new to bass but old to fishing

I figured I'd throw in my first post ,
I've been hearing about the Pitt marshes for a couple of years from a marine biologist friend of mine who used to go into the Pitt with his rod to sample the fish ( dream job) and in his free time go there to play . the place is 1/2 hr from my door so I finally decided to do some hiking into there a couple of weeks ago for an adventure , what a laugh , me and my boy found ourselves into fish pretty quickly . I've managed to figure out how to get in there with the boat with the use of google earth and the distinct launch from the road by the gate .
I'm a north Ontario back woods boy who has lived almost every breath catching and stuffing myself on a never ending supply of pike and walleye . I've been in bc for 20 years and still love to fish but one thing is different I no longer eat the fish I catch , I'm not too fussy on trout or salmon mostly because of acquired taste and the fact nothing can touch walleye until now , bass is pretty close
Now this bass fishing thing is awesome and we've been out 8 or nine times in the past two weeks , they strike in a way that is second to none ,and when they don't want to come to the boat then their a load of fun , we've been doing a killing with mr twisters but my favorite has been the floating perch rapala that I bop thru the water , they're all over it and its almost heart stopping excitement at times how they fly out of the water at it , we've been keeping the odd one to throw into the pan when we get home and i must say they taste great , its nice to have a taste of fish again .
most of my trout gear consists of up to 6" rapala lure types that generally the cutties and rainbows that I go for inhale , so I've got a good stash of gear for the bass fishing .
anyhow its my new found glory ,
can't wait till the fishing weather sets in a we have some cloud cover

welcome to the forum curtk

hopefully you are letting the bigger fish go back in the water and not the pan

most certainly
the waters are a bit small to be yanking the big guys out of
for the most part I'm only out to play

thats awesome to hear man good on you

ya well even though I've caught up to or over 200 fish (mostly tiny and not kept ) within the past two weeks I'd imagine its still a fragile fishery so I'd like to think my kids (and myself) will continue to have the same fun when they grow up
its a whole type of fishing that's in its own realm , the way that they strike so hard and the brute strength in a small fish brings back the excitement I felt pulling in pike , its kinda like yelling holy@#$ get the net then once it comes to the surface saying forget it , another small one lol

yeah man the small bass in there hit like they are on steriods lol

my last trip out there i got a 3.15

I've got to get myself a scale , my general method of measurement is the gap between my hands which looses accuracy with a beer or as my excitement grows while talking fish talk ,
so far I haven't caught anything of any real size but pulled in a good few that would be a couple pounds , a couple of days of cloud cover and I'll be pulling out my heavy gear and track down the big boys .
chances are I'll be at it again sunday , looks like it will be prime weather

if you need someone to tag along let me know and i can try to make it out there

sounds good , I'll check with my schedule and I'll let you know tomorrow once I talk to her

lol i like how you added her to your schedule lol to funny

it funny but its true , i don't have to think and the rest of the time i can play dumb .

I'm on for tomorrow so let me know if your in , I was thinking about heading out at 1:00 in the afternoon and fish until dark

ok ill see what i can do ive just being told i might be going for sockeye tommmorrow ill know better later in the day ill keep you posted

hey buddy no fishing for me tommorrow need to go pick up our tractor and do some work in the feild hopefully next weekend

maybe we'll do it some other time
me and my boy will try to nail into them , today i got a couple new floating rapala's to try out , we'll skim em across the top of the weeds and see how we make out

you need to get some top water frogs like big bite baits floating toads or zoom horney toads they work awesine out in the marsh