03-02-2015, 06:13 PM
[quote BHuij]Whoa whoa. I don't think the guy was "demanding" anything. Sounds like a dude who wants some pointers on bass fishing north of Cabelas. No need to tear him a new one because he wasn't aware of your stringent research prerequisites to qualify for the privilege of asking your advice 
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[pirate] ouch you ripped me a new one for me ripping him a new one[:p] Granted it's pretty hard to tell attitude through the written word both from the OP and myself. If you thought I was ripping him a new one you should have seen what I wanted to write prior to actually posting my reply[cool].
When a guy who has made 11 posts pops on and says, "I need to know all you good secrets for early bass," sounds a little demanding to me and I get a bit irritated. I don't know this guy or the other 10,000 lurkers who might read this thread and he's saying just give me, give me. Give me a good reason to tell you all I know? We've got all kinds of guy's on this site who fish Flaming Gorge who say "you've got to pay your dues," before you can catch fish on the Gorge. Same principle applies for big bass. I've been paying my dues (still paying) and I'm not going to simply hand out GPS coordinates and lure choices willynilly. I gave the guy some first rate advice that will get him further than telling him what hard or soft lure I use primarily because that information is almost useless without understanding of the fish, the water, the structure, the prey, the season, the temperature, the depth, the etc. etc.......... He was asking for quick and dirty answers and those aren't worth much.
Here's my quick and dirty response. We've caught many LM bass over 3 lbs up to 6.5 lbs (dang nice bass for Utah), all in several northern Utah waters in every season, not so much for SM bass. We've caught them on crankbaits, spinnerbaits and plastic lures in white, blue, watermelon, black, brown, chartreuse, among others. Now that wasn't worth much was it? Now go and catch a big nice bass, good luck chuck[laugh]
There are not many true secrets out there, but great information can be found with a little effort on Youtube and other bass fishing web sites. I used to fish one particular public water and catch tons of 10" to 14" LM bass. I thought the lake didn't hold any big bass until I did some homework as per what I suggested in my previous post. Now I catch many more 16" to 18" with a few 20"+ LM bass here since I studied how to catch bigger bass. Hard/soft/black/white has little to do with it.
Hope you don't feel like I ripped you a new one, if so you read it in yourself. I'm just a happy angler waiting for the right conditions to go chase some bass on my secret lake with my secret lures. Maybe this weekend!
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[/quote][pirate] ouch you ripped me a new one for me ripping him a new one[:p] Granted it's pretty hard to tell attitude through the written word both from the OP and myself. If you thought I was ripping him a new one you should have seen what I wanted to write prior to actually posting my reply[cool].
When a guy who has made 11 posts pops on and says, "I need to know all you good secrets for early bass," sounds a little demanding to me and I get a bit irritated. I don't know this guy or the other 10,000 lurkers who might read this thread and he's saying just give me, give me. Give me a good reason to tell you all I know? We've got all kinds of guy's on this site who fish Flaming Gorge who say "you've got to pay your dues," before you can catch fish on the Gorge. Same principle applies for big bass. I've been paying my dues (still paying) and I'm not going to simply hand out GPS coordinates and lure choices willynilly. I gave the guy some first rate advice that will get him further than telling him what hard or soft lure I use primarily because that information is almost useless without understanding of the fish, the water, the structure, the prey, the season, the temperature, the depth, the etc. etc.......... He was asking for quick and dirty answers and those aren't worth much.
Here's my quick and dirty response. We've caught many LM bass over 3 lbs up to 6.5 lbs (dang nice bass for Utah), all in several northern Utah waters in every season, not so much for SM bass. We've caught them on crankbaits, spinnerbaits and plastic lures in white, blue, watermelon, black, brown, chartreuse, among others. Now that wasn't worth much was it? Now go and catch a big nice bass, good luck chuck[laugh]
There are not many true secrets out there, but great information can be found with a little effort on Youtube and other bass fishing web sites. I used to fish one particular public water and catch tons of 10" to 14" LM bass. I thought the lake didn't hold any big bass until I did some homework as per what I suggested in my previous post. Now I catch many more 16" to 18" with a few 20"+ LM bass here since I studied how to catch bigger bass. Hard/soft/black/white has little to do with it.
Hope you don't feel like I ripped you a new one, if so you read it in yourself. I'm just a happy angler waiting for the right conditions to go chase some bass on my secret lake with my secret lures. Maybe this weekend!
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