Bass_Fanatic

Big mommas seafood right beside big daddy's gas station is a great place to eat

I bought 2 GSX reels last year, had problems with both. One is actually on its way back right now.

I have always thrown the rage toad on a Stanley double take hook. Same basic concept. It works great!

October is a great month to fish fork. James caldemeyer or Mark pack would be my top 2 choices as far as guides go. Dave parsons is pretty good too, I've fished with him once before.

Try it on a biffle head! It works!!

I use braid for frogs and 20lb sunline mono for treble baits.

Double header is a great color anytime!

Yep, I've got two endurance 714c's and they are fantastic jig rods for those weights!

Well I wasn't really looking to buy this rod, but I found a gloomis mossy back bcr874 for $70 today so I bought it. Gonna give it a go with the fb jigs to see how well it handles them. If I don't like it I figured I could sell it and but the Lamiglas, Megabass, or Dobyns.

Has anyone thrown a 3/4 oz fb jig on a megabass orchid XX mh extreme mission rod? I'm gonna check out that laming las too!

Ok I have been throwing a 3/4 oz fb jig ALOT the past couple years and have tried it on a lot of my current rods. The best I've found is my Powell Endurance 714c. I like the way it handles the jig, but feel its a bit to lite and short. I'm looking for the perfect fb jig rod, what do y'all think? So far I've thrown it on a phenix recon 764, Powell endurance 723, 775, and 714, st croix avid 7'mh, and a falcon cara 7'h. Here are a few rods I'm leaning towards. 1. Powell endurance 764 2. Dobyns champion 734 or 735 3. Diawa tatula 7'4" h frog rod

1. You will for sure need different line. I use 65lb braid, but have used 25lb floro and it works too. I would not throw the arig on anything less than 20lb. 2. I use the Irod Genesis II Arig rod. It's awesome! The rods you have listed seem to be underpowered a bit. 3. This is not the ideal time of year to throw the arig. It's more of a October through April kinda bait. It will catch fish this time of year, but isn't the best option, IMO.

I have caught good fish out of schoolers, but more times than not, they are on the small side. I do agree though that schoolers atleast show that bait and fish are present and many times you can fish the structure under the schoolers and catch better fish.

I like to find small cuts and points on the ridges and focus on them. The ridge that runs parallel to the boat lane always has fish on it, you just have to locate them. If you look at your map, you will see many cuts, points, and drains. Fish these high percentage areas rather than fishing just the ridge.

10.2 on a bama rig 10.18 on a 4.5" rattlesnake 10.10 on a zoom trick worm

I should be there Friday. I'll holler at you if I see you. Good luck guys!

I throw big worms on the Powell 714 all the time. Works great!

I just got some custom fb jigs made in 3/4oz with a 8" skirt. It is HUGE!!! Im thinking it will be something different the fish havent seen and draw a couple big bites.

Well it was a tough day today for sure! We had 5 boats show up for our fruit jar. I got to meet TxGator and Henrylewis. Nice meeting both of you. Hopefully next time we do something like this the fish will cooperate a bit better. I started north of the bridge and caught a 7.62lber and a 5lber early then struggled the rest of the day. Caught 3 other dinks to go with them for a little over 18lbs. I did win big bass, but some other boys won 1st with a little over 19lbs. Both of my big fish were in 20-25ft of water. Go deep or go home!

Alabama rigs. At $30 a pop fully rigged, I've probably left $1000 in Toledo bend alone! After that would be rage tail products and lucky craft pointers/cranks.

My buddy went to Cypress Bend this morning, said the gates didnt open until 6, whereas they were open at 5 last week. So we will be moving the launch to Pendleton Harbor Marine. If you are coming from Toledo Tackle, you will cross the Pendleton Bridge and it is immediately on your right. I will be there at 5. You are welcome to come and pay and trailer to another launch if you want. Sorry for the confusion.

Payout for Saturday will be 1 place for every 7 boats: Payout will be as follows: 1-6 boats = winner take all 7-13 boats = 70/30 split 14-20 boats = 60/25/15 split Big Bass = winner take all I know ealier in the thread I had something alittle different, but after talking to a few guys we settle on this. Hope to see yall there!!

From what Ive been seeing, the schools of fish are scattered and not real big. Seems there are only 4 or 5 fish per school. Of course I havent been on the south end lately, so Housen/Six Mile may be a little different.

I love the A-Rig, but honestly, at least around here, they just do not produce often this time of year. I have better luck throwing a Pointer or something in schools of bait this time of year. With that being said, you cant beat the A-Rig November-early May

Just a reminder, this Saturday I am putting on a little tournament out of cypress bend. $60 a team plus $10 big bass. I'll be there registering people at 5. Hope to see some of y'all there!