It seems that my bass catching skills are lacking those of you guys up North. I fished for 6 hours yesterday with only one 12 inch bass to show for it.
I lost and missed a few bass (that felt much bigger) due to my lack of concentration :???: The worst part is, this was my last chance to catch a few before heading back to Nigeria on Sunday. Man time flies 
As some of you may know, my Mother and Step-father as been visiting us in Korea (they only wanted to see our daughter, not me :lol: ). Since I was picking them up and dropping them off at Busan airport I decided to take a couple of my rods with me and test some of my new baits at a small pond not too far away from the airport.
I fished 2 times, late afternoon and early night-time and caught a good number of Bass, but mostly dinks. The good news is I have found a senko copy that has the same action and sink rate as the original GY Senko but is much stronger and durable than the Senko. Here’s a link;
http://www.alluringbaits.com/home.php?cat=21
Now for a few fish pictures….
Well what a great way to fish my last trip before going back to work 
I fished from around 6:00am until 3:00pm, caught 50 bass and missed or lost at least 20 more including one that would of been the biggest of the day 
The weather was perfect, cloudy the whole time is was there except for the last 30 minutes or so, so it was cool enough, plus I had my small ice cooler with 6 bottles of ice cold water in the boat.
The fish were all in some kind of cover, either grass, fallen trees or tree stumps in the water. I’ll let the photos tell the story
I fished at a one acre pond yesterday morning and had a bit of fun. I know there’s no monsters in this pond so I just went to catch a few bass. Well, I managed to catch 18 bass from 4:30am ~ 11:30am. All bass caught before daylight were caught on buzzbaits (including a “good-for-this-pond” bass) and as soon as it was light all they mainly wanted was wacky rigged 5″ watermelon/red flake senkos. Good fun!! here’s a few of the photos….
Oh yea, there was also a small snake and a turtle swimming around, but I couldn’t get a photo of the turtle :(
Man it’s freaking hot this year :??? : The green algae is showing itself around these parts but not at all waters. I fished at 4 or 5 lakes on Wednesday and one was very green and one of the others only 20 minutes away was absolutely crystal clear.
The first 2 photos below are from the “green” lake where I actually caught the most fish….so it seems that the algae doesn’t bother the fish too much although I found they were hitting my frogs a bit short, maybe a visibility thing.
Most of my bass were caught on frogs from 3″ to 5″ monster fogs that I got from the UB sponsors. The 2 fish below were caught on a black cherry vibrashock and my favorite Neko rig.
I got up at 2:00am and headed to the lake where I’ve been having some great luck. It wasn’t until around 5:00am that I knew the condition of the water. The water had gone from crystal clear 4 days ago to a coffee color. Needless to say, the bass were not in the mood to co-operate and I skunked at this lake after missing several shy bites on a frog and popper.
I then moved to another place. A 1 acre pond that not many people know about (or so I thought, because there seems to be a lot of empty worm packets around). The water here was worse than the other lake so my expectations were very low. Here’s what the water looked like……
I tried for a short time using the lures that normally work here but got no bites. The only way I was going to get a fish was to use sound and a dark color. I tied on a Black Cherry Vibrashock and almost immediately caught this little fella……
I ended up catching 2 dinks in the couple of hours and managed to miss and lose a few more.
I’m back home and I’m back fishing again. I fished yesterday morning from 4:30am and caught several small bass on as many casts with a buzzbait…..now that was fun fishing :grin: even though they had no size to them.
Then I move to the other side of the lake and started fishing frogs over the thick weeds and pulled heaved these 2 bass out.
The last one (last 2 photos) was 49cm (AGAIN). I have caught four 49cm bass in the last 4 visits to this lake and STILL can’t find a 50cm :sad: I’m sure the bass shrink in size when they see me coming 
After reading Nomad’s bad news with his line breakages this morning, I thought I’d start this little topic. Below is a link to a great knot site.
http://www.animatedknots.com/indexfishing.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg
What knots do you use for a particular lure/technique and lure/line. I’ll go first.
For Flourocarbon line I tie a clinch knot 100% of the time and I can’t remember the last time I broke off at the knot, even with old line.
For braided line 30lb and over I tie a trilene knot….but with braid below 30lb (I have 11lb braid on my spinning reel) I find that the knot tends to slip, so I tie the same trilene knot as above but add an extra turn/loop and this has worked very well.
