USMC9999
05-12-2011, 12:18 PM
Ah yeah, ghetto fishing......down-n-dirty frontal assault urban warfare type LMB fishing. No flanking manouvers required. No finesse needed. Close with the enemy in CQC, tag 'em-n-bag 'em. The best.
Find the nastiest, dirtiest, most debris choked areas of the lake and you're in business.
I'm not even going to say the numbers of the bass boated by us yesterday because I don't believe anyone can keep an accurate count and continue fishing the way it is out there now. Suffice it that a truely obscene number of LMB were boated.
We boated no LMB over 4.3 lbs. But there were plenty between 3 lbs and that weight so it didn't really matter.
It will be better to add what they didn't bite.....................................
Very early in the day we noticed that blades, cranks etc picked up to much moss and stuff where we planned to fish. I had a few of those Strike King 5 inch soft body swimbaits so in frustration I decided to try one to see how bad they collected the moss. They didn't. And after about the 3rd cast into some nasty, nasty shoreline structure I found the key to our day.
Heavy string (straight braid worked just fine), short and accurately thrown casts into nasty surroundings with the willingness to concentrate fishing this way all day. A good portion of our fish were in the 2.5 to 4 lb range.
We did try cranks, blades, jigs and stuff when we had to move to the outside edges to get back inside and they all worked just fine.
We even had a pick on TW all through the day useing frogs and ZZ Walker type lures.
I did nail one LMB early using my old origonal Heddon Spook rod, Heddon Pal #41 reel and a Heddon #210 plug (looks like a rat and still has its origonal whiskers and long tail). With that accomplished the rig was retired for the rest of the 2011 Barrett season.
PS: We did catch a few huge Black Crappie in the morning. They bit bass sized cranks and one even took an old CCBC Injured Minnow plug I was using at the time thinking only a LMB would attack it.
Find the nastiest, dirtiest, most debris choked areas of the lake and you're in business.
I'm not even going to say the numbers of the bass boated by us yesterday because I don't believe anyone can keep an accurate count and continue fishing the way it is out there now. Suffice it that a truely obscene number of LMB were boated.
We boated no LMB over 4.3 lbs. But there were plenty between 3 lbs and that weight so it didn't really matter.
It will be better to add what they didn't bite.....................................
Very early in the day we noticed that blades, cranks etc picked up to much moss and stuff where we planned to fish. I had a few of those Strike King 5 inch soft body swimbaits so in frustration I decided to try one to see how bad they collected the moss. They didn't. And after about the 3rd cast into some nasty, nasty shoreline structure I found the key to our day.
Heavy string (straight braid worked just fine), short and accurately thrown casts into nasty surroundings with the willingness to concentrate fishing this way all day. A good portion of our fish were in the 2.5 to 4 lb range.
We did try cranks, blades, jigs and stuff when we had to move to the outside edges to get back inside and they all worked just fine.
We even had a pick on TW all through the day useing frogs and ZZ Walker type lures.
I did nail one LMB early using my old origonal Heddon Spook rod, Heddon Pal #41 reel and a Heddon #210 plug (looks like a rat and still has its origonal whiskers and long tail). With that accomplished the rig was retired for the rest of the 2011 Barrett season.
PS: We did catch a few huge Black Crappie in the morning. They bit bass sized cranks and one even took an old CCBC Injured Minnow plug I was using at the time thinking only a LMB would attack it.