Calico Bass Fishing
 

I’ve never really been much of a bass fisherman. This is probably for a few reasons- the first being that I’ve never been very good at it. I’ve also never understood the amount of effort they put into catching relatively small fish, just to let it go, with the only reward being the hope of another patch or logo on their sponsor-laden shirts. Most of the bass guys I know, wear clothing that is just a step away from those recreational road bikers that think its perfectly ok to wear their ridiculous neon spandex outfits into restaurants and grocery stores. I just don’t get it, but maybe I’m missing something?

With that being said, I got into a pretty fun bass bite the other day. I went to La Jolla with the intentions of bigger game fish. I made about 8 pieces of bait, and made my way to the spot. When I got there I sent down a bait, and immediately hooked into a fish… a calico bass. I pinned on another bait, and it was gobbled by a nice calico bass within about 10 seconds. I did this 5 more times, and ended up with 5 insta-bass, most of them being pretty decent size. I guess bass fishing wouldn’t be that bad if it was always WFO like that. I turned the camera on and got some bass footage, and even put it to some decent music, because most of the videos I see the bass guys make all are pretty cookie cutter footage, with the same sucky soundtrack. Who knows, maybe I’ll become a bass fisherman someday…

Here you go, enjoy.


Don't forget to turn up the volume and watch in full screen :cool:

Steve


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were you using a tranx?

Awesome as always! Love the old Arnie clip....

I will take that bycatch any day...:reel:

I'll take that by catch any day. I'm with you about the cali fixation, never understood it. Calis have become the sacred cows of so cal. If you keep a few you get flamed on the beach and online. I've caught big calicos but always while targeting other species. People looked at me funny when i landed an 8lber on the surface iron and was disapointed it wasnt a YT. Great vid, Auwwnald can rap. Mike

Nice Stevoo! Us Calico Bass Fisherman don't all look like dweebs;)
This was last Saturday at SCI and I took a couple 3lbers for tablefare. :cheers1:

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Hilarious intro. Thanks for the laugh.

Rough day on the water. Good thing Arnie was there to coach you through it.

Nice work dude. Looks like i picked the wrong shift that day.

Sweet VID!!! :luxhello::luxhello:

thanks for the video, i learned so much from the beginning.

Better than sanddabs too!
Congrats Steve.

this was awesome!

the arnold exercise background was hilarious. my coworker was listening to it next to me and was like wtf..

Nice pair of cookie cutter tails. Bad ass video Steve.

+1 Gave me a great laugh! Nice fish porn.

:notworthy:

I want to learn to catch bass like you do.

Damn fine bycatch!

:hmmmm::stupid::aetsch:

Great video Steve! Great bycatch.