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This is the reason I use braid w/ a FC leader. if you backlash braid, it wont leave a kink in the line where it would become a weak point. Give it a try you might like it. Combine this with adding electrical tape or masking tape over the spool and you have a fairly fool proof system. I do this and backlashes are thing of the past.

In my experience, the day the front moves in is hot up until the temp drops more than 2 degrees or the wind picks up a couple of MPH. In the last 2 months, I have fished before every major cold front. Every single one. And it has the same results every front. Up until the temp drops more than 2 degree or the MPH picks up, I catch good numbers. When those two things DO happen, they shut up. Tight. Like, NO more hits.

Certainly not. Just trying to get a feel. I don't like the thought of shopping everywhere for a couple of lures, but it appears that I will have to.

faceplam I didn't even think about this...but HIRE A GUIDE!

10lb mono.

Take this from someone that went down this road. Do. Not. Cheap. Out. On. Baitcasters. I have cheap rods. I have St. Croix All Stars. I have Custom rods I built. They increase in personal value. I have cheap reels. I have good reels. I HATE HATE HATE using my cheaper combos. They don't reel right. They don't cast right. They don't fight right. So....custom rods won't be in youd budget(I could buid you one for around 200), although they are FAR superior. But a good baitcaster combo that can do alot of things IS in your budget. St. Croix All-Star in 6'6'' to 7' Med/HVY fast tip Shimano Citica 200E (ASsume that you can and will go to Dicks website or some similar site and save 20% in coupons. You are just lazy if you don't) Suffix Elite 10lb Couple of Terminator T-1s in white and chartruese Lucky Craft Sammy Lucky Craft RC 2.5 sext shad " " DD in same Done.

Snag Proof in tweety and shamoooooooooo Make sure you superglue the plastic around the tie and under the hooks. I would say, during the summer, I frog fish over 50% of the day. I catch a majority of my fish on frogs. I have about a 75% hookup rate with snag proof and about a 15-25% with Spro. However, the snag proofs only last for about 5 fish. Spros last almost idefinitely. So stock up.

Terminator SS Clear water spinnerbait Yum Dinger in watermellon Lucky Craft Sammy 100 Aurora black Snagproof bass kicker, black Spro Lil John clear chartreuse

I did a quick search with no results. As with all things, I started cheap and eventually worked my way up the food chain. I don't want to continue to make this mistake, so fill me in. After a full year of fishing, I am running critically low on white/clear/spinnerbaits and I am looking to resupply for spring. What BRAND spinner bait do you use? I can honestly say that I have fished the cheaper of the spinnerbaits, and have found that I catch more fish on, say, Terminator vs Stanley. I also have some War Eagles, but havn't had much luck. I didn't catch a thing on the cheap store boughts. If you were to purchass a 1/2, white, spinnerbait and you planned on also buying multiple blades, what would you get? This is a multiple use spinnerbait no the TN river system.

There are some lures out there that I would say are absolutely "must haves", at least for Guntersville. 1) Lucky Craft Sammy 100 in Aurora Black+ghost 2) Mulitple backs of magnum lizards in green pumpkin, junebug, motor oil 3) Terminator spinnerbait in 3/8ths or 1/2, white or clear with silver heads+boogey trailer 4) Snag proof frog in 1/2 once...really any color seems to work, but I stay with black, tweety, and shamoo 5)Rapala DT-series, complete line up of silver and bleeding olive shad I could tell you some specialty lures, but they are hit and miss.

Whew! Makes my accomplishments yesterday pretty pale. Threw a Spro Lil John in spring craw and a Lucky Craft pointer in Clown. 5 fish in 3 hours. All measured. They were skinny tho....kinda odd, but I hadn't seen any dead shad.

Awesome. Even my wife looked up from Facebook and said: "That guy is trying a little hard. It's getting on my nerves"

I hate to hear that. Guess I was miles off.

HA! I bet that drum was the one I caught! I'm famous! No. No other bites though... :-[

Tips for this time of year? In Conn? Pfffttt.... Wish I had something to tell you. Even here in Al, I have been getting OWNED in the last month. I started out December HAWT. Starting around the 15th, it was downhill. Literally, no bites from bass in the last two trips.

