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The ability to fish them year round in any cover & at any depth.

100% pure anise oil can only be obtained from a pharmacy. And anise essential oils is not the same thing. Baitmate comes from Wally World, clear is hard to find, so when I do I'll buy 2-3. The Classic will work 👌

My wife loves Liquorice, I smile everytime she opens it, & she wonders why.

Baitmate (clear) with a ½ oz of 100% pure anise oil added.

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I use braid for punching & frogging, everything else gets Berkley Big Game. The only time I use a leader is when saltwater fishing & it's usually stainless steel.

Boat positioning is determined in the moment. With so many variables attached to this subject I would have to spend hours writing trying to cover all of them. Only one I know that holds true; Multiple angles at the same target.

Me sing ROTFLMAO! There's a reason I run the sound booth I listen to this right before I get to the launch.

Multiple angles at the same target

Creek channels, road beds, drains, end of points. Texas Rig, Jig-n-Craw, & Deep Diving Crankbaits

@MN Fisher I've always sat more than I stand. I also forgot, get the tallest one piece pedestal you can find. Most are 11-13", mine is 14-16", it goes everywhere I go, even if in someone else boat.

Those things are useless 😕 More out of position than your foot control. I've always sat more than I stand. Absolutely can't stand the little "butt" seats. I've learn how how to flip-n-pitch seating. I'm old school, I still prefer a hand control.

Regardless of line used feeling a worm/jig bite requires keeping a certain amount of tension on your line while at the same time keeping a certain amount of slackness in your line. With straight braid this becomes more pronounced. Heavier weights helps with this problem providing the bass doesn't mind.

I will run straight braid when I absolutely have to move bass quickly out of heavy cover. I only do this in water 15' or less. In shallow water there's no issues losing sensitivity. I use 50# Sufix 832, that way I buy 1 spool for all my braid required techniques.

@riverat Teal in the oven - filets in the grease.

Knowing the success of these plastics I'm dying to try 6th Sense's 10" Ridge Worm at night on the Big Pond.

Every Walmart down here carries them. There's a 1.5 oz Super Trap!

Blast-N-Cast 😉 Duck/Goose hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon!

No pun intended...ya be hooked on jigs! Nice 😉

Lew's Tournament Lite $250 Powell Inferno $100

The cost of a decent reel is one & done. You could buy a decent rod this morning & break it this afternoon. Ain't happening with a decent reel.

For many years in our marshes we threw a gold Johnson Spoon with a Uncle Josh pork chunk trailer. Johnson Spoons are notorious for missing fish. We used spoons as a search bait, that blowup just revealed the bass's location. What is the purpose of a "search bait"? To locate the bass so you can slowdown & work the area over. Frog: search bait.

I would buy a quality reel first. A quality reel could last a lifetime leaving your entire budget for rods.