bigbill

1 3/4# 4 1/2# ????

The panther Martin in silver blade with the yellow fly catches everything here. The yellow fly with that red middle streamer has to be it.

What he said above. Both we have to adjust to the conditions at the time and not knowing what colors the bass can see at the time I try them all. Not knowing the conditions in the deeper water never leave out the brighter colors and firetiger. For a good crank in natural bait colors I use the Norman thin N. Cast it out and twitch it like a wounded bait fish in the shallows. In low light or muddy water throw the chartreuse killer.

These all catch fish. You left out the panther Martin and the joes fly. Joes fly. 1/4oz firetiger apache & blackgnat. Mepps anglia. #3 silver w/ grey tail & #3 gold w/ Brown tail. Panther Martin. #4 #6 Silver blade/body yellow fly. Rooster tail. 1/4oz silver blade, white Dalmatian. Blue Fox spinner w/blue fish head, but I can't remember which one. They all work don't forget the baitmate bass scent or the yum shad.

R U using a bass scent? R U pre or post spawn? I use the bomber shallow A, model A size 05. A shot of craw scent and I'm off to do battle. Presentation is the key. Since these lures float we can go slow enough to let it float and make a wake, or slow reel it so it's just under the waters surface. Or speed up so it dives to its proper depth. I run it over submerged weeds as a wake bait and stopping it over the deep open weed pockets. I may let it sit and twitch it.

There are different presentations using spook type lures. Hold your rod horizontal and walk the dog. Hold your rod a do a twitch(1), twitch(2), twitch(3), & pause. The length or distance of the twitches has to be even exactly. Hold your rod tip down and reel to make it dive under the water acting erratic the whole time then pause it and repeat. Change up on the distance you make it dive. Make your presentations Oscar winning perfect.

The awesome thing is that Mike fishes too. That's a big help when you ask him what to use or try. The advice is coming from a great source of information. I like a football 3/8oz jig in green pumpkin with a trailer I just hop it across the bottom.

Been through this, I watched my co-workers go on binges till they end up dead. Legally there is nothing we or the company can do. If we but in we get sued. One company I was building machines for sent one co-worker that had a drinking problem out to a place that helps these people dry out. The company tried to help him three times. The forth time he couldn't find his rolling tool box and ran into the VP while he was drunk again that was the last straw. I feel bad to this day we lost a lot of talented people. They were good men when they were sober.

I purchased the glow plastics from mister twister but never tried them. So many baits and so little time. But I have used with success in low light conditions as it gets darker a weedless hook with a 4" long white uncle Josh 1/2" wide pork strip trailer with a 20" leader and bobber.

I use the pork chunk trailer on jigs and spinnerbaits but I use the saltwater 4" pork strip in white on a bobber and a 24" leader as it gets dark. I did this from being a kid too. As it gets dark you can see the pork strip being pulled every which way in the water. It's just a thinner sliced piece of pig skin.

Jimmy has probably made millions kissing fishes so why change now.

I'm just thinking, maybe too much. I use a Cajun red line leader on my Carolina rig. I been wondering why not on my crankbaits, spinnerbaits, inline spinners, jigs??? Since the red line disappears at a 10ft depth do you think a red line would be better if the fish are line sensitive?? If we're fishing a small still water pond can the fish be line sensitive? If the place isn't fished that heavily? I wonder if a 24" leader in red could make a difference.

Can I melt down another plastic lure color I prefer and pour it into a mold? Can I pre lube the senko mold with a bass scent as a scent and release agent? Or do I mix a scent in the melted plastics?

I use the higher test lines on some of my spinning reels but it does hurt my casting distance. The best casting distance line so far has been Excalibur silver thread line. No one can match my casts from shore distance wise. They even walk over to me to find out how I cast so far. I find the line diameter and flexibility matters. The 6#, 8# & 10# copolymer line seem to work the best for me with the spinning setups for distance. I never lost any fish using 8# test Excalibur silver thread. I find the Excalibur an40 a tad stiffer.

Senko in red flake or bps stock o in Amber red flake. Brushogs in black red flakes Carolina Rigged senko and brushogs.

For; topwater I like 12# test. Spinnerbaits the 1/8oz, 3/16oz to 1/4oz 8# test.(in lines) Spinnerbaits the 3/8oz to 1/2oz 10# test Plastics C-rig. 17# test. Jigs. 14# test. From shore.

Whats your hottest lure? What's the best presentation that makes it produce? Mine is Joe's Fly 1/4oz bass size in firetiger apache. A slow reel presentation just fast enough to keep the blade spinning constantly making it look like an easy meal. With a shot of YUM Shad. The rest of my ritual of lures I throw all produce bass but the Joe's fly with the Colorado blade is a tad hotter.

Mister Twister still offers the fire tail worms. Culprit still offers a colored tail worm too.

We mentioned this before but do we have any new members to the Orange bottom lure color club lately. Have you noticed that the Orange bottom catches more fish? Example, Bomber cranks, Redapplecraw has an orange bottom. Baby bass has an orange bottom. Dark green has an orange bottom. Rebel BIG CLAW crawfish in chartreuse has an orange bottom. The Orange bottoms seem to be more successful lures.

Yup found out last night I need a chair for now.

I'd say 5# easy maybe 5.5# congrats again. I always preach these big bass are near the shoreline and to be stealthy, quiet when fishing. Citrus shad rocks

They are either selling faster than they can make them or there joining the model FAT A's. I have the square bills but I prefer the shallow A's. Sorry I'm just jumpy when I see sold out baits. I'm still wounded from BPS discontinuing my topnocker.

Are you kidding me? Try the FAT A or Square A or model A in size 05 in redapplecraw. Then by the other colors too.

I think it's a great idea on the deeper running lures too besides the shallow lures when fishing around structure. Now we can be braver around structure. My son mentioned this once before that his sister company manufacturers these but I didn't give it much thought till now.

I have plenty of mice, moles, toads, snakes still the ones my seven cats miss. But there are plenty still. I use nothing on my lawn of weeds, it's green but that's it. I let it grow high too. I leave piles of brush for the rabbits too. I plant $75 worth of corn seed for the deer they get there (%) of it's the bear eats my fruit off the trees. Yes fertilizer makes the stuff grow in our lakes too.