Bluebasser86

I laid several different colors of skirt material across a few different Zman baits for at least a few weeks and nothing happened, you're good.

Suspending jerkbaits almost always account for my first cold water fish of the year right after ice out every year.

I remember catching some of my first plastic worm bass on a Snatrix. The smell of those old plastics is something you can never forget.

Hauled my last kayak to a creek to fish, realized after unloading everything that I'd forgotten my paddle. Loaded everything back up and drove right back home

I think mine came a few weeks ago? They might have got it through the recycling center by now and turned it into another catalog ?

Welcome!

Banks are steep, but it only drops a few feet into the water. My boat isn't sitting in more than 10' in any of the pictures.

Just a couple days removed from a major snowstorm, and fighting winds howling 20-30 mph and gusting above 30, pretty happy with the results today. Caught over 10 bass, 3 white bass, and a 15lb flathead. The bass all ate a Ned minus 1 on a T-rig, the whites were on cranks, and the flatheads continue to nibble on jigging spoons. This flathead nibbled so hard you can barely see the jigging spoon anymore ?

I tell where I'm fishing most of the time. I've seen enough times the guy in the back of my boat struggle to even get a bite while I'm having a good day of fishing to know that just because you know they're there doesn't mean you can make them bite. I wish the guy hadn't deleted his comments on one of my videos, one of the very few I didn't come out and say exactly where I was. Occasionally, I find off the beaten path spots that are productive and I keep them to myself. I posted a couple videos from one of these spots last fall and a couple people really got into their feelings that I wouldn't give them the GPS coordinates to where I was catching these fish at ?

I could provide a few pages of pictures of fish with blue baits hanging out of their mouths, plastics, jigs, and bladed jigs. Low light conditions are for sure a good time for it, but it's a great color during the daylight hours as well. For me personally, the best times are when the water gets warm, and especially when it gets a green tint to it from algae blooms we often see in the summer months. Lakes with lots of grass seem to be good "blue", lakes also.

Yes it will, I use it for them frequently.

Some of the nasty stuff I've pulled fish through with just 15lb Tatsu when I first tried it, made me a believer.

20lb is about as small as I'd comfortably go on a standard bass casting reel with braid.

Okuma TCS 6' 9" MH/MF

That's why I mention what kind of forage the OP wants to imitate, because if he's trying to imitate a crappie, he'd be hard pressed to beat one of these. But for a shad/shiner/herring imitation, the Chad Shad is a great option.

I'd say it depends on what you're looking for in a bait and also what you're wanting to imitate but a KGB Chad Shad has to be one to look intoif you're looking for the best.

They let me go home once in awhile. Still got another 15 to do on a life sentence ?

Taco Bell is my fast food of choice. 15 years of eating jail food, it doesn't bother my stomach like everyone says it's supposed to.

I've found some really good spots with Google maps, also wasted a lot of time, but that's what makes finding the good spots that much more rewarding. My biggest swimbait fish was from a tiny puddle next to a public reservoir that I doubt many people ever even notice. I'd say at least 50% of being successful in kayak tournaments is being able to pick your areas on the maps because if you pick a bad area from the start, you're solidly behind the 8 ball. A lot of my pre-pre fishing is going over the maps and finding good looking areas and figuring out distances and potential backup areas.

It was drifted but there was over a foot of snow in my driveway. Sounds like we got around 8-10 inches of snow though. Hoping they'll have the roads cleared enough by Saturday for me to pull the boat. I got it all dug out just in time for the plows to push all the snow right back into our driveway.

Provoke or Stunna

Maybe make it a little tougher to fall down into the rocks and get snagged, but I don't usually fish a T-rig on heavy rock anyways.

It's coming down pretty good here and in the low 20's, feels like single digits, might make the bite a little tough this weekend ? If I have it my way I'll be out there trying though. Sucks because our lakes just thawed and made it into the low 40's.

Well after a short stint in Covid jail, seems I still remembered how to catch fish

Rigged just as it's laying in the picture, cut down to about the second "ring", from the head. I had high hopes for them as a punching bait when they came out, but they were unproductive to say the least for that. I think it was Ike that mentioned using them as a bladed jig trailer and that's when their real potential became obvious to me. You can also split the tail in 2 "fins", to get even more action.