Mr.Sheephead

everyone who fishes wacky rigs have seen the tool for it using rubber O-rings that slip over the worm....... well my question is what is the size O-ring they use?

what is the difference between a casting spoon and a jigging spoon and how do you fish them? some guy was landing big bass with some cheapo clearence sale spoons that were the size of a pike lure

are the instructions and pics clear on what to do? is this at all usefull to you buzzbait casters? win? lose?

I heard some people saying chatterbaits are the new lure to get. I think i would like to try one but have a few questions about them first. 1. What are the days, time, conditions people believe you should use them? 2. are they a spring summer or fall lure? 3. are they weedless? 4. any other input i can get from people who fishes a chatter bait

Well i have heard there was only one buzzbait maker that has the clacker that swings around adn the buzz blade hits it to make more noise. Well i wanted a clacker for my $1.00 wal-mart buzzbait so i came up with this. materials needed scissors, pliers, drill bit or nail thats a little bit bigger diameter than the buzzbait wire shaft diameter, super glue, aluminum can, a brain to figure your own design the pics that i will post should be pretty much self explanitory all i did was cut a rectangle out of the aluminum can wrap it around the drill bit and use the pliers to get that heyhole look to go around the buzzbait wire shaft then cut the folded rectangle into a shape i wanted stuck it on the shaft and glued the folds together making sure no glue gets onto the shaft adn there you go! -just know that some modifications needs to be done, in the first pic the white buzzbait is the modified wal-mart buzzbait and the yellow ones the original wal-mart buzzbait note how i made bends in the buzzbait to were i had the arm that holds the buzzblade bend at a 90 degree angle so i can put a clacker on the other bends were made so it sits deeper in the water -second pic is were i folded a piece of rectangle cut aluminum can over a drill bit thats a bit bigger that the buzzbait wire shaft and tooke some plires to really get it crimped down to make a keyhole wich will be shown in the third pic -fourth pic is were i cut the clacker shape i wanted (note that after making the cuts it may need to be re crimped with the pliers and drill bit) -last pic is were you would just put the clacker you just made onto the buzzbait and just add a bit of super glue squeeze the folds together and there you go! you just modified your buzzbait to make more noize!

cabelas has some cabelas brand hard swimbaits that are pretty good. I have the BBZ-1 cabelas version and i will say that it works, looks, and fished just like the BBZ but its half the price so i save about 12 bucks there, cabelas also has a seible magic swimmer look alike. Strike king has the King kong, king, and baby king shad swimbaits though they are more like cranks. look on *** and find some swimbaits that meets the size you want and find some cheap ones..... go cheap since your trying it out and not getting into it right away. Cheap ones exspensive ones they all work the same only dif is exspensive just has better color or better hardware in the lure. Swimbaits i hear are mainly spring/fall lures and they will catch you some big bass! the bigger swimbait the bigger the bass

T-rigged random worms (senko style or curly tail) anywere from 4-6 inch worms Matzuo worm hooks weightless setup and sometimes weighted rod is a G.loomis glx baitcaster 6'6" heavy fast action quantum response reel 30lb moss green power pro braid as for pitching the matts i have had nothing bite when i toss the worm weightless in the thick weeds the worm just dosnt sink in there and with a weight weeds get all tangled up into the weight. Good tackle! With T-rigged worms the high flotation styles work far better than heavy salted "Senko" styles. You would be better off using a wacky rigged "Senko" style with a nose nail weight. Rubber o-ring and weedless Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hook works great for this rig. T-rigged straight, paddle, or curl tails depending on the weeds, have good swimming action as the weight slips doown the line and then float off the bottom at rest, allowing the bass to strike it more often, then just on the fall. You need to peg a heavy bullet weight to penetrate weed mats, you may just want to hit the open pockets and shady zones when fishing a pond. WRB I love you all! thanks so much for giving me advice and hope! the T-rig worked that one night and just today it worked once (first bite) after that i was feeling sluggish fishing slowly and waiting for a bite so i swithced to a buzzbait i had lying around im like well lets just give it a try, well im glad i did because i caught my last 5 fish on it and thery were all in the 1-3 pound range! the 3 pounder took a nice bite out of my thumb and drew blood, man i dont know what it was that the buzzbait triggered them to bite visciously but im glad it worked, i just tossed the bussbait along the big weed beds underwater and all around and over the weeds and that worked for me. any other advice or answers you guys can give will be great and possibly an explaination on my great day with the buzzbait will be great

