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Post by bassmassey on Jun 26, 2013 0:44:56 GMT -5
he's catchin up to his brother! lol nice shovelhead!!
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Post by bassmassey on Jun 24, 2013 1:36:38 GMT -5
I believe you are over analyzing the whole situation..........catch some bream, throw them in a bucket...fish some of them cut, throw a live one out if you want. Set up where you think they might be, if you don't like it after an hour or two set up at a different spot...
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Post by bassmassey on Jun 12, 2013 0:52:59 GMT -5
I like that. I think im gonna get some of those when I get home, I am needing to rewire my boat completely anyway and hook up a new transducer. Do they have a switch on them, or do they need to be ran to a toggle? Go Blue 2013!!
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Post by bassmassey on Jun 12, 2013 0:41:16 GMT -5
there ya go Robby! that's a good one...
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Post by bassmassey on May 12, 2013 14:06:28 GMT -5
that's a good night on the skukhyl (sp?) ken! Sounds like the young population of shovelheads are growing good. Where's ol' Tan at? is he around here too. If you have a photo bucket account you can copy and paste your photos right into your report, that's how I usually do it on here.
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Post by bassmassey on May 11, 2013 1:50:40 GMT -5
1/4 oz barrel swivel would make a pretty big profile. Snake weights are made with buckshot stuffed in parachute cord or i've seen some stuff them in shoe laces. I would maybe try tying a short lenth of 10# mono to a cheap snap swivel and crimp some small split shot making it about 3-4" long.......and attaching that to your main line...you don't need a whole lot of weight unless you're fishin some really deep water (40+)If you have enough weight to drag the bottom you're doing good. And I know in my previous post I mentioned large whole cut baits, yet this converstion kinda turned more toward drifting. Drifting large cut baits doesn't work very well........can be done, but have a tendacy to hang up alot more. If i have a drift spread out I might throw one big bait and let it drag right beside the boat or something like that. Think more like heads, or a 4" whole cut shad or bream would be real good.......and long strips of a fillet give a real good presentation when draggin baits too!
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Post by bassmassey on May 11, 2013 0:13:35 GMT -5
keep on draggin them baits..........best way in my opinion to fish a lake for blues or channelcat, even caught more than several shovelhead draggin baits down on santee. Just remember the slower you drag em' the better, and let them get way on back there behind the boat. Often seems like the lines that are on back in the spread get bit.....but at the same time keep em staggered good........you don't want two baits draggin side by side eachother. Also might want to experiment with leader length if you're fishin santee style.....I've fished with captain roundhill alot....he mixes it up alot too to see what the fish want.....try some 2-3' leaders on a couple poles, then try some 5-6-7' leaders on other poles, the fish will tell you what they like!
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Post by bassmassey on May 10, 2013 21:39:24 GMT -5
might wanna try some fresh Whole cut baits? Deeper water would probably be the ticket most times of the year too. Spring time though big channel cats will move up shallow to feed and to bed. I know years ago we used to catch good sized channel cats up in the canals of harbor hills off of buckeye in may and june. Once the heat of summer sets in buckeye lake looks really easy to fish. There is 1 hole on the whole thing that is 14'. Now i've never really fished buckeye other than going there to catch bait and years ago we used to sling livers off the bank and catch a buzz. But I am willing to bet after the spawn when the water temp. gets hot that 14' hole would be slap full of fish, especially while the sun is up.
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Post by bassmassey on May 10, 2013 21:29:30 GMT -5
wear em' out ya'll.............tell kip to shoot me some updates, I like updates...
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Post by bassmassey on May 10, 2013 21:27:27 GMT -5
as far as hooking bait.........live or cutbait I mostly always hook all of my baits through the hard part of their nose usually 100% of the time.
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Post by bassmassey on May 10, 2013 10:19:20 GMT -5
seriously though, when i get back I will have 3-4 weeks with 0 responsibility. I will be bathing on a sandbar with a bottle of dish soap!
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Post by bassmassey on May 10, 2013 9:59:51 GMT -5
Hey now I work my tail off out here. I've been training this older guy from florida the past couple of days, I have him on the massey accelerated training program. Yesterday we put in a good 14 hr day and he made a comment on how I get after it. I told him you think I work hard, wait till i get home.......I fish twice as hard...lol He thought that was funny.
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Post by bassmassey on May 9, 2013 23:55:18 GMT -5
probably the most common rig that alot of people use is the carolina rig. Weight on your mainline, bead, swivel, 12" leader to hook. If I could recommend not purchasing the lil orange beads they sell in the fishing dept. as they will beat your knot up harder then your lead weight will. I like the slightly oversized bead from the craft department, they slide over the knot and rest on the swivel and give better knot protection. They are a whole lot cheaper too as anything you buy that is marketed toward fishing is gonna be jacked up...
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Post by bassmassey on May 9, 2013 23:48:31 GMT -5
might be a true untapped dynomite catfishery that nobody knows about. not a bad place although there is nothing green anywhere, on the upside there are short petite mamacitas everywhere....
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Post by bassmassey on May 9, 2013 23:44:01 GMT -5
im searching for a guide or just a catfisher to take me out on elephant butte in southern new mexico. I've never even heard of the place till now......state record shovelhead and bluecat came out of this resovoir. It's an impoundment of the rio grande. Not alot of literature I can even find on the place, there is a few striper guides i've found on an internet search. Might have to give em a call and see if they know any cat guides.
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