What Kind of bass fishing do you wish you had? 2025

fourbizz reply :

For me, it is simple: Lilly Pads.

I would love to fish for big fish in pads with a mission fish or frog.

wisturkeyhunter reply :

I wish I had bigger bass that I could fish for all year. I wouldn't be willing to give up muskies and pike to get it though.

slomoe reply :

anything without snot grass....

fishinfiend reply :

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anything without snot grass....

The ponds nearby are loaded with that crap. >

bmadd reply :

If you've seen the Joe Thomas/Lucky Craft videos on youtube where he's fishing a sammy on El Salto, then you would know exactly the kind of fishing I wish I could have for a few months. 5s and 6s on topwater with what seems like every other cast.

Olebiker reply :

I love it here in the Florida Panhandle, but it would be perfect if we had smallmouth bass.

AverageJoeBass reply :

Stumps, lots and lots of stumps.

J Francho reply :

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For me, it is simple: Lilly Pads.
I would love to fish for big fish in pads with a mission fish or frog.

Does this make you green with ***?

Now, if I could get some of the fish you have out there in here, I'd have my dreams come true

Catt reply :

Something like that

J Francho reply :

Yeah, those are the ones. Geez, that fish is so big, it doesn't look right.

We have these 3 pounders here, instead:

Paul Roberts reply :

I'm not a "grass is greener" kind of guy. I love what I have, and wish I had more time to devote to it.

And to really bring this sentiment home, I spent two years in urban industrial China. I loved the friends I made, but the landscape made me start hallucinating for home. The first morning back home (now in CO) I sat by a mountain stream and watched trout rise in crystal water to a chorus of robins.

I then began bass fishing again (after years of trout chasing), and remember walking up to a marshy pond with my new son on my back, and letting out a long contented sigh. I found myself doing that often enough that my little boy, not yet talking, began to do the same ! Sure pleased me to share those wonderful "green" scenes with him. And still does.

Let's just say I know where I'm NOT happy -where the grass is "browner". And I've got more green here than I can ever really cover.

Paul Roberts reply :

Tommy, there must be somthin' wrong with your camera. Or somehow I'm not seein' straight.

John, ahhh, that's better, my eyeballs were starting to hurt. Nice bass, bro!

Wayne P. reply :

I have all the bass fishing I could ever want within 2 hours of home. Rivers and lakes with smallmouth, spotted bass, and largemouth. Tidal rivers with largemouth and smallmouth.

thetr20one reply :

Here in Ohio we have a pretty diverse choice of lakes from natural lakes with lilies and grass to rocky reservoirs. And of course Lake Erie. So it's all about what type of fishing you feel like that day or outing.

J Francho reply :

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John, ahhh, that's better, my eyeballs were starting to hurt. Nice bass, bro!

You know as well as I know, that's a Sodus Cookie Cutter, LOL. here is a "nice fish," last year's biggest, just over 6 lbs.:

jimmieO reply :

I would LOVE to have some smallmouth.

I would LOVE to have standing cypress trees.

Home lakes are just about soup bowls. Not much grass, not many trees.

farmpond1 reply :

Just more places to go. It could be worse but if we're dreaming, might as well dream big.

reo reply :

I am very happy with what I have BUT could do without the 4-5 month winter interruption. Thank goodness for bowhunting and our steelhead fishery.

5bass reply :

Grass. My home lake has very little grass. Some of the other lakes we fish in the state have grass and I really like fishing those lakes. My home lake does kind of cater to a crankbait though so I can't complain too much.

Fish Chris reply :

Geeez..... I LOVE the fishing opportunities here in Nor Cal. So Cal has a little bigger top end size.... but then we have 300 lb + Sturgeon, and 8 lb + Smallmouths.....

Now, had you asked, what "other kinds of fishing" do you wish you had.....

Well, I'm envious of the huge Flatheads and Blue cats from down South. And I've always wanted to catch a big Musky.

But I wouldn't trade what I have for any other place in the world.

Peace,

Fish

Jake. reply :

Smallmouth fishing closer to here.

mattm reply :

I wish I had 75 degrees, a drizzle and 8mph southwest wind always.

Bassboy15 reply :

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Something like that

I heard this guy just gets lucky alot

David P reply :

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Something like that

I heard this guy just gets lucky alot

Haha, Thanks Catt!

I'm plenty happy with the fishing we have here, nothing else I could ask for, not yet that is.

bassmaster3000 reply :

PADS!

Jimzee reply :

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I wish I had 75 degrees, a drizzle and 8mph southwest wind always.

My best days have been in those conditions.

As much as I hate and complain about winter, I have every kind of fishing I need right here within a 1 hour drive from my home. I live 15 minutes from the number one bass lake in WV, 30 minutes from musky and smallmouth infested rivers, and 45 minutes from some of the best freestone native trout streams around. Pretty lucky I guess when I stop and think about it.

I guess if I had to wish it would be larger lakes. Our two largest lakes are Summersville (2700 ac.) and the lake I fish, Stonewall Jackson (2650 ac.). I could drive the boat on Stonewall with my eyes closed I fish it so much. ;D

I still hate winter!!! >

Bassn Blvd reply :

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anything without snot grass....

X3.

