Bluebasser86

A 9" jelly worm isn't a very big bait. A 5/0 EWG will work just fine. I fish a YUM Mighty worm quite a bit (10.5" and about twice as thick as the jelly worm), with a 7/0 EWG monster worm hook. I've caught plenty of bass barely longer than the worm eat them with no problems. Regular T rig gear works just fine.

That does look like and Oklahoma color ? if I'm making a bait for someone in OK you can be sure it's going to be ugly and have some red and/or orange in it somewhere.

Clown is one of my favorite jerkbait colors in stained water.

I mainly fish pink with a wacky rig, floating worm, fluke, and Ned rig, but they'll eat it other times. Largemouth have no issues eating a pink bait either.

Congrats on the bass and the open water. Everything is locked up here minus the power plant lakes.

If I had to pick one, it would be a 7.1 about 30IPT for the whole I can always slow down with a fast reel but I can only really speed up so much with a fast reel, argument.

I sold a couple fairly well used 200E7s for $150 not too long ago. Guys just seem to love them but I guess I wasn't as overly impressed with them. The E5 is the slower cranking model, I still have one that DVT supertuned for me that I really like but I wouldn't pay almost new value for a used one like guys are doing right now.

I second the grass jig. I have the Trokar swim pro but I'm not a fan of the mold for swim jigs. I use it to make heads for bladed jigs.

I found the top one a couple months ago, put new hooks on it, tied it on and caught a couple with it. Action was a little underwhelming but it did cast well on casting gear for such a small bait. I like the shiny olive color though.

I do it with most of my reels that have fluoro on them. No reason to replace 100+ yards of line when I only need to replace 2/3 of that.

Electric Shad

Welcome!

It's a trial thing since the serial spamming seems to have cooled off. Some other factors played into it but as long as we can all act like big kids about it, and the spammers don't come back, we're going to roll with the ban lifted. Just don't poke the bear about the subject would be my friendly suggestion ?

You will be fine and can leave the trailer on without issue provided they aren't stored with other plastic trailers.

I don't get snagged with it often and when I do it's rarely deep enough I can't reach it easily. I did cast it off once but found it laying on the bottom in the shallows.

I've sight fished a few fish at night on bright nights cruising right next to my boat. On the private lake where the water is really clear I can see them in moonlight or in the dockside lights because the water is very clear.

It's not very different really, other than I'd say they tend to venture a little further from cover in the dark than they do during overcast conditions because of the even further decreased visibility. I'm speaking mainly of hard edges in grass because our lakes lack the expansive grass flats that some have. Most of what I deal with are emergent weeds that grow withing 10' of the shoreline and have a hard edge. Fish will bury up in them during the daylight hours and then cruise the edges when it's dark or cloudy.

I had the Falcon version. It's a good spinnerbait box and it doesn't effect the wire strength/durability at all that I could tell. It was easy to take one out without removing another.

One person's opinion of what's a solid product isn't going to align with another though, and that's okay. If there's an opinion thread (X vs Y), you're always going to get differing opinions. I promise you, I could start a thread Ugly Stick vs GLX/Legend Elite/Steez and there would be some picking the Ugly Stick over the high end rods because it's the indian not the arrow, Ugly Stick are the best rods ever ect. (Ugly Stick are just fine if you like them, just using them as an example, I own a few myself). You have to take it all with a grain of salt too. Some will grade a rod great or poor by what they read or hear, or from just holding one in a store and never actually using it. Plus what feels good to one may not to another. I'm not a big fan of Abu Revos because they don't fit my hands well. Doesn't make them bad, makes them bad for me, but I understand that, some others don't and will grade a product poorly because it didn't fit them.

My uncle loves to eat drum, says they're one of the best eating fish out there. They eat mainly fish, crays, and clams, not silt and junk like a lot of people think, so it would make sense that they'd be decent eating. I don't eat fish, so I'm not finding out, but there are a decent number of people that eat them around here.

Where's the bashing going on at? Product bashing isn't allowed so if there's bashing going on just for the sake of bashing a company/product report it so it can be dealt with. However, if someone has used/owned a product and wasn't impressed they're entitled to their opinion. I just searched through several topics that discussed the E6X and actually seemed pretty split between people who liked it and those who didn't or recommended something else, which is pretty typical.

I fish the 1/2oz in 1-2 feet all the time. Drop it to the bottom and rip it up and let it sink again. It kicks up a puff of mud off the bottom, looks like a baitfish that's dying and settling to the bottom and kicking back up towards the top. They'll crush it, it'll look something like this. 2' of water back in December. Pretty much the same reason I do it. RES are super popular here because of all the shad in our lakes, so anything that has that profile but with a different sound I think gets a few more bites. Not sure if that's why they work, but man do they work. The first one I ever bought when the came out is getting broke in pretty good.

Watermelons, green pumpkins, white, and pink. I like to use either a stick worm or a weighted trick worm. A weighted pink or white trick worm has saved the day on a couple post spawn guide trips for me.

Dropshot for sure. One of the most popular finesse techniques out there and I just can't get the hang of it. I can catch some doing it, but if I switch to a Ned rig my catch jumps exponentially. It's starting to make sense though.