Nothing like spending 20-30 minutes landing a lunker northern with an ultra-lite rod and reel with 4lb line tied to a steel leader with a Mepps Yellow Dot Black Fury. Good times!
I caught all my big bass on a "great big purple worm"! Haha.
I love fishing rubber worms for bass. Black is my color or a dark green.
Yeah, I hear you. I always liked using rubber worms. The old motor oil color was my go to. My favorite though, and the thing I caught my largest bass with was a pig and jig rig. A large black jig with a little blue in it with a dark green frog shaped pork rind on it.
Honest question: Why do people love fishing bass so much? I think they're small, are easy to land and walleye tastes way better.
You actually have to work for Walleyes, especially as the water warms up. Walleyes have a feeding cycle whereas Bass are mostly opportunistic feeders that like shiny, noisy, creeping things that happen by their hiding place. Bass will also protect their beds when spawning.
Hook into a smallmouth that's 5lbs+, especially using lighter weight tackle, that's quite a bit of fun. Agreed that walleye tastes better, but where I live walleye are only in a few places, none of which are close enough to be convenient. Not to mention that the rivers here that have walleye also have some serious pollution issues.
In some places, we don't have walleye or pike. In Texas, it's pretty much bass and crappie (if we're talking exclusively fresh water fishing). There are some Texas lakes in the panhandle that have walleye, but it's very few.
Also, not all bass are small and they aren't always "easy to land." I caught a 9 lb largemouth about 9 months ago. There are also stripers in bigger lakes and all of them are huge. And then there are also hybrid "wipers" (cross between a striped bass and white bass) and they are big.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife department also stocks many of our lakes and river systems with trout in the winter. This is purely for shits and giggles because they will die come spring/summer.
I can't imagine Karen not losing her shit for a few kids fishing off her dock.
I can't imagine a parent not suing Karen for her kids trespassing on her dock, falling into the water, and drowning; for not providing a lifeguard and gluten free cookies.
her dock
Personal property exists, you filthy fucking commie.
lol! Sounds like you think we were niggers that didn't know how to swim, or how to respect other people's property to not fuck it up.
In other words, some folks today, and most back then, wouldn't give two shits about a few kids casting from their dock. They might even enjoy seeing kids having fun fishing from a dock that wasn't being used.
But you're right, today's world is much different. Back then we'd be gone for hours and riding bikes for miles and no one's parents blinked an eye at that prospect. The steady diet of fear porn heaped on society for decades by the fucking kike media has changed society. What was once a normal kid's life, has now been labeled a free-range kid's life and is frowned upon. It's no mystery why kids are so fucked up these days.
I personally wouldn't give a shit but I am also aware of retards doing retard things and resulting in a 5 figure personal injury settlement. Or god forbid the news gets a hold of the story how your neighbor's nonverbal autist they had via IVF in their 40's getting past the locked gate, motion detectors, and slipping under the pool cover for winner take all marco polo. In short, stay the fuck off my lawn.
first bass was on hook and bobber, zebco shitbox rod and reel
i am now exclusively spinnerbaits and jigs.
9th grade. My friends and I grabbed our poles and tackle and started riding our bikes out to a lake in hopes of popping a boner. We stopped at one of the smaller lakes along the way. Drop bikes at top of a driveway, walk down to the dock and start boning. These days, I can't imagine Karen not losing her shit for a few kids boning off her dock.
Anyway, I caught my first off that dock on a black Mister Twister jig spinner and boned it right there on Karen's dock. We ate it that night and after feasting and munching hard, we proudly looked at each others poles and tackle.
My first bass was a early 70s Teisco https://imgs.search.brave.com/M3fw7F9gZ1Pkc40_icKIyYK9b2NC6rDLNtbqTfGwAkI/rs:fit:562:1000:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp/bmltZy5jb20vNzM2/eC8zMC8yMi83NS8z/MDIyNzUyZjQzOTdi/YTM2MjAzZjlmZDg2/YmVkZTNlMC0tYmFz/cy1ndWl0YXJzLWVs/ZWN0cmljLWd1aXRh/cnMuanBn
I paid $14 bucks for it, about $10 more than it was worth.
White Mr Twisters kick fucking ass.
Halcyon days:)
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