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I played around with a blade on a jig for a little one day but didn't catch anything. I found a shop by my house that sells all kinds of part for wire type baits insanely cheap. I ended up getting a bunch of stuff and messed around with some lures. I did make a ridiculous amount of inline spinners for a friend and it cost like nothing and was extremely easy to do. I would never actually pay for one again after that. Not to mention he said mine caught more fish and I can make it custom.

There are places that use to be good but are basically fished out now from live bait. Some places have been hurt badly by the Amish fishing 20 people deep and keeping anything they catch. It doesn't take long to destroy a place like that.

Shad raps and the supers are really good. They cast like junk though.

I think if I remember they make a guide that actually keeps from wrapping. They probably cost good money so get to paying. I also agree on the rage blade being impossible to fish with any depth. It would be a good lure if you could actually fish a specific depth. It's great I bet for weeds a foot or so below the surface. You wouldn't even have to try to stay out of them.

I carry a couple of those small boxes but not the thin ones. I have no idea there actual # size. One has weights, beads, swivels, flipping hooks, drop shot, bobber stops and a couple off sets. Basically anything you would need for t-rigs, c-rigs, or a drop shot. Then another one with weighted and un weighted hooks and jig heads. Those are separated buy weighted and not and also by screw lock and not. I usually have another one with treble hooks and some other stuff but we won't get into that. Its a total nightmare really. There is always some random duolocks or speed clips in every box. I try to keep snaps and split rings in there packs sjnce they are thin and small and it can be super hard to pick up split rings out of a box. Half the time I grab them with the needle nose. The packs for mustard hooks can be keepers and I will put things like swivels, duo, split rings in them. They are really nice little bags and are heavy duty and easy to open and close quickly. I can easily carry everything I would need in a few small boxes. I don't seperate hooks by size and all that. That would take up way to many compartments and it's not a big deal grabbing a few hooks and pulling the one you need out. I can spare the 5 seconds.

That is one big retention pond.

I was actually just looking through some cranks and here you go It is just hanging stuck to my finger its so sticky and even has grass stuck to it. I also think it might of peeled some paint off I had to really scrub hard to get it off.

The Live Target square bills are actually flat And catch me tons of fish. There is a flat crank with a coffin bill but it only dives like 5' or somewhere around there "I think" Rapala makes it and they also catch me tons of fish. It's defietly a DT Flat and they dive 3' or 7'

Buy a good reel first then upgrade to a good rod. Do your self a favor and get a reel with dual breaking. Lews speed spool is a good reel in its own right but probabaly not for you. Or if you get a Diawa they have mag force Z and that breaking is very good. I would really spend all 150 on a reel and scrape up 30 more and get one of those berkleys from wall mart and your good to go. The BPS PQ is a decent reel and can last you but something like a Lews tournament or tournament pro are the same reels but much nicer. I will say a Diawa Tatula is so hard to beat and it's under $100 and in my opinion Diawa has the best braking system in the game and that's a big plus for a beginner.

I saw a video with shaw grigsby I think saying he couldn't buy a bite pegged. As soon as he unpegged his bait fish after fish.

This for sure ^^ Sometimes it just gets beat up even with a full spool. It can be all scratchy and you feel it as you reel or not cast all well. I might change it in a week maybe a matter of days sometimes.

My god on the Keitechs any more. Those and the ned rig are everywhere. It's kinda funny that neither of those are new at all but for some reason this year it's the talk of the town. Keitechs are good baits though and they work. I wouldnt say they are the best though.

Braid when the spool gets to low. Any thing else's I change whenever I feel l want fresh line. I have not set schedule it all depends how much use it has got and how it has held up.

I think BPS makes a reel you can't backlash. Or they did at one time I think. It has a bar or something that snaps down if it starts to backlash preventing it from getting any worse.

I guess mine is the big ripple shads since it's the only Berkeley plastics I really buy. My step father only fishes 7" electric grape power worms. Literally he only fishes those.

I usually if it's in grass so it comes through easer. Baits move differently f pegged so I will switch it up. One thing though that brothers me a having to retie if I need to change weights. Why doesn't someone make a bullet weight with a spiral cut arond it. That way you can spin them on or off quickly. Or some kind of similar design. Get on it people. I would buy them in a second.

I use a flipping hook for all creature baits and tubes. Basically anything but worms.

Yea I can get some insane distance with the bigger minus 1's on a crankbait rod. I would say I can get down below 2' maybe even to 3' depending how fast you reel and stick your tip in the water?

I know a few spots that people only ever use live bait and you almost never see someone throwing a lure. But still it is a hard place to fish even if they don't really see lures often. Then I know places that get bombed with lures all the time and are much easier to catch fish. I also have been to places that haven't been fished in decades and you can hardly buy a bite with any thing.I have come to the conclusion some places suck and some don't regardless of the pressure.

I have no idea but I do no crappie baits are teny tiny and super light.

I agree and each have there own method. I don't cast 1/8 lures with a casting rod. Not a true 1/8 anyways. As for the weight 1/4 1/2 3/4 if my reel can cast 1/4 like a champ it can cast all the other weights even better and adding breaking is not going to help. Granted there are 1/4 oz baits that cast better the some type of say 5/8 because of profile but you get it. I might have mags set at like 1 and go up to maybe 2.5 it's in casting some good wind. Most reels will cast crazy far with very minimal braking and just the easiest of flick of the wrist.

Don't they make mini crappie reels that can cast all that? I think they are cheap also. Light cranks is spinning all day for me. Super shadraps, small jerkbaits, tiny squatebilll like a 1.0 is effortless on spinning.

That sound like a lot of work you go through. I have never thought all that necessary for me. My reels are set and never change no matter what I tie on. If anything I will turn brakes off and go to like 1 pin. If it is a really bad casting lure there is a rare chance I might use a tiny bit of tension but it is not even a full click.

You can wrap a couple suspend strips around the hook to add very very minor weight and get baits to run right. I have done it with rage toads. I can not get them to run top up anymore no matter what hook I use.

That has to be impossible. I'm pretty sure a drop shot can catch fish in a puddle on the side of the road.