Weedless frog = 50% "fish on"

Gee oh man.  Today I got a chance to really experiment with my weedless frog in the lake.  Our pond has a lot of sludge right not floating on top.  There are many openings though to work a frog through. The frog was KILLING in the "strike" category but not so much in the "fish on" category. I read a bunch of articles about techniques and learned much from them. My weedless frog's hook gate was not opening though after the strike... Waiting 2 seconds and then setting the hook. I later read that one bass master said if he landed 50% of the strikes he would leave the lake happy. Well,  it's hard for me to do that. When the lake is jammin' I can land a dozen 12 inch bass in about 30mins using a Powerbait . You can see how this is hard for me.

New Gmail Inbox coming soon!

But Daddy, I want the new Gmail Inbox NOW!

Zing! Powerbait!

Switched out the salamander with a white Powerbait minnow. Pulled this beauty out. Broke my 5lb line at the end but I grabbed him in the mud.

Note to self:

Always bring pliers when fishing with treble hooks... And bring different band aids.

My girlfriend asked me "are the fish going to catch on to you?"

Rain doesn't scare real fisherman.

The bass were very active today. Light rain and about 56 degrees.

That's a nice bass!

I am very excited about this spring. Not only because it means that winter is over... kinda (Cleveland weather) but it's fishing season. We live in a development that has ponds throughout. Well, we have one in our back yard.

Anywho, this pond has some serious bass stocked in it. I had a chance last summer to fish it and would catch at least 10 decent (15+ inch) bass in an hour. This showed me the pond's potential.

March 9th hit and the sun came out for a few a days: I caught my first bass of 2013:

Large mouth bass 3/09/13

After that week the pond froze over again and I waited. Mid April rolled around and it was game on.

I ended up catching 10 bass in 20 minutes! Cast after cast. The salamander was killing!