A swing and a miss.

[XPO]

I went out to a local pond for lunch and had one [LM] pick up on a stitched senko. I was too slow. He felt me before I woke up from my nap. The good news. It's starting.

[bpm2000]

I went out to a local pond for lunch and had one [LM] pick up on a stitched senko. I was too slow. He felt me before I woke up from my nap. The good news. It's starting.

stitching... oh man the patience!

[Bassinator]

What does stitched mean? O good job on the bite. I'm still waiting for mine.

[XPO]

What does stitched mean? O good job on the bite. I'm still waiting for mine.

Stitching is a bottom, finesse technique in which you drop the bait all the way to the bottom and dead stick it, [dead still on the bottom] for a time. The retrieve is done by taking up line 1"-3" at at time with your off hand, slowly beyond slowly. It will take several minutes to retrieve a 100' cast. The bait never leaves the bottom. You will feel every pebble & twig. In my case, the fish picked it up and started to move away as I stared in facination. {it was my first experience with that type of bite. I should have let go of the line, but I did not. The result was that the fish felt the drag on the rod before I was ready to stick him.

There will be a next time.

[FelonFinder]

:)

[CGRFish]

I went to my favorite pond (right below my house:D), last sunday afternoon. The rod still had a frog on from last fall, and I cast it out, giving it little chance - KAAA WHAMM a bass laying in the grass hit it - I didn't have a scale or camera, but I'd guess it at 14-15" - great first cast for the year... Then I got what I expected for about an hour - nothing. At the very end I put on the senko, just creeping it along the bottom, and nailed another just slightly smaller than the first..

Great first afternoon for the spring:meme:. In prior years, I've never touched a bass in our pond before late april...

[Ingraham]

I went to my favorite pond (right below my house:D), last sunday afternoon. The rod still had a frog on from last fall, and I cast it out, giving it little chance - KAAA WHAMM a bass laying in the grass hit it - I didn't have a scale or camera, but I'd guess it at 14-15" - great first cast for the year... Then I got what I expected for about an hour - nothing. At the very end I put on the senko, just creeping it along the bottom, and nailed another just slightly smaller than the first..

Great first afternoon for the spring:meme:. In prior years, I've never touched a bass in our pond before late april...

Well Done! It's not very often we get a first day of season and first cast hook up:applause:

I'm just going to pretend that the first hook up I get was my first cast on my first day:wink:

[catfishman89]

last saturday i lost a 4 pound plus bass after 4 hours of stiching a superfluke. Sometimes the fish wins i guess.