Fishing lure ? for you bass guy's

[deltaman]

get you a pack of zoom brush hog (not baby brush hog). these are bigger and they will tear them up right now. blue watermelon seed is great for this time of year

[BR549]

Color is generally determined by the moon phase more than anything. Yes color does matter! Under some conditions color can be very critical! Look at live crawfish they change color with the moon phase. Bream do too! When you start coming up on full moon they start getting redder and redder. Same with crawfish. Bass are predators and they know this too! Typicaly you try to "match the hatch" as to what you see going on around the water while you are out there. As far as how big a bream a bass can eat? You say there are 10 pounders where you are fishing? A 10 pounder can eat any size bream he wants! They don't get to big for him! Colors that you use change with the amount of light penetration that goes thru the water. Most water in MS would be considerd stained to muddy on a color scale. You just about have to go to mountian lakes or lakes with a lot of coontail or millfoil to find "Clear" water. On a color scale when a 1" solid white block dissapears in 2 foot or less the water is said to be muddy. When it dissapears between 2 and 4 feet it is said to be stained. Any visibility beyond 4 feet is considerd clear. Not much of that in MS. Cloud cover plays a big role there too. Under cloudy conditions what might be considerd stained water may react like muddy therefore muddy colors and tactics need to be tried first. There is no one color to catch bass on all the time. It's what they want at the time you are fishing and that is determined by the amout of light penetration in the water in conjunction with the moon phase. Sound complicated? It can be. Try doing it for a living! Fish have to eat. They don't get big by not eating. They don't stop eating just because the water gets muddy either! The hotter the water gets the more the have to eat too! Their patterns may change, they may change the way they even face the cover or something simple. But they are still there and they still have to eat. May even want a different variation of the same color that you are using. I've seen just as little as a different shade of blue in the metalflake in a worm make all the difference in the world. It can be fustrating!

[TODO]

Color is generally determined by the moon phase more than anything. Yes color does matter! Under some conditions color can be very critical! Look at live crawfish they change color with the moon phase. Bream do too! When you start coming up on full moon they start getting redder and redder. Same with crawfish. Bass are predators and they know this too! Typicaly you try to "match the hatch" as to what you see going on around the water while you are out there. As far as how big a bream a bass can eat? You say there are 10 pounders where you are fishing? A 10 pounder can eat any size bream he wants! They don't get to big for him! Colors that you use change with the amount of light penetration that goes thru the water. Most water in MS would be considerd stained to muddy on a color scale. You just about have to go to mountian lakes or lakes with a lot of coontail or millfoil to find "Clear" water. On a color scale when a 1" solid white block dissapears in 2 foot or less the water is said to be muddy. When it dissapears between 2 and 4 feet it is said to be stained. Any visibility beyond 4 feet is considerd clear. Not much of that in MS. Cloud cover plays a big role there too. Under cloudy conditions what might be considerd stained water may react like muddy therefore muddy colors and tactics need to be tried first. There is no one color to catch bass on all the time. It's what they want at the time you are fishing and that is determined by the amout of light penetration in the water in conjunction with the moon phase. Sound complicated? It can be. Try doing it for a living! Fish have to eat. They don't get big by not eating. They don't stop eating just because the water gets muddy either! The hotter the water gets the more the have to eat too! Their patterns may change, they may change the way they even face the cover or something simple. But they are still there and they still have to eat. May even want a different variation of the same color that you are using. I've seen just as little as a different shade of blue in the metalflake in a worm make all the difference in the world. It can be fustrating!

Thats exactly why i quit fishing tounaments . . . to much frustration to be fun

[BR549]

Yup took me 25 years to finally get enough of it! Been coast to coast and border to border! Used to drive 80k miles a year pulling a boat! Fish 6 days and drive on the 7th! Hell of a way to make a living! Just wish we woulda had half the money that's involved in the sport now back then! I don't see how anybody can make the local tournament scene pay off anymore. They are still fishing for bout the same money and the expenses have gone up tenfold! I know my boats when I first started were under 10grand fully loaded with all the latest and greatest equipment. When I quit they were over 30 and now they are over 50. Gas got up back in the early 90's but not as high as it is now! I remember paying over 3 bucks a gallon in New York back in '94. Try filling up a truck that holds 44 gallons and a boat that hold 60! Then go blow it in just one day! OUCH!

[digger]

Well the the big fish kept hanging around so I tried him this morning(it's kinda got like a pet).Tried a the biggest crank bait in the closest color I had fish would look but not take,hit him with a rattel trap sucked it up and spit it out tried it agin sucked it up broke off (lure was on 12 or 14lb all other rod's have 17 to 20 my luck).I was feeling bad about good fish with a mouth full of hook's but he came back,I went back to bream fishing and he went back to chaseing them till he finaly got 1 and took my stuff agin.My ? will this fish be ok or will the hook,line and cork he took hurt him if he kept the bream down.If he's back this afternoon gonna try him agin.I keep saying him but I figure it's a female.Wish I had away to film this I'v never seen a fish act like this the meter man came by while I was fishing and I showed him,if you hook a bream you can get him to follow up around my feet (standing in shin deep water) if I had a dip net I could dip him up if I wanted to.