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Caught her twice in 2 days. Still fishing for the REALLY big one...

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Comment by Mike Stacy on May 1, 2011 at 7:07pm

I just love to fish! No matter what is screwy with life... the water is there. Fish is my comfort food, and it HAS been sustenance for me, basic survival, many many times...

Adding more to that thought on the "icky tasting" page :-)

The wind came back up, so I spent 5+ hours inside sorting a few thousand hooks. I was blessed with the gift of a 60 lb box of mixed mustad hooks from a friend who sympathized with my predicament... I've been self employed/unemployed for... too long. Good news now: I have 75 packs of 10 bass hooks almost ready to put on eBay. Good, strong, sharp hooks. Old style wide gap Mustads, no gamicuchi nonsense! I've got another few hundred smaller hooks of various styles ready to package up too. SELF employed once again! And my belly is full of soda soak bullhead... Yeah, I'm blessed to be a fisherman, and all I really know is that the world is what you make of it... PEACE

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on May 1, 2011 at 3:50pm
You sure know your stuff, Mike.
Comment by Mike Stacy on May 1, 2011 at 8:57am
@david: I tight line crickets on the bottom at night back in Mississippi, fishing by feel in TOTAL dark, and get some slab bream! I believe devoutly in small Rattle Trap lures on moonless nights... and I keep the light to a minimum... just enough to spot gator eyes! And I wouldn't recommend doing this without snake boots. Cotton mouths are more aggressive at night.
Comment by Mike Stacy on May 1, 2011 at 8:44am
Just a stringer there, I had to put her on one to run get someone to take the pic. Some weeds, here and there... but only along the shore. A 20 ft x 30 ft mat broke free in a storm the other day, and I've been "beaching" the johnboat to this "floating island" and fishing. A mobile shade structure! The wind is dying down, so fishing is good. Made the dawn run, and Put a few in the freezer. 9-10 inch coppernose... nothing amazing :-)
Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on May 1, 2011 at 8:11am

I'm guessing there were some weeds around the area you caught that in? Is that stringer in its mouth, or  the worlds longest worm?

@ Marisa - I used to catch them all the time at night, in Florida. I lived in a trailer park back then, and the park had it's own small lake. I'd get a few beers in me after dinner, and walk down to the shore with a "Jitterbug" or top water popper on my rod. I'd then cast at an angle to fish it along the shore line.

Near as I could tell, the bass would come up from the deep, center section of the lake to feed at night in the shallows... and they would nail that lure! Most of the time I never saw the strike, but I could hear it!. I'd set the hook and haul in the fish. Only when I got it close enough to land it would I know what I had.

If you've ever heard the expression, "fishing in the dark," well... I really was!

Comment by Marisa Armendariz on April 30, 2011 at 10:07pm
They Bite At Night Too ?

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