracking open a cold adult beverage or two. 

I don't remember if we were married or still dating, but on one of her first trips to Bull Shoals with me, she was getting pretty frustrated. I had her throwing a shakyhead, and she wasn't getting any bites. I wasn't getting many either, and was running around, trying different things, trying to get a pattern going. She was getting aggravated because I kept moving the boat, and she just wanted to sit somewhere, relax, and let the fish come to her. I was trying to explain to her, that wasn't how bass fishing worked, that part of the fun was the mental challenge of finding the fish, etc etc. 

She, being a southern redhead of Irish lineage, wasn't buying what I was selling. In her mind, I was using the wrong bait, Fish only bite something stinky or alive, and I was moving around way too much, and I was a city boy who couldn't catch fish. 

Soo- she set out to prove me wrong. She dug out a hotdog out of the cooler, bit a chunk off, and proceeded to thread that chunk of mixed meat onto the hook, ending up with it in the bend of the hook and then putting the point back in her shakyhead worm. 

I then, proceeded to tell her how that was all wrong, it was gonna mess up the balance of the bait, and that she wouldn't get any bites, or be able to hook a bite if she got one because the hotdog was filling up the hook gap. She just said she's gonna show her city boy what really catches fish, and chunked that hotdog shakyhead out there.

As God is my witness, on the first cast with that darn hotdog worm, she caught a 16" spotted bass. 

Then a couple casts later, still with the hotdog worm, she caught another fat K, maybe 13".

I did get on a pattern, and ended the day somewhat convincing her that I did in fact know how to fish, but for a few minutes at least, she wore my posterior out with that hotdog shakyhead. 

[Deadstream]

59 minutes ago, abkeenan said:

I'm serious. People use crappie niblets....well...I use bass hot doglets. I tip all my treble baits with them. Should see how I skewer a full hot dog on a wire leader attached to a 2/0 treble with a helicopter lure trailer. Can't believe I just gave let that cat out of the bag on an open forum. 

At least you have something to eat at the ramp.

[Macsimus]

On 3/16/2017 at 6:10 PM, abkeenan said:

I only use Hebrew National hot dogs. Can't get bit on Nathan's, Hunter or Ballpark dogs. They don't have the same salt content or shimmy as the real deal Hebrew's all beef franks.

How long before we see the Hebrew National wrap on your rig? I think that would be awesome. Show those Oscar Mayer folks what's up.  

[vernon]

I don't know man, I had some Nathan's fired up on the patio grill last night for the basketball game and all the goldfish in the little backyard pond schooled up tight and shallow on the edge closest to me all big eyed lookin' and I think they'd have bit..................

Just sayin'.

[Quillback]

9 minutes ago, vernon said:

I don't know man, I had some Nathan's fired up on the patio grill last night for the basketball game and all the goldfish in the little backyard pond schooled up tight and shallow on the edge closest to me all big eyed lookin' and I think they'd have bit..................

Just sayin'.

You don't have bass in that pond?  What's up with that?

[vernon]

Just now, Quillback said:

You don't have bass in that pond?  What's up wit that?

Are you kidding me?  Do you have any idea how expensive that would be?  My God, bass would go through a couple packages of Nathan's per day!

And I'm on a "fixed" income!