Frogs and Birds both have there place on those hot summer days

To fish either the frog lure or a high quality holllow bodied bird bass lure, I start the same way as I do using buzz frogs, starting slow after that working to swift retrieves, first working the outside edges of vegetation then working them into the thickest of the thick. When casting these baits, I rarely be concerned about producing a big splash, particularly when targeting super heavy mats. The splash of the lure draws in the fish and its big silhouette can be noticed however the mats against the bright sun. To do the job these baits, it is fairly significantly self explanatory. Try to make my lure look like real frogs messing approximately on top of vegetation mats or swimming around weed edges, slight twitches to aggressive walk-the-dog actions may be effective. The most important thing to do once angling these baits is to watch and remember what presentations the fish are reacting to. Other than viewing the fish, be systematic in your approach, otherwise you could have no thought how to get a 2nd fish or get that 2nd strike immediately after a misst. This previous calendar year I have started twitching frogs in the same spot, jiggling the rod so which there is movement, but the lure is maintaining the same position. This method is quite lethal once a fish misses the lure the first time. I could cast again to the same find and make the frog vibrate in spot, causing the fish to believe they wounded the frog, which these bass cannot resist biting. The bass should clue you in on what they want that day.  As explained just before concerning buzz frogs, I may go on for hours about demonstrations, but experimentation and observation using these baits are much better than any advice I may offer. As with a lot of various kinds of bass lures, one of the most essential things to just know is to make many casts to a similar location using various presentations. Additionally, if a bass missed the fishing lure, do not give up. Right after I miss a bass or the bass misses my fishing bait, I should make up to 5 casts to the same dead on spot. If I do not get a hit in those casts I should let the spot rest for 15 to 45 minutes, simply because I understand which bass is outstanding there and can hit, particularly if it sensed no hooks.

Rain and Bass

Rainwater: Rain can make bass very active. At the beginning of season bad weather can lead to warming in the water which makes bass more active. During the hot days of summer, rain can result in the water to cool down, that invokes largemouth bass to be more active. Also, the rain causes insects and such to flow in the water which can cause a feeding frenzy. The second thunder and lightning or very heavy rain start to happen the fish will be spooked and during this time it is extremely hard to entice a bass to bite an a bass lure. Soon after this, the catfish should be unwilling to eat considerably for the next few days. If you still need to fish a day or two soon after the rainstorm you must use the lightest family possible and the smallest lure doable so you do not spook the bass again. In muddy settings, angling can prove really hard after a hefty thunderstorm.
The fish can hold closely to cover and will not glimpse upwards towards the surface if these do not have to, except it is low light conditions also having a quality Top water lure like The Birdlure made by http://www.flipinthebird.com. With no a blowing wind, overcast or low light durations top water angling can bemay be deadly.
Really cloudy settings can make a bass turn out to be active. The cloud cover can halt burn from coming into into the water. Bass are light sensitive, meaning which means they do not enjoy a lot of light. With cloud cover, largemouth could be ready to cruise around and attack any prey which happen to go swimming bye

Are bass Logical?

Bass~and other fish possess the reasoning capability of a 4- or 5-year-old youngster when it arrives to figuring out who among their peers is “top dog,” new study shows. Stanford University scientists made the discovery—stated to be the initial demonstration which bass can use logical reasoning to figure out their social pecking order—by understanding fights amongst small, highly territorial, a spinney fined  fish known as cichlids, typical in fresh water in tropical Africa, which includes in Lake Tanganyika in key Africa. Logan Grosenick, a graduate student student in statistics, and his co-workers seen which a sixth fish could infer or discover indirectly which have been the 1st through 5th strongest merely by observing fights among them in adjacent, transparent tanks, instead of by immediately battling each and every fish alone or visiting every fish battle all 4 others. This type of reasoning, called transitive inference (TI), is a developmental milestone for human children, showing up non-verbally as early as ages 4 and 5; it also has been reported in monkeys, rats and birds.  It allows thinkers to reason that if A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, then A is also bigger than C. Anthropomorphizing animals, or casting human intentions on them, is a mistake, Grosenick said, but it’s a philosophical matter as to whether the cichlids’ ability to infer rankings is the same as similar reasoning in humans. “They are making correct logical inferences on an abstract representation of their world, which would usually be called ‘reasoning’ in humans,” he said. Biologist Russell D. Fernald, one of Grosenick’s colleagues on the study, said that fish thinking is very different from that of humans. “The capacity shown here is a necessary precondition for reasoning, but having this capacity does not mean these fish actually reason or do any other specific logical tasks,” he told LiveScience. Logic tells you having a bass  topwater lure that comes as close to mimicking the real thing like a quality bird lure by flipinthebird will help out think the lunker your trying to knab.

