Spinner Bait Blues

So every bass fisherman has thrown a spinner bait at some point in time. I love to throw a spinner bait and get bit on it. Although I hate to lose them, due to a line break. I have lost way too many so, I deciced to learn some better knots. As for Spinner baits I like the Strike King double willow blade. I have pretty good luck with these. But in the end it comes down to the knot that you use. I have been learning new knots at North American Fishing Club, and most of the time they work, but there have been some exceptions. For instance, this past Saturday Aaron an I went fishing at Sardis Lake, we didn't catch anything, but I lost 3 spinner baits that one day. Maybe its mot the knot I am using maybe its the line. I am using braided line and i think it might be gettin g brittle , because the last spinner bait i lost it broke inside the reel, so maybe I need to change the type of line I am using.

The "Whale"

So as Darren has undoubtedly already told you we recently went fishing at the Arkansas River. We put in and rode for several miles trying to find the perfect fishing hole. So we had found a one way bridge and were fishing up along the shore. The reason we stayed near the shore was because it was so windy and there was such a strong current, that that was the only place that we could actually fish. So we are sitting there fishing all excited to fishing at a new river, when WHAM Darren's pole was bent over. You should have heard him "Oh my God I got a whale!!" and suddenly it stopped fighting and Darren was all like dangit I think he got off. So he was reeling and up came the biggest long-nosed gar I have ever seen. " Dam*** I got a gar"
And I swear that gar was at least 3 or 4 feet long. And the funny thing was, that the gar didn't even hook himself he was just holding on, so Darren gave the rod a flip and off it went.
He caught it on a green culprit same as with the 7.8lb bass.

7.7 Lbs Monster Bass

Fishing at Fort Gibson Lake in Oklahoma I caught this monster of a bass. Aaron and I was where near the dam site in some flooded timber and it was around 4pm the water was 62 degrees. I was using a green Culprit Chartreuse Shad worm, about an hour before this I was fishing near some rocks and landed a fish. Just as I set the hook my favorite spinning rod broke in half, since I like to fish with about ten rods like all pros do I didn't want to take one of the other baits off another rod.

So i went into the rod locker and there she was, my wife's rod was in there. It was the Pflueger Pink Lady, so i tied on the Culprit worm and off we went. Aaron the Average Fisherman was making fun of me, but shortly i was catching fish one after another.

After fishing with the Pink Lady for about an hour. I landed the monster. He was in about a foot of water and had been tearing up the shore eating small bait fish. On my second cast, he took the worm and it was on. He fought so hard, but in the end the pink lady was my hero.

Needless to say Abu Garcia has replaced the rod, although i have the pink lady as a backup!

Here is a picture of the monster!

Fishing the Arkansas River

During our fishing trip to Oklahoma and Aaron the Average Fisherman and I made a stop to fish the Arkansas River. We put in at the Port of Muskogee this will be the host of the FLW Walmart Bass Fishing League on June 6th 2009. We thought that we would get to know this river and do a little pre tournament fishing. This is the point where three rivers meet. There is plenty of water and you can get lost. Although we noticed that its not a deep river. The average depth is about 8 ft and you have to keep an eye out when running up river. It wasn't soon till we found a small cove. There i caught a 4 lbs bass. I was using a Stacy King pumkin seed jig.

Here is picture of one of the fish we caught.

Spring Fishing at Fort Gibson Lake Oklahoma

So Aaron the Average Fisherman and I went to Fort Gibson Lake in Oklahoma to do a little spring fishing. When we got there a cold front had moved through and the water temperature was in the low 50's. The wind was blowing about 12 miles an hour out of the north and the outside temperature was near 45 degrees in the mornings, although it warmed up in the afternoon to mid 60's. After a couple of days of fishing we noticed a pattern to the fish there. In the morning they would be near the rocks and later in the day they would move to shallows.
On the third day, the outside temperature was around 74 in the afternoon and water was up too 62 degrees. This was the perfect time. Almost every fish we caught was around 3 lbs. We fished in water that was about 3-6 foot and in flooded timber.