Interesting afternoon

[EBass]

I was fishing lake X yesterday and got out @1PM just before the showers rolled through. I caught 4 bass really quick before the rain and broke off on something, prolly a pike.

I kept working the shoreline picking up some here and there and figured I'd try the same areas I fished a couple hours before. I picked up two more from my first spot and the last one just enhaled my jig. I get the jig out and notice that it swallowed some of the rubber skirting. I pulled on it with pliers and up comes my jig that broke off earier. What are the odds of that? That's one hungry bass. It was a 17"er.

16 bass in total in 4 hours and a small pike. Biggest a bit over 18"s and lost a hoss when it jumped.

They are starting to turn on and in smaller schools of 2-4 with roamers in the mix. Well that's what I gathered. It's only going to get better!!

[Nick Kuhn]

I was just going to make a topic about a very particular bite yesterday afternoon. To start the day I put on a crankbait just to seek out fish (I haven't targeted bass in over a month), and oddly enough I grabbed the right bait to start. After catching 2 out of some coontail to gravel transition, I figured it was time to pitch some plastic along that line. But that didn't catch a thing, not even a bite. I tried swimming jigs and swimbaits over the weeds, nothing. Other crankbaits over the weeds, nothing but a couple small pike. Turns out I had to use the very first crankbait I had grabbed (a square bill DT Fat 3) because of the way it would contact the weeds (round bills really don't pop off coontail that well). Something about jostling the weeds was triggering them, and you had to hit the weeds as anything over the top was ignored. After I figured it out I put about a dozen fish in the boat, all over 14", but nothing huge.

I'm sure someone will recognize this lake, but I always figure if someone recognizes the background in your pics, they already know about your fishing spot anyway.

[motley man]

Was on a launch on Mille Lacs and DNR where tagging walleys as we caught them . One was tagged and released and caught 5 minutes later on other side of launch.

[SledNeck]

i use 30# fireline on my jig rod

[EBass]

I've been toying with leaders again. Must've knicked up the knot as that's where it broke. Using 20lb Sufix Braid with 15lb Floro for a leader.

[SledNeck]

why the leader?

[TonkaBass]

I am so against using those dumb fluorocarbon leaders tied straight to braid. Ive seen WAY to many breaks to use it when it counts.

[EBass]

Normally I don't use them, but I had a spool that has some still on there so I figured I'd try it and test my knot skills. It broke on the knot at the jig. So my uni held up which I thought was the weak spot. But it must've been knicked from some previous bits.

I just thought what were the odds of getting that fish to hit it again 4 hours later on the exact same color jig.

[RK]

Hiya -

When they're biting, they're biting I guess

One thing I have noticed with Fluorocarbon is that while a particular brand may bemore abrasion resistant overall than most monofilaments, once it gets abraded it loses its strength pretty dramatically, especially to impact type stress like a hookset. If I'm around rocks, docks, etc., or catch a pike, I really check the line carefully and retie if there's any surface abrasions.

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Deitz Dittrich]

is "abraded" even a word?.. Really Rob? LOL

[RK]

Abraded - (verb) to scrape away or wear down by friction; erode

From the Latin verb abradere - to scrape.

Gym teachers...I tell ya.

[delmuts]

"is "abraded" even a word?.."

It's in the Websters' dictionary!!

[mww24]

looks like deitz put his foot in his mouth on that one. Good stuff guys.

[RK]

mww24 -

Nah - just a running joke with DD about my habit of using off the wall turns of phrase now and then