The Bass College

nice video scottie !! tom def. knows his shit .. he is my life line when im struggling to lol !!

Dear Tom, I was referred to this site by steve on facebook and created my account soon after i talked with him. Right after i joined the site, Scotty "spanky" and i started talking and he gave me a lot of info. I started asking him about sponsorship and stuff like that and then told me to contact you so here i am. I would like to know what i need to do being that i have just started my bass fishing career?

Thanks, Deric

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thank you Tom, I will get right on that!

hey Tom. what is your favorite brand of spinner bait and do you ever use them in the afternoon?

Assassinators. Time of day has nothing to do with using spinnerbaits. 

i cant believe i said spinnerbait...lol i meant buzzbait..Im sure its the same brand as the spinnerbait tho

the videos and information yall gave in the forums were great, thanks so much. im pretty sure i need to fish my hardest this year out of the back of the boat and learn as much as i can and see where that takes me. i appreciate your help tom. God Bless

Zach_Lane at February 6, 2012 at 9:51 PM

hey Tom. what is your favorite brand of spinner bait and do you ever use them in the afternoon?

Yes. Assassinator. Yes, I use them in the afternoon or all day if the conditions are right such as cloud cover and they keep hitting it. 

do you want a lot of wind, litte windor what?

windy conditions are good for spinnerbaits but if you want to try topwater when theres a little chop on the water i always go to a prop bait!

hey Tom. what is your favorite type of soft plastic and your favorite color of soft plastic?

Tom, I'm fishing a tourney in a lake that has homes and docks for each home surrounding the entire lake except for small coves. The lake goes to 40 ft. depth and is stained in clarity. The tourney is March 31st, so I'm guessing based on being on the water recently that the water temp will be 57-62 degrees. What lures would you use throughout the day?

Jake at March 21, 2012 at 12:05 AM

hey Tom. what is your favorite type of soft plastic and your favorite color of soft plastic?

i use alot of soft plastics like paca chunks ,craws - worms  beavers ect...  in alot of different colors  but if i had to pick 2 colors   black and green pumkin

AnglerSlade at March 21, 2012 at 12:10 AM

Tom, I'm fishing a tourney in a lake that has homes and docks for each home surrounding the entire lake except for small coves. The lake goes to 40 ft. depth and is stained in clarity. The tourney is March 31st, so I'm guessing based on being on the water recently that the water temp will be 57-62 degrees. What lures would you use throughout the day?

id start with a rattlebait or a chatterbait or some other kind of fast moving search bait. but if theres alot of docks i would use a swimjig or chatterbait or luckycraft 1.5 by the docks and if theres any flats with grass try rattlebait or swimjig and alot of times in spring all these fronts can make the fishing tough sometimes then youll have to slow down and this is when i use a jig-n-pig usally on the first drop they pull back a little deeper  good luck i hope this helps!

Tom, you're my man, ha. You've never steered me wrong. If you are in a multi-day tournament, what do you do to keep your trolling motor batteries charged? I know a lot of pro's use a 24V system, which would only really allow 2 12V batteries in the boat at time. Do you carry extra batteries? Or do you have some way of getting charged for the next day?

onboard charger just plug in at the end of everyday, and we use 36volt systems 101lb thrust and motorguide is 109lb thrust , so in my boat i have a 4 bank charger 15amp which charges 4 batterys at a time at 15 amps per hour when pluged in so when i get done fishing for the day i go back to the hotel and just plug in!!!!