bigbill

There's deals at Wal-Mart for sure. I do find it very odd the clearance stuff in January only to restock it in March?

Try fish and save he has some affordable bc reels.

I have the largest Plano tackle boxes now. The 9606's. My question is how do you fisherman sort out and store your lures? I'm thinking a shallow to medium running crankbaits in one box. Deeper running crankbaits in another box and topwater lures in another box. Then weedless baits and plastics in two more boxes. I don't need the deeper cranks unless I hit the lakes. Tackle storage is a problem. I just don't feel right without having it all with me in the car. All these awesome different baits and no room. I'm a color freak and a tackle hoarder. I need help.

I was on my way home from a doctor's visit last year.(cancer) Since I haven't been bass fishing all season last year I was passing by one of my local hot spots when I remembered my trout UL tackle was in the car. The only decent lure I had was a smaller mepps comet. I threw the mepps and it was "bass on" and it was a hoot on light tackle. Now I understand why some use ul tackle. It felt freaking awesome to have a bass on the line again.

Well I have split my selection of Lews speed stick rods. The shorter ones for shore fishing and the longer ones for boat fishing.

I used the bumble bee one at a secret hidden pond with big DD LMB. The bass would bite but when I caught a sunfish on it I could see a bass swimming over to eat it. It happen so fast I panicked and pulled the sunfish out of the water as the bass caught up to it. Big bass eat big sunfish.

I just pay it forward with an older gent I keep on seeing at a local restaurant. I picked up his supper tab. There isn't enough kindness in this crazy world.

It's not lead. It's actually very thin steel wound mini cable. The outside looks like a tiny snake skin it's wound so perfect. It's very tough to cut.

Now your in my zone, submerged weeds. 1. Mepps timber doodle size "0" silver blade white trailer. Or a gold blade with a chartreuse trailer. It all comes in the package. I cast it out and drop it into the open weed pockets. It's a weedless lure. 2. Mister Twister top prop. It's comes with a trailer and a trailer hook. Cast it out reel it slow, or a 1-2-3 pause. Let it pause over the open weed pockets. Weedless. 3. Plastic mouse. Weedless. 4. Floating worm no weight just a hook. 5. Split shot rigged worm. 6. Popper rebel pop r. 7. Spook, walk the dog.

Learn as you go brother. I'm a color freak. I try to use what goes with the different water conditions. Again on a slow day throw chartreuse/firetiger. I was fishing casting and used most of my lures. I was into practicing my different presentations on a slow day. The water looked slightly stained to clear at the shoreline. But farther out I'm not sure the condition. I put on a firetiger and caught bass. I changed to a chartreuse and caught bass. I'm still learning.

Checkout Sieberts Outdoors first. He offers lots of stuff now from custom jigs, to awesome spinnerbaits plus more. This is quality built baits Mike put the $$$ into his quality baits not the fancy wrapper that's how it should be.

If there swirling there chasing the bait fish match them. I throw a rapala orginal floater. Try a black one, blue one or a baby bass fry size. I seen picketed one day eating bass fry non stop. I lost it. I put on a baby bass rapala minnow and caught every pickerel.

I'm unspooling a Penn model 49 deep sea fishing reel I just purchased. It appears to have a wound thin cable steel line on it. Does anyone know the brand? This was used for fresh deep water trolling for lake trout.

I just purchased a almost complete set of lews spinning speed stick rods from 5' ultra lite rods to m, mh 6' rods, to 6'6", 7', 7'2" med, mh rods.

Crankbaits it's all the colors catch fish. Let the water conditions guide you. Spinnerbaits it's gold Colorado, blue glimmer for clear to slightly stained water conditions. For stained to muddy water conditions it's gold Colorado, hot chartreuse. On a tough day when nothing is happening throw chartreuse.(overcast/dark) I'm really confident with my spinner bait setups. My cranks I throw a variety of different colors till I get action. The bass will let you know what the correct color is for that moment. When the bite starts and slows down change colors again. If still no action change to larger size baits same style and colors.

Color, natural for clear water conditions fished faster. Brighter colors for stained water conditions fished slower. Brightest color for muddy waters fished the slowest. Having a rattle and a bass scent is a plus. The bomber cranks in size 05 in about 2" long. The square A is a good place to start. Matching the craw colors to your area draws is your best bet in clear water. In stained to muddy water the citrus, chartreuse colors are hot. The normal colors are redapplecraw, Brown craw, green craw, baby bass orange bottom, shad color etc.

The bass turn on as it gets dark. I fished every evening from 5pm on till dark at 8:30/9:00pm. As the light conditions change from daylite to dusk the basses eyes change faster to the changing light conditions. As we're it takes the bait fishes eyes longer to change making them easy prey. This happens in the evenings and early mornings. At midday the sunlite in the water causes the plant life to bloom. At this time the bait fish feed on the plankton. The bass also feed at this time. This is good for the shore fisherman to know this.

It's very hard to catch smallies were I fish. One day at one of my spots during a light warm rain the bass turned on. I caught 19 bass standing in one spot by fan casting using a joesfly in firetiger apache his 1/4oz bass size. On the way home I hit my second spot where I never seen a smaller in over a decade of fishing there. I caught two smallies that we're 3lbers. Again the 1/4oz joesfly in fire tiger apache did earn it's keep.

I loved my childhood growing up in the 50's to early 60's life was so simple then. We were so innocent.

I still have all my Atari games with the console.I blew up a tv on flipping the score three times.

For saltwater whiners we poked holes in a can of sardines. I never tried it in freshwater. We used hard stale bread too.

I seen a yellow perch hit a mepps number #3XD inline spinner. The tremble hook just squeezed in its mouth. It's a 12" perch.

What the water conditions? Do you use a scent? Clear water natural colors fished faster. So the fish don't get a good look at it. Silver blades. Stained water a combination of natural and bright colors fished slower. But the level of the stained water matters what color. Lure speed slower. Gold colored blades. Muddy water bright colored larger sized baits fished the slowest. Brighter painted blades is another option. Colorado and Indiana blades give off lots of vibration. To me that's a plus.

At vimageoutdoors they offer the moss boss very affordable.

There is a violet color in the Norman thin N's. I use a blue glimmer skirt on my spinnerbaits. The rapala orginal floater f7 in blue minnow. Purple worms.