Chris

The water temp and the moon phase. In my area the fish in warm water lakes should be starting on beds now. In other lakes not warm water discharge your looking at Apr /May.

I like to fish beaver huts.

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In small bodies of water where you don't have high populations of bass or an off balance of predator prey catching and keeping bedfish can have an impact. For waters that have strong populations there isn't much of a noticeable impact. What has more of an impact of bass populations is the loss of good spawning areas, low population of prey, overfishing, poor water conditions, and loss of good cover/structure.

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Go with the medium rod because like RR said it is a good all around rod.

I have sat down and explained how to flip on this forum many times. I can demonstrate how to flip and it is accurate to how I explain it. When you watch me bass fish you will never see me flip ever. It is a wasted technique in my opinion. I can pitch or roll cast faster and more accurate then if I was to flip it. I get more distance and I don't limit myself that is why I don't use it anymore.

Yes you can but you might have some water soaked up in the salt.

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Well, if you ever run out of TP your covered. We call that John Wayne paper...Rough, tough, and don't take crap off of anybody

Is that a warm water discharge kind of park? I live about midway on the boarder of Indiana tomorrow there is a high of 20 degrees low of 12. You might be fishing in about 30 maybe 40 degree water. Most of the week the temps have been around 30 degrees. If you are fishing north west Indiana I don't think you have warmer temperatures than me. :-? If the water is cold, up and dirty your going to be jumping through hoops to get them to bite that is some tough conditions.

I think I have had these rattling weights for over 10 years

Another invention I have is for bullet weights to actually have encased in the lead, rattles. I have a whole box full of worm weights that rattle. A bunch of the old Florida Gambler rattling worm weights.

I use the stuff on jig trailers, trick worms, other soft plastics, crankbaits, spinnerbait blades, I like the stuff and use it a lot.

Fish it in muddy water avid.

Does it come with a duck call? There is one on the net that has feathers on it that I have seen. If I was throwing it I would need to have a duck call to attract up the bass

I also think the Cotton Cordell Red Fin is without rattles also.

I have not thrown a Rebel in awhile I seem to think that they don't have rattles in them. They have one 3/8 oz and 1 oz also a jointed one 1/2 oz.

Rebel had a weedless crankbait much like that one that I have used. Also there was another bait that had an cut plug head with a swim bait tail that I have used. I have also carved one before. One of the "tricks" is to take and put a worm hook on the end of a crankbait and hook a worm to the end of it. The problem is that most of the time you get weeds on the bill of the bait. Back then the cut plug weedless lure was talked about a lot in Bassmaster I think there was a tournament won with it by OT Fears or something like that. I think OT was flipping it or something. Both lures never took off.

This is my all time favorite bait when it comes to topwater walking lures. I have caught some big bass on this bait. 1) A slow pace walk with long pauses between each jerk. 2) A fast pace walk then drag the bait with the rod. When you do this the bait will lay on its side and skip as it skims across the surface. It works great on schoolers smashing bait. 3) Jerk...jerk..jerk.jerk <-the only way I know how to explain it. The bait will change directions before it completes the full glide to one side. 4) Bob the bait if you put a larger hook on the tail of the bait the head sits up. You take your rod and make the nose of the bait smack the water. 5) Change the hooks so that you have a larger heavier wire hook on the front. You got to use fluorocarbon for this when you reel the bait it will swim inches under the water and have a frantic wild swimming action. 6) Sand the bait and change out the front hook to a light wire triple grip hook the bait will glide easier from side to side because it will sit higher on the surface. Hope that helps

Yes I have :

When they first came out I used the powder blue shad colored one a bunch and caught fish on them. I was fishing tannic water and I guess it showed up good in the water. The bait was never a consistent producer for me but it does work. I have caught one 10 lb trophy bass on it so I can't complain about it to much but when I unhooked it the paint was half gone off the lure. That was the older bait not to say that the new lures have the same problem. One of the guys I fish with use the orange crawfish colored bait and it produces for him.

Yum fish formula tends to stain your lures. They use what they call shad enzymes. Enzymes are found in the digestive track and help break down and digest food. So that would lead me to believe that shad enzymes is nothing more than shad gut. If they are taking a whole shad and drying it then grinding it up then they are just marketing one element. If powerbait just has a curiosity scent it would play the same role as LPT scent and serve the same function. The package I am looking at that is made by Yum says 3x as potent + salt (with added salt). Berkley products say proven scent and flavor twice the power plus Bio-salt (sea salt). I guess both feel that salt is important.