Bluebasser86

I liked Nanofil, but Gliss is better and has taken it'splace.

A swing head with a beaver is a bait I have tied on all year long and really produces well in the winter months.

I bought one to try, I wish I wouldn't have.

I believe Brad's Wiggle has that type of line tie. It's a very similar bait to a wiggle wart.

We're actually using the weigh and immediately release, along with allowing "keepers" to be under the actual length limits. It's still a 5 bass format though.

I do, something new I'vebeen working on ?

You'll probably need something like this.

Spinning-rod in the right hand, reel left handed Casting-rod in left hand, reel right handed These 2 CANNOT be interchanged. I have practiced and practiced and now am fairly proficient casting left handed with casting gear, especially if I'm making short pitches or roll cast, so the whole switching hands argument doesn't apply there.

Yes, there was a small flock of gulls diving occasionally. It's funny because on this lake, gulls equal fish. On the other power plant lake I fish, gulls just equal shad because there's so many in that lake the birds can just follow schools of shad and pick them off.

You'll like it, I have one on my deck and one on the console. Very easy to read and operate.

Only good part about being back to work, I can finally edit my videos from my trips while I was off.

Followed the birds and my instincts to a massive school of very active wipers and spent about 2 hours catching them almost every cast.

My local store, Mondo Tackle, carries an excellent selection of high end rods, reels, line, and tackle. I can buy Megabass, Lucky Craft, G Loomis, Shimano, St. Croix, Daiwa, Phenix, Powell, and it's not a small selection of gear. It's no more than 3 miles from the nearest BPS store either, so they're really doing something right.

You can put most anything on a shakyhead. Only thing I've tried that didn't work was a tube. Lots of different jigs out there, which one you choose is mainly personal preference. I like the screwlock style football heads. Some guys like the spot remover type, others like the ones that the worm is put on the hook shank and is kind of like a pegged T rig. My personal favorite worms are the Netbait Tmac, Zoom trick worm, and Zoom magnum finesse worm. Recently been doing well with a Zoom baby brush hog on a shakyhead though.

I have a spool of the 5.2 I'm going to be flinging a grub with on Table Rock in March. Hoping to pit it up against some studly spotted bass to give it a good test

I've been fishing a KastKing Assasin for a few months now, put it through the ringer on some wipers, took a beating and came out the other side just fine. I'm not an Abu fan. They don't fit my hands well and the pawls seem to like to wear out quickly. I wouldn't be scared to try the Stealth.

Don't be afraid to think outside the box. I switched to mostly Pflueger and Okuma after years of fishing mostly Shimanos. I spend less money, and the reels perform great.

I have a few, they're good fish catchers, probably one of the worse casting baits I've ever fished though.

Cold, muddy water early in the year is black and red jig time. Don't know why, but I know it works.

When the water temps are in the 40's to high 50's. Basically, anytime you'd fish a suspending jerkbait you can catch them on the rig.

A lot of my fish in this video were on a buzzbait, including my largest of the day that I caught right around noon, or 11:35 in the video.

Optimum Baby Line Thru has been good for me and come in 4, 5, and 6 inch versions. They're relatively cheap and durable.

Cranks I usually stick to craw, chartreuse, shad, and bluegill colors. My plastics are mostly some variation of watermelon, green pumpkin, black and blue, junebug, and Okeechobee craw. There's some other colors splashed in there, but I tend to stick to the basics.

They came out with a bait they called the Wart Hog a few years ago, which looked exactly like the G5. I have several, they work well for me but others had issues with them filling with water. I must have just gotten lucky.

I had my packages of venison sitting on the deck for a few days after I got it back, didn't have enough room in the freezer but it never got out of the 20's, so I used Nature's freezer