Dwight Hottle

He is saying with a moving bait that has sharp hooks you only need to keep reeling or lift the rod to get an adequate hook set. No crossing their eyes necessary.

Welcome to BR.

Well spoken Roger.

That jig is killer for all species. Early spring when the leeches emerge from the mud it is an absolute killer on pike including many over 20lbs for me.

X2 Typical summer pattern on the great lakes is 20-55 fow.

Obviously they didn't work for a living. ?

Congrats on the new PB Eric & welcome to the 7lb club. Don't forget to change your profile PB to 7-8 lbs.

Well if the wind doesn’t stop them on the last day looks like a good chance they will hit the magic 100 mark. Only a few times that the green bass have it hit that mark in a tournament. Very impressive. Brown bass rule.

I have seen this discussion repeated so many times on so many different forums and the final answer is.......... your choice. No definitive proof either way. You even get varying opinions from motor manufacturers & boat dealers. The only consensus by all parties is to use one or the other.

Your other choice is cutting the hook in half with a pair of hook cutters leaving a greatly reduced piece for the fish to deal with.

Try using owner single replacement hook for each treble. Model 4101-111 for 1/0 hook size. Other choice is just use the tail hook. You can remove the other hooks or leave them on & just snip off the points down to the barb with a hook cutter. That maintains the weight balance if that is a problem.

Welcome back buddy. Hoping for a quick recovery.

3lbs-7oz estimate. I agree with RoLo’s 18” length measurement. Nice smallie.

Many guys are not getting the point. When I was in high school you could buy a new corvette for under $3000. The problem is the value of a dollar decreases every year. Hence prices have to increase to maintain the same relationship between cost of goods & selling prices. And unfortunately your wages & earnings income haven’t kept up with inflation either. Think about it.

One word for you describes it all INFLATION

PB's are always sweet. Congrats

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Nice pair. I'll bet your thinking triple sevens?

Paul looks like famine or feast. Couple of nice hookups.

PB's are always sweet. Congrats.

Congrats on the new PB they are always super sweet.

Bayliner is the chevette of the Chevy line of their pleasure/painful ownership boat brands.

This one reminds me of Arlo Guthrie.

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I have had two different Mexican bass take me for a painful ride exhibiting lots of power & strength before coming loose. I never saw either one but always knew either one could have been that one, my fish of a lifetime. Fishing for smallies I have also lost a few that were over powering in their fight to escape leaving me wondering how big were they. I'll never know. I hooked a pike several years ago fishing lake Athabasca in early June that broke my heart. The camp we were fishing out of used cradles instead of nets for landing any fish of trophy size. I had just snapped on a large wooden glide bait called a phantom with two big treble hooks. The guide insisted I remove one of the hooks for his safety while unhooking fish and for making the unhooking process go more quickly. I tried to persuade him to let me try it with both hooks on for the first fish to decide which hook to remove based on how the bait hooked up. He wasn't buying my argument so I decided to remove the tail hook leaving just a belly hook on the bait. I casted out & started working the bait when a fish grabbed it & took off in a straight line from the front of the boat to the rear behind the boat. At the time the fish bit I set the hook hard. I knew I has a big fish on based on the weight, the way the fish swam off on a straight line like a dog running off with a bone. I slowly worked the fish back towards the rear of the boat & yelled for the guide to get the cradle. He was rolling a cigarette at the time & taking his time. I yelled at him again & got his attention. He grabbed the cradle & placed it in the water boat side. As the pike was swimming towards the cradle the guide got a good look at her & got really excited. Just as she was coming close to the cradle she opened her massive mouth & out came my glide bait. I never stuck a hook into her. She must have engulfed the bait & clamped her teeth into the wood so when I set the hook I never moved the bait in her mouth hooking into any flesh. I was devastated & ticked off all at the same time. Our guide was heartbroken because he saw how big she was & knew we both just missed a fish of our lifetimes. I kept thinking that if I had left the rear treble on rather than the belly hook that fish would have been mine. A couple of years later I caught a 32lb pike which was a new PB but always wondered if that first fish might have been pushing 40lbs.