3-20-11 night fishing

My friend Kevin and I went out to my friends lake and went night fishing we caught a total of 29 fish and lost about 5 others. Our five biggest went about 16.4 pounds and all of the fish in the limit other then two came on black and blue chatterbaits. The other two fish came on, a senko wacky rigged, and a 3" crazy leg chigger craw texas rigged.

Shasta, Spotted bass?? not this time

There are supposed to be Spots in Shasta and every time i have fished it i have caught them really good. This includes two tournament wins and other good finishes. This trip which started 1-15-11 and went to the 16th was the worst trip i have ever had down there. I fished about 14 hours in the two days and i managed to get 3 bites and all of them were short strikes that just grabbed the back of my worm. My Dad was fishing with me and he only managed 3 bites also and his were the same just short strikes. Our only excitement of the trip was seeing a spot follow up my dad's dropshot rig. Dang i don't know what the deal is but that lake is tough!! Hopefully it gets better soon, thats really all i have to say about shasta right now...

Jacob

couple more custom painted baits

Here are a few more of my custom painted crankbaits! Baby bass, goby (smallmouth crankbait), and Chub patterns.

Shad and Bluegill paints

Here's a couple of my custom painted crank baits the bluegill was made for a friend of mine and the shad pattern is going to be on ebay soon. I will paint any pattern! if you would like to make an order just leave a comment on this post!

Tight lines

12-21-10

My Dad and I decided to go out night fishing in the freezing cold... maybe not such a good idea because it was sooo cold but once we started to get fishing it was a great decision to go. We left the house with the boat hooked up at 1:00 in the morning and got to the lake at 1:20, we fished till the sun came and about an hour after. In total we caught 13 largemouth each and all together 26 including one very nice rainbow trout that weighed 5.8 pounds!! Now to talk about what we caught them on:8 of mine came on jigs two different colors first jig was black/chart./brown the other jig was black and red with a pork chunk. Another 4 of my fish came on a fish head spin and the last one came off of a 6" baitsmith swimbait. 9 of my dad's fish came on the fish head spin and 3 came on a brown jig. The last one of his fish came off of a 6" huddleston rainbow trout swimbait. The majority of the fish came from 18-29 feet of water with maybe 2 or 3 coming from like 10 feet.

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Tight lines!!

December 12, 2010

Today I decided to go on down to some local ponds right before I left I hand tied a brown and black living rubber jig. Got to the pond and decided to just cast the jig the whole time since it is winter. With in the first 20 I caught the only fish of the day, on the black and brown jig with a brown uncle Josh pork chunk. I wasn't huge but I would guess between 2 and 2.4 pounds, put up a great fight! Get out to your local pond/lake and catch some winter bass! If I can do it in Oregon most likely you can catch them to.

Good luck and tight lines!

December 5, 2010

Today my Dad and I went fishing again, We left the house at 2:00 o'clock in the evening and fished till dark so a total of about 3 hours 15 minutes. Total we caught 7 fish and had 12 bites all together. The fish head spin caught 5 of the fish including the biggest which was around 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 pounds. Then one on each a jig and a flick shake 5in senko. The fish were holding a about 23-28 feet of water and all you had to do was parallel the bank and painfully slowly move the fish head spin on the bottom. The trick that I did to my fish head spin which was the one that caught all the fish was change the normal willow blade it comes with to a smaller colorado style blade. The advantage of this blade over the willow leaf was that I could reel it much slower then with the willow blade (the slower you could move it the better).