The chemicals on your hand are transfered anytime you touch your baits. He is prob trying to keep that from happening. With as clear as the water was in that episode(I assume you mean the Lake Ontario episode), then the bass need little more help than sight alone. That being said, I completely agree with you. You think he was pushing power pole just a little? HAHA! I have never seen anyone so excited, fish after fish. Although I have to admit, it was strangley odd how many fish were swarming around their boat.......just sayin'

Ha! Soo many tips. Turns out, nothing was working. Did catch a 10 pound drum though

I own a lake very similar. 8 acres, little contour changes or structure. You could catch fish all over the lake, but you had to cover alot of ground. Well, starting last year, I starting sinking things. Old trees, toilets, rock piles. The toilet in particular....its about 10 feet deep and right on a point. Anytime I fish, I walk to the dock before I even get on the boat, make 5 casts, catch 3 fish...right offthe top of the porcelain.

Alright fellas, Hitting the Big G tommorrow. This is the first year I have fished in the winter and only the 2nd year fishing Guntersville. So here is the deal. We have been in sub zero temps for a week straight until around Tuesday. However, the last two days have been beautiful, in the high 40s/low 50s. Tommorrow we are going to see a high of 57. Planning on hitting Goosepond/Waterfront about 9am and fishing all day. Where should I be looking for and what should I be throwing? Here is what I have tied on. I know its alot. I keep alot of rods. Helps when you build your own...hahaha. I was planning on starting at the main channel where it transitions to the flats, or transitions into backwater creeks, look for drainage ditches, etc. I was going to throw a clown colored pointer 78, RC 2.5DD in Sexy shad/chartrouse. On my jog rod I have a 3/8ths black and blue booyah. I have an XR75 in Rayburn red tied on as well. I will have a shakey head on one plastics rod and a Reaction innovations black with red flake craw. Later in the day, I was going to move closer to the back of the creeks, hoping the water has warmed and the fish are pulled closer. Am I even close? Should I stick with one of these and forget switching?

Good GOD! What a fish!

My wife's uncle has been fishing Lake Tuscaloosa for 25 years. A few months ago, I joined him on a weekly tourney. We ended up 2nd out of 30 boats, although he is a normally a top 3 anyway, I did catch the 2nd and 3rd biggest fish of the tourney, only beaten by a 7.5 largmouth that came right off the launch with 15 minutes left. Here is how we did it: I showed up with my Guntersville technique and baits....bigger the better. He quickly had me down 4 fish to 1, but I wasn't ready to swap to his technique. By mid day, he had me down 10-5, but I had the biggest of our fish from throwing a spinnerbait. However, we needed to cull up the small spot bass, so I swapped to his method. 3/8ts watermellan or blue and black booyah bitsy jigs with critter craw in appropriate colors. He fishes with a light spinner rod combo and 5-8lb test. Go find the bluffs. You need it to go from 0 to 30 feet in about 5 yards. You sit off the bluff about 10 yards. Cast against the bluff and deadstick it as if falls. Ease the tip up and let it fall. When you feel it hit the bottom again, deadstick it another 5-10 seconds. Ease the tip up. Shake. Repeat. That being said, I added a little Guntersville to the equation. Where as he went with a light spinner gear and 5lb test(water is ultra clear), I used me jig rod and bait cast combo. This is a 6'6'' Med/Hvy, fast with 50lb braid. Add to that an 18'' leader of something ultra clear. His rig certainly produced, and has for years. But I have fished with him twice and he also losses ALOT of fish(and lures) due to broken lines, and probably from a lack of feel. Once I swapped to his method, I started NAILING them. The braid lets you feel absolutely EVERYTHING.

I'm going to tell you another route, although the mentioned methods are deff worth doing. I have little patients, so using jerkbaits and deadsticking just don't do it for me. First thing I do is find bait balls, sometimes just getting lucky with sonar, other times from schoolers busting shad. Sometimes they swarm them under the surface and you find them by finding hte dead or dying minows on the top. Then, I use the ole white spinnerbait. Once I catch 2 in a spot, than I KNOW the fish are there and I am more willing to slow down. then I go after the other fish with these proven methods. Remember, you have to find the fish to catch the fish. There are days that I get 3 fish in 5 minutes, and not another bite all day. I call them "glory fish". There are other days that I catch 3, then the spinner quits prodicing and I catch 10 more on other baits like jerkbates and senkos.

Guntersville, Al /thread

How do you find like to find out which of these the weeds are? Also, Catt, once again, you provide me with some of the best information I have ever read on fishing. Throw a spinner bait. If you can rip it or not will answer your question.

I plan on getting away from being 80% top water and 20% hopes and dreams.