Bluebasser86

Crankbaits. I caught a crappie on a crankbait during our Thursday night tournament tonight. I think that's the first fish I've caught on a lipped crankbait since January.

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Agreed, love my other P-line products, but I won't use Fluoroclear again except maybe for trout or crappie.

Just use straight braid. That's what I do and I've never had any issue with the hooks tangling.

The Ugly Otter is a creature bait, the Why Not and the Super Hog to me are more of a beaver than a creature since they really lack anything to create any extra action. Just by my definition anyways. I don't carry any of those 3 but that's how I'd classify them when I was bagging them up.

@gardnerjigman has given me the beat down from the back of my boat with a frog with his Lightning Rod Shock frogging rod more than once. I use a 7' 3" H/F Ethos from Academy that I paid $27 for. It needs to be light, powerful, but have a tip that loads well enough to accurately cast a frog.

Hard to go wrong with a bone one knocker spook. I also have a kind of translucent colored one that does well in very clear water.

That's why I started pouring my own. Initial cost is high, but I fish enough that it quickly paid for itself. Spending 5X as much per head what I can make one for and have it customized to my specs, that was reason enough for me.

You'd have to define creature bait a bit to help narrow down your answers. To me, a Pit Boss and Sweet Beaver are beavers. A creature has to have multiple legs/flappers in my book. Hard to beat an original brush hog in black or a baby brush hog in watermelon red magic or plum apple.

I have had a hard time hooking fish with screwlock hooks when I'm pitching. I like an EWG or straight shank for that duty.

When I was starting out learning a T rig, I fished a green pumpkin Trick Worm with a 1/16oz bullet weight on a spinning rod and 8lb mono and slayed the fish.

A T-rigged craw tube caught me a lot of fish last year. Pitching a tube use to be one of my favorite ways to fish but it just isn't the cool thing to do anymore so it's kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of guys. They're a great big fish pitching bait for me though.

Sounds similar to how I was catching them at Table Rock in April. If it wasn't a tiny swimbait or jerkbait, they wouldn't touch it. All the tournament guys that fished normal sized stuff struggled or blanked while I was catching 12-15 pound bags each day without even fishing hard. Tried a ton of other stuff and couldn't even get a bite. Crazy how keyed in they can get. Good job grinding some out though!

On a good night, I like my job, so I can't really get behind the saying because making money doing something you don't mind doing is pretty nice and I've had some awful days on the water that were worse than some of my really bad days at work.

I had one of my 100+ fish days this winter casting a 1oz jigging spoon as far as I could and reeling it as fast as I could, skipping along the surface if possible. Never thought I'd crush them burning a jigging spoon but I sure did.

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What a terrible last few days. Thank you everyone for the thoughts and prayers, it really helps to know you have people pulling for you. Our 16 month old boy, Finn, has been kind of off and on fighting a stomach bug for over a week with really runny diapers and being fussy and clingy, not his usual happy, playful self. Well Sunday we were going to go around to the Miami County farm days, where you can visit local farms and see how they run and get to pet some of the animals, kids and my wife love it, I grew up working on my grandparents farm so it's not that exciting for me but it wasn't for me. Finn was really sluggish waking up and not interested in eating or drinking much, which also is really unusual for him, all he wanted was to be held but he was fussing and felt really hot. Turned out he had a 99.6* fever, but my wife was convinced it was a tooth coming in causing it so we went anyways. By the time we got to the second farm he was sweaty and really lethargic, he looked exhausted but kept fussing and not falling asleep like we thought he might to sleep off whatever was bugging him. When I picked him up I could feel his heart beating really fast and he was breathing funny. I told my wife we needed to take him to urgent care and she didn't want to at first but I kept bugging her about it so we took off on the 30 minute drive into town to urgent care. By the time we almost there, Finn was sort of crying but taking really fast, shallow breaths and choking up. I jumped into the back seat and pulled him out of his car seat to pat him on his back and his eyes were rolling around and he was really pale and drenched in sweat. We got to the urgent care for Children's Mercy and I handed Finn to my wife to run him inside while I gathered Lake and anything else we needed out of the car and ran inside too. They were already in the back with Finn, so Lake and I stayed in the waiting room, trying to keep Lake out of the room from seeing his baby brother like that. My wife texted me that they were in room 8 and he was getting put on an IV and having blood drawn and I needed to come back. It was rough seeing his tiny little body on the table with all the doctors and nurses around him. I've been in the hospital lots of times for work with people who had OD'd or were shot/stabbed and not doing good, there's always lots of staff in the room, it's never a good sign when there's lots of staff in the room. My wife broke down as soon as we got there so I told her to take Lake and get out of there so she could calm down. They had a hard time finding a good vein and the first stick didn't take and the second one was in his wrist, which was a less than ideal spot but it worked at that moment. Having to hold your child down when you know they're scared and in pain and want nothing more than for you to hold them is heart wrenching. Once they had the blood drawn and the IV going he was wrapped up tight so he couldn't pull the IV, it really sank in that it could be anything and that's when it got me real bad. The doctors and nurses kept funneling in, we did several test, Xray, blood, stool, sonogram. At the urgent care, the doctor suspected it was something I can't pronounce that is basically when the intestines telescope in on themselves, which tends to happen at the same time a person has a stomach virus. That's when we were transported to Children's Mercy hospital in downtown KCMO for more test, which eventually determined that it appeared to at least be nothing gravely serious. From the best the doctors could tell, he had gotten a bad stomach virus, which caused him to have the bad runny diapers, and also gotten a secondary viral infection that looked like a rash but was also on his tongue and throat that made swallowing painful, so he wasn't drinking or eating well, which caused him to get severely dehydrated very quickly. We got released Tuesday around noon and picked Lake up from his grandma's and had to stop to get some formula really quick so my wife just dropped me at the front of the store to run in and grab some. While I was inside he said his throat hurt. We had him open his mouth and saw this; Good thing is, we we're that far from their regular doctor's office and it was still walk in hours, so Lake and my wife ran inside real fast while Finn, Cassidee, and I sat in the car watched Daniel Tiger and ate Goldfish. Thankfully they got them in really fast and did a rapid strep test that was negative, he just had a viral infection of his own. We finally got home around 4PM, the wife and I a frazzled mess, neither one of the boys feeling great but neither was bad enough to be in the hospital so that was an improvement. After they got their baths and relaxed a bit, I gave Finn his bottle and put him in his swing, I'm not sure if it went back and forth 10 times before he was asleep. He didn't sleep maybe 6 hours the almost 3 days we were in the hospital. It was just after 8PM when he crashed, and other than a couple times he whined a little that I gave him bottles, Tylenol, and changed his diaper in the middle of the night and had him back asleep in less than 10 minutes each time, he didn't wake up again until after 10AM yesterday morning. He spent the whole day running around the house laughing and playing like nothing every happened, it really was great to see him back to his old self so fast. Lake's throat was still red but he said it didn't hurt as bad so hopefully he'll be better in a day or two. Sorry that was long winded, but there's brief run down of what happened.

Not a fan, too many weird break offs with it.

Sunup? I've been catching them in the dark ?

Glad that lake turned on. It only took 5.5 pounds to win our Thursday night tournament out there a few weeks ago and half the boats didn't catch bass over a pound. Me and @gardnerjigman never had anything that was for sure a bite I don't think.

We get to go home today. Waiting to hear more from the doctors during there rounds in a little bit.

They have it for Apple phones because everyone in our group uses it for weigh in. RMP, Russell Marine Products Right Cull App. You might just try a Google search for Right Cull App.