NorCalFishinguru

Hmmmm, daiwa for bc, pflueger for spinning but thats definately open for change. If i had to pick just one reel company for the rest of my life itd probably be shimano

You really have to stick em fast and hard because they dont tend to hold on to it for vely long once they feel that heavy weight. Try applying some scnet to increase your odds, theyll hold onto it longer. I thought this video was pretty cool. Explains why you might have felt that repeated tap tap tap! that all of us jig fisherman live for, Its my go to bait for sure. Lets you cover all water columns and paint a picture of every weedbed, stup, piling and contour on the bottom. Ive even caught bass crawling a jig over matts as a topwater bait.

I love my xl7116c for punching. The certified pro blank explains the sensetivity. With braid its just ridiculous

I've got a good megastrike story. Ive bought some of the original heavy cover evolution jigs and they're amazing. I just pull the skirt up towardsthe weedguard so that it can rest on the skid plate a little easier, bulk up te profile, and that's the angle if the jig the bass is looking at anyways. For trailers hands down it's a rage craw, not a chunk, but full on craw. They have a more realistic profile and have a nice channel on the bottom that holds te scent reeeeally well, not to mention the crazy flapping arms! Anyways, the other day it was pretty tough and after breaking off a good one I retied, slathered on the megastrike, and slinged it back into a corner pocket where two weedlines met. I set the rod down for 20 seconds or so and put away some of the tackle I had taken out. When I picked up the slack I went to hip the jig back but it was hung up in the weeds. I gave it a quick snap but it was really stuck in there so I positioned myself right on top of it and muscled it out. To my surprise I was met by a fish on the end if the line. Apparently he had taken the jig, tasted that attractant, swam back into cover, and sat there with it until I reeled in the slack to find the line entangled in his cover laden home. I'm now a believer in the scent but especially the jig

Definately try it on a caolina rig

Along the lines of using topwater braid, one tip ive heard is to crazy glue the last 6 inches or so leading to your lure so that the line doesnt get fouled on the hooks. Havent tried it myself so i dont know how it affects the acrion.

Wow, yet another contender in the $100 rod market. I knew Gary was partnering with TFO but i thought that they just sold the blanks and were looking for rod builders or something complicated like that. Im shocked over the price point. Lets see how great they turn out to be!

I did best with a pearl white rage shad on a 5/0 Superline EWG Gamakatsu. Yes, that is a big hook and pushing it to the limit, but it recommends using the shad with up to a 5/0 hook. It lets you cast farther, and allows the nose to plane over the water, digging the tail a bit deeper in the water and stirring a commotion. You have to play around a bit with the initial part of the rigging where you run the point through the nose bend 90 degrees and come out about the eye. If water doesn't come gurgling and sputting past the front of the bait on the retrieve, i adjust until the action is right. Just like a buzbait, the slower the better. The toad is better for heavier cover and mats but doesn't produce quite as much of a commotion as the shad. Oh, and make absolutely sure you rig it tail up and tear the small bit of plastic connecting the tip of the tail to the body!

As far a hardbaits go, big swimbaits have sweeped the industry

A 3" finnese worm. I remeber how amazed i was when i learned that lures could spin and swim and werent meant just sit under a bobber ;D

On the website it calls them break weights. Is that what they really are or is it brake weights?

It'd help if huddleston made a 9" swimbait, lol But i get what your saying. I think the delta had potential but will go downhill pretty steep pretty soon

Ooo, sorry bout that. I was going to suggest the black dog baits weed slinger and 316 mission fish but thought that they were both jumbo sized. Bass pro Mike Andrews gave a seminar at BassJam09 on shad patterns in the slackwater pockets for winter bass on the delta and mentioned the weed slinger as his go-to lure. Bigger than 4" though

What about heavy cover?? I don't get the spinning for all soft plastics, but I use spinning for many of the light rigs. That said, I just don't see a wacky Senko as a good heavy cover bait. There are so many better options out there that fish better in heavy cover. If you must use a Senko, consider bubba shotting them on a weedless EWG using 40-65# braid. I know its a digression from the senko poll but I was wondering more the 7 inch power worms with a 1/2 oz weight and that type of deal on the meatier side of the soft plastics spectrum. I understand spinning and flouro to take a finnesse approach but I definately like tossing t-rigs on a baitcaster. JMO not necessarily right or wrong

Why even carry a net? In case one of those 13inchers starts running you around the boat? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

What about heavy cover??

Another vote for the trion. Im not huge on the rosewood knob but i still love the little thing. It's an absolute blast to pick up my UL 6' clarus ang go to work on those bas with 4 lb test! It definately teaches you proper fish fighting skills as well. Pretty soon youll tell them when they can stop taking drag, not to jump, which way to turn, and most importantly open wide for my thumb ;D

In the west-coast sense, an 8" ROF 12 Huddleston Deluxe in Rainbow Trout. In terms of productivity, a Luck E Strike 4.5" baby bass colored hollow belly swimbait. That baby kills em from postspawn through the summer when theres weeds around and bass turn cannabalistic gorging themselves

Yep, paddletails on a keel weighted hook should do the trick

Lets try this. Would you rather spend a day catching 20 explosive frogfish if you know they will only be to 5 pounds or toss a swimbait all day and know you will catch a couple of 6 pounders but nothing else?

Ive been eying them for awhile now but this is the icing on the cake. I'd also like to know how you rig them and if they have an action with a straight crank retrieve or if you need to twitch them

I downloaded McAfee free of comcast for being a member and it slows your computer waaaaaay down but a couple of times a little window has popped up saying something like "the following wishes to access your computer, Trojan Virus, allow or deny?" One was off of a carp fishing website when I clicked on the photo gallery and i was stunned. Carp fishermen......

You mean a core 50mg? if so that's an awesome setup!

If you didn't find your answer, speed has nothing to do with the power or "stiffness" of the rod. Speed only describes the rods taper. A fast action rod will bend at the tip, but have a solid backbone. A slow action rod will have more bend throughout the entire rod. It makes sense if you think about it. In an extra fast action rod, it may be thick from the butt till just before the tip where it quickly tapers off.

Maybe ill get shot but here goes. I reel baitcasters and spinning reels with my right hand. Always have, probably always will. Why is it traditional to retrieve a spinning reel with the left hand and baitcaster with the right? I always manually trip the bail on my spinning reel after a cast and my right thumb has gotten pretty good at finding its way into the bottom lip of those bass ;D Should i even bother to switch to lefty on my spinning reels?