Bluebasser86

I use these a lot around rocks and they do really well avoiding snags.

I've been messing with some big ones. These have the magnum blades and are 3/4oz heads. Had some fish slam them yesterday.

I've owned a bunch, never had one break.

There's KO's out there, but I have some of those too and they work great. OP, I have over 2 dozen with 90s, 110s, and 130s in the mix and I've lost another dozen. Have yet to have a single one that would spin during the retrieve. Only time I've seen issues that weren't caused by weeds or junk on the surface was if the user was using any line other than braid or not holding the rod tip up.

This is the color I like when the algae blooms fire up.

I forgot to add the video that went with the livewell picture

Took my oldest son, Lake, for his first Father and Son trip in the boat on Saturday. We both had a great time and he hasn't stopped talking about it since. He was pretty worn out on the way home.

A big crooked tailed white bass that slammed my bladed jig.

I hunt and build fishing lures.

My buddy hooked my old dog once, who in turned hooked me while trying to hold him still and calm him down. Being attached to 70 pounds of panicked canine by a fishing hook is not a good time.

My biggest swimbait bass came from a tiny puddle I found on Google maps and walked through the woods to get to. I'm always searching for remote water.

I can almost always tell by the fight what it is, and some fish I can tell by how they bite what they are. Drum have a very distinct bite, and nothing inhales a bait like a flathead. Channel cats hit moving baits very distinct and almost always start rolling immediately.

Welcome and thank you for your service!

Welcome!

Hit Miami for a few hours yesterday. Lake looks nasty, probably got a big influx of water and rough fish from the river this past week I'm sure, carp jumping everywhere and even saw some gar. Still had the best fishing I've had out there in a couple years. Once I figured them out it was pretty steady. Still not a single bite in the trees in the middle though.

One of my biggest pond bass was on a 7" Slammer in a pond I could cast across.

Booyah Popping Pad Crasherin Cricket Frog

25 will work fine for trout and then it's big enough to use for bass the rest of the year.

Yep, they're impossible to beat. I've tried others, but always come back to the Pad Crasher.

Dirty but it's never really clear. It's always a good lake when the water is high, turns those frog eaters on.

Gardner fished good last night.

I don't fish them through trees. The big hook I put on them snags trees like crazy. I fish them in any water clarity, stained to mud is best though. I do well in clear water with either a naked one with a swimbait or a solid white with a chartreuse trailer. I was fishing it over grass in that video which is why I was reeling so fast and snapping the bait.

Honey Creek is the big arm straight east of Shangri-La, south of Grove.

Towards that end of the lake I've always done well around Shangri-La, Honey Creek, Courthouse Hollow, and Woodward Hollow. Last time I was there they ate a popper good until the sun got high and boat traffic picked up, then we did really good dragging 10" worms on swinging football heads. Also caught some good ones skipping wacky rigs under dock walkways and cables but none in the stalls.