T-rigged random worms (senko style or curly tail) anywere from 4-6 inch worms Matzuo worm hooks weightless setup and sometimes weighted rod is a G.loomis glx baitcaster 6'6" heavy fast action quantum response reel 30lb moss green power pro braid as for pitching the matts i have had nothing bite when i toss the worm weightless in the thick weeds the worm just dosnt sink in there and with a weight weeds get all tangled up into the weight.

one prob is i havnt caught fish for so long i lose focus and wen a fish does come im not ready, another prob is i barley feel them on, as for the panfish thing i can surely tell the dif between a pan fish and a bass

just today I was fishing at the small pond briges pretty hard and only had one bite (missed her) around 7:30pm on a spinnerbait.... It was getting late so i worked my way over to the tunnel were there a current were water flows through and had zero bites on that pond so i swithched to the other side (pond) were the waters being sucked into the tunnel and had zero bites all i can see is schools of small panfish. Well it was about 7:45-8:30 when i first had a bite from something huge but lost it! T-rig tossing and only thing i can come up with is a bass since the only things that would bite a T-rig in the pond is either a sunny or a bass but it was huge if it can splash and swirl away like a carp. I soon lost another 3 bites one might have been small since it tor off my worm... well i made my way to a corner and tossed my T-rig and had a bite! i barley noticed it was so unexpecting but i landed her and she was a nice 2 1/2 pounder the next cast was another bass! I barley notice them on! and soon after i was being attacked by mosquitos and left. so What does this tell you guys about the bass in the ponds? all i can come up with this is that i got lucky and unlucky and that there is a big bass in there and i keep missing the hookset. after 3 tries today is finaly the first day i finally caught something there from around 5:00-8:30 does it mean the bass are only biting at night or what?

u needa calm down and go fish..... you will soon realize that you only use 10% of all da lures you have..... unless your job is to fish you wont need a whole lot of lures true statement about getting kids involved with the outdoors than rather stuck inside playing video games.... for me fishing, hunting, and the great outdoors kept me out of trouble and soon enough i stopped gang banging and started bass fishing

how big were they? smaller fish will slap at the lure i snaged manny smallies that try to ingulf my lure but once they try the lures too big for there mouth so they just slap it..... sunnies also do this to me, and if the fish were bigger they must have slaped the lure because once they reached it they lost intrest

Its mid august here in MN and hunting seasons coming up so i have not gone fishing a whole lot. I mainly fish these multiple ponds in Blaine and latley the bite has died. Before the bite was not that bad when summer started and around late july but since august came about the bite just died. I also fished this one lake and was landing pretty big bass until summer started settleing in all the bassed moved out of the shallows were i would wade around. I only shore fish, so with fall coming soon will thae bass bite pick up both at the lake and pond? will the bass be back in the shallows at the lake? what lures will produce big bass? Im thinking of throwing 4 inch hard swimbaits and big lures, or is my tactic wrong?

this is coming from a shore angler.... thats a false statement i can tell 100% of the time what is on the line and what isnt when shore fishing you come across so many panfish that it becomes clear what is and whats not even the smallest bass i have caught i was able to tell from his tugs it was a bass..... panfish and bass have way different feels when tugging the line but thats just me i shore fish 100% of the time so i know from lots of experience what is tuggin my line and what isnt another thing... doing hooksets when you THINK its a bass is a waste of a good soft plastic my brother does blind hook sets alot and he has torn up my new plastics in just a hour compaired to mines im still using after catching 5-20 bass with it blind hook sets or hook setting when a panfish is tuggin ya will just tear up your plastic lures

already have spinning rods for your fishing? if so get the higher end baitcaster if not get mid priced spinning and baitcaster i shore fish so i carry 2 rods a spinning G.loomis imx fast action for all my bass fishing lures and sometimes panfish lures and my G.loomis GLX baitcaster for my bigger bass lures, topwater frogs, or the same lures i would use on the spinning rod but use on the baitcaster if im fishing heavy cover and need the extra power or just to get the extra power!

