Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:29 am
I just wondered if the bass are getting active yet?
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Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:32 am
No, but im wanting to. BOO has but no luck.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:48 am
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:06 pm
Thanks for the info.Please keep me posted,I am eager to hear the gears sing.Goodluck to all.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:52 am
OZZIEOHIO wrote:No, but im wanting to. BOO has but no luck.
Yeah, I went out one of those sunny afternoons a few days ago and threw a few around the edges and a few out in the deep holes. It was really only about 40 degrees (air temp.) and windy and I never got bit once.
Still waiting and hoping..........
I just went back and checked last year and it was getting up in later MARCH
before any numbers were being caught around here. Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:58 pm
If you have access to small ponds hit the north end of them first with traditional spring baits and you should have some luck. 
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:34 pm
Bassmaster wrote:If you have access to small ponds hit the north end of them first with traditional spring baits and you should have some luck.
Thanks. I was fishing in a local farm pond that is about 1 - 1 1/2 acres. The north end is the shallow end and that was the 1st place I hit. I believe they are still down in the deep holes. A few warm days should bring them up to the shallower waters.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:44 pm
a friend of mine and I used to go to Ohio Storms Creek, the backwaters, back in the 80's to fish in Feb. We'd take my old John Boat (you ain't going get a bass boat up there now I don't think) and we'd slay these small bass on yellow spinners...Mepps I think they were. When we'd get there in the morning..the water would be in the upper 30's...a few hours later it would be in the mid-50's as that water was so muddy and shallow and they would turn on then
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:56 pm
I remember having a Mepps lure as a kid. It had a gold spinner with a couple of small trebble hooks and rubber minnow body. Very similar to the one below.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:11 pm
I don't remember Mepps ever making a yellow spinner. Could it have been a Rooster Tail? The Mepps bait mostly used was an inline spinner with grey squirrel tail and a red streamer in the middle of it. They are still good.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:34 pm
I have a Mepps #2 Black fury spinner. I have fished it local, in Florida and in Canada. I have never used it and not hooked a fish, lost a few 
.Best lure ever oh, got it at Kmart for 97 cents 30 years ago. It is still in my tackle box
.Best lure ever oh, got it at Kmart for 97 cents 30 years ago. It is still in my tackle box Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:43 pm
The Mepps is good too but this was...a rooster tail as here http://www.yakimabait.com/online-catalog yellow body, black spots
This isn't the color we used as I told you earlier but it's like this
This isn't the color we used as I told you earlier but it's like this
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:45 pm
Here's what D5 is talking about..excellent lure for those bass like I'm talking about...water in the upper 40's to low 50's and very muddy..not huge bass but? hey, it's Feb..right?
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:16 pm
Only mine is black and orange ,nice colors too.Never a big Bass but, I even caught a few Eyes and Pike with it
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:28 pm
I use those mepps when im fishing for bait!!!!
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:44 am
OZZIEOHIO wrote:I use those mepps when im fishing for bait!!!!
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:37 pm
OZZIEOHIO wrote:I use those mepps when im fishing for bait!!!!
I let bait catch his own fish.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:35 am
bait will have him bird watching instead of fishing!
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:29 pm
Caught 9 crappie today.5 on minnows about 4-5 ft deep and 4 on jigs.Still no largemouth yet, but the crappie will taste good.
Re: Anybody been bass fishing ?
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:43 pm
jayhawks wrote:Caught 9 crappie today.5 on minnows about 4-5 ft deep and 4 on jigs.Still no largemouth yet, but the crappie will taste good.
Some crappie on the grill with some hush puppies and homemade fries would be get right about now
