Bass that suck

alwaysfishking wrote:

Sounds like it wasn't the bass that were sucking, you never had fish just
suck in a lure and hold it? You have got to be kidding me!!! Any pressure I
feel I set the hook, I get all those sucky bass right up

Actually No, I never have, at least not that I knew, I have had blue
gills (that I could see, grab my worms), and I always thought this
feeling was just that, when I could not see them,, I now guess I have
been missing a lot of bass.

I usually fish this rig with a circle hook, I just let them swim off and
they set the hook. When I Carolina rigged, I would always gave them
slack and let them swim off as well before setting the hook.

I learned a lot from all this.

I think one of the biggest problems with me in this is all the tub
fishing I have done, where you need the bass to hold the bait to get the
crowd excited, since we never use hooks in those demos. It's a mental
thing with me I guess,, I need to do more actual fishing instead of just
testing, as I don't use hooks anytime I am doing underwater filming
either. I don't do any serious fishing, like tournaments either.

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Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

If you can't tell the difference between Bluegill playing with a
plastic worm and a Bass, well, lets just say you need a lot o
schoolin. It just, well feels different. At least to me.

On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:19:54 -0500, Rodney . sent into
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alwaysfishking wrote:

Sounds like it wasn't the bass that were sucking, you never had fish just
suck in a lure and hold it? You have got to be kidding me!!! Any pressure I
feel I set the hook, I get all those sucky bass right up

Actually No, I never have, at least not that I knew, I have had blue
gills (that I could see, grab my worms), and I always thought this
feeling was just that, when I could not see them,, I now guess I have
been missing a lot of bass.

I usually fish this rig with a circle hook, I just let them swim off and
they set the hook. When I Carolina rigged, I would always gave them
slack and let them swim off as well before setting the hook.

I learned a lot from all this.

I think one of the biggest problems with me in this is all the tub
fishing I have done, where you need the bass to hold the bait to get the
crowd excited, since we never use hooks in those demos. It's a mental
thing with me I guess,, I need to do more actual fishing instead of just
testing, as I don't use hooks anytime I am doing underwater filming
either. I don't do any serious fishing, like tournaments either.


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If you can't tell the difference between Bluegill playing with a
plastic worm and a Bass, well, lets just say you need a lot o
schoolin. It just, well feels different. At least to me.

Don't always assume it's a 'gill. I've had plenty of 4lb.+ smallies on the
White River bite like a bluegill.

Brad Coovert
2003 Angler of the Year, Greenfield Bassmasters
http://www.greenfieldbassmasters.com

"Brad Coovert" wrote in message
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If you can't tell the difference between Bluegill playing with a
plastic worm and a Bass, well, lets just say you need a lot o
schoolin. It just, well feels different. At least to me.

Don't always assume it's a 'gill. I've had plenty of 4lb.+ smallies on
the
White River bite like a bluegill.

Brad Coovert


Amen Brad...

I used to get a kick out of an old buddy complaining about me catching more
fish while he was watching his line go tick tick tick, and cursing the
"bluegills".
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If you can't tell the difference between Bluegill playing with a
plastic worm and a Bass, well, lets just say you need a lot o
schoolin. It just, well feels different. At least to me.

Not necessarily Dan me boy. One of the largest smallmouth that I've ever
caught was tap-tap-tapping like a bluegill. I, out of irritation whipped
the rod to pull it away from the offending pest, only to be rewarded with
the rod stopping dead mid-sweep and a heavy pull back.

That's why I tell clients to set the hook anytime something feels different,
because you never know.....
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 20:40:24 -0500, "Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers"
sent into the ether:


"Dan, danl, danny boy, Redbeard, actually Greybeard now"
wrote in message
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If you can't tell the difference between Bluegill playing with a
plastic worm and a Bass, well, lets just say you need a lot o
schoolin. It just, well feels different. At least to me.

Not necessarily Dan me boy. One of the largest smallmouth that I've ever
caught was tap-tap-tapping like a bluegill. I, out of irritation whipped
the rod to pull it away from the offending pest, only to be rewarded with
the rod stopping dead mid-sweep and a heavy pull back.

On Smallies I bow to greater knowledge. On largemouth, it might
happen, but I have won many bets when the Bluegill were playing with
my powerworm and stopped and the Bass picked/sucked or popped it (my
own expression for something I can't really describe, but can feel).
I like the look when they turn over the bet money. This worked great
on a lake East of here I am going to fish tomorrow. Well, eventually
word spread among my buddies and no more bets.




That's why I tell clients to set the hook anytime something feels different,
because you never know.....
Please don't misunderstand. When I say cover it is because a worm and
weight are flying toward the boat. I do set the hook rather well :}
and in most cases if the feel of the breeze is not right, I'll set the
hook :} I don't like to miss fish.

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