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I’ve reduced some variety in my collection of stuff so I can focus on what I like to throw and what I’m most confident in. Other than soft baits like magnums or hawghunter minnows that has led me to gather a few more UFOs (always at least one tied on) and switch most of my glides over to 8” buccas due to their versatility. All I need is more time to go fishing now.

My son, now 12 has been grinding for almost a year now on big swimbaits with not even a single bite. Surprisingly he never lost interest. That changed tonight though! I purchased a couple bucca baits from @abarmstrong that arrived today. He immediately picked the bull Gill 6" to tie on. On his last cast to a dock as I packed everything up he finally got one! He's hooked for life now. He's rocking the Fury 795sb/Curado 200K with Gomexus 105mm carbon fiber handle and 17lb CXX. It's a terrible picture but it will have to do. Rain moved in and my phone wouldn't do the night mode thing.

IMG_6165.MOV IMG_6165.MOV IMG_6165.MOV IMG_6165.MOV Got out to San Clemente island with captain Benny Florentino for an epic trip. My biggest for the day went 4 3/4 pounds. The salty glide was getting crushed throughout the day.

Wasn't should on the purple but it came through.

Got a kayak to get off the bank. Have only been out a few times between work and 2 year old. Was 4 pounds which is good for me. Caught on a bluegill whippersnapper 2.0.

Got out today after work and got 2 decent fish on the draft before I switched to crappie fishing. Missed one more that felt real decent

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Been throwing the Whippersnapper 2.0 around Northern Colorado for the past couple of weeks and have had quite a bit of success, but today was the best of them. Just barely 5 pounds.

No prob Mike I couldn’t fish the rat so I figured I’d throw some tracers I made in if anyone wants to give em a go. Good luck to everyone

Great offseason acquiring baits, time to put some fish on the board.

I have great taste in colors I just have a short attention span. Nice fish Brian!

I regret not buying that one from Rob. Purple works wonders here. Nice bass as always brother.

MB Cookai CK-710EXHC

Headed out last night with the Fish Cat 8 pontoon in search of bass. It was the first trip for the pontoon this year. I didn’t find any bass but I did get this 32” channel cat on the 9” Slammer - it hit about 6’ from the rod tip so things got a bit hectic and wet. I was very glad I had a big net. No scale, but only length-weight calculators suggest around 15 lbs. Definitely my biggest swimbait channel catfish.

*breathes heavily in Sith*

Hit a new pond with my buddy last night and tossed around a couple different slammers. Both got me a five pounder plus the couple fives my buddy had on his wade hoggs and some smaller decent fish we ended up with 24 pounds for our best five. First good night trip of the year. Took long enough

Did some trading the last two weeks and got some baits I'm really excited to try!

Couple baits in the mail over the weekend finally got a full size gill back in the lineup.

I believe this is from bill murphys book, could be wrong but someone posted it here and I saved the screen shot

new moon for the win, fresh or salt, 2-4 days on either side, so like a slid 8 days i try and get out as much as possible during those days full moon, only if i can get out before the moon rises or its incredibly cloudy/rainy if the full moons out i stay home, been that way for the last 20-25 years for me, especially in the salt for stripers.

I do believe moon phases have a effect on fish and animal behavior. Does it affect whether a bass will chase a lure and increase the bite or or not during certain phases? I think to some extent it may. However I don’t let it determine when I go fishing, as like most of us, when the time is right, it’s time to go. As a side note, I am one who does subscribe to the barometric pressure phenomenon that cause fish to be more active. That’s from my own personal experience. I pay more attention to barometric pressure more than I do moon phases. Anything that may give me an advantage, even if it’s minuscule, I’m all for. However I don’t plan my outings on it, as there are so many variables in play.

DBDT warrior gills

After working until 10 pm I figured it was time to get some bass fishing in. The moon, almost full, was bright and overhead and the wind had been howling all day (all spring, really). I didn’t care - I had a window to fish and I was fishing no matter what. I hit one of my favorite night spots right before midnight and at the 2nd access point had a solid and noisy strike on the 9” Slammer. That turned out to be this chunky 4.25 lb bass, my best so far this year. She was the only fish of the night but when I called it at 2:00 am, I was still smiling.

Super stoked on this one yall

I was in Cabelas the other day and they actually had Maxscent Flatworms in stock...three bags left. I snatched em up as soon as I seen em. Then I stood there with the hardest to find dropshot bait ever...thinking "man I dont need these fuckin things, I don't even want them" and put em back for someone else. A year ago dropshot and ned rigging was my jam. I actually enjoyed finesse fishing over anything else. That was how I started bass fishing in 2019. Now into throwing swimbaits there is nothing else I wanna do...admittedly though only after gaining confidence in the baits and breaking the PB while doing it. Need more confidence in hard baits still. A 6" trout profile on bottom is my ned rig now. Even got bit deadsticking a 6" Hudd lol, watched the line jump n everything.