Bluebasser86

They won't dry out. Only baits you need to worry about drying out are Gulp. That's what those Bait Locker ones are for.

The one time that I've been to Canada, we went to Eagle Lake. I was only 13 then. We didn't catch any muskie, but neither my dad or I had ever fished for them. My dad is a walleye guy, but we didn't catch many of those either. Mostly we caught pike while we were trying to fish for everything else, and a lot of perch while walleye fishing. Crazy how dirty the water was though.

That's basically how I've fished it in the current. If the current is slower, you can hold your rod tip high and just follow the bait downstream and let it swing in the current seams. It really is pretty similar to flyfishing when done in the current.

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Only time I let it hit the bottom is on the initial fall. Any other times that it touches the bottom are incidental.

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I'm going with a solid neither of them. When it gets tough, I reach for a wacky, Ned, and recently added this little guy to the mix.

If you're asking hook size, I use a #4 or #2. I pour my own with the Midwest Finesse mold and use the 1/16oz 99.9% of the time. The bait being light and falling slow is kind of the whole idea of the rig. It parachutes down, swirls around in the current, just like a craw/minnow/bug that's been dislodged/disrupted from it's hiding spot and is easy pickings.

Have you fished them before? I used to all the time when they were $5 each, which was still painful because there were lots of times they only made it through a fish or two before they were trashed. I stopped buying them when they jumped the price 3 more dollars each. Lots of good little swimbaits out there. I switched to the Optimum BLT where a treble hook could be fished, but something like a trash fish would be good if you need weedless. Oooohhh, I like that shad.

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I fished a regional qualifier at Patoka several years ago. I almost qualified for the day 3 with 1 2.5 lb fish. 10 pounds won the non boater side for a 3 day tournament. I have absolutely no problem believing it's dead last in the country.

Agreed, I avoid trebles if at all possible at night. It's hard enough not to get hooked in the daylight.

I use to fish a grub under a bobber a lot the same way I'd fish one for crappie. Give it a little pull and let it swing back under the bobber and sit there for a few seconds before repeating. Caught a lot of bass that way, as well as having quite a few bass hit my bobber.

I throw mine on 30lb braid and have my rods for guide trips rigged with 20lb braid. Had 3 trips in a row that one of the guys lost one of my ploppers even with the braid. The fun part is, they're paying so not only am I out a plopper, but I have to give them another one and hope they don't lose it. That's why I have so many though, have to have multiples in case a certain size or color is producing best.

Looks like a Sassy Shad on a bullet head.

I've been using it for a few years on spinning gear and like it really well. Not sure why folks seem to have an issue with it, but I'd tend to point towards user error.

T rigged beavers, brush hogs, and big worms, buzzbaits, bladed jigs, jigs, flipping grass.

I fish both but prefer to stick to the stained water during the summer months. I've never paid attention to whether I was fishing the day before or the day after, I'll have to give that some thought next time. My night fishing is on hold until the baby is sleeping through the night unfortunately. Hopefully that will be soon, getting too hot for me to want to be fishing all day.

I don't like fishing during a full moon, never have as much as I do during other moon phases. I do tend to catch a big one on full moon night fishing excursions, but numbers are always way down. I have found in the last few years that I have better luck with white or natural colors during the full moon versus the dark colors I normally use.

NO, they've tricked me enough times. I may be a slow learner at times, but I've learned my lesson about buying their baits.

I could see where cost would make you shy away, especially if you like dragging them through rocks like I do. They cost me less than $.50 apiece to pour though, so losing one hurts way less except when I start thinking about having to pour more.

I've got a 3700 box of nothing but Ploppers in the 3 smaller sizes, I think I'm probably good on those. Plus, in case I'm a little short on the mortgage it seems I could just post this on Ebay and make up for it

I made a bulk order with a group of buddies direct from a factory in China. Bought a bunch of 1/2oz tungsten flipping weights for $.87 each. I'm set for quite awhile on tungsten unless I go to Florida or somewhere I need magnum punching weights.

I have 2 9 ratio reels, both are used for pitching jigs and plastics.