Nitrofreak

OK thats breaking the rules !!!! TMI TMI TMI I think I can speak for a lot of us here when I say EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW !!!!! LOL.

Hey, I thought you said you were a fun guy, lol...I guess you want your farts on the boat to be more...shall we say fruifull.

Help yourself my friend, all I was saying is I am already big enough, and if I were to eat all of that I would surely need more room in the boat AND my britches, that is if I didn't die from a heart attack first LOL. My 6 pack is now a KEG, don't laugh ! it took a lot of budweiser arm curls to get it to the perfectly rounded shape it's in now...it's sexy and I like it !!! As for the moon pies...I don't think the diet drinks are going to be much help to ya.

GEEEEEEE WIZZZZZZ !!!! I would need a bigger boat to haul my fat a** around after all that LOL !!!

First of all thank you for serving !!!!! 2nd Welcome to the forum !!! There is a lot of mid west talent in here, go to the bottom and find the region for your area and post that same question, you will get the answers you seek.

Welcome to the forum !!!

Welcome to the forum !!! I work a lot, if you want to go to Anna drop me line and I will try to work it in, if I can't make it, I will be happy to get you familure with that ol girl.

Welcome to the forum !!!

Without really knowing your water in great detail, there are cheaper options you should look at first. Me personally I would try spinners with three blades, mix two silver with one gold, or even spoons, you get a lot more bang for the buck, at least from the info I have seen about your lake, I would save the jerk bait for a little clearer and warmer water. Confidence is everything when you choose a bait to work with, make sure the right bait meets the right condition before you just throw one out there otherwise you will feel you have waisted your time and money and most of all your confidence will be lost in a particular bait.

Well now you have gone and done it haven't ya!! I told them not to tell you anything LOL. That just makes missing this years road trip that much more heartbreaking...THANX RW !! Im going back to work now...rackinfrackin brickin brackin...ggggrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Just kidding you all have a great time and be safe !!!

REALLY? When were you down here fishing anna?

LOL, I have fished the lake he is talking about for the past 15 years, in heartbreaking detail at times too.

Are we still on the subject of jigs here? lol.

Firetiger jerk bait at Anna in march, and tell Dubby I said hello!!

Pretty good artical there J. Thanx !!!

I was just wondering, I have never tried it fast in colder water, thought you may have some insite thats all.

I have only 15, they have been used since the 70's, as soon as I get home I dry them out with a hair dryer ON LOW !, I will let them sit overnite and the next day I will fluff them up and pack them away in a plastic storage box in a nice shady area, I only use mine when the water is below the 50 mark.

Interesting !! even in cold water ?

That is not structure that is cover, structure is the lake bottom itself, cover is anything on top of the structure. If your medium diving crank is working you are doing something right, if 1-3 feet is all you have then baits that make a little noise and give off shadows like dark colored baits or flash like spinners will be best. If you are getting bites and missing them then slow the bait down or change the color a little, or if you feel it hit a bait, pause the bait for a second or two and start yo-yoing it back to you.

X2, I generally do not use my rod to give the shaky head it's action, I like to use my index finger under the line at the reel and give it a nervous kind of motion instead. Note to self : remove finger before setting the hook... lol.

LMAO 2 !!!! Who would do such a thing anyway...lol

LOL...I ment nothing by that J. and I totally agree with your point, but 2-3 feet of vision "for me" is good enough to try one in colder water than 50, thats all I was saying.

X2, but I will still use them in water colder than 50, it just gets a whole lot slower. Sounds like your trying too hard, slow down, find yourself some cover in about 10' of water, pay close attention to the water temp, the colder the slower you want to go, let the bait swim into a brush pile and bang off of the brush, or even make it bounce off of the structure on the bottom. Crank baits of all kinds take time...a lot of time...first things first, find the fish, match the forage in size and color, and experiment from there, for example, a jerkbait, throw it in and crank it down to your desired water depth, lets say the water is 50, I like to start with roughly 15 seconds before I move the bait, twitch it once then wait another 15 seconds and twitch it two more times and repeat all the way out of the strike zone, then reel it back slow, fan cast the whole area with that and start over with even longer pauses of 20 seconds and keep repeating until you find what they want. Good luck and be safe!!! If I may add one more thing, cadence is the most important thing, in my opinion, when fishing all kinds of crank baits, it's finding that correct cadence that takes most all of your time once you locate the fish.

If I am fishiing in water 40 - 55* I look for structure with a more vertical drop 30 to 45* in depth's 10 to 25' of water. 3 types that I use, sinking, suspending, both of which I use mostly for 7 to 12 ft of water and suspending jerkbait that has a bill for anything deeper than 12 ft. The colors I use are Firetiger, silver, white, and range in size from 3 to 8 inches. Two most important things to me are line size and cadence, 6-12 lb floro, reel and speed are not as important as the rod since I use my rod to move the bait, 7' med rod with a sensitive tip is what I like. If I want a sinking jerkbait to fall a little faster I use a lighter line or to make it go a little deeper too. Cadence to me is the absolute key to fishing a jerkbait, once I get the bait to the desired water level. I will twitch it once count to 5 and twitch it 2 more times and count to 5, then start increasing in 5 second intervals on each wave of casts. It is very important to note this takes time, SLOW is key here, you should know your forage before you decide your bait. If you have never fished a jerkbait, a tourny is not the place to start, but if you do fish it be confident and be slow until you get the right cadence then it will be deadly. Good luck and be safe !!!

This really should be interesting, with all of the talent in here and the art of DB, it should make for some interesting reading to say the least.