Bluebasser86

I've caught so many big winter time bass on this bait, including my 5 and 6 pounder last Saturday. One of my 7's last year fell for one also. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Strike_King_KVD_HC_Flat_Side_15_Crankbait/descpage-SKKVDFS.html

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Uncle_Josh_Pork_Frog/descpage-UJPF.html https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Uncle_Josh_Big_Daddy_Pork_Frog/descpage-UJJF.html https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Uncle_Josh_Pork_Night_Crawler/descpage-UJPC.html https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Johnson_Silver_Minnow_Spoon/descpage-JSMS.html

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Looks like the color you get when you remelt a bunch of old plastics.

We do tomatoes, peppers, and watermelons. Going to do some green beans and some seasonings like cilantro this year as well. I ate so many tomatoes last year, big ones and cherry tomatoes, and still gave away hundreds and my wife made several big batches of salsa that I took to work and shared with everyone.

I always take my wife so nobody looks at me funny for shopping the jewelry building section at Hobby Lobby.

Same if I'm targeting smallies.

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If they're having fun and enjoying themselves, they're successful.

Crankbaits are rarely the best option, or even need to be out on the deck.

Gar are a lot of fun to fish for if you find a bunch of them. Supposed to be good eating too but I'll never know. I like to sight cast at them with hard jerkbaits (the cheaper the better). Hooking them is almost impossible but it's fun watching them stalk and attack.

What a mess. I caught about a dozen less than 6" channel cats in my net in a throw once, I thought that was bad.

Not sure the length of the one in your picture but I'd look at something with a solid ring and a little heavier built like this. https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/offshore-angler-ball-bearing-swivel-with-solid-rings

Yep, the reading comprehension isn't real great after working all day, sleeping 2 hours, then coming back to work ?

Not sure about feather but is that swivel rated for stripers? It looks awfully undersized, especially for the striper it looks like you're targeting.

What swimbaits are you talking about? $2 a bait is extremely cheap in the swimbait game.

Hopefully the OP has done some field testing with squarebills on braid since asking the original question 5 years ago ?

A Spro Little John DD is one of the only deep diving cranks I've had good success with other than the SK XD's. I don't deep crank often, but when I do, it's going to be a 5XD or 6XD. I should do it more, for the amount of time I deep crank, I've caught a good number of big fish on them. Biggest was a 7.5 on a green gizzard shad 5XD in January many years ago.

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Ned rig. I have days I catch more and bigger crappie than the guys fishing for them while I'm fishing a Ned for bass. It's frustrating at times.

I'm the cook at our house. Not that my wife can't, it's just that I like doing it so I do it most of the time. I do the dishes most often, take out the trash, while she does a lot of the picking up around the house and running the kids around. We both hate doing laundry so it's usually a team effort on Sundays to get all the laundry done. I run the weedeater and pushmower and she takes care of the rest with the zero turn. It's all a team effort but it's all moving parts and we both know that some days we have to do a little extra. Always seems to work out fine because we're never comparing who is doing more.

Mine was a 2 man, but yeah that checks out. Barely fit between the roll bars with spot lights mounted on top ?

They're going to ruin that lake ? at least that's what everyone keeps saying.