I've got the burn bad today.. all day long all I thougt about was bass fishing. One thing in particular kept going through my head.. the feeling i call "the needlefish trance" that feeling where you and the needlefish are one.... your just slowly cranking away on your reel, twitching the rod tip every few seconds, and your mind is totally blank... Then all of a sudden a moose bass comes along and hammers your plug, only to leave you standing there and all you hear is ziiiiiiiiip of the line peeling off your reel, and you look down and the spool is turning so fast its a blur.. The fish runs for about 20 seconds(but feels like minutes) then you turn it. The fish banks to the right and tries to cut you off on a rockpile, but you flip the line off the roller to fakeout the fish. It changes direction and then you have him...you flip the line back on the roller and start winchng... By the time you get it to the beach your heart is pumping and your forearms are burning from winching the bass in quickly so you can release it safely. You pause a bit because the wash of the waves is going out and you know that you could loose the fish in water roaring down the sand.. Then it turns and does another epic run, only to be turned agian and beached this time. You run down between waves and thrust your hands into its gills and haul it up to the dry sand...then you collapse on top of it like its the summit of mount everist and you've just reached the top.
I've fondled some plugs, i held my reels and even cranked the handles a bit to work out the demons.. nothing quenched the fever.
i got it bad this winter
Who else is pacing back in forth thinking of bass and how do you quench the fever??-