hawgwalker

Are they spawning yet?

If the fish are bedded cut the tails OFF or mostly off.

They are both fun stops if you are in the neighborhood. There are some great small companies that do mail order. I have the number for Northern Bass Supply in my cell phone and have called from the water and have ordered from the water and had a live well pump sitting on my doorstep the next morning. Susquehanna Tackle is another good one and in the west Bass Tackle Depot and Tackle Warehouse are both good and carry a lot of stuff that the giants do not. For reels I have found that Bait and Hook has the best price lately. Its pretty awesome really for the Angler today. You can get anything on line and those little brown trucks come almost every day. Long gone are the days when we had to rely on Bass Pro and Cabela's alone

3/8 oz arkie style jig with 5" yamamoto twin tail grub Black blue fleck or green pumpkin

#10 and #12 Husky Jerkbaits Tennessee shad, gold and glass minnow are awesome smallie baits ice out through June

Nice!

I prefer a slender pointer 112

The dbarb tool works

You must be in a different time zone from me

It was sexier back when it was plain ol chartreuse shad and everyone and his brother wasn't throwing it

1/4 and 3/8 jigs skip fine for me

A Lake fork Flutter spoon complements c-rigging and deep cranking

112 slender pointer

The horse is out of the barn, catch and release unless you plan to eat it. It wasn't that many years ago in Maine that bass were being thrown in the bushes.