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Funniest Thing You've Ever Caught a Bass On.
Since it is the off season for us bassers for the most part, I thought it may be fun to see who has caught a bass on the craziest thing. I've got two stories that are a toss up.
The first story I was on Potholes a couple years ago in my old tracker, way back in the dunes pre fishing. We came upon this opening that had a couple beaver huts around it and looked like some good stuff. Well the huts were alot shallower than they looked, but there were a ton of carp sunning back there. I grabbed a number 4 treble hook, put a 1/4oz bullet weight ahead of it and tied it on my dropshot rod to snag a carp for kicks (Fishin was tough). I cast out past the carp and felt a taptap, i figured it was game on so i set the hook, on what ended up to be a 13" largemouth. Here i am buying all kinds of baits and thats all it takes.
The second story was a couple years ago on a local lake throwing jerkbaits in the spring. We had a few decent largemouth, but nothing impressive. I hooked a cheetoh on my jerkbait, threw it next to a dock and caught the biggest bass of the day, right around 4lbs with the cheetoh on the jerkbait! I wish I could find the picture, it was the craziest thing you've ever seen.
Beat that guys.
The first story I was on Potholes a couple years ago in my old tracker, way back in the dunes pre fishing. We came upon this opening that had a couple beaver huts around it and looked like some good stuff. Well the huts were alot shallower than they looked, but there were a ton of carp sunning back there. I grabbed a number 4 treble hook, put a 1/4oz bullet weight ahead of it and tied it on my dropshot rod to snag a carp for kicks (Fishin was tough). I cast out past the carp and felt a taptap, i figured it was game on so i set the hook, on what ended up to be a 13" largemouth. Here i am buying all kinds of baits and thats all it takes.
The second story was a couple years ago on a local lake throwing jerkbaits in the spring. We had a few decent largemouth, but nothing impressive. I hooked a cheetoh on my jerkbait, threw it next to a dock and caught the biggest bass of the day, right around 4lbs with the cheetoh on the jerkbait! I wish I could find the picture, it was the craziest thing you've ever seen.
Beat that guys.
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Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on
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Another great topic, JD, and those examples are tough to beat.
I've got one that's pretty decent. I always chuckle to myself when I hear people tell me about their magic bait for catching bedded smallmouth. While there may be a few baits that produce more consistently than others, as long as you give spawning smallmouth enough distance and present the bait properly, they will bite ANYTHING.
5 or 6 years ago, a friend of mine was telling me about a couple different baits that he was killing the bedded smallmouth on. I didn't want to burst his bubble, but I told him that catching spawning smallmouth was like taking candy from a baby, and it didn't matter what you threw on the bed as long as you set up the boat correctly and presented the bait properly. For whatever reason, he didn't seem convinced.
We went out the following weekend together and I wanted to prove a point. With permission, I borrowed one of my step daughter's (girlfriend's daughter at the time) miniature Polly Pocket dolls and tied it onto a jig head with braid. We took turns on the bow. He fished his "smallmouth magnets" and I fished the "doll jig". I ended up cleaning his clock.
This rig wouldn't work near as well on largemouth. They are far more sophisticated. -
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Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on
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True that Tag on the bedded smallmouth. I bet a guy at 3 riv i could catch one on anything he gave me in the store. I ended up with a big nasty twin tail bottom fish jig. No issue at all as expected after a unique rigging job lunch was on him the next day. The pocket doll though, thats classic.
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Permalink Reply by Troy Pattillo on
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Is sophisticated the correct term or is Tag not revealing his Ken doll jig? I hope this doesnt kill my shot at more tips from the big guns. I just said Ken doll...
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Permalink Reply by islandbass on
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That's it. The next time I go fishing for bass, I'm bringing a bag of cheetos, which also happen to be one of my favorite snacks.
I would have to say for me, bubble gum pink 5" senkos. My daughter accompanied me to Joes once and I promised her that she could pick any lure she wanted. She grabbed a bag of bubble gum pink senkos and told her to get something else. I mean, come on, pink???
Well, she reminded me that a promise is a promise so I bought them. On a trip to Cali, I went fishing with one. I T-rigged my first ever pinky senko and not even 5 seconds on the fall, wham! A hit! I couldn't believe it. A nice 3.5 lb bass. Not too shabby, perhaps a fluke. The bass tore it up which shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone, so I wacky rigged it and made the second cast. Once again, bam! I started laughing as I reeled in another bass about the same size as the first. Two back to back casts, two bass, one pinky senko. Been sold on pink senkos since and I have my daughter to credit for that. -
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Permalink Reply by Mike Guenther on
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When I was a kid we used to fish in Minnesota every summer for LMB and Northern Pike. Our favorite lures were Heddon Lucky 13's and we knocked em dead with those but we also used this "Budweiser" crank bait and caught just as many Bass and Pike with it. This lure is over 30 years old and other than a little rust on the hooks it still looks pretty good. I think I'll replace the hooks and see if the Bass still like the "King of Beers"
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Great responses, fellas.
Like Islandbass, I am a huge fan of pink lures. There are certain situations where they really seem to excel. Some of my favorite pink lures are bubble gum Zoom Trick worms and flukes for largemouth. For smallmouth, I really like to dropshot 6" and 7" pink worms and burn a hot pink skirt/pink blade spinnerbait in clear water.
My experience with smallmouth has been that pink lures rarely produce the most bites, but I always seem to get big bites on pink. -
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I have absolutely no confidence in pink. When I started bass fishing I would watch the pros on t.v. completely clean house on pink worms.So I was convinced that pink would work for me too (a big misconception on my part concerning most lures), so I bought a bunch of Zoom worms online. No dice, not a single bite has ever come on pink.
Last year early summer, I was fishing under the Fremont bridge from shore and catching a few dink smallies and a couple largemouth. I had one bite on a drop shot and was reeling the little guy in when my rod started loading up and getting heavier. After a minute of reeling I got the fish up past the rock face drop off and realized a much larger largemouth had the fish by the tail and wasnt letting go. As I was trying to get the fish closer to me It must have seen me and let go and slowly slunk back to her hole. The little fish had few drag marks on its tail end but seemed to have no problem swimming off after I unhooked it. -
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Shoot, Nolliver, now you tell me. I already picked out an assortment of specialized tackle for your Christmas present this year.
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Ahhh shucks Tag, you really shouldn't have! But, if I could get a fish to bite on those pink frogs or any color of frog, that would be funny. NO LUCK ON FROGS FOR ME!!! Skitter walk yes, ribbits no. Can't wait for the pads to come back.
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