View Full Version : Bass caught with fishing line
skinnyfred
05-31-2006, 02:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UQQBW1vozo
Bass caught with just a fishing line, hook, and worm. Makes me want to try it :)
Have done that many times when no real gear was handy. My personal best was catching a 2.1 lb shellcracker with a hook I found in a tree, a length of line I untangled from another tree and a crawfish I caught in the same river. I was running a survey crew back then and we had stopped on the river to eat lunch and noticed these HUGE bream on some shallow shoals.
Nainoa
06-01-2006, 07:01 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UQQBW1vozo
Bass caught with just a fishing line, hook, and worm. Makes me want to try it :)
Uh... Some of you guys in the south need to turn off that FLW Tour Bass fishing tournament on TV and spend more time on the water...
Back in the day "Grubbin" for bass was the way to go...
And I still argue to this day that if you want to the highest percentage chance to catch a "Lurking Monster" that you should go back to a live bait presentation.
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The "Pro-Bass Fishing" shows on TV are targeting bass that are in an active feeding mode...
As bass get older (Well most fish actually.) They become more acclimated to the conditions of a lake, and the state of being a high end or Apex predator... The Large one's tend to spend more and more time in a neutral to negative feeding mode.
One of the ways to pull a fish out of a neutral mode is to present it with live, or simulated bait.
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Unfortunately small bass also love the old "Pig and Jig" combination as well, as they're just feeding machines, so it tends to get you the big ones and the small ones as well... So you have to sort a lot of dinks just to get some pride.
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But seriously guys... Crank baiting in it's modern form has only been around for some 30-40 odd years... Before that most stuff was hand made or at the best "Uncommon."
People were catching bass long before the FLW tour made Crankbaiting for bass so damn popular.
Nainoa
06-02-2006, 10:39 AM
FYI
In the current issue of In-Fisherman Magazine there's a long article about live bait fishing for Bass, and how it's coming back from the good old days to start winning tournaments...
Can you use live bait in tournaments?
skinnyme
06-09-2006, 08:23 PM
I like to fish crappie and gills off docks with a hand line. Just put an Aberdeen on 4lb line and tip with a Berkley Crappie Nibble or some live bait and have a good time. I get a lot of funny looks if it's a busy dock, but I have fish in the freezer...
NorwegianBadass
06-11-2006, 05:40 PM
When my class was one a field trip when I was about 11 years old, I cought an about 2.5lb trout (sp?) with just my hands lol... It was in a small river and it was hiding under a tree wich was sticking its roots out in the water.. so after exhausting it for about 20 minutes I pulled it out with my hands lol
I let it go after that though... I think it was in the fall during the egg-lying season
sorry for spelling errors, I'm super tired lol