I got these pics from my friend Ty, and am posting them for him here. Ty has gone to using spinnerbaits almost exclusively, and with pretty good results, I might add.
He told me that the bass are also as finicky with the spinnerbaits as they have been with my Senkos…he went out one day and all they would hit was a green/yellow spinnerbait, and on the day he caught these, all they would hit was the blue/white combination.
And just in case some of you have been wondering, like I have been, why the bass fishing seems to be much slower in the Pyeongtaek river this year, well, the answer may be in the above pic. In past years, I have watched the netter ajoshis come back in from checking their nets and I watched them throw bass back, or up on shore…as you can see, now they are keeping them. With the amount of nets already in that river, and the new ones which are constantly being put out, you can bet your last dollar/won that within a few years, if not sooner, the bass population will be decimated. I hope I’m wrong, but with the utter lack of any regulation or oversight, it’s not looking good at all 
I saw them start keeping them about 2 years ago now. Have even seen them for sale in E-Mart. I think Koreans are catching on to how good bass taste. I wonder if they are selling them in some restaraunts under a different name. I still wouldn’t eat any out of that river though.
Dave,
You’re the 2nd or 3rd person who said they saw them for sale at E-Mart and yeah, once eating bass catches on, it’s good night nurse
There’s no way I would ever (knowingly) eat any fish out of that river, but I have had others who disagree and who don’t think that river is all that polluted…all those fish caught in the nets have to be going somewhere, and I doubt it’s as fertilizer
Nice going Ty. I love spinnerbaits and it’s nice to see you guys (Steve from yesterday and Mike last week) catching bass on them. I fished with them almost exclusively for a couple of years, and although I didn’t catch as many as the guys drop-shotting or worming, I always seemed to catch quality bass on them.
The Korean bass has made quite the transition, from being thrown up on the bank to rot to the freezers of E-mart. Nice!
In 1900, the Lacey Act was passed in the U.S. It bans the commercialization of fish and game, as in you cannot catch 100 fish out of a local lake and sell them in the market. Likewise with hunting deer, doves or whatever. Without that protection, everyone would be killing everything. I wish Korea would figure out what we figured out 100 years ago. It is a basic conservation concept.
Thanks James. I’d love to see the nets done away with, but would be happy with simple creel limits as a start.
There you have it: The following was posted by user Madoros over at Anglerstown in response to my post about the netters keeping bass now:
James,
I’m afraid something like that won’t be enacted until it’s too late
This reminds me of the government bounty on wolves back in the olden days. Just totally silly.
If the bass accidently slips out of your hand back into the water is that still illegal.
You know what they need to do to get rid of the scourge of American bass is to release lots and lots of American catfish to eat them up.
That would sure make me happy.
That’s a great idea, Dave
I could go for some deep-fried catfish…