Bass fishing gear for rivers and creeks

[rollinthunder]

What rod and reel do you suggest for river and creek bass fishing? I like a shorter rod with a pistol grip and a bait caster reel for casting under overhang to get it close to the bank.
Ok...this may be hard to pass on...but which lures do you like for kentucky's and large mouth's. I like a white H&H for leaf river and a variety for creeks...like crawdad cranks...rapala's...nip-a-didy...
What time of year do you use each?

[BassCatter]

I can tell you my 6' 8" rods being "Short" Rods are not great for heavy cover short pinpoint casts as described. When I did a lot of fishing on Black Creek years ago, My weapon was a 5'6" Rod that was shortened to a 5' rod by grinding off the end of the blank and gluing a new tip on. The reels for me back then were Diawa Procaster SM-1a or SM-2.

I fell in love with topwater on black creek. Hard to beat a tiny torpedo thrown into some slack water right beside the bank.

[Fotno]

Something with a SuperFluke tied on the end of it.No weight.
Or an orange colored beetle-spin.

[Fish-Bait]

Creeks I use rooster tails. 6 lb. spinnin' gear with a 5 ft. to 5'-6" rod. On the rivers I use 12lb. baitcasting gear with H & H's or terminators or my all time favorite Hank Parker spinner baits all in the 1/4 oz. range. Chug bugs work good as topwaters and with slug-go's or imitations when the fish are crashing minnows on the sand bars.

When no one is around though I just put dynamite in a croaker sack filled with sand and BOOM. Fish for supper.

[Fotno]

I used to love using Rooster Tails.Especially the ones with green and orange on them,but they get hung up to damn easy.
I used to make them weed-less by tearing pieces off of a baby brush hog and threading that onto the treble hook.
I just left enough sticking out to get a good hook-up.

[Fish-Bait]

I used to love using Rooster Tails.Especially the ones with green and orange on them,but they get hung up to damn easy.
I used to make them weed-less by tearing pieces off of a baby brush hog and threading that onto the treble hook.
I just left enough sticking out to get a good hook-up.

You can buy the ones with just a single hook. That's what we have to use up in the mountains trout fishing. You don't get as many hook ups though.

[rollinthunder]

I've had trouble with Redbellies, bream and an occasional goggle eye tearing up small spinners on the creek. Not that I don't love catching them...I do...and I've always been able to have fun catching them when bass weren't hitting. My brother-in-law and I caught 50 bass on Black one year in Feb. using a shallow running crawfish crank. Two or three twitches after it hit the water then a stop and go retireve.....

[Goobersmooch]

who here wants to join me setting out jug lines out at canebrake?

[Fish-Bait]

who here wants to join me setting out jug lines out at canebrake?

Now that is some funny stuff right there...wonder how long it will take to get a phone call now? lol.... or an email......:D

[BassCatter]

I don't think it will get either to be quite honest.

[Fish-Bait]

I don't think it will get either to be quite honest.

Oh yes, it happened the last time we posted about it...lol..

[BassCatter]

I don't think it did. I think you were lead to believe it did.

bagel atari ADHD

[rollinthunder]

What's the name of that big lake in Florence Ms? I went to visit my sister and brother-in-law and he introduced me to setting out limb lines from the car...we drove around in the car setting out limb lines and checking them....we had a cooler in the trunk and loaded up what we caught....The fun and excitement wasn't there from doin it in a boat but we cautht lots of cat's....I'll never forget it...driving around in the car checking lines lol....it worked though........so...can we check jugs with a line and grapple hook from the bank in canebrake?....sounds like we might get our butts in trouble over there lol

[BassCatter]

The Practice of Jug Fishing is not allowed at Canebrake...... Work and Jug Fishing don't often collide in the same sentence for me. I'm not much of a Catfish dude. I used to Manage a Catfish Farm so I don't like messing with them now unless they are filleted, stripped and lightly breaded and fried. It's an excuse to get out for a night drink too much beer and tell lies with buddys in the lake. Chasing swimming jugs is just a bonus.

[Fish-Bait]

The Practice of Jug Fishing is not allowed at Canebrake......


