BlakeMolone

Good story and it looks like a good color, I might have to get around to trying it.

Green pumpkin just works and it works in a lot of situations for me. Unless we are talking about swimbaits if I decide to try a new style or new bait I always buy a bag of green pumpkin just because I know it works and once I start learning the technique I will try different colors in different situations.

If you have any zoom z craws or z craw jrs I would buy a bunch of them for $1 a bag plus shipping! Can’t wait to see you what all you put up

That’s the hardest time of the year for me but a keitech easy shiner in 3,3.5, and 4 inch sizes on a jig head have caught me some nice fish of all species. Looking forward to really trying jerkbaits this year too!

Belly float tube I got for like 25 in marketplace, it’s been a great tool!! Those pontoons look great and I am strongly considering getting one by next spring

My strategy is find a good stretch of bank on google earth and then walk that stretch with a spinnerbait, squarebill, buzzbait, or other reaction bait and once I’ve walked as far as I want to I will but on a Texas rig or jig and slow fish my way back. I will then drive to the next area and do it all over again. If I think an area is truly a great area I will fish several different baits and go finesse with a ned rig and a popper in the high percentage areas A float tube has proven to be a great way for me to fish high percentage areas and really just slow down and work everything and quietly get to pieces of cover others can’t.

What are your favorite lipless cranks?

I absolutely love electric Shad for paddletails

What are your favorite currently produced jerkbaits?

Poppers have been working for me when bass are busting on bait, it just mixes in with the commotion so we’ll and the bass just simply eat it.

I used to never use anything heavier than 1/8th but this year I really got back into bass fishing and I’ve found 5/16th tungestem bullet weights to be a wonderful all around weight except for super finesse presentations

Poppers in the evening work great especially in ponds and they are cheap and easy to use

All of our rods might be “breaking in” and we wouldn’t even notice it because it happens so slowly over time. I’m not saying that they are but if they are we might just not even notice it unless we compare it to a brand new rod

I’ve thrown the 5.8 size a few times. I’m not expert but it seems like a great size for going after bigger fish but also still catching decent numbers of fish. The 6.8 and 7.8 are pretty huge.

I love the 6th sense plastics I have tried, they feel different than other plastics and our fairly durable. I’m sure the Divine Shakey worms work great but honestly there is pretty much no such thing as a plastic worm that doesn’t catch bass.

3 or 4 inch white grubs on a ball head jig would be a good start and will catch just about anything in that lake but like others have said I would go to a different lake. Ft Gibson, tenkiller, bixhoma, or skiatook

Thanks! I can’t find much info on this bait online. Is it still made? Do you know if they work pretty well?

Picked up these two as well as some other baits at a garage sell and I have no idea what they are. They look like great finesse squarebills though!

I was reading an old post about the “Texas rugged jigged” and I was wondering if anyone knows where to purchase really cheap lead bullet weights that have a collar to attach a skirt on? The only non tungsten ones I found on a quick google search were the bps brand. It looks like a great technique and if I tie the skirts myself and find some really cheap lead weights these things would cost almost nothing. Thanks!

5/16 or 7/16 sniper jig for brush! It’s basically a finesse flipping jig and is great for bass of all sizes!

Do you store your keitechs outside of the original packaging? If so do you have problems with bent tails?

THIS, add some keitech style swimbaits and a few heavier weights and I would be content spring-fall

Sort of unconventional but I juts use these, you can paint them if you won’t or put in a weed guard but I don’t do either of those things. They are super cheap as well https://fishingskirts.com/product/boss-swim-jig-unpainted-10-pack-982-982-1574/

Keitech style swimbaits, smaller ones on the spinning road with a ball head jig or even Ned head for the tiny ones, bigger ones on the bait caster. If the water is dirty swim jigs with a swim bait trailer or soinnerbaits. Soft swimbaits are just so good and catching fish and so easy to use

I’ve only fished them in the pool but any squarebill that runs decent and has half way decent hooks and split rings is worth 3 bucks! I bought ten of them to help fill up my squarebill box. Guess I need to actually throw them one of these days, I’m totally confident they will catch fish as good as any other square bill!