hodge podge day

[merc1997 Bo]

our little play house has broke up, and it is back to hunt and peck prospecting.  not pattern at all today.  caught bass from 25 ft. to 10.  some on bottom and some suspended.  jigs and jerks.  ended up with 6 keeps all lmg's.  2 decent ones and the rest just nice keeps.  jerkers came on the old long bill in a color that you can not buy, but has caught a bunch of them over the years.  jig was the 3/8 GrassJig with a bluegill skirt.

i would say that the catching will be pretty hit and miss with all the fronts coming through.

bo

 

[Sprint21fter]

Bo, you have a six minute penalty for landing violation!😅

[Guest]

yeh, i would be getting a penalty all the time.  i put them between my legs to get hold of them to get the hook out too.😄

 

bo

[Sprint21fter]

Diddo!

[Champ188]

It's getting to be that early prespawn bite where you can hunt and peck around in the river arm of your choosing and come up with a decent bag of LM. May take all day but it can be done. And you don't need the Awful Rig to do it. 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Champ188 said:

It's getting to be that early prespawn bite where you can hunt and peck around in the river arm of your choosing and come up with a decent bag of LM. May take all day but it can be done. And you don't need the Awful Rig to do it. 

you are so right.  prespawn bass can just make you pull your hair out.  talk about having to go hunt them up each time out, yikes!

bo

[Fish24/7]

8 hours ago, Champ188 said:

It's getting to be that early prespawn bite where you can hunt and peck around in the river arm of your choosing and come up with a decent bag of LM. May take all day but it can be done. And you don't need the Awful Rig to do it. 

to me it doesn't seem like February already, but the fish are telling me otherwise. Now if I can just get one step ahead of them i'll be in great shape when Spring comes!

[Champ188]

On 2/6/2019 at 5:23 PM, merc1997 said:

you are so right.  prespawn bass can just make you pull your hair out.  talk about having to go hunt them up each time out, yikes!

bo

It was always a favorite tournament time of year for me because it took persistence and the confidence to keep your bait wet in the right places for what probably wasn’t going to be many bites. Usually knew who you had to beat to get a good check. Now, too many times, some youngster full of urine and vinegar flinging an A-rig stumbles through enough of them to beat you. Can’t blame em as long as it’s legal. Just not my thing.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, Champ188 said:

It was always a favorite tournament time of year for me because it took persistence and the confidence to keep your bait wet in the right places for what probably wasn’t going to be many bites. Usually knew who you had to beat to get a good check. Now, too many times, some youngster full of urine and vinegar flinging an A-rig stumbles through enough of them to beat you. Can’t blame em as long as it’s legal. Just not my thing.

the a-rig has made a lot of folks into fish catchers.  i am with you on not being an a-rig fan.

bo

[shrapnel]

I hate the A-Rig blah blah blah.  Why?  Too expensive?  Don't understand it?  It does NOT throw fish in the boat no matter what.  It WILL catch them when it's tough.  Most of us get limited time on the water, and I guarantee if I'm in the boat with you catching keepers on the rig while you drag a jig for 4 hours without a bite you'll reconsider before heading home skunked.

Most A-rigs are not ready to go out of the package, very few are made well and need tweaking whether it's new snaps, swivels, centering pins, blades etc.  Most people I see throw way to heavy of a rig also, my favorite combo is no weight on top 2 wires, 1/16oz on bottom outside 2 wires and an 1/8th oz on center back wire. 

I took a guy out a couple weeks ago to a secondary point that I KNEW had fish on it.  20 minutes of jerk bait and ned rig without a bite I had to prove it...pulled the A-Rig rod out of the box and caught 2 in 5 casts.

There are many more tournaments won on other baits then there are the A-Rig.  It has it's time of year, just like jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater...