If your casting doesn’t feel right, sounds odd, or distance comes up short check your rig. I’ve quite often had a wrap where the line is around the rod behind the tip top. It really kills your casting distance. If you keep breaking off… you could have bad line, but you might not. I was…
If you only go fishing when everything is perfect, the tide is right, people confirm its going to be good for you, and the stars align you won’t go very often. As a result you won’t have very many great days fishing. “Oh wah! Its hot!” If you truly can not tolerate any heat for…
If you are fishing a competition then sure you are going to be comparing your catch, but finishing first or even in the money should be a goal. Not a measure of a good day. I’ve seen people just crap on other people for no good reason. Somebody might say, “Look at this picture of…
I have not been fishing much lately due to… well an abnormal number of adult responsibilities. I complained recently to my doctor about a high level of irritability, and he said I should go fishing more. I have an actual official medical recommendation to go fishing more. I took my doctors advice and I went….
I was working all day in the shop yesterday trying to clear a path to bring in a new machine. I was tired, but when a buddy asked if I want to go fishing I said, “You Betcha!” I probably shouldn’t have. I was tired and it kind of lead to a bad attitude on…
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking public input on proposed changes to the 2025-26 Arizona fishing regulations. A public forum webcast is scheduled for July 29 from 6 to 7 p.m. to further discuss the proposals and to take public comments. There are eight proposed changes: – Create unlimited daily bag and possession…
The Main Page From USGS https://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/current/?type=flow Everything you need on one page.
I got out the other day with a buddy of mine. We took his boat so I had to fish his pace. He caught five or six fish using various methods. I had a nip on a club-o And lost what felt like a pretty good fish on a curly buzz frog, but i only…
Contest canceled due to lack of interest.
NEW UPDATE June 29 2024: It looks like boats (vehicles used soley on water) and rail craft me in fact not be covered by these changes. I will wait and see. Politicians are good at changing things. UPDATE: After writing this short note about the new statute I posted a link to it on several…
Yeah, its been longer than that since I posted anything about local fishing, but I got out last week. It was just another day in our local fishing paradise, but nothing spectacular. I missed one flipping an RT45 creature bait, and then I missed one on a 4″ Club-O. Finally I stuck a couple on…
Wow! I think he might have fished a Club-O more ways than I have. Link: How I Fish The Club-O ~~~
I worked most of the day yesterday. I had gotten one custom mold design roughed out, and I was waiting on feedback from the customer before starting work on the “pretty” details. A buddy of mine called late in the day and said he was available if I needed help with anything or wanted to…
One of my fishing buddies called me up yesterday and wanted to hit the local water. I finished up the CAD/CAM for a custom mold for one of my customers, and I was at a stopping point waiting on feedback from another before wrap up. I wasn’t quite ready to take either to the machines…
It looks like Salt River Project is in the process of planning a storage battery like in the Salt River / Roosevelt Lake area. The way it’s described in the article at the link below is they will pump water into the lake in the daytime when solar energy is abundant and release it back…
Well, I’m on the big bass board for YVRGC. Hopefully its good enough to stay on the board. I’ve hardly had any time to fish this year. Even had a blank day a few weeks ago with one of my fishing buddies. (Both of us). Oh, well. I guess just like, “fishing beats not fishing,”…
Okay, posts about my attitude on forward facing sonar, and personal trials and tribulations working on trailers I am sure are not what you are here for. You visit this site for the fishing intel you can glean or scavenge. Here it is. My fishing report from the last weekend’s derby on Mittry Lake We…
I fished yesterday. My partner and I caught ten keepers. I never even turned on the electronics. We were about 5 pounds behind first place… did it matter. No. They were just better than we were. Its a fact, that a paper graph is better than a flasher… except when it isn’t. For me its…
Most of us are probably familiar with the telescoping flipping stick. For the rest… no not like a multi section telescoping rod. Just one where main body of the rod can be pushed back into the butt section of the rod. This is fairly typical of 7’6″ to 8′ med-hvy to x-heavy fast to x-fast…
Five Minutes On The Water seems to be all I can take most times I get to go at all. I’m dealing with a lot, and any substantial time off usually has to be planned. If do have a whole afternoon to just go get the water and I invite you, then you better go. …
Here are four of our five fish limit. You aren’t missing anything. The fifth fish looked about like the other four. Click for full size image. I don’t know if we were actually 30th, but Dave Willhide and I made it out for the YVRGC derby yesterday (February 24th 2024). There were 35 boats in…
Flipping The River Just a few suggestions Some folks say that all the big fish are caught flipping the river when the weather is warm. Well, I have to disagree about the river current being the only place to get fish to win. What you do have to do is figure the best time and place…
Bait Casting Basics The following works for me. With experience you will probably find some difference or idiosyncracies that are different, but work better for you personally. Most modern bait casting reels have two different adjustments you can make. Basic Controls 1. Some form of braking system or anti backlash control. a. Shimano and Pfleuger…
More On Senko and Stick Worm Rigging Amazingly I didn’t start wacky rigging because I thought it got more bites. In some circumstances I believe it does, but that wasn’t the reason. I started wacky rigging because of the number either missed or gut hooked fish on texas rigged wide gap hooks. I watched senko…
Popper Fishing There is no correct or best reitrieve for a popper. Some days letting it sit until the impact splash is totally gone and then giving it the tiniest of taps to make a fresh distrurbance is what it takes. Other days a quick steady retrieve is the ticket. The noise a…
Some Tips For Fishing Braided Line You don’t need a lot of braid on a flipping stick. If saving money is an issue for you spool the reel about half full of mono first and then attach the braid to it with back to back uniknots. Braid will slip on the spool if tied directly…
The Stick Worm Phenomenon by Bob La Londe Gary Yamamoto probably wasn’t aware of the revolution he was going to start with the Senko. It’s a deceptively simple bait. Senko has become an almost generic term for describing this type of bait. With all respect for Mr Yamamoto since his version remains one of the…
Fishing Buddies Nothing in life is worth as much as a good partner. Whether its the significant other you spend the rest of your life with, the best friend who gets up in the middle of the night to help you when you did something stupid, or that fishing partner that is always…
THE PERFECT TOPWATER MOMENT By Robert J La Londe III October13th 2003 The fish were magnificent. I had one hit were a beautiful smallie launched himself completely out of the water to kill my plug. And they say jumping fish aren’t biting fish. I had one really fat 1.5 lber give me a dance too….