1. clear bluebird skies and nice hot humid weather 2. sunny and nice hot humid weather but with a few clouds 3. sunny and hot but not humid with scattered clouds 4. sunny but its fairly cloudy and not humid with temps that wont bug you 5. cloudy barley any sun and its a bit cooler also windy days..... what to throw? To be more specific on the water structure this is all shore angling from 1-10 feet deep in pond waters with lots of cover and weeded areas along the shoreline. for the lake its a long shoreline of 1-20 feet deep with random spots of floating weeds and sandy weeded bottom flat structure. the lake has lots of panfish swimming around closer to shore and the pond has tons of huge bottom feeders like carp and buffalo and bowfins

bass ingulf lures and surprisingly they bite hard! i was releasing a bass that took a nice hold of me tho it did not hurt it gave me an idea of how hard they actually bite and they bite fairly hard so dont worry about them not being able to bend the worm down to expose the hook. another thing is sunnies and panfish have more power than you expect if the thumps feel somewhat light and fast thats a pan fish if its a bass the thumps are harder and usually are 1-3 thumps only in a moderate pace pan fish will thump ya lots of times and fast! if this keeps happenning all i can say is try to not set the hook and just reel in fast and you should be able to tell from there on out whats wrong

hmmmmmm well i need help here too same question as you bud.... i like spring scales they seem more reliable since you will never know wen a digital one might glitch or lose accuracy over time. can someone tell us some cheap but acuurate scales!!!!!

come on anybody any other suggestions on what i should be throwing??????

I recently started fishing these multiple connected ponds and have landed some small but fat bass. Bass that are 10-14 inches weighing 1-2 almost 3 pounds already! Here in MN this whole past week has been gloomy and wet so fishing is tough and i have only landed 4-6 bass at these ponds fishing thursday friday saturday and today, sunday. All those days i was out 2-3 hours throwing topwater frog, wacky rig and a T-rig beaver. All the fish were landed with the wackyrig and a nibble with the beaver. I havnt tried much other things there and would like to know what i should try. Not sure how much bass is in these ponds and how big they get and the waters murky with scattered plots of weeds that are medium to pretty heavy cover with scattered plots of open water. The waters not too deep max is i think 25 feet (mndnr says 25 feet). Anyways yea what should i throw and were should i throw them? the bass were landed were the pond starts to funnle and get smaller to a storm drain or a drain that leads to the next pond or were the water just gets a bit smaller i havnt landed one from the more open water and all this is shore fishing.

wow great tips guys made me think twice about what i use... but what i use is wayy more durable than anything on here since it is a plastic zip tie but i like that the shrink tube makes it so i can place the hook pointing up rather than to the side but i have not had any problem with hooking fish only diference is since the hook is laying sideways and not up like it should i tend to land fish with the hook in the corner of the fishes mouth and not deep in but lust a bit past the lips but yea ill look for new ways and will definately give shrink tubing a try

heyyyyyyyy i like that idea..... ill give it a try good idea thanks for the idea man!

actually the zip ties has no effect to the action its wideness is like just having 2 O-rings on maybe even just one... only way it can effect action is if the wideness of the zip tie was like the same length of the worm being wacky rigged or half of it elasticity has no effect on the action what so ever because the rig is to have something jerk the center of the worm to make both ends of the worm bend inward the elasticity will just stretch but also just make it bend inward that's also why my idea makes the more durable no stretch which means no stress to break it plus its made of pretty hard plastic only way to break one is to cut it or yank it so hard the connection gives away but then no plastic lure has enough strength to do so

here in MN its been just wet and gloomy this whole past week and i had wedsday and thursday to fish and those 2 days were windy cold and a bit wet but thursday was a bit better both days i landed like 3-5 bass in like 3-4 hours of fishing its challenging but dont give up confidence i soon realized on thursday my lost of confidence in a new pond i tried out was affecting my fishing so i just kept thinking about how to trigger them and how to work the lure to make them bite and i kept saying there is bass here and sure enough i landed a few and a trophy bass that snaped my line! just try to think what the bass want and dont lose confidence in yourself let that pro inside you come out and show you how to fish!

I just fish and soon enough after a few fish my hands stink enough that it wont leave my scent on the bait but just a fishy scent all that adding scent on a lure is for that extra edge one may be looking for. I took a bottle of crayfish scent from bio-edge and boy does it smell but its only like a 1oz bottle so i just took a container of vaseline and put it in boiling water until it liquefied pour about half the bottle of bio-edge in stir let it cool and let it become a paste like form again and there you go! I just turned a $10 bottle of 1oz bio-edge into a paste that last longer and stays on the lure better than just trying to pour the scent on the bait.