Biggsmallmouth

Since you cant find old articles of the bass times magazine on bassmaster.com anymore, I was wondering if anyone remembers an article I think it was from last year, talking about flipping and pitching worms and the need of a specialty worm to do this. I thought I saved this issue but I cant find the article anywhere. If anyone remembers that article can you please let me know. Thanks a lot!!! John

Dont think that you can go wrong with any of those. If its going to be rainy it will probably be overcast so topwater is always a good start, I am not much of a crankbait guy but thats a good search bait presentation. if you find fish with the crankbait, you can always then follow up with the t-rig and wacky rig. The rain doesn't usually affect my fishing unless it rains so hard that the water becomes very stained or just plain muddy. Good Luck!!! John

When I walked down the isle in BPS yesterday and saw senkos for 8.29 a bag and senko wanna be's Yum Dingers at 5.79 a bag, I would say we definitely have bass bait inflation going on. I laughed as I picked up another bag of Pit Boss baits for 2.99. I found with a little imagination I am not going to spend 8.29 for the one fish bait wonders. I have caught so many bass on the Pit Boss this year fishing it weightless above the grass, and also on a 1/8 oz weighted hook I will never buy a senko again. You can take a devils spear and rig it either direction and use it as a trailer on a swim jig. The Craw Fatty fishes a lot like a double wide beaver and again for half the price. Last but not least my son fishes the grass pig on a Carolina rig with great success. I believe its not so much the bait but all about the right presentation at the right time and in this case for the right price!!!!! John

The sweet beaver for me, I think it glides better than most, and its my favorite jig trailer as well!! Real good luck with the smallie beaver on an 1/8 oz bitsy bug when the bite gets tough!! JM

Carrington is right, they are not on TW site yet! :-[

Bobby, So can you answer the question when will the soft plastics be available to the public???

Great Worms, I use these on dropshot rigs. Works great!!! You can also wacky rig them with success!!!

Really like the SK coffee tubes. Stick a strike king 1/16 oz or 1/8 oz shakey head inside for an open hook presentation or Texas rig with a 2/0 or 3/0 EWG for a weedless presentation. Had real good luck with green pumpkin John

Best tubes for me in the river are Berkley 3" power tubes. Lake fishing I prefer the coffee tubes. Green Pumpkin and pumpkin seed for river smallies, for some reason they like the smaller tubes

I use them weightless throw them around weedlines but I have had good luck using superline hooks, gives you a little extra weight and if you want to swim it slowly you will get the keel effect. Best luck with any color as long as it it black

ragetail.com great info on how to fish all their products. Space monkey is very versatile bait. You can swim it, fish it weightless like a buzzbait you can texas rig with weight pegged and flip it. Anaconda can also be fished weightless on a 3/0 or 4/0 hook or you can swim it on a weighted swim bait hook. Hope this helps.

The swim senkos also work very well rigged on the yamamoto swim jighead that came out last year. I like it better than pegging the weight.

Thought I read somewhere that you have a pretty quick retrive to have decent action any truth to that????

When fishing with tubes I only use the berkely power tube, fish catcher and is soft

What would be the advantage???