Bass early spring, 17 March, 2011
March 18th, 2011 by JimI bought a new Motor Guide foot controlled trolling motor to help me with boat control this year. The motor is different to control than a hand controlled motor to say the least. It’s going to be a challenge but, fun. I took it out on the pond today on my two man pond bass tracker to see how it works and to try to master going out on one of the bigger lakes. At first the motor got the best of me as I was over reacting the steering while in the high speed mode as I headed to the area where I caught my first bass two weeks ago. I ended up slowing down to the # 2 position of the 5 speeds that it has. Things got better but I was still overacting. After a while I got the hang of it but, I still need to practice a lot more before I can master it to be sure. The big problem was trying to beach the boat on shore. Trying to move the boat forward fast enough to get the front of the boat on shore and steering it precisely, this I found not doable. I ended up pushing the boat to shore using my long handled net. I will try again but I’ll bring a long pole with me just in case. The landing area is not much wider that the width of the boat so, there’s no room to spare.
I finally got to my destination and tried to catch bass in the same area where I got the 6 lb bass two weeks ago. Not a single strike. I was using six rods, each with a different bait, A Blue Fox spinner, Shaws paddle worm, a Culprit worm in an effervescent brown/orange color, a Rapala floating 3/16 oz jerk bait silver/black, a new Zman craw dad in black w/red craws, and a Yum white shad Coffee.
Not a single strike. So, I move to the other end of the lake and caught the bass shown, nice size but not nearly as big than the one I caught two weeks ago. And, again this was my only strike of the day. I’ll admit that I only fished for about an hour but my expectations were higher.
I caught it on the Culprit worm moving it very slowly across the bottom rigged on a red headed jig.
