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strike king banshee series painted blade double willow with stock trailer hook are decent. Terminator for durability when your messing with smallies and pike. Ill throw bargain bin spinnerbaits after I tinker with the blades and skirt/trailer.

I reckon the Quabbin has many mysteries of the deep. Thats one of them!

sight fished

It can be hard to cover water efficiently when bank fishing. Maybe put on some water shoes or waders and try to cover as much water as possible with a search lure.

I like the savage sand eels. basically a swimbait on a realistic head.

Yeah u never know in the river. What kind of rattlebait?

Don't fish a laydown with decaying leaves.

nice catch

You could try a small suspending jerkbait bass fishing style.

I couldn't find any lures in the store with stock indianas. They were all either tandem or double willow or night fishing style colorado.

Picked up a couple strike king banshee series with the painted willowleafs and a silver terminator. all 1/2 oz. Its gona be a spinnerbait year I can already tell

I want to know what you throw nowadays, brand and model. Im a good spinnerbaiter, but most of my lures are old or bargain bin. I really got bit good the other day on an old mann's with a perch color skirt and single silver willow. Whipping wind in shallow water. There is a new Dick's at the mall so Im thinking of re-upping my spinnerbait collection for this season.

I remember in 2012 I grinded it out early spring but didn't get a carp until March 30th. I have been bass fishing lately not carping. But I think when the buds are on the brush and trees the carp will start their feeding.

Is this a good idea? Looking at the Cabela's pro guide 9'. Would mainly be casting big rattlebaits in the striper surf. Definitely need to upgrade from my 7' bass rod I was using. I would put a low profile on it. thanks for comments.

Could you catch these things on a baited hook? I have always wondered this as I watch them in my fish tank. Maybe a couple pees on a small baitholder hook?

You folks gotta throw some thicker line/leaders in toothy fish water! thats my philosophy.

They like to react to spinning lures like spinnerbaits and inlines.

Thats not a pickerel or a pike. Its got to be a musky.

So whats the lure this year? a green/orange jig?

Hoping to start the 2016 season tomorrow, the river will be very high but hopefully the chumming technique will bring some fish into my line. Im gona start off using slightly different terminal: a 1 oz bank sinker on a slider between two beads. With the spinning tackle I started using at the end of last year, a 3 oz egg sinker is kind of cumbersome. The bank sinker should resist rolling in the current also. It would be great to start the season with a success rather than a skunk.

color coded leadcore will work. I used to like little crankbaits and flatfish.

What sort of water did you pull that thing outta? a river?

I like a good bait-runner reel, set in a rod holder. Will you be fishing a river?

Dead cut fish, like native sunfish will work. Not sure about the legalities of it though. Be careful because you might attract a hawg snapper turtle.

keep going with school!