Clear Lake

Met up with the 'hunter, his nephew, and Dan for an evening and a morning of fishing. Not as hot as Richmond Park but okay fishing. We were minnow fishin'. We saw an 11 pounder taken by a tourney guy who was ripping!

Good times!  Where's the famous mako1-fish-in-hand shots?   

We saw an 11 pounder taken by a tourney guy who was ripping!

Thanks for the report Juan. Im hoping to spend some time with the rip this week. pending conditions/ locations.

We saw an 11 pounder taken by a tourney guy who was ripping!

Thanks for the report Juan. Im hoping to spend some time with the rip this week. pending conditions/ locations.

rip being rip bait aka jerkbait? like for clear water conditions? reel it down, let it sit, twitch it? don't really know my bass fishing.

Jmairey, ripping is WORK. You use a solid, diving, minnow plug and literally rip it through the water. You jerk with all your might, then let it sit a second, reel some, rip again. Repeat. The plugs, I think, are mostly suspenders, when you stop reeling they stay at that depth. Everyone has their own style and pattern of ripping. I, for one, find it difficult to rip well in a yak, it being so low in the water.
The plugs tend to be $15 Lucky Crafts.

got it. kind of a power version of fishing a jerkbait as I have read about and seen on bass pro vids.

thanks!

hey Juan! there is another thread on CL and I put the pics from the trip in there.
....Beuller?