Are there any fishermen or I should say fisher people(not to exclude the ladies who fish) that have participated in any bass tourneys or thinking about doing it. If you have do you have any suggestions for someone that would like to start?

I've never entered tournaments but I have landed a few good sized bass of a brush hog. The biggest thing is persistence. If you're going for bass learn how to look for underwater structure, terrain features, and understand basic fish behavior for the spices you're targeting. Have a very wide verity of lures to use, sizes, colors, shapes, from surface lures to bottom. Practice those casting techniques. There is way, way,way too much for someone to sit here and tell you. A lot of it is watching, learning, asking questions, practicing BEFORE you inter a tournament. I'm not saying you can't just go try it out. I would hate for you to get discouraged that's all.

PS- Soft plastics are my favorite to fish. Especially Baby Brushogs from Zoom Lures. Soft plastic fishing is a very slow relaxing way of fishing most of the time.

I'm a fisher-women thanks for the Pc correction- And I have done torments! My best advice would be fish the water of the event before hand- so you have an idea of locations of bites times of day water depths and temps. also be sure you know what bait will be allowed the day of the event and only use that when taking your pre- notes.. Other then that dont wash you socks say a prayer to the moon and get back on here and tell me how you did!
Best of luck to you!

Also you can find great info on the net- maybe even local boards
about the body of water in question!
Location- duration -depths -bait

I am new but have a few suggestions.Lots of practice.You'll need to know what works in ALL situations.Colors,topwater,on the bottom,buzz baits,worms ect...You'll definatley need a boat if you don't have one know.Start fishing in your local bass tournaments and be sure you place in the top a bunch of them.Bass fishing takes big bucks until you get a sponser which won't happen any time soon.Get a personality,sponsers love the guys good at the pr side of it as well.Fish,fish,fish.Again placing in the top 3 repeated number of times will be the best place to start.Then you can go to your local tackle store which you spend lots of money in and ask around for rod/reel sponsers.Good luck.

Nope... I'm a "carp" kinda girl. (That's all I fish for... I can't bring myself to use live bait, and I suck with luers.)

hi there anybody fished hopton pools in staffordshire england? i went up there the other night for a look around cause its been a while and its been closed due to an infection!! wondering if anyone knows anything about it.

Have you tried the county council web site, to see if there's any info there about the infection?

sorry never tried a tourney but i catch a lot on Berkeley Power baits.

peace and quiet thats all it is about when your flyfishing up in a stream miles from everyone and its God and you and the fish

take it to the limit

angling, thats how they called it, and people invove in this kind of leisure sports are angler.... this is very relaxing and nice recreation.... i am doing this every weekends