buckmanjr

The hook that comes with the 8'' reaction strike fathead JR is to small. What size hooks to others use for this size hollow swimbait?

> > I know the background isn't exactly recognizable....but I did blur it out for a reason.

Fish hit a black/blue BICO under some over hangs. Went 7-10 on the scale.

;D On a jig tight to wood.

I love my kistler LTXs and shimano cumara's

Nothing huge yet...biggest going about 2 1/2 pounds.

Me and my freind pat have gotten in the money in car topper tournys because of the slammers ;D

What did you purchase?

black/blue BICO jigs, buzzbait, and 9'' MS slammer.

When I fish from shore, I use a backpack. A couple plano box's, a couple bags of plastics, camera, and pliers all fit in it. I keep it on my back all the time while fishing and I am able to walk around the pond casting. Works out great

Gambler ugly otter!

I had a graphite plus brush buster that had the guide inserts pop out. I replaced it with a helium LTX II and LOVE it!

I know I am going to get 100 different answers, but figured it would make for some good discussion too. What is everybodys favorite flouro or co-poly? One of the reasons im asking is because I was using p-line 100% flouro in 20 pound test for jigs, and loved it till sunday. It wouldnt hold a knot, and seemed like it "dried out" or "rotted", something that made it weak. Took a trip and bass pro was out of 20 pound gamma, both 100% flouro and the co-poly, so i picked up some trilene sensation in 17 pound test (only b/c it was cheap) I have heard great things about the gamma, but the price tag is pretty steep. Thinking about trying the gamma co-poly...

Bill Quattrucci (local B&T owner) He has taught me a TON about jigs, and swimbaits. Not to mention the jigs he makes are amazing, and that has helped me catch a lot of fish, i think. My dad has always helped me too. Local people on different websites have helped me so much too. Its amazing how much you can actually learn about fishing. ;D

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Fished a charity tournament for another site today at turner res. We finished second out of 20 teams with 14.11 pounds with our lunker going 5.3 pounds Here is the report i have on the other site. Me and pat started out fishing the walls....nothing. then fished our way to the back where i picked up our first keeper....mayb 12". We then got very frustrated and started screwing around befor i saw a 5+ swim away. I was ticked...swearing and all that we spooked him. Pat picks of the slammer and casts towards it, and she sucked it down! Ended up being lunker of the day for us. We then started picking up fish on senko's, and Pat picked up another decent fish on the slammer. We had a small limit, and went to cull and a fish jumped out. lost another couple fish at the boat. Then we started nailing them on the senko's on the really windy side. We culled 6 or 7 times. My biggest came off a log in 6" of water, a heavey 3/light 4. Picked up a few more that we couldn't cull with, and pat lands one at the ramp on the slammer with 2 minutes left that we were able to cull with. We ended up with 5 for 14.11 and 5.4 pound lunker. Bill and KC won it with 19 and change with two 5+'s. Mike and phool had a good bag with 14.11, but we beat them with the lunker. Nickp and Jchello ended up in 4th.

Fish the Shady areas hard. The fish will be in the slop and under the heavy cover, they may be in 6'' of water, but they will still eat.

Huds, and mega bait charlies are both great baits. Also consider looking at MS Slammers

Very wise, Buckman is. Also try an M.S. slammer (rainbow trout ) pattern......... Yeah...i have heard these "MS slammer" lures work

1) Black/blue BICO jig with an ugly otter trailer 2) 1/2 or 3/4 ox revenge spinnerbait...probably a white/blue color 3) 9'' original MS slammer...perch or rainbow trout color 4)SPRO frog 5)Senko

I use black/blues, blacks, black/yellows and black/reds mostly. I use a jig called the BICO...made my Bill at Bills B&T in Seekonk MA. He currently does not have them in stock, but should in a month hopefully. Manns stone jigs are a good alternative. With these jigs i use an ugly otter trailer made by Gambler. I never used the white BICO jig with the Yum trailer. Bills B&T also sells Black ugly otters.

Also look into fishing Jigs...big bass producers I use 1/4oz to 1/2oz jigs...skiping them under over hangs, to wood, docks, deep structure, any thing that looks like it will hold a fish pitch to it

Legit public lake....with waterskiers and other jerks on jet ski's ;D

As Paul said, i got the 10.2 on the 9" rainbow trout slammer, on a lake with no trout in it. The same lake i have gotten MANY 12-16" fish on the 9" purple nitro slammer. I rarely throw the 7" slammers anymore because I HAVE been getting good numbers with the 9". I would deff. stick with the swimbaits, MS slammers are excellent lures. $30-$50 but they will last you a lifetime.

No explanation needed, i agree completely. I was more than happy to see that fish swim away and kick hard out of my hands! I will be ordering the replica soon ;D