Punching For Bass With Snell Knot Setup in the Lotus Pads of Cowan Lake
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- It was time for me to learn how to punch with braided line and a heavy flipping weight so I can get fish out of the middle of the thick stuff. I asked my buddy, Adrian, to meet me at the Cowan Lake campground ramp so we could hit the lotus field and he could walk me through how to punch for bass. First he showed how to tie a Snell knot and the rest of the punching setup, then we each managed to catch a punching bass, and I ended the day by tying on a punching setup myself to make sure I understood it. A very accomplished and fun day all around!
Big thanks to Adrian for spending some of his very limited free time helping me!
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great example of always seeking to be a better angler and i’m glad you’re sharing it with us
your flipping technique looks good!
Thank you! I’m having a lot of fun with fishing right now!
Great job! Always cool to have a person like Adrian as a friend!
Thanks, Adrian is a really great guy! 😎
Fish on !! 😃
Glad to see you boat your first and start gaining some confidence!
Thanks! Now that I tried it, it seems silly I avoided learning this for so long! 🤣
I threw a frog and punched in these pads for hours a couple weeks ago, caught one little one. Nice video! It’s always great to learn new techniques and you can never learn too much!
We probably caught the same dumb fish. 🤣
@@GirlGoneFishing 😂
Cowan Lake, my old stomping ground. Loaded with crappies, and famous for muskies. A must next time I'm back in Ohio.
And my favorite training ground for kayak bass fishing!
Good luck on your tournament Melissa go get that BIG BASS 👱♀️🎣🍀
Thank you! I'm mostly in this one for the experience, but I won't be mad with a win! 😎
That’s my next setup… a punch rod. Nice video, motivational💪🏾💯💯💯
I'm finding that I really don't need a special rod, my St Croix MHF rods have plenty of backbone to get fish out of everything I've tried so far.
Melissa great video it takes a lot to push yourself to learn something new something we don’t like! You accomplish two things in this video I’m proud of you teach yourself to skip and punch through Lily pads or lotus plants and the snell knot and you did both! Awesome job keep pushing yourself further and gain confidence Melissa that’s how you reach milestones in becoming a great tournament angler!! Those lotus plants are creepy when you stand up no problem but when you sit down you disappear in them LOL! Tight lines take care and God bless!❤❤❤❤
Those lotus leaves are like being lost in a remote jungle! Don't get me started on the spiders that fell on me, though! We are not going to talk about the spiders! Ewwww!
@@GirlGoneFishing oh goodness I’ll just have to bring my mini flame thrower out there!!!
My favorite frog is the zman popin frogz & popin shadz. They have much better hookup ratio than regular frog. Thier basically a weightless soft plastic that floats. I used them when I lived up in Fairfield OH & now down here in southern SC. They get bit everywhere! Don't be afraid to try new knot's. There a lot easier than you think. After a few times you can't forget them. Any advantage we can get helps. Different knot's for different types of line, baits, applications. Good luck!
I haven't used a Z-Man frog yet, I rotate between Jackall Kaera, Spro Bronzeye, and Booyah Pad Crasher (and jr).
So glad i found your channel as someone in the same area. After seeing all of your trips to Cowan Lake, I may make a trip out there this week!
People make fun of Cowan, but I like it!
Congrats on your first Punching rig bass Melissa! I'm in the process of trying to learn.that technique myself. Good luck in your national event!
Thanks! It was much easier than I had imagined it to be!
The trick with the hook on a straight shank is that you just kinda keep the hook point inside the bait. It will come through everything, but the trade off is that it usually rips up the bait kinda bad :(
Those lily pads are very similar to the ones at Pymatuning, massive! Congrats on the first punch fish!
Thank you!
Good luck @ Saginaw bay event.
Thank you!
Always good to learn new techniques. Remember to suspend your bait for 10 seconds right under the pads, before you make another cast/ pitch. Baitfish love to hang around the underside of pads and vegetation this time of the year...
I've read to bring it up and shake it at the underneath of the pads in case the bass are feeding up, is that similar to holding it there? Or is holding it there quietly a different technique? I avoided learning punching for so long because it seemed overwhelming, but now it feels very natural and normal and I am so excited to see if I can use it to get a fish on Saginaw Bay!
@@GirlGoneFishing hold it, with a few little twitches now and again....all the best for your future tournaments, go make your own luck 👍
More unsolicited comments:-) Flipping is a wrist action not a body action. Work to keep a quiet body (elbow and shoulder) if that makes sense, perhaps you tell young skiers something similar? EWG hook for the tex-posed, I like Gamakatsu's hybrid offset worm. You might look at a double uni-snell to give two wraps on hook eye and 2 lines exiting to cushion the weak spots on the hook set with braid, (perhaps something to look at over the winter). If you want options for over pads and veg, Johnson silver minnow with a grub trailer and the zoom speed worm (zman has something is you like elastech). Enjoy watching the journey. Best of luck.
Thanks for the info!
Zman been my favorite frog & basically only one I've thrown last few years. Hard to use something different when something is already working so well
I've never really gotten into the Z-Man frog, I rotate between the Kaera, Bronzeye, and Pad Crasher.
For a popin frog it's my favorite because the hookup ratio is same as a weightless texas rig, which is good, a lot better than traditional frogs
thats a neat set up
Thanks! I'm so lucky there is something this awesome that I can still lift onto my car!
Great job
Thanks!
Good luck
Thanks!
Try going thru the bug at the nose perpendicular instead of thru the center of it
This is definitely the secret but I still need more practice on getting it right!
Tokyo rig or EWG screw lock hook
I've tried the Tokyo and don't like it for around here because of our super mucky bottoms... unless there is a trick for that I'm not aware of? I have screwlock hooks, are you talking about throwing like a weightless swimbait in there on that hook? On braid?
@@GirlGoneFishing you mentioned that you were having a hard time texposing the straight shank hook. I personally don’t like flipping with straight shank hooks because of that. I use a screw lock EWG hook and you can easily texpose it. The screw lock also saves a lot of plastics from breaking.
Those “punching” hooks are not necessary at all. I never use them.