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Author:
Michael
Date:
Aug 27, 2015
Subject:
Best Topwater in a While
Message:
Wednesday I got a head start after sleeping a lot Tuesday evening into the night. Arrived at a private lake around 10am.
I covered all the accessible areas to the lake twice. Took a late afternoon lunch break too.
I had a topwater bite going on wherever there was those floating green seeds in deeper waters or coves near shore. First lure was a Snag Proof weedless mouse, but was having trouble setting the hook with it after 4 explosions. Later I switched to a Baby Torpedo and varied the retrieve.
Hit the road around 7:30 once I lost the Baby Torpedo.
Total was 8 largemouths up to 15.5" perfect 2 pounds. Most others were just under a pound while 2 were around 1 1/2 pounds. Also landed 2 bluegills on a HJ-6 with 1 being a chunky 7.5" fish. Topped the evening with an acrobatic 18" 1 pound 10 ounce pickerel.
Sad part about the day was while heading back to the bike through the woods, the tip of my 5'6" ML rod broke. I bought it in 2012 for $27.99 free shipping and have always been amazed at the action and strength of the rod for the price. Model was an Eagle Claw Powerlight. It went through tons of heavy duty pressure and landed me tons of fish, including plenty of largemouths over 3 pounds, tons of decent pickerel, slab crappie, my PB 14 ounce yellow perch, tons of trout, and my recent PB 3 pound smallmouth. No other signs of damage were ever done to it.
Author:
Bassbum
Date:
Aug 28, 2015
Message:
sorry to hear about the rod.......but maybe it's about time you switched
it up to something with a faster tip and more back bone
a 5'6" MIL rod doesn't have the power to drive the hooks home
while frog or mouse fishing
a medium or medium heavy rod about 6'6" is a little more versatile
for bass applications
best of luck with your future replacement
Author:
Michael
Date:
Aug 28, 2015
Message:
[quote:49ff20bdf3="Bassbum"]a medium or medium heavy rod about 6'6" is a little more versatile
for bass applications[/quote:49ff20bdf3]
That's when you're talking a serious angler who calls a 2 pound bass a trash fish and rather quickly get the bigger ones in instead of having a good fight with them. And somebody who'd call the rod I had trash (if they never tested it) and always buy top names.
Landed a 19" 6 pound 1 ounce largemouth with this rod 2 years ago. Manged it through weeds and set the hook on it. Also landed a 22" 3 pound 6 ounce chain pickerel with the same rod. Have always been able to lift plenty of bass up to 3 pounds out of the water with the rod. Was able to carefully flip a live 6" bluegill with the rod. Rod is rated 1/16 to 3/8 and have had no trouble casting a 1/2 ounce topwater. The rod casted so well with 6 pound mono.
Smart shopping avid angler with Google skills is what it takes.
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