Bluebasser86

I like a 7' M/F when I'm popping them through grass and have very little problems with fish tossing them or pulling off.

Had a similar experience with a Supreme MGX recently. The sideplate screws had worked loose without me knowing and ended up with damaging the internals of the reel on a hookset. Sent it in with an explanation of what happened. Less than a week there was a brand new Supreme XT in the mailbox! Not only replaced it but upgraded it!

They're a great bait for me, particularly for smallmouth and spotted bass for some reason.

chartreuse black back

Stained water is much easier to fish, something with like 4-5 feet of visibility.

Even those little guys pull hard

Is anyone wanting to do the weekly deal this week? If we have the Mondo get together Thursday night that leaves us with Saturday morning. Since nobody fished this week we could just push it back to Saturday morning at Osage this week? Or if everyone wants to do it on a weeknight we could go to Wednesday or Friday evening and keep it closer?

If I was in your area I may never fish in Kansas.

I love mine. Very smooth and solid feeling reel that cast a mile and pitches effortlessly.

One of my favorite jig skirt colors. This color has been hot this year for me.

I use a 6' 6" MH/F or a 6' 8" M/F with my spooks and both work really well. I prefer the medium but that's mainly because the rod is lighter and easier on my wrist. I wouldn't worry about pulling the hooks with braid, just keep your drag loose enough that they can pull some line if they dive at the boat. Don't swing for the fences when they bite, just wind into them (which is what I do anyways with copolymer and have no problems hooking up and I don't have to worry about dodging a Zara Missile).

One of my go to colors in stained to muddy water but it works everywhere. It really seems to excel in tannic stained water.

I've had a couple swell up on me on really hot days, but they still work. Never had one fall apart or split though unless I smacked it off a rock or something first though.

Nice fish. Our water is still in the low to mid 80's, got a little while still. Squarebills have suddenly started working though.

4 pounds would be a pretty safe guess I think.

Bowstring pop, then a heavy pull on the line to see if it pulls free or if it moves with some addition pressure, if that doesn't work I break out the lure retriever if it's a bait I'm going to try to get back. If it's something I'm not worried about then I grab the line and break it.

I don't yard fish but I do puppy fish. I have a short piece of knotted rope on a 5' 6" MH pistol grip Lew's rod with a 6600 Abu and 30lb mono that I roll cast around the house while our goofy golden retriever bounds through the house after it then plays tug-o-war with me until I can wiggle it loose from her. She gets excited every time I pick that rod up.

Unless it's something that the guide could have been able to control, like his boat doesn't start so you have to use the trolling motor and just fish around the launch, then they should be paid. Last guide trip I went on was on the White River in Arkansas for brown trout. It poured the entire time and out of the 3 of us we only caught 1 brown trout. On the way back up river, our guide's motor hit a rock and jumped off the back of the boat and sank. I retrieved it for him (he was well into his 70's, no way he was hauling that waterlogged 25hp motor back into the boat). They were generating so there was a pretty strong current and about a mile to go to the launch. My buddy and I had our waders on so we both jumped in and walked his boat against the current for a hour and a half before we were in deep enough water that I could get my boat to where we were and towed it the rest of the way. I'm sure a lot of guys wouldn't have paid him, but it's fishing, stuff happens. He was trying to put us on fish, they just wouldn't bite for us. We still had fun and had we seen him stranded after his motor popped off we would have helped him just the same. Our time was up at that point anyways. When we tried to pay him he just asked us to cover his expenses for the day and thanked up profusely for hauling his boat back. He still did his job, he took us to where the fish were and tried. We caught a ton of fish later that day at one of his spots on jerkbaits, so it was well worth the money and effort to me.

Okay My first spotted bass, off the bank before Andy got there on a Code Black bladed jig with a sapphire blue Pit Boss trailer. My second spotted bass, also from the bank while waiting for Andy, same bait. Andy's largemouth that was just shy of 4 pounds, same bladed jig. Andy's first spotted bass was a really nice fish. It ate a Zoom Ol' Monster. My biggest largemouth of the day ate my bladed jig really deep and was bleeding as soon as I landed her. No weight or measurements, just a quick picture and back in the water. Probably in the 4 pound range though. Caught lots of fish on topwater, even a couple on the Slammer. One of my biggest spotted bass of the day ate a wacky rigged stick O. We caught fish on jigs, 10" worms, shakyheads, poppers, walkers, gunfish, buzzbaits, frogs, toads, flukes, wacky rigs, Pit Boss, sick fish, Slammer, grass pig, square bills, deep crank, craws, bladed jigs, about the only thing we fished much and didn't catch a fish on was a drop shot.

Chris and Coty are there already I think.

Exploring a new lake tomorrow, pretty excited. Only lake in the state rated excellent for largemouth and spotted bass.

Zoom Ol' Monster, baby brush hog, or a Pit Boss.

If you want a powerbait for panfish check out the Gulp line up. The maggots and 1" minnows are killers for panfish and will occasionally catch bass.

To me it's a smaller, more compact bait that has little movement.