I’ve been using this rod that Brian Barde made for me. I just did a one rod challenge for my Tv show using it. I know I talk a lot about having the right gear on here. It’s true that you get better results with technique specific rods. It’s also true that you don’t need every rod skew on the market to have a good time on the water. I used this one rod for 3 different techniques! I caught and landed bass on all 3 techniques.
Catching bass on a red colored crankbait in August with water temperatures above 85 degrees? I Must be crazy!🤪🎣😱🤔🤫
Potomac River- shallow running crankbait in the grass. I like the pink and grey color.
Brian always talks about fishing for other species to spice it up! What’s the craziest fish you caught on a wacky rig while fishing for bass? Caught this beauty in Newport News, VA.
It was definitely an eye opener after watching Brian’s series on fishing laydowns. I have fished them a certain way my whole life and tried out two new techniques he explained thought the series. Wow did it pay off! Take the time and watch them.
The wrong rod can break your heart when Grass fishing in the summer!
I was able to get out fishing today in my friend’s boat on man made lake. We found lots of baits and started out catching small bass. Then I tied on a KVD 6inch sexy spoon and the bass there fish were biting. Midday of a bright sunny day in 10-25 feet of water. Biggest fish was 3.46lbs.
Caught 4 this weekend, but lost one at the boat when he jumped out and shook himself loose. Gotta love it. But still a good weekend at my home lake.... 5.01 lbs, 2.12 lbs, and 2.01 lbs. The 2.01 pounder I caught with a Gambler EZ-Swimmer plastic swimbait on an Owner 1/4oz swimbait hook with an underspinner. First successful catch on a swimbait! Usually I have a bad hookset. Everything else was on my "confidence bait"; 1/16th Gamakatsu Weedless Wacky Jig, and used Gambler Sweebo worms again this weekend.
The 5 pounder I used more of those laydown techniques from the Laydowns workshop. Yeah, a wacky jig, even if its weedless is asking for a hang up in a laydown scenario, but they work pretty well for me to trigger a bite. I tend to use it as a search bait too lol. The 2.01 pounder, I swam that swimbait right next to a laydown and it got bit... I had Brian's voice in my head saying "something swims by and it ambushes it.."
The other 2 pounder was hiding in some shade next to some grass by some bridge rip rap.
