Bluebasser86

I have a bunch of their cranks from the small squarebill up to the biggest deep runner, never had a single one that didn't run true. I have no idea why you wouldn't be able to tune one? I guess I've never noticed the line tie being difficult to reach. I also have their frogs and have caught quite a few fish with them, never had one with any bait peeling off and the hooks are very sharp and strong. Also a big fan of their EWG hooks and when i buy tungsten, it's their sinkers. I've also had good luck with their pistol minnow, TWS, and slush daddy topwaters. Never fished their spinnerbaits but I've had the same problem with Terminator and Booyah spinnerbaits. It's very easy for the blades to fly off if the wire loop doesn't get closed all the way. I have 7 or 8 of their rods and 1 of their baitcasting reels and have no complaints about any of them. One thing I've found with Academy's house brand, if you have a problem with one, they have no problems exchanging it and making it right. 20 1/4" Table Rock largemouth on a H20 TWS 5lb La Cygne largemouth on a H20 squarebill

I use a black sharpie on the last foot of my braid when it starts to fade and get light green. Does it make as difference? I have no idea, but I have confidence in it and I don't feel like it hurts anything.

Do you really think a bass can tell the difference between pumpkin and green pumpkin? (Not trying to be insulting, just wondering if you've ever tried and noticed a significant difference). I don't carry any pumpkin colored worms but I carry a ton of variations of green pumpkin. I'm sure there's plenty of other companies that produce 10" ribbontail worms in pumpkin colors though.

Hmmm, bite gets way better in the fall and early winter around here, and we get more winter weather than I really care for every year. Only thing that changes is the topwaters get put away around late November/early December and the jerkbaits will come out probably late this month.

They are a very good bait year round, even when the waters cold and there's snow on the ground

This is where I ordered mine from https://www.another site.com/StrikeKing/Strike-King-KVD-8.0-Magnum-Squarebill-Pro-Model-Crankbaits.cfm

They're a bulkier bait with a more subtle action than the baby brush hogs, and they come through thick cover much better. They seem to catch a little bit better quality fish for me than a lot of other flipping baits.

Bluegills, sunfish, and crappie will if you tip small jigs with them.

I would guess they're probably Storm Wildeye swimbaits from your description. Weight built inside the head of the bait? If they are there's a few different retrieves that I've found effective with them. A straight cast and retrieve can work well, either start reeling as soon as the bait touches down or let it sink to the desired depth. You can cast them out and let them fall to the bottom and rip it off the bottom and let it sink back down on a semi slack line. You can also let them sink to the bottom, crank them up several turns of the handle, then stop and let the bait swing back towards you until it hits bottom again, then repeat. I fish the Storm swimbaits a lot in the winter for wipers and bass because they're cheap so it isn't a big deal when I lose a bunch of them, which I often do.

I posted this on another topic but can't remember which one. This time of year there are tons of bugs around ponds that attract bluegills, sunfish, and other baitfish. They often take these bugs off the surface with very gentle "plops", much like the sound of a lightly twitched popper. A big grasshopper or cricket on the surface is an easy meal that even a big bass will take advantage of, those soft twitches move the popper a lot like one of those bugs struggling on the surface as well.

Even well lit there isn't any reason to be going full speed at night in a bass boat. A log or stump is still nearly invisible until it's too late even with a powerful spotlight at night. I know lakes like Table Rock have speed limits after dark to get people to slow down in the dark. It's easy to get complacent on a body of water we're very familiar with, but it only takes one time for a big log to be floating across the lake to turn a night of fishing into a bad accident.

I'll sing to them or talk to them, but not kiss them.

If it's off then you use your reel like a regular baitcaster. When it's on, you have to hold the thumb bar down to keep the spool disengaged. Once you release the thumb bar the spool with re-engage automatically.

I don't think the child's age was the issue, the fact that he had no lifejacket on and the adults on board being too intoxicated to help him are the biggest problems. Why they took kids to an island called "party island" where they don't probably need to be anyways was a poor choice too. I'd already been on several boat rides before I was a year old and my son took his first boat ride at 6 months. Difference was my son and I had the appropriate safety gear on and had adults on board to watch after us. I hate stories like this, 2 children who had no say in if they went or not, lost their lives due to negligence of the "adults" who were in charge of looking after them. Tears me up, especially having a son close to the same age as the baby that died.

Owning a boat and maintenance of a boat and tow vehicle is very expensive, I always offer money or if I don't have money for gas make sure it's known well in advance (not when someone shows up at my house to go fishing in the morning). That said, you went with my brother in law who isn't one I've ever known to get too bent out of shape about the deal because he was going anyways. If you want to offer to make yourself feel better about it you can do that. Just buy Chris some Dairy Queen ice cream next time and he'll forgive you for anything

So I guess Raymond's sons baseball game got postponed to Thursday night this week so this week isn't going to work so he wants to shoot for next Thursday on the 11th. Is anyone planning on fishing Osage Saturday morning?

I have mine outfitted with a 50E Curado. I use it for small walking baits, small poppers, and small to mid sized hard jerkbaits. It's the best popper and jerkbait rod I've ever used.

I like to retrieve the Skitter Pop with very soft twitches this time of year. It makes a very light pop sound that sounds a lot like a bluegill pecking at bugs on the surface, which they do a lot in the fall when there's tons of bugs for them to eat.

A jig will catch fish year round and almost anywhere they swim.

I use a St. Croix Mojo Big Crankster (7' 8" MH/M) for my deep cranks. I've never fished a 10XD but it fishes the 6XD very easily.

Getting to be the time of year when those things work really well. I caught my biggest smallmouth of the year last year on a Bull Shad

Owner ST 36s are where it's at for swimbaits. They're pricey, but you don't want to work hard for a bite and miss it because of bad hooks.

Wacky rig is one of my most effective techniques in the spring and early summer. It doesn't take a very hard hookset, especially with braid. I've had much better hook up percentage since I switched to Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hooks. I fish braid with a fluoro leader and a 6' 6" MH/F spinning rod but all I do is reel fast and lift, no real hookset needed.

Thanks A-Jay, that was the only place I found them in stock as well. Should have mine by the end of the week:)

Anybody been able to get their hands on one yet and fish it? I've got a trip to a known big bass lake coming up a the end of the month and I'm trying to track one down to try out there. Just curious if anyone has been able to fish one.