Bluebasser86

My parents live in Piper and that's where I lived through my late teens/early 20's. It's a nice area, close to Wyco lake and Cabela's. Lots of shopping and dining at the Legend's for the family. Just don't go much east of 435 and you're good. Pretty quick to I70 and usually an easy run to downtown from there.

It's the best tool for the job for me. Braid sucks in the wind, something we have a ton of here. Combine heavy wind with a slack line presentation, it's terrible.

A #7 is over 1/4oz and a #9 is over 3/8oz, shouldn't have any issues casting those on casting gear with the proper rod and line. I fish the #5 (3/16oz), on a 6' 8" M/MF spinning rod with 8lb mono. Starts to feel a little overpowered fishing the #7 unless it's open water cranking (which I never do).

I wouldn't be too worried about them kicking your door in over a local tournament. I make my own that are as close a KO to a Jackhammer as I can possibly get for me to use. I see others selling very similar ones on tackle pages on Facebook constantly.

My favorite changes often, just depends on what the fish's favorite is at the moment. Lucky Craft Pointer 78, 100, Slender Pointer 97MR,112MR,127MR-NC Shell White, Crack, MS American Shad, Chartreuse Shad, Table Rock Shad, Nishki, Skeet's Magic. 6th Sense Provoke-French Bone Pearl, Table Rock Pro, Wabi Sabi Duo Realis 110sp, 120sp, Rozante 77sp-Neo Pearl, Purple Mist, Matte pearl/chartreuse Strike King 300-Clown, Chrome Blue Duel Hardcore Minnow Flat SP-Shad

12# InvisX

Some of my favorites;

Heavy cover=swim jig sparse cover=bladed jig If I'm throwing it IN the weeds/wood, I need a swim jig. If I can fish it around, over, through the cover, I'm going with a bladed jig.

I rarely throw a squarebill in a pond, but fish a lipless all the time.

Mepp's>Roostertail ?

AKA Roadwarrior ? I had David Harrison, who does some writing for many fishing publications, most notably In-Fisherman, in the boat with me Thursday. Being a transplant from Colorado, bass aren't his strong point and of course the lake we were on isn't nice even to the most skilled bass anglers. So he started by catching a fish on his very first cast of the morning, and after commenting how he'd never caught a bass on jerkbait, quickly caught the largest bass he'd caught since he was a teenage, maybe ever, on a 78 pointer I loaned him.

Welcome and thank you for your service!

Welcome!

Welcome!

I'm trying to keep track this year the number of black bass I catch. 3/4 of the way to 100 so far this year. Much slower start than last time I tracked my numbers, but hopefully the weather cooperates better than last time so I can finish the year much better than I did then.

We have 2 Golden Retrievers. Cassidie is 7 and her age is starting to show. She's been fishing with me since she was 4 months old. She's the best dog I've ever had and she leaves no doubt that I'm her favorite person in the house. Chloe is a maniac, but she's not 2 yet so she's got a lot of that puppy energy still. She's one of the most affectionate dogs I've ever been around, wants nothing more than to be petted and be as close to you as possible. The both get super excited when I ask if they want to go fishing. Chloe can still jump into the truck, I have to lift Cass in and out so she doesn't hurt her hips. On a nice day, they're as happy in my boat as I am.

I need one of the bigger ones for a swimbait reel.

A big rubbermaid tub works well for holding water keeping fish alive for short periods of time. I plug a power inverter into my truck and run a bubbler out the back into the tub. I don't do it with bass but it works great for keeping flathead bait alive on their way to their dinner meeting.

The Warpig is great for banging through rocks because of how it comes through the water with the nose down, protecting the hooks and deflecting off rocks. It does work good for bumping along mud and clay bottoms because the nose kicks up puffs of mud like a fleeing craw.

I've always done well with golden shiner colored plastics in tanic water. Strike King has a tube that has worked great for me in those conditions.

Different traps are better at doing different things. Some sound different, they vibrate different, have different fall rates, ect. I have my favorites, but carry a box full to cover all my bases.

Looks like a smallie with it's war paint on.

Welcome! Beautiful smallie! That's the fish I'm looking for to beat our state record!

I need a mental health day sometimes with my work. We don't have exactly have them, but I figure it's better for me to burn a sick day than go to work when I know I need a minute away from it.