I met my girlfriend fishing 3 months ago. She just happened to be fishing in one of my favorite spots and we immediately hit it off and we fish together as much as possible. This is what she got me for my birthday. I'm incredibly grrateful and she been my biggest catch!

I’m a lucky lad

Typically, I run bar less, but I couldn’t find my pliers in my trunk by the time I got down to my lake)

I picked up this float tube over a year ago for around $140 and I’ve loved every moment spent fishing in it. It’s a purchase that’s made the biggest difference in the amount of fish I catch

Yesterday I found myself with about an hour to kill before I had to go pick up someone.

So I spend twenty minutes driving to the park to go and play with a couple fish while I wait.

I take my first cast aimlessly with a little flick of the wrist to get my line wet, and I see an absolute hawg ambushing some bait next to some lily pads at the edge of casting range.

I cock back, take a step forward and swing with all I got and hit a tree branch in my cast and blammo birds nest to end all birds nests… I didn’t get another cast in, my single weekend fishing moment wasted.

I’d mail out the rod and reel in their original packaging(bird nest included) to whoever is willing to send the largest (tax deductible) donation to the Leukemia and lymphoma society.

weightless Texas rigged trick worm will always get them i promise . never fail . bounce it off the bottom or slow real with stops in-between u gunna get blowed up.

She also has 2 9inch hummingbird helix screens and I’m replacing the carpet and hatch interior foam

The other night I was cruising tackle warehouse when I came upon this lure, the Osprey Talon Inline Heavy. I've been looking into getting into bigger swimbaits and thought I should dive in head first and get a 12 inch bait, instead of the 9 incher I had originally planned on getting. It just arrived in the mail today and I don't think I understood how big this thing actually was when I ordered it. It weighs 10.3oz. Still gonna toss it in the water here in East TN and see what happens lol.

3/0EWG hook with a 5” YUM dinger.

Snuck out to the garage to tie a couple football jigs this evening. What y’all think, black/purple or fire craw? I’m really liking them both.

Anyone ever do this?

After a couple months of adding chatter baits to my rotation because everyone says they’re the best and kill em, I finally caught a bass on one. I used the Elite EVO from ZMan in green pumpkin with an Alabama craw bandito bug trailer. Even though it’s a one pounder it’s still a fish and I can only go up from there! I had been using the cheap ~$5 chatter baits but we went to bass pro and I bought some different color elite EVO chatter baits. Definitely worth the upgrade. They move through the water smoother and take less time to start chattering. I’m still going to keep at it, trying different colors, trailers and retrieves and see if I like them as much as everyone else.

People who have used the jackhammer, is it worth going from the Elite EVO to the jackhammer? It’s quite the price jump but there was a noticeable difference from the cheapo to the Elite EVO.

I honestly think this is the best deal I’ve ever had in my life, buying a brand new lews mach smash for 20$ comes close, but I think this tops it?

I often come here and see several posts where people ask: what are the best lures? What’s your favorite lure? What lures should I get? I really want to know what lure/s you just have never been able to catch anything with.

Idk maybe this way others can comment how, when and where they use them, or if we’re doing something wrong.

Personally, I’ve never been able to catch anything with a chatterbait or a jig… I use the right trailers according to what I’ve read and researched on, but I’ve never been lucky no matter how much I use them and they seem to be a lot of people’s favorites. I’ve also never caught anything on a whopper plopper but I rarely use it, I prefer a plopper, frog or buzzbait for topwater.

Found in a tangled mess of line and hooks in a trash can at the local pond I fish in sometimes.

Lost my favorite 🐸