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I used to be a member of the Gammy posse, until I tried Owner hooks. They are all I use now, the point is so much stronger and sharper. And if you need some concrete proof take a standard 1/0 gamakatsu offset worm hook and an Owner 1/0 offset worm hook, grab the shank of the gammy and pull on it, you will see how easy it is to bend these things out of shape. Now take the owner and do the same, the thing won't budge, I don't know about yall but I want a hook that can take a solid hookset.

Great video and some nice fish!!!

yo dub, which pond was it.

Will do man, we'll have a set price in a couple days, we just gotta clean the boat up a little bit and get it nice and shiny.

Man I love the feeling of slamming the hook into a monster, nice job!

Great job man, I was one keeper away from qualifying for it this year but oh well. Good luck and don't get beat to bad by VA's rep Stuart Smith

couple of beauties right there!!!

Wow, if it's that good in the middle of the day I can't imagine how good the topwater bite is in the evening/morning

garbage...along with almost every other brand of Berkley line...

Oh yeah, snook, redfish, and even speckled trout will tear a senko up. I've even used senkos in the Chesapeak Bay and caught stripers and a couple blues on a t-rigged senko twitched quickly through schools of bait.

I have a '94 Tracker Pro Team 175 and have hauled it 7 hours non-stop with no problems. All I have needed to do is lube the hubs before every trip and make a stop every couple of hours to check for excess heat or anything else that could go wrong.

weightless rigged on a 2/0 offset Owner worm hook, that's all I use in the small lakes and ponds around here.

Well me and my dad have been looking for a bigger/faster boat ever since we started fishing tournaments, we currently own a '94 Tracker Pro Team 175 with a Merc 40hp, and we hit the jackpot yesterday. Our soon-to-be new boat is a 2001 Xpress X18 dual console powered by a Merc 150 EFI with a stainless steel prop and a custom jackplate. The boat is white with light blue/gray carpet and is in beautiful condition. The guy selling it told us that after he bought it he the jack plate and the prop setup for speed, I'm not sure how fast it will go but I'm sure it'll go at least 60+mph. We don't have the boat yet as the price is $8000, so my dad left the guy a deposit and we will be able to pick it up next week after we get back from vacation. This means that the Tracker will be going up for sale (hint hint)

I thought they went out of business :-?

I fish for em in the rivers around here, mainly the upper Pamunkey and the Rivanna. They don't get very big around here with the normal size bing 10-12" and a dandy would be a 15" or a 1.5-2lber. I target them around big rock piles in deep pools and shallow gravel flats with laydowns and deep water nearby, my most productive techniques are 3-inch tubes on a 3/16oz jighead, LC Pointer 78's twitched aggressively along breaklines, 4-inch roboworms on a dropshot, and 5/16oz finesse jigs bounced slowly along the rocks.

Welcome aboard, I'm sure you'll love all the great info on this site!!!

Absolutely awesome jigs, they are extremely effective in pressured situations and are the only brand of jig I throw in finesse situations.

nice hog!!!

I read the article and I'm pretty skeptical on this, especially where he says it is effective in pressured situations...I don't think pressured bass would go for a jig that has 2 big ole hooks and 2 big weedguards stickin off of it...it could be the new thing but I aint gonna fork over $9 fer one until I see some serious results.

If you are looking for am excellent finesse jig with all the qualities you are talking about then take a look at the Eakins jig. It is the best and only finesse jig that I use. http://www.***.com/descpageJIGSJEWEL-JBEJ.html If you're looking for something with a little more bulk to it than try the Conquest jig by Conquistador tackle. The 1/4oz should fit your needs, it is great in shallow water or anywhere that you would need an extra slow fall. http://www.conquistadortackle.com/ConquestJigPages/CastingJigPage.html#CJ135SummerCraw

1. ZOOM 4inch finesse worm in watermelon/gold glitter 2. Roboworm 4.5inch straight tail in watermelon/chart tail

I've been tearin em up for years on a black/blue jig. But I'm really gettin into drop-shotting and its been a pretty steady producer so far.

I love fishing jigs, and when Megastrike came out with the Evolution jig I was very excited to get my hands on some...until I saw the price tag, I couldn't justify spending $10 for only 2 jigs. But now I have found a place where I can get em for a whole lot cheaper and I am wondering if they are any good or are they just another jig with a lot of hype?

The TBF/FLW youth Virginia state championship was saturday at the Chickahominy River. Me and 3 other guys from my club that qualified arrived at the docks around 5:30 and stood around shootin the bull for a while til the boat captains finished drawing and registering. I was drawn, with a kid from the old club I used to be in, to a guy with a brand new 20 foot Stratos ASX with 250 VMax, it sure was a pretty boat. We got all of our stuff loaded in the boat and launched at 6:30, and I have gone 70 MPH in a bass boat before but man this boat just blew that away I'm not sure exactly how fast we went but it had to be upper 70's or low 80's. After the blistering fast run we pulled up to our first spot and I started throwing a buzzbait around shallow pads and grass, after about 20 minutes of throwing the buzzbait I picked up a t-rigged sweet beaver in black/blue and made a pitch into the pads. I worked all the way to the edge of the pads and then right as I was about to reel it back up one sucked it in, I set the hook and swung a nice 2lber into the boat. The boat captain told me that there was a drop-off right on the edge of the pads so the fish must be on the break and not in the pads, so we backed off and fished the break for a little while with no more bites. We then motored over to my second spot which was a shallow flat with cypress tress, pockets of pads, and a feeder creek where I continued switching between the beaver and the buzzer. After about 15 minutes I ran my buzzbait across the mouth of the creek and another beautiful 2lber inhaled the black buzzer. After that the other kid caught a keeper and I caught a nonkeeper off of a dock with the sweet beaver and we then fished for several more hours without a single bite. At about 2:00 we pulled into a major creek right near the launch, called Diascund creek, to try and fill out our 4-fish limits. I tied on a ZOOM 4inch dead ringer in Moccasin Blue with a 1/0 hook and an 1/8oz weight as I was getting pretty desperate, I pitched it around for a while and then with my last cast to a brush pile before we had to leave for the weigh-in I set the hook and swung a fish into the boat. The fish turned out to be an 11.5 incher I've never been more frustrated in my life, and I could not stop thinking about it on the way back to the ramp. After taking the boat out of the water our boat captain drove us up to the stage, where we weighed in by boat number, and we waited in the boat and the blistering 92 degree heat to weigh our fish. When the emcee guy finally called us up there the boat captain pulled the boat in front of the stage and the other kid on my boat was called to weight first, his fish weighed like 1.3lbs or something like that and put him in 10th or 11th place. I was called up next and I hauled my two fish to the scales, my weight was 4.3lbs which out me up somewhere in the top 5. After the rest of the kids weighed in I found out that I came in 5th and only a couple ounces separated me and 4th place, which made me think that if that little 11.5incher had just stretched a little bit more I could have been up there with a plaque and a trip to the Nationals in Arkansas. But oh well I guess I'll just try again next year. Sorry about the extremely long post but I was pretty excited about my finish and wanted to explain as much as I could.

One of the only patterns I use for smallies is a clouser minnow, mainly because its the only streamer you need. The clouser can imitate a number of forage species depending on color and your retrieve, you can make it look like an injured or frightened baitfish, a small shrimp or scud, or a crawfish. You can buy them at any flyshop but I suggest you learn how to tie them for yourself as I have done, this allows you to make different color combinations and tweak the bait to your own specifications. Poppers are another good bet for smallies. I use bigger deer hair poppers in the rivers around here but I would suggest downsizing to a smaller popper like a sneaky pete or a bream popper for the small water that you fish.