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Just4fun
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 Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject: Pataconk 7/13 |
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It's funny how the bass can be totally not biting for several hours and then something just clicks and you start catching them every couple of casts! Happened to me yestarday,...took the kayak out after work and skunked it up for the better part of 2 hours, before they decided that it was time to start eating that jig that they'd been watching go by!!! 
Anyway, I ended up the evening with 6 bass total. Everything on the jig and most were caught while swimming it! Best of the day (by far..) was this ol'girl that was right around 6 even on the boga! 
(Then caught one right after, that went 8",..so go figure!)
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Phish
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Beautiful fish, Mark. |
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chuckc
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job Mark!  |
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Phish
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Mark,
When you're swimming jigs, do you use a rattle or go silent? Or do you do both and let the fish tell you what they want??? |
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Just4fun
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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I rarely ever use rattles on jigs,...
There's probably some times when it'd help,..but for most of the relatively clear water that I normally fish, I think there's way more times when it turns the bass off rather than helps. At any rate,..when I'm swimming a jig it's on a straight retrieve where it wouldn't rattle even if there was one on it!
Also, you didn't ask,..but I use a paca chunk for the swimming action and I've had way more luck burning it just under the surface rather than any other retrieve! 
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SenkoBandit
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| nice fish awesome report |
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DirtyDawg10
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Very nice fish! |
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MarkO
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Great info Mark! |
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Phish
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for that, Mark. Always looking to try new things and appreciate the insight. |
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djmon
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| nice fish! |
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slimecoat
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Great looking largie Mark!
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SkeeterJim
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:40 am Post subject: |
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Nice job Buddy! You were due for a lunker.
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LargeFry
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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Another nice One!
Thanks for sharing some great info too! |
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n8cas
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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awesome fish, Mark. I love taking the yak to that place... although I haven't been this year!! Biggest fish I caught out of this place was 3.0 lbs, but thanks to you I know there are some nice lunkers in there!
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