I would like some rocks/boulders and stumps. Smallmouth would be awesome too.

SirSnookalot reply :

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Smallmouth would be awesome too.

Don't be greedy, ya got peacocks

I'd like NE Atlantic Striped bass, nothing under 20#

TrippyJai reply :

Any lake with less weed and grass... I'm not that great of a soft plastic fisherman.

Catt reply :

I'm totally satisfied with Toledo Bend, it has every type of structure known to man & it has every type of cover known to man. Y'all can catch bass using every technique and lure known to man. Toledo Bend has a huge population of bass with more 10 pound plus bass per acre then Lake Fork but they are harder to catch due to the enormous size of the lake. Someone said Texas has more Bass Master Pros than any state and more Pros who have won the Classic and while this is true Toledo Bend Reservoir has produced and attracted to the area more top flight Pros than any one lake on earth.

Toledo Bend Reservoir is truly The Bass Fishing Capital of the World

kms399 reply :

I want stump fields and grass not this slimy millfoil garbage

burleytog reply :

The good kind...

IdahoLunkerHunter reply :

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PADS!

There are lots of places to fish with lily pads around here.

Peacock fishing the Amazon is my biggest dream!

bassmaster3000 reply :

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PADS!

There are lots of places to fish with lily pads around here.

Peacock fishing the Amazon is my biggest dream!

I know, I was kidding. BTW, PEACOCK X2!! ;D

TommyBass reply :

Something larger with more structure. I have plenty of cover on some but most lakes near me have one or two main lake points with no signs of a creek ever running through them (silted in). It would be nice to occaisonally learn and apply other fishing techniques on lakes that contain areas in which those techniques can be applied! Grass / weeds are nice too.

tritz18 reply :

stumps

DINK WHISPERER reply :

Give me a spot where two or more types of vegetation exist, a flippin' stick and a good song on the radio and i am in heaven! The nastier the cover the better!!!!!

MALTESE FALCON reply :

I'm content where I am. I have pretty good Largemouth, and fantastic Smallmouth fishing. I guess if There was one thing I would ask for, it would be Peacocks, or maybe Stripers.

Falcon

hjerk24 reply :

LAKE CHAMPLAIN! ...closer than 6 hours away.

CFFF 1.5 reply :

I don't think I would change anything florida fishing is awesome. You can fish river systems, big lakes, small lakes, ponds, creeks. We have everything here and we get to fish year round.

Tin reply :

We have it all up here, super clear and deep to shallow and sloppy. I wish we had standing timber and could fish yeat round though....

Ky_Lake_Dude reply :

I wouldnt change anything from what I've got. I've got KY Lake within about an hour-hour and a half distance that has everything except standing timber. about a dozen 90-900acre small resivoirs within 45 minute that have massive stumpfields to offshore structure to grassfields. Then about 2 hours northwest have Reelfoot Lake which is a shallow bass fisherman's dream with god knows how many cypress trees and TONS of lily pads. I'm in a pretty awesome area if you ask me.

CJ reply :

I agree with Catt, Fish Chris, and Kylakedude. My home waters of Ky./Barkley have it all. Every structure and cover known to bass except standing timber. So many and almost every technique and lure has a place and time here. It would be nice if DD bass were more common but I'm happy right where I'm at!

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

I kinda feel like FC where I already feel spoiled so any mention of anything would just be bratty BUT,.....IF I could change 1 thing in my lake, I would want shad.

fishfordollars reply :

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I'm totally satisfied with Toledo Bend, it has every type of structure known to man & it has every type of cover known to man. Y'all can catch bass using every technique and lure known to man. Toledo Bend has a huge population of bass with more 10 pound plus bass per acre then Lake Fork but they are harder to catch due to the enormous size of the lake. Someone said Texas has more Bass Master Pros than any state and more Pros who have won the Classic and while this is true Toledo Bend Reservoir has produced and attracted to the area more top flight Pros than any one lake on earth.
Toledo Bend Reservoir is truly The Bass Fishing Capital of the World

Blake R. reply :

About half a million less fishermen and pleasure boaters on our small, local rivers would be really, really nice.

Izzy3374 reply :

Big Largies.

The lake I mainly fish is so overpopulated that the bass dont grow bigger than 2 and a half pounds (as far as I know 2lb 4oz is the biggest Ive caught).

Its a catch and release lake and the bass just keep spawning. Its getting out of hand.

Norhterns wont get bigger than 26 in.

Walleye wont get over 3 lbs

Not to metion there is 0 fishing pressure. Private lake for employees only.

GIMME SOME BIG BASS!!!!!

Good Fishing! 8-)

smithfishing reply :

The only thing I wish I had was a longer season. Wisconsin has it all from lake to lake but only has it for 4 or 5 months a year. We have largemouth you catch on forgs in weeds and lilly pads and we got clear lakes with big smallmouth you catch on cranks, jerks and jigs.

Dean reply :

...I wish there were less jet skiers....

backpain... reply :

I only wish I had more time to do it!

bassinfla82 reply :

Im happy with what I have!!!! Rodmen and Stickmarsh/Farm 13!!!!! and Alligator alley I just wish I lived a little closer to them im in upper FL and have to drive 2-3 hours to be happy!

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