Hey everybody im 15 and im new to fishing. I just started with my father on our new smokercraft boat this spring. I've been gettin some decent fish with a black and red spinnerbait but i want to catch that 10 pound bass. I know that they like mice over weedbeds and buzzbaits as well. Does anyone know any LMB killers, and does anyone know how well a "BOOYAH Swim N Jig" works?
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You should check out the Terminator Double Buzz Bait.[cool]
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cool Cash avatar!!
10lbers?? you don't hail from a northern state so I'll let this one ride [
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i do, new york [img]../../images/gforum/blush.gif[/img] aha...my father, grandfather, two of my uncles, and my brother all have caught atleast an 8 pounder up here and i think its my turn to catch me a fat bass! just the other day i caught a 22 inch large mouth bass, i actually posted it under the bass fishing show us your bass thing, second to last picture on the second post of page 4. My fathers 10 pounder was 24 inches but it was a female so i guess the weight differences between genders really is huge. My 22 incher weighed a whopping four pounds two ounces! It's a nice tournament bass but i think i need somethin a little bit bigger to hang on my wall [cool] Oh and thanks about the avatar! cash is the man!
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Oh I'm not discouraging you at all.. heck no!! Set the bar and shoot for it by all means!! [
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Just a fact that 10lbers in the northern states are very, very seldom seen for various reasons. Head to the southern states and your odds grow quite a bit in your favor.
State records for our states (NY & WI) are within 1oz of each other @ 11-1/4lbs .. States like Georgia and California shatter those weights by twice as much..
good on ya about the 24" fin though..[
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FishinNoob, as a fellow Northerner (Maine), I've found that a good deal of cynisism is good when trying to decide which lures are "good", generally, the more grandiose the claim, the less likely the lure is to work, many lures are simply designed to "hook the fisherman, not the fish", they look fancy and enticing, and you're suddenly possessed with a desire to buy the lure, presto, you've just been "hooked"....
I find that you can't go wrong with the basics, here's a small sample of what's in my tacklebox;
Topwaters;
Fred Arbogast Jitterbug (Red head, Black Jointed, and Yellow Perch)
Heddon Tiny Torpedo (Black, yellow perch, Shad)
Heddon Crazy Crawler (Yellow Perch)
Spinners; Mepps #3 Aglia Red/White (Silver blade, gold blade)
Spoons; Acme Kastmaster (1/4 oz and 1/2 oz), Eppinger Daredevle (1/4 oz, 5/8 oz), Johnson Silver Minnow
Crankbaits/minnows; Rapala minnows of varying sizes, Rapala Shad-Rap, Mann's 1-minus
Soft Plastics;
Slug-Go's (4" and 6"), Mann's Jelly Worm (grape firetail, black firetail), Mann's Mannipulator (Grape), Berkely Power Worm (Pumpkinseed)
of all those lures, all proven, time-tested designs, the ones i've caught the most/biggest fish on are;
Black Jointed Jitterbug
Kastmaster (1/4 oz silver)
Mepps #3 Aglia Red/White
Mann's Mannipulator Grape worm
Mann's Grape Firetail Jelly Worm
my biggest dissapointment lure?
Bass Pro Shops "Tornado" spinnerbait, not a single hit for all the hype it was given during it's introduction a few years back
stick with the classics and you won't go wrong
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just reading around, and my noob-ness struck. what are crankbaits, spinnerbaits, soft plastics, all those things. i realize im just makin a seasoned vet explain stuff, and i apologize for that, but i have googled it and stuff but i seem to be looking in all the wrong places. i get stores, not sites telling me what they are and what fish they are used to catch and things like that. if someone has some time and could explain it to me, that'd be great. if not, oh well, its out there.
thanks, simp.
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Crankbaits have lips attached to them and go down deeper quicker. Some float, some sink. These are good on hot days when the fish are deeper. Spinnerbaits sink and have a shiny blade attached. I tend to use blades that are the same size as the minnow attached. Also, on the hook of a spinnerbait, you can attach a wormlike thing called a trailer. This will attract bigger fish. Spinners can be used to catch bass, pike, really anything. A lure ive just started using, but has prooven efficient, is called a hula-popper. They are older but are real fun to work with. They are topwater so they float and all you have to do it jerk it every now and then and it will make a GLUMP sound. It may sound like a rock hit the water, but it attracts fish from all around because its so loud. Let it sit after you twitch it until the ripples are almost gone and then do it over again. Sometimes they hit it as soon as the lure hits the water. I find they work the best in calm water. It looks like a wounded fish. Only bad thing is that it attracts sunfish and carp and really anything. Today i was using it and had a real nice bass fly out of the water with it. ANYWAY: soft plastics are like rubber worms and things that you would jig in the water. Ive had real good luck with the senko worms. Hook them up wacky style - put the hook through the middle of the worm - and let it sink. Every now and then, give it a jerk and then let it sink. Bass will usually hit it on the way down.
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ahh thanks. i have some little plastic boxes that have all sorts of stuff in em. i was just wondering if any of that stuff was any good for catchin stuff.
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Simp, the only way to find out which lures work for you is to get out and wet a line, every body of water is different, every fish is different, we have a small 1 acre pond on our property, stocked with small largemouth bass (mostly 8-10", small, but fun on ultralight to medium-light tackle), they love topwaters, Hula Poppers, Jitterbugs, Crazy Crawlers, they like rubber worms and Kastmasters as well, everything else i've tried is ignored, Slug-Go's are ignored and laughed at, spinnerbaits, they turn up their fishy noses at, and Rapala minnows are also ignored....
down the road, there's a small brook with Hornpout (catfish), chain pickerel, eels and brook trout, small Mepps spinners and Kastmasters are the producers here (brookies and pickerel), eels and hornpout only accept nightcrawlers
the closest large pond (Scituate Pond) has largemouth, pickerel, and yellow perch, topwaters Mepps spinners, spoons and worms produce here
when i visited my freinds down in Richmond, Va, topwater soft-plastic frogbaits, Berkely Power Worms and spinnerbaits were the big producers
every body of water is different, experience is the best teacher here, what works for me may not work for you...
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yeah, i hear that. im not paying too much attention to that stuff though, im mainly after catfish, which i've yet to catch. ive caught a crapload of brim, a good size shad, and a few bluegills, but never any bass or cats or carp or anything like that. i dont know where any tackle shops around here are, so i just keep trying stuff. ive tried some magic bait dough bait, powerbait dough bait (which i like because it only smells like dogfood, instead of human excrement) and i even got a shad fish look a like with a hook in it. but all of this stuff i dont know about. im just gonna have to get lucky i guess.
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if the spot you are in is too heavily fished then you may need a new spot seeing as the fish have seen every bait there is. In saratoga lake up by me, spinnerbaits work about a month in the spring and then you will hardly catch a fish on them unless you add trailers and use a color that they hardly see. You may need a new spot.
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yeah, from where i fish there is a spot i can see down the river when im thinkin some catfish might like to hang out, but i dont think i cat get to it, i think its just a heavily wooded area with a tree that fell down and is overhanging the water. i have another spot in mind, but i have to wait til winter, because i have to go thru the woods to get there, and copperheads are bad down here.
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