Bluebasser86

I carry 1/16, 1/4, and 1/2 in any real number. I carry a few specialty weights, but those make up a majority of the worm weights I carry.

I wouldn't imagine them being much different than dragging a swinging football head? Probably be a little harder on your line even depending on where the line enters the weight and how protected the line is from the lead.

If I were starting a jerkbait box over again; 6th Sense Provoke Duo Realis Rozante 77sp Strike King 300 Yo-Zuri 3DB Series 110 Headhunter HH Minnow

My wife did the same when she found out she was pregnant with our first son. She said that we weren't all 3 going to fit in the boat I had at the time. I sold mine and spent almost 2 years shopping until I found the one I wanted.

Thanks, it was a tough day to say the least. I got it on kind of a preorder deal from St. Croix.

He actually found the owner and returned it to him. He's a standup guy just doing what we'd all want done in that situation if we were the poor soul that broke off the $150 swimbait on a fish.

Got real close to hitting a big bull pulling my boat down a country road at night once. It was a new moon, pitch black. My old truck had dim lights, even when the brights were on. One of those situations when you think something doesn't look right but not quite sure what you're seeing. The bull was jet black, head down and quartering away so I couldn't see any horn. He just blending it with the blackness around him. The alarms were already going off in my head that something wasn't right, so I'd already slowed down thankfully, so when I fully realized what I was looking at I didn't have to lock up my brakes.

My prefishing day last Friday for my kayak tournament on Saturday did not go well. I did get a few bonus fish though. The only thing I caught on a crankbait despite throwing the stupid things until my arm was about to fall off. The flatheads were about carbon copies of each other, but one was barely hooked while the other almost swallowed it.

If you haven't watched some tips from Navarro on Youtube, check him out. I put some bike chain oil on my drive and it helps with the noise. I have 3 props after breaking one on a prefishing day in a stump filled lake. Haven't busted a shear pin yet but I'm sure I will.

Really loving the updated version of this lineup. Much thinner, and lighter than the last version. I got the 7' 1" M/F spinning rod and unlike some of their other lower end rods I've had in the past, this one fishes very true to it's ratings instead of above. I've been using it for finesse plastics and it's done a great job. Leaned on it heavily (literally and figuratively), this past weekend to take second place in my last regular season kayak tournament of the year and secure my spot atop the AOY standings for my club. This fish that was the second biggest of the tournament catapulted me from 6th to 2nd with 20 minutes in the day. Ate a 5" curl tail worm on an EWG Midwest finesse head next to some grass and swam past a standing tree. Had to pull it from around the tree and through the grass. Thankfully the rod and 8lb Seaguar Gold Label leader were up for the task at hand.

Woo used a spincast reel also. He used a tube with 6lb line on a spincast reel on a flipping stick. He used it so his tube would fall freely into the grass on a slack line in the windy conditions during the 2000 Classic.

Congrats! I have it's big brother, the 120pdl. It was a game changer for me as well. I'd highly suggest some kind of hand paddle for small adjustments. I use a Yak Gear Backwater Assault paddle. Never thought I'd use one but I was given one and it's great for making small adjustments or using along with the peddles to make adjustments in tight quarters. https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/yak-gear-backwater-assault-hand-paddle?ogmap=SEM|PLN|GOOG|SHOP|c|OUT||NonBrand-Shopping-HighIntent-Outdoor|Outdoor-Boating||71700000050238199|58700004916746683&sku=22-orange

I've got a couple in my box. They're still as good as when they were first introduced. Caught a fast limit with one in a kayak tournament back in May this year.

My favorite crankbait is one I don't have to fish, but if I had to pick one, it would be one a local guy does that he calls River Shad.

It's really not that big. I have some and a majority of it is the tail and the body is no thicker. I was hoping for a monster worm but a 10" Berkley Power worm looks bigger.

The Strike King 3XD gets down pretty good.

Keith Poche goes out of his way to run into things sometimes too.

Shad love rocks too. Algae grows on rocks and the shad eat it off the rocks. Bugs and snails live on the rocks, bluegills eat the bugs off the rocks, smallmouth eat the larger bugs and smaller bluegills. Is it possible the rocks are just the best option around? I've caught smallmouths out of grass when they had rocks available close by but none off the rocks and also out of bushes when the lakes come up. In current, rocks are the best current break though I imagine.

@buzzed bait caught a bass with a whole Deps 250 stuck to it a few weeks ago. I've caught several bass with baits in their mouths and throats. A buddy of mine caught a bass that I broke off in a tournament the week before with my jig still in the corner of her jaw. The fish weighed 8lb 2oz ?

No, the drag should be set correctly so it isn't needed.

I actually cast and burn a 7/8oz jigging spoon through surface schooling fish. They're typically schooling on smaller baitfish and even though the spoon doesn't do much, it flashes enough and looks enough like a fleeing baitfish that it gets bit and it cast a mile.

I usually fish 6-8 hours. If I'm giving free reign like prefishing tournaments when I have sunup to sundown, that's what I do. I've had some 14-15 hour days on the water.

Welcome!

I used one this weekend and went 100% on hookups and caught my biggest of the tournament on it. Thankfully didn't lose any heads either.

The actual hook for the mold or the entire finished jighead?