Kill A Snake head , Win a Prize ....

Maryland: Kill Snakeheads, Win Prizes

posted by GoFISHn at 23 hours ago Tags: Snakehead

Inland fisheries director for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources isn't shy about his position on snakeheads in the Potomac.

"We do not want snakeheads in our waters," he said this week. That's why the Maryland DNR has instituted a program that will award anglers who catch and kill snakeheads.
Anglers who catch a snakehead can take a photo and submit it on the state's Anglers Log to be entered in a drawing to win prizes at the end of the year. One lucky snakehead killer will get a rod and reel package valued at $200.

The invasive species has been multiplying in Maryland waters for a decade, when they were introduced from Asia. They eat just about anything, and can breathe out of water. Quite frankly, they're creepy.

That's not to say they don't put up a good fight, though, especially on a fly rod.

The state wants you to include a ruler or measuring tape in your photo, so they can discern the biggest snakehead, and report as specifically as possible the location of your catch. We doubt they'll be too many anglers crying about burning out their snakehead honey hole.

So, get out there and slaughter some snakeheads.

-Rick Bach

PAD NOTES, Part 1 - ESOX

by John McKean

A pair of huge menacing eyes popped up in the shallows, looking eerily similar to something from a science fiction movie. I'd been swimming my slop skipping lure over shoreline lily pads in a huge back bay of New York's massive St. Lawrence River. Yet there were no alligators or alien critters this close to the Canadian border( which ran halfway across the river)! Before my mind could even register "northern pike", the sub surface missile walloped my bait, traveling the 20 feet within a milli-second! To this day my arms still retain muscle memory of that ferocious surface strike!

Lily pads always offer extra incentive to concentrate one's efforts, with visions of every manner of marine life and monsters lurking beneath. Especially, northern lakes and rivers often teem with slop hidden ESOX, pike and muskies, to increase anticipation to a fever level. No other freshwater fish can match their bursts of speed or sheer killing intent. And ever since Native Americans began fishing for these "water wolves", their hand carved bird replicas have been prime lures, legends, and lore.But,now, can you imagine the advancement offered by the soft, well designed, wing flapping BIRD over even the tribesmen's best hard wooden duck decoy?

Another particulary interesting spatterdock strike occurred on famed Lake Chautauqua (southwestern NY). I was working across newly formed "dollar pads" with my old buddy, Earl Cartwright, slop fishing master supreme. Hopefully, we reasoned, some of the lake's huge population of lunker largemouth or gigantic smallmouth bass would be on the prowl, just into their post spawn season. Until the water EXPLODED, little green pancakes flying everywhere, I'd almost forgotten that Chautauqua is perhaps the most prolific muskie water on earth! Believe me, if you think a 5 pound bass is heart stopping when rocketing through pads, just wait until a 4 foot muskie takes aim !!

Since this is THE official BIRD site, I'd be remiss in not mentioning a locally famous bird lure of sorts that was once made and used here, in a tiny corner of northwest Pennsylvania, expressly for muskies. Lake LeBoeuf is a very small natural lake,originally formed by glacier, and has cool, clean water with shorelines surrounded by lily pad beds. Muskies became somewhat sophisticated, especially the community's legend, 5 foot long, 50+ pound "Old Mossback". No standard bait or lure appealed to many of the toothy monsters, and Old Mossback never took anything.So an innovative Reginald Exley found an old telephone pole and carved what he hoped would resemble a wildly swimming frog. However, when he added overly long metal "wings" extending sidewards it certainly looked more like a downed,panicked bird, despite a dull green paint job. The "LeBoeuf Creeper" even had a body shaped very similar to our modern BIRD and sure created a ruckus in the water (I know-I owned an original!).Many formerly elusive 'lunge grabbed these makeshift birds as they crawled just beyond the pads, and even Ole Mossback took a few spirited whacks,but was never landed (heck, he may STILL be up there, wait 'till I show the big brute one of Sam's newly formulated BIRDs!!). Still, the history and drawing power of an artificial bird for muskellunge is undisputed.

I can foresee that when serious pike and muskie men start producing giant catches in this year's newly emerging pads, that our brand new BIRD won't be the only thing flying East. Sam and Dan will be on the next jet !!