Bluebasser86

Got one of the regular 3700 boxes I filled with topwaters, and a couple of the deep 3700 that I filled with plastics. They fit PERFECTLY in the center tackle storage of my boat and are so much nicer than having everything in a gallon ziplock bag.

I use jigging spoons the most, especially during the winter and summer months. My personal favorite is the War Eagle jigging spoon, either silver or white. I also use a Bink's spoon.

I managed to find a couple of exact same rods I had, a 7' MH Ethos. I believe it's rated a fast but feels more MF to me. It's a great trap rod and I bought both for less than $50.

Bass still manage to find craws and baitfish that aren't trying to be found in water with no visibility, they can find a Ned rig.

I'll throw it in anything above 40*.

Lots of good suggestions. I'd add a single or double Colorado bladed spinnerbait to the list.

That's a 1/4oz head.

The QT by my house has Ethanol free pumps, makes it a non issue for me. I still add Stabil every fill up though.

@12poundbass knows what's up. I put the lights on the house 2 weeks ago and the tree won't be long now. I quit fighting it when we had kids. If I had it my way the tree would go up the first day of December like we use to do when I was a kid.

I like that it's compact, makes a good flipping jig.

Almost 60 Sunday, to barely 20 Monday with 25mph winds ?

Wipers are very nomadic. They roam in schools, usually offshore during the summer, following schools of baitfish wherever they go. They're eating machines, so they'll never be far from the food. Fall brings the schools of baitfish closer to the shorelines, with it the wipers. It's possible that they're scattered all down the shoreline, or maybe you're just very lucky and your dock sits right on "the spot" that they've chosen to feed. There's a local lake I can only catch them during the late fall period. I can mark them all around, but there's one spot that's "the spot" where they feed for some reason, I've caught them nowhere else. The schools seem to shrink down in the fall when they move shallow, hunting more in small wolf packs instead of the huge offshore schools that can be hundreds and thousands of fish.

I've got that mold, it makes really nice jigs.

Maybe something to it. I just had a request for a smaller, more compact bait with a smaller hook. Not so much due to snags as it was because he wanted to imitate smaller baitfish, but I guess it's hard to find smaller versions. This was the end result with the #5 Flicker Shad in the color pattern he wanted me to mimic for scale. It's a pretty small hook, 4/0 I believe but possibly even a 3/0.

I've got a 5 gallon bucket of KIA baits in my garage if you want to try to get a fish or two out of them ?

One of my lakes I Ned rig often rarely has visibility more than 1-2 feet and it works great.

The nostalgia is strong scrolling through their site. A lot of "Why did I ever stop fishing those?" going on too.

The dream shot is nice. Nothing has been as good for me as a plain old green pumpkin Zoom shakyhead worm though.

Got out a couple times this weekend before we went into the deep freeze. This is the time of year when one of the lakes by our house likes to suddenly kick out wipers, and the weather was really nice (probably too nice), so I drug Lake out with me to try to see if we could find any. They were there, marking them all over on "the spot", but the water was still too warm to really get them biting like normal. I still managed to get one to bite, and Lake cranked him in. My parents watched the boys Sunday, so my wife and I took advantage of the nearly 60 degree day and spent a rare day on the water together. The fish weren't extremely cooperative, but we caught enough to keep it interesting, and I caught a couple keeper walleye that I brought home for my parents as a thank you for letting us get out for the day. We doubled to get the catching started for the day, then I followed up immediately with the first walleye of the day. While I was busy catching dink largemouth off a point, my wife decided to show off and catch the only wiper off the day off the same point. As our day was winding down and I was thinking I wasn't going to get anymore walleye to make it worth keeping, I found keeper #2 that officially made it worth getting my hands dirty. A pair of fat, fall eyes. One on a Duo 85 jerkbait, one on a 6th Sense Provoke jerkbait.

I've almost always got a plan where to start before the boat ever touches the water. Occasionally that plan changes by something I see when I get to the ramp, but not often.

2 of my main cold water presentations.

My list was a lot shorter this year than in years past it seems. Winter was pretty much ruled with the standard 1/8oz shakyhead and zoom mag finesse worm, but this year I also mixed in the homemade ugly spinnerbait, 5/8oz with double copper Colorado blades and a chartreuse split tail. Had some of my best days tossing that. Ned also had some good trips, as well as a Strike King 300 series (chrome sexy). Had some really good multispecies trips early on with a 4" KVD swim-n-shiner. Then; With the lakes flooded, cover was everywhere, and a homemade flipping jig, and a swimjig made by @Munkin were big players for awhile. My purple nitro and "Pepe the Slammer" were both good to me this year. The little Duo Rozante 77 jerkbait was great all year again, most notable among it's catches was my new PB smallmouth at 5.82 pounds. It was also my best bait our first trip to Table Rock this year. Once the water warmed up the "Code Blue" homemade bladed jig started catching them and never really slowed down. A black popping pad crasher was really good once the weeds got going. By some miracle, I managed to figure out the whole dropshot thing and it really took off for me. A Zoom shakyhead worm in plain old green pumpkin was just a killer for me. I probably went through 5 bags of them this summer and caught so many quality fish. Always sweet when the light bulb goes off and you feel like you finally get it when trying to learn a technique. The Big Bite Baits Yomomma was big again, specifically the sapphire blue, but also did well on the politician and black neon/watermelon red colors too. A lot of fall smallies were caught on KVD 1.0's and a 1/2oz War Eagle in either white with copper blades, or gold blades, both with a chartreuse split tail trailer. Only real notable new addition I can think of would be the 6th Sense Provoke jerkbait. Like the bait, colors are great, price is really good, EWG hooks on a jerkbait is my only complaint but that's an easy fix. Caught a lot of fish on a couple different colors of it already.

Welcome!

Just a boy in a his Sheriff Woody PJ's relaxing on his dog.

I have the 5" version in a bluegill pattern. It has to be fished very slowly or it wants to roll. I'd like to try the unrigged version and see how it swims. They make a bluegill wake that I've been fishing this summer that's been killing it and it's under $20.