Dude....that's the whole idea of it..lol..:eek::buttrock:

[rollinthunder]

The Practice of Jug Fishing is not allowed at Canebrake...... Work and Jug Fishing don't often collide in the same sentence for me. I'm not much of a Catfish dude. I used to Manage a Catfish Farm so I don't like messing with them now unless they are filleted, stripped and lightly breaded and fried. It's an excuse to get out for a night drink too much beer and tell lies with buddys in the lake. Chasing swimming jugs is just a bonus.

HAHAHAHAHA...I'll have to agree with that...Having a lantern on the sand bar....popin tops...lawn chairs...starin at rod tips......that's the fun of it for sure.......Rippin hides off....cast iron pots of oil on the camp fire...eat'n and throwin the bones in the fire....that's all work lmao

[rollinthunder]

I was in a tournament on Pascagoula ( Pasamagola )...WE put in at a marina off of 57 not far south of Bendale....I was the timekeeper....the club I was in was catch and release but this was an open tournament......we fished hard....all the inlets....hidden lakes and just outright...in the river fishin....just before I called time....we heard the humm of an outboard push'n a john boat....that dude pulled up with a croaker sack full of what the locals down there call....GREEN TROUT......yearling bass.....they were just within the length limit....he won all the cookies.......don't know where he went...or how long it took him to get back but he had a smile from ear to ear......wonder where he went?.......what was his probable lure selection?

[Fish-Bait]

I was in a tournament on Pascagoula ( Pasamagola )...WE put in at a marina off of 57 not far south of Bendale....I was the timekeeper....the club I was in was catch and release but this was an open tournament......we fished hard....all the inlets....hidden lakes and just outright...in the river fishin....just before I called time....we heard the humm of an outboard push'n a john boat....that dude pulled up with a croaker sack full of what the locals down there call....GREEN TROUT......yearling bass.....they were just within the length limit....he won all the cookies.......don't know where he went...or how long it took him to get back but he had a smile from ear to ear......wonder where he went?.......what was his probable lure selection?

He prolly went and got about a dozen or so live shrimp. He then prolly pulled around to the back of the marina or a marina around there like Paige or Shimps or one of those and put on just a cork and a number 1 hook. You let the hook be at least 3 ft. from the cork and have the cork big enough that the shrimp can't pull it under. You then let the shrimp crawl/swim on the bottom of the hull of one of the boats at the marina. the cork just sits at the edge of the boat at the water line and them BAM....it'll disappear. Then you have you a green trout. I fished a Marina down there one day and the canal behind it and only had one fish. I was pitchin' live shrimp around the edges of the pads.....the fish were under the boats......Some old salt sat down with two 5 gallon buckets and I seriously sat there and watched him load up 10 basses in no more than 15 minutes....I was pissed, but I learnt me somethin'.

[BassCatter]

He fished the I-10 bridge pilings with speck jigs.

[Fish-Bait]

He fished the I-10 bridge pilings with speck jigs.

That's very possible, especially in the fall of the year....

[rollinthunder]

He fished the I-10 bridge pilings with speck jigs.

Most of us thought that...If he did though he had a long run...I like that info bout fishin round boats and docks with shrimp like that...I'll hafta try it....Oh...I've been look'n for a new place to have my reels cleaned and lubed...I used academy before the storm...after they reopened I took some in and they didn't have that service anymore and couldn't tell me where I might have it done...anyplace local?

[BassCatter]

How many reels? I got a buddy that does mine reasonably, he might be able to take yours in.

[rollinthunder]

3...Two Calcutta 200B's and an ambassadeur 4500c

[BassCatter]

I'll see him later today.....I'll find out what he'll charge for a good cleaning. I will tell you this, as he finds the parts that need to be replaced, he'll let you know before he buys them and has to pass that on to you.

[BassCatter]

He'll think that's like one of my in season rotations.......I generally drop 8 at a time off in December and January for him to service.

[rollinthunder]

Thankya...

[Fotno]

I've been using a fly rod here lately and I have to tell you,I do enjoy that.
I even catch a few too.LOL

[rollinthunder]

I wanna do a lot more fly fishin...I'm ready....