Bluebasser86

Your good morning, my good evening.

Buzzbait for largemouth, whopper plopper for smallmouth.

Depends a lot on the situation, but it's going to be a toss up between a jig, Ned rig, wacky rig, or bladed jig.

Welcome!

It has been a while since I've done any catfishing on the river. I'm thinking maybe my box had some water in it when I put it away?

Trying to go into this season with an open mind. Royals are not going to be good, but interested to see some of the young guys they have coming up. Really stinks that one of, if not their best, veteran player in Salvador Perez got hurt 2 days before opening day and will now miss at least the first month of the season.

A good hook and paint job (doesn't have to be a fancy paint job, just a clean one), a good skirt pattern and proper amount of skirt material, and a wire or thread tied skirt are what I look for.

52' down, you might not have hit it. You're going to be reading a pretty wide area even with traditional 2D sonar.

The XT is listed as a "hard to find item", for whatever reason, which means it doesn't qualify for the buy 1 get one 50% off deal, I've tried. No idea how a readily available reel is "hard to find", but apparently it is for them unfortunately.

My buddy likes to call them Sac-a-Lait, or dinner, whichever. I turn them loose since I'm not a fish eater.

My favorite fish to hate catching. My first 6 fish Monday were drum, it was ridiculous. Ended up catching 14 or 15 of them up to almost 10 pounds. Didn't think they'd be that active with the water still being pretty cool, but they sure proved me wrong. I take more than a little ribbing over my uncanny drum catching skills.

TW, Academy, and Ebay.

Too pricey and fragile for me. I use a YUM swimming Dinger instead, also for a bladed jig trailer.

I've had great luck with a Ned rig on beds. Coppertruese is good because it's easy to see. I also will go the complete opposite end of the spectrum and fish a 7-8 inch swimbait and get some really violent reactions out of the fish.

This is the same as what I do.

I use a 1/2oz a majority of the time, even in water less than a foot. Put a bulky trailer with lots of action and it will slow the jig down quite a bit to keep it from sinking into the mud if that's a concern, but remember that those little puffs of mud and silt can resemble a craw or baitfish scooting along the bottom and get a fish's attention.

I have a Helios and 2 Helios TCS baitcaster. All 3 are very nice reels. 2 other Okuma baitcasters and 4 Okuma rods in the arsenal also. All very nice and enjoyable to fish with. Their RTX spinning reel is one of the smoothest, solidest feeling spinning reels I've ever owned but for some reason I don't hear about them often. It's my poor mans CI4+ Stradic, and it has an anti-reverse switch that I have to have.

That looks more like brush than fish to me.

A trick worm is one of the most versatile baits out there that can be fished almost any way you can think of. I'd be surprised if there's more than a couple people who use them that don't fish them on the bottom on some kind of rig.

I'm a LEO, I fish for bass, I was born in 86.

I imagine fish think the bait is about to escape to the safety of the shallows and react quickly. I've caught lots of fish while shore fishing within the last few feet of the bank. Nice fish and a good reminder for those that give up and reel in quickly instead of fishing the bait through one of the most productive parts of the retrieve.

Welcome!

Not me, I hate fishing pads. I love fishing frogs around other kinds of grass though. A Booyah Popping Pad Crasher in Cricket Frog is my go to. Excited to try the new Toadrunner too.

Strawberries?? All that cajun food and I get strawberries??

Shawnee was pretty good Monday despite the terrible weather.