Bluebasser86

Hard candy with the tabs of the tail dipped in chartreuse JJ's.

I'll wipe my hands in the water after grabbing a catfish. Usually lip bass so not a lot of slime transferred in that process. Smell doesn't really bother me too much but if my wife complains when I get home that my hands smell like fish, I wash them off with toothpaste, takes the smell right off.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Outlet bait and tackle

There's lots of apartments if push came to shove, not sure if that's an option for you. I'm sure it's less than ideal but sometimes have to do what you have to do.

I've got one as well as several other Helios (regular and TCS), all very nice reels and you can find them for well below retail I guess due to their lack of popularity? Not sure if that's the case but it's a win for me! I use mine for jigs mainly, paired with a 7' 5" H/F Okuma EVX, it'll get 'em out. Pulled this one out of brush and a Georgia cube.

Same. Only topwaters I don't use braid for are buzzbaits and baits with front props. Everything else is straight braid, 20 for treble hook baits, 50 for frogs and toads.

Seaguar Smackdown

Lizards still work, I used almost a whole bag of green pumpkin purple flake YUM 6" lizards Thursday without even trying very hard.

He has a lot of what we call "Nedisms". He's a very intelligent person, and his writing and speaking reflects it, but he has certain words he likes to sprinkle in frequently. His Midwest Finesse blog is "laden" <Nedism> with them.

I've never really considered the Menace a grub, more of a beaver/creature bait imo. For the sake of argument, it has to have a curly tail to be a grub in my book, so with that being said, 4" Yamamoto single tail, smoke no flake.

40% off War Eagles? Okay, I'm in. And a Chrome KVD 300 because of, reasons...

I've tried the Mister Twisters and was not a fan. YUM Craw Papi and Christe Craws is where it's at for "bargain" craws. I buy the Christie craws in 30 packs I like them so much. I'd do the same with the Craw Papi but they're not offered in them yet that I'm aware of. The 3.75" size is great as a stand alone or jig trailer. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Yum_Craw_Papi/descpage-YCP.html https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Yum_Christie_Craw_35/descpage-YUMCRCW.html

Decided to try a lake I haven't fished in almost 5 years Thursday. Use to be one of my favorites, but flooding and heavy pressure caused it to nose dive hard several years ago and a lake that regularly kicked out 20lb bags became tough to get bit on at all. Last years floods were timed right, and all our big lakes have reaped the benefits in the form of plentiful forage and lots of healthy, although smaller, bass that survived after hatching. I've been tracking my numbers of bass caught this year with a small clicker/counter. I started the day with 304 bass on the year, I'll let you guys do the math. Only fish I caught other than a bass all day was a sauger on a swinging football head and a Rage Bug. Wish it hadn't been so cold, my wife and boys would have had a blast but I doubt I'd have been the only guy out there after them then. Big fish of the day was a 4.08 smallie, 2 weeks in a row with a smallmouth over 4, not a common thing to accomplish in Kansas. It was 40 degrees with 15mph east winds and raining by noon. My hands were so cold when I stopped at 3 I couldn't even re-rig my rage bug, so when a fish bit my legs off I just had to fish something else.

It's a growth of some sort. I'm sure it was an infection that was healed and grew the "eyebrow". The fish was over 5 pounds and obviously feeding so it didn't seem to be bothering it.

I've broken 2 for no apparent reason (of the 5 I've owned). I've got about a dozen Provokes, they're sweet baits.

Absolutely, it doesn't have to be near the shoreline for bass to spawn on it, just shallow enough for their eggs to get enough sunlight and heat.

Most culling tools come with a little card or board so you can write down which color is your small fish. This is great if you remember to do it and aren't culling a lot. I've not fished many tournaments but culling is always a huge hassle regardless it seems.

I've got some 16" "Bullwhip" worms. As big around as my thumb at the head with a little curl tail.

Just hoping it gets here by my birthday at the end of the month. Not sure how all the shipping from Japan is working with everything going on right now. I usually already have stuff by now, trying to be patient but it's tough to do when you drop that much on a bait.

Doesn't need to be fancy. Ned himself uses decade old Cardinals with Shakespeare rods from Walmart. I'd look more towards the ML/F side than M/F for a Ned specific rod though.

They'll spawn shallow and next to cover. Make multiple cast next to targets and if you miss a bite, make several cast back because it might have been a next guarding fish.

I use an app and I'd bet a 20 spot I can weigh and input the data faster than you can go through your livewell, pull your fish out and put them on the beam. Turn the scale on, clip them on, open the phone, type it in, bam you're done. Whole process takes 30 seconds, a minute if I'm taking my time, which I usually am since I never fish tournaments. I've got the RMP app the OP was talking about, maybe the new app is more time consuming, but the RMP is really fast and even highlights your biggest and smallest fish for culling time and instantly adds up your bag.

Grand Slam Hi-SEAS. Found a bunch at WalMart on clearance for $2 a spool and wish I'd have bought all of it.