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It's the same as Alley's Tungsten. Aside from the layout, it's the same contact info... dwayne.davenport@comcast.net. I just made my first order from Alley's yesterday for some bullets and d-shot weights.

I've always had good luck with black topwater lures, including frogs and toads. For these types of topwater slop lures, I think you can get away with just owning black, white, and some type of natural frog color.

Maybe you just need some fresh line. What type and what size line are you using? Are you getting tangles, knots, and birdsnests? This is usually due to spun-up line.

They're really setting the bar high with a name like Premium Plus High Grade. I'm thinking about trying a spool or two of premium fluorocarbon this season. I have this one in mind, also Seaguar Tatsu. Does anybody have experience with both of these lines, particularly on spinning tackle?

What's your price range? Have you broken a flipping stick before while fishing?

When it's windy, I like to use a 3/4 oz spinnerbait.

Either a jig with an action trailer or a Texas rigged tube. Also, the Rage Tail Anaconda really started to grow on me as a flipping bait last year.

My favorite in cold water is a 3.5" wateremelon, smoke/red flake, or green pumpkin finesse tube rigged on a 1/16-1/4 oz light-wire jighead.

Bass Pro has them on sale for $4.47 right now, and all the KVD 1.5 colors are in stock, including Black Back Chartreuse. If anybody plans to buy some of them, do this site a favor and enter the store using the link below so Bass Resource will get a piece. http://www.bassresource.com/bassfish/bass_pro_shops.html

There's at least one situation, dock skipping. If you're looking for the very best dock skipping bait, there's nothing more effective or easier to skip than a wacky rigged 5" GYCB Senko hooked with a 2/0 finesse hook and an O-Ring. 95% of my Senko fishing is with this rig and I fish with it at least a little bit on almost every trip. To me, skipping this rig under docks is one of funnest ways to fish. It's so ridiculously easy that it's almost addictive.

For wacky rigged Senkos, I prefer medium power spinning equipment and light cover. Around heavier cover, I'll use a 734c for 5" Texas rigged Senkos and a 735c for Senkos that are 6"+.

One of the main advantages of using higher quality rods is that they are more crisp, and that allows for longer and more accurate casts. Better casts will always result in more and bigger fish.

I have never fished with a Savvy series rod. I do own a handful of Champions and I'm very happy with them. From handling the Savvy rods in stores, they don't feel quite as crisp as the Champions and are a little heavier. From dragging the rod tips on the store's carpet to get an idea of the rod's sensitivity, the Savvy definitely feels less sensitive than the Champion. I'd say the Savvy are on par with the St. Croix Avid, sensitivity-wise. I use a Champion 735c for pitching and do some light flipping with it, too.

X2. I use tiny reels like that for panfishing mostly. They match up well with 4# P-Line CXX and a 6-7' UL or L power rod. I wouldn't go any heavier than that with the line.

LOL. Looked like a clean hit, too.

I would prefer a 2500 sized reel on a ML 7' rod. BTW, is your name in reference to the comedian and creator of Seinfeld, Larry David? Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 8 starts on July 10th. My favorite show ever!!

Slender 3" grubs on an 1/8 oz jighead, like the Berkley Powerbait Walleye grub.

3' deep is plenty deep for dock fishing. Have you tried skipping? A wacky rigged 5" Senko is a great skipping bait that will always catch bass around docks.

There are a lot of ways to fish lily pads. You can fish the edges with moving baits like spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, chatterbaits, cranks, etc. You can fish the holes in the pads by pitching or flipping jigs and soft plastics. Or you can fish topwater lures right through them, with frogs, toads, and floating worms.

I have the Champion 735c and Champion 766c. I use them both for frogs and flipping/pitching. I much prefer the softer tip on the 735c for frogging.

I've tried putting Megastrike on a few cranks, and it made them run funny, like they were out of tune.

In really dirty water or at night, I've had my best luck with the Gambler 8" Flapp'n Tail worm. It displaces a lot of water and has more thump than any other worm I've used, including the 10" Anaconda, which is also a great worm. You can easily feel the vibration of both of these worms through the rod, especially with heavier weights and a faster fall rate.

Congrats! One of you guys should change your name to The Ban Hammer.

There's no need for that. You could just change the password to something reasonable. Click on your profile, under My Settings the option to Change Password is on the top left side of the screen.

I started fishing smallies because the Mississippi River flows through my home town, and I lived within biking distance of a nice stretch that is full of smallies, walleye, pike, crappie, channel cats, and carp. I started wading around the Beaver Islands at age 12, using crawler harnesses and looking to hook whatever wanted to bite. The rest is history.