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I've got a few Sprinker frogs and have used them a few times. Hooks are angled just about perfectly up and out. I haven't had to bend them. Hook up ratio is no different than any tuned frog. You can sort of walk them if you pop them. Not worth the gouging prices on ebay, but at $14 retail, I think they are awesome.

Water is fir the most part permanently cloudy due to the clay soils around the lake there. Weeds and frogs should be good then. 30 min run north can get you into world class smallies. Message me when you get closer to the tournament.

Ti and the St Larry are about as different as you get. Clarity, Current, Depth all on the opposite ends of the spectrums. Ti is terrible right now by the lofty standards it set a decade ago. (Look at the Costa here last weekend mostly all Mid-lake smallies). Low water last year messed up the weeds, the ones that were shallow are basically gone now that the water has gone up and is even slightly higher than normal. The weeds that were in 8 ft last year are now in 12, with the cloudy water the growth has slowed a bit. There might be some dense weed spots depending upon when in July you are here. Water is a slightly greener version of a Starbucks coffee drink you get from the local gas station. Find the mats and throw black frogs. Swimbait the outside edges. Find Coontail mixed with Milfoil and don't move. Bulwagga bay on the NY side above the bridge will have clear water. Above the Bridge to Mallets Bay is mostly Smallies and clear DEEP water. Honestly St. Albans smokes Ti right now and has been over the last 2 years (6 7lb+ largemouths weighed in at tournaments from that bay).

They come with 2 tails, one mounted, one spare.

Spawn is still going on Champlain (albeit the tail end). That's why we have a late season, the ABA out of Plattsburgh on opening day was a bed fishing slaughter. Hundreds of bedded fish yanked off. On Champlain aside from spawn/bed baits. the topwater bite has started. Fish are all over inches to 16'+

Just wondering how many North Easterners here are going to come up for it?

Watermelon with Gold Sparkles is a great Perch imitation in a Fluke Sungill and Pro Staff Special are great too.

Corrosion resistance in reels refers to salt water. Most all reels we use are fitted with stainless bearings. Personally, anything over ABEC 5's is a waste. Acetone is fine for almost all stock bearings.

http://nhbassfederation.com/ also check the NH TBF. Lots of guys up near you.

Just got a bunch of old Poes RC-3 & 300 cranks, not used, but some are missing hooks. What size trebles am I looking for ? 4's?

The guy that develops a scale with a corresponding app available at a reasonable price with be a millionaire and the sport will explode.

6'10" is my next purchase

Have you ever used a Phenix or Dobyns? Daiwa's "regular" is the same as their fast (or darn close). I have the 7'2" MH Regular Tatula and I use it for chatterbaits, 4.8 Keitechs, Spinnerbaits and larger cranks. It's NOT a cranking rod by any stretch of the imagination. It is closer to fast than moderate.

One cool thingI have seen is mounting it to a ceiling fan blade, then drilling a hole the diameter of your seatpost on the narrow end. Slide the post through the hole and it allows the pedal to be attached, yet able to be repositioned to a certain extent.

Top 3: Pro-Staff Silver Flash Chart Blue Also good: Sungill Black Green Pumpkin Electric Shad.

ship?

Bigger (deeper) hooks especially weighted ones, act like a keel and diminish the "shimmy" the bait has. The bait is soft enough that there's no issue with clearance and hook ups. Use the above guidelines. Jigheads on the 2.8 should have a size 1 hook.

Spro popping frog and Booyah Pad Crasher. Black with Yellow.

Bruce Tufts is a genius, spoke at our TBF Divisional last September on Ontario. Really great guy.

I never get tired of that picture...

"Blondes" are off sandy bottoms (or dead). "Black Mambas" are off rocks with little weeds around. Dark and light bar ones are usually off of a good mixture of rocks and weeds. I've found that water clarity and sun penetration have less to do with it than the composition of their environment. That after all is the only constant in their environment.

You could have a bad batch of Fluoro for sure. I'd wager (if it's not the fluoro being bad) that it's the knot being compromised by heat from tying and/or the split-ring is nicking the knot. I've never had good luck with a "Line to Leader" set usp on jerkbaits. 8lb YZH or 10lb Sniper depending on the bait.

Lock your vehicles and keep nothing of value in them. Everything else sounds good.

Grubster on a keitech football jig mmmmm mmmmmmmm good stuff

http://www.phenixrods.com/products/freshwater/recon-2/ the 8 footer is not a crankbait rod, not a flipping stick either. It's like a "4.5" Power Dobyns or Powell, just 8' long. Softer tip with plenty of backbone.