I was just looking through some bass photos and I came accross the 3 photos below.
The 3 photos are of the same fish caught from the same 1 acre pond on 3 different days, using 3 different lures. Just curious to know if anyone else has caught the same fish before and do you think the bass stop biting the same lure after it has been caught, as the bass below was caught on different lures each time.
October 25th 2007 - drop shot
November 4th 2007 - rattle trap
March 26th 2008 - spinnerbait
I decided to take my little tiny boat out for my last fishing trip before I have to go and make some more money (to pay for my obsession - fishing). I went to a small river that I know has some big bass in it and I was throwing jigs into the overhanging bushes and trees. I managed to land these 2 bass, but lost/missed several others
Then as the wind got too unbearable for my inflatable (even with the 6kg anchor), I decided to pack the boat away and go to the nearby lake (which is my favorite and closest to home lake).
I was fishing frogs over the water-chestnuts and pads and caught these 2 snakeheads and one bass.
I wasn’t trying to catch the snakeheads, but they sure put up a great fight.
Well since Nomad is doing so well at it, I decided to give it a go…..but remember I have to drive minimum one hour to find bass.
I set the alarm for 3:30am and was at the lake fishing at 5:00am (I love early mornings….no traffic!!!!). As I got to the lake the fog was so thick I couldn’t see where my lure was landing!!!!
Even though it was so foggy, in the first hour I landed 5 nice bass with spinnerbaits, KaRu Vibraspins and one bass on a tiki toad.
As the fog cleared and the sun came out the fishing slowed a little, so I headed for the freshly growing water chestnuts and found that the bass were just waiting to eat my frogs
That’s where I found this nice 18.5 incher
Thinking that I had just caught the biggest fish of the day I carried on casting over the think plants and “bang” ….. I landed this 19.5 incher which is equal to my personal best (how do I catch that 50cm / 20 inch bass 
Then, just as I was about to leave, I got this little fellow. What a great morning 
As many of you know I went to the AF Base at Kunsan to meet a buddy for the first time. We met at UltimateBass.com and he is from Alaska and in Korea for the first time. He hadn’t caught a bass in over 8 years so we knew we going to have a great weekend.
I got there on Friday night and it was just BBQ and beer until around midnight. We were up at 5:00am on Saturday and hit the lake and we fished until around 7:30pm and we must of caught around 30+ bass between us…..but they were all dinks. The first photo below was the biggest bass I caught all day.
All the fish we caught on 5″ watermelon/red flake senkos and tiki toads in the grass.
Have you ever caught a bass where you could almost NOT get your thumb in it’s mouth ?? ?? I did, here’s my 5″ bass caught on a 5″ wacky rigged senko
This idea started in another post, but I thought I’d start another post dedicated to the idea. Let’s all have a get togther for fishing and beer drinking before Tex Mex leaves Korea at the beginning of August. All suggestions welcome.
1. Place
2. Date(s)
3. Costs
4. anything else we can think of.
At my current schedule, I will be in Korea (and available for a Landing Lunkers tournament, if everyone is interested) between the following dates…..
5th May ~ 24th May (week days only)
27th June ~ 19th July (any time)
I couldn’t resist one more last chance (it’ll be almost 5 weeks until I can catch another Bass, so my wife understood 
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I went to a secret 1 acre pond that only a handfull of people know about and caught 13 bass. Even though not many people know about this place, there is already empty lure packets and old waste line just lying around the place, really pi$$es me off that a really pretty place in the country side is starting to look like all the other lakes and rivers and Bass fishermen are to blame 
(Sorry about the rant, just had to get it of my chest 
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There’s no monsters in this lake, but what it lacks in quality it certainly makes up for in quantity. It’s located high in the mountains, so the water was a bit cooler than other lakes, but it was fun. Here’s a few of the better ones I caught.
I’m leaving Korea again on Sunday 30th back to Nigeria (gotta work to make money to buy more fishing tackle :lol: )
The small lake in JinJu was a bit strange today (25th), the water seemed cloudy in 3/4 of the lake and the fish were only biting in the clearer 1/4 of the lake. While I was fishing, 2 guys in an inflatable boat came and started taking water samples….and there was a few dead bass (which is not normally a rear sight) and a dead turtle.
I still managed to catch 6 bass and 1 slimy guy….my first Korean Catfish !! Here’s a few photos.
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