Bob’s Tips For Anglers #1 Go When You Can If you only go fishing when everything is perfect, the tide is right, people confirm its going to be good for you, and the stars align you won’t go very often. As a result you won’t have very many great days fishing. “Oh wah! Its hot!” …
So far today I haven’t really done much. Some is fishing related, however. I spent some time with machines running in the background repairing a couple of my favorite rods. A flipping stick that needed a new tip top, and a multipurpose rod I really like needing a new tip top and a new double…
A few days ago I shared my canal bank milk run with YumaBasser. He’d made noise a few times that he’d like to learn to fish the canals, so we went. Neither of us was up for a full day, so we headed out for a few hours in the afternoon/evening. The canal was moving…
I haven’t been fishing in a while. Yesterday I decided to take the whole day off and go fishing. I was up early took care of a few things, took care of a chore or two, and get some gear ready separate from the gear I plan to keep in the boat(s). I was planning…
When I first wrote this comparison I mistakenly had it in my mind that the name of the braid was Beyond8. It’s Beyond Braid, and the exact line name is 8x. First off the Beyond8 is significantly less expensive than the MaxCuatro. I bought some a while back and hung it on the wall, but…
I have a job running on two CNC mills right now cutting a top secret swimbait mold for a customer, so I didn’t want to leave the shop and go hunt down some fluorocarbon line. The mold cavities are secret, but I am working on a new-ish layout that I may apply to multiple swimbait…
I was planning on fishing a January YVRGC Derby, but they won’t start until late February according to the tournament director. I actually have a couple FIRE January spots, but February tends to be tough for me unless I get on some pre-spawn and spawn fish that don’t have boats line up on them ahead…
I had previously touted the Mustad 91768 with a snap on screw lock as the best (and probably cheapest) hooks for the Curly Buzz Frogs in all sizes. More recently I had noted I could go up a size using the heavier and stronger 38112 instead, except I didn’t think they made a 38112 small…
Want one? Take one. Want two? Ask Edgar. Want More? Buy the mold and make as many as you want. I’ll be taking a box of soft plastic baits over to The Hide-A-Way sometime in the next month or so. Wander in when you get a chance and see if they are there yet. I…
In an online group somebody posted a picture of a pickup truck parked on the ramp at a local fishing hole. This is what I had to say. Its not the first I’ve seen people do that at the “primitive” launches. Most of the time I just go around, but a few times I’ve given…
Two on one bait… Yeah sure. I’ve done it. A few times over the years. How about…
I added a few things you all might (and might not) be interested in. Look below for UPDATEs. Original Post Below: By Bob La Londe November 3, 2023 I was visiting with a friend yesterday (If you know me you know I currently only have four people I call friend, so you might be able…
Look for anything that breaks the flow. Some is obvious, some you can only see when the water is clear or low. Shade can be a fish concentrator as well. Don’t spend a lot of time in any one spot. However, there are plenty of spots where there are a dozen “spots” within a minute…
I watched a video this morning by a big-ish pro, and that was the subject of his video. Now I have never fished at a pro level myself. Technically I’ve won enough in a single year a few times that the law required me to report the revenue, but I never did it for a…
I’m busy cleaning up and trying to make room in the shop. Thrown away a few things I will never use again. January 2006 thru January 2014 I put on 97 tournaments and never missed one.
You know what this means… IT MEANS I DON’T GET TO GO FISHING OFTEN ENOUGH. All these new stickers are sitting on my desk waiting for me to need to put them on the appropriate boat. I think I’m going to start refusing more custom work so I can go fishing a little more often.
I sent the very first Hex Worm mold home last night with the fishing buddy I fished with all summer. I told him to make some baits in his favorite colors and send me some pictures I could post. He fished with them this morning, and he was crazy excited about it. He said he…
This was the first time I had ever actually fished with this little resin poured crank bait. I had made the original mold over a year prior. (Five years ago now.) I made a few baits and tested them in the pool before shipping off the first molds. I made some more of the mold,…
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Pictures & Video: I took it out one day and tried it out in a little by water, and then a customer sent me some pictures of his first baits with the J-Bug mold and his first day on the water. “Finaly i got the mold, so i made some baits right away, i like…
