Bluebasser86

I fish mine on braid with a leader. All I do is reel into them.

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Mine was the first time we took our son Lake, out in the new boat. He had his little Dock Demon he was swinging around with a dog toy on the end copying what I was doing on the front deck. My wife took the picture of us and when I shared it on here member @buzzed bait added the caption. I liked it so much it's been my avatar ever since.

Football jig is my personal favorite.

Mine stays covered. A lot of companies offer incentives and reduced prices for long term customers.

I didn't, hence the spelling . Sleeping 2 hours in 2 days does a body (and your grammar/spelling), good kids. I'm just messing with you OP. Just to clarify, hooking fish outside of the mouth between the eyes? Or is it straight up through the roof of the mouth and coming out between the eyes? I fish a bladed jig a lot and it's pretty rare to see one get hooked outside of the mouth on one.

They make a big, chisel tip Sharpie that doesn't smell any more than a regular Sharpie. I think I know what type of marker you're talking about, I'd be a little more concerned about using one of those.

I know man. That's the shop, there's a 2 car garage for my wife to park her car as well so the shop is my new man cave They don't make a bass boat that won't fit in there with enough room to park the truck and all my toys in there with it The neighbor 2 houses to the north has horses and he actually cut and bailed the field for the previous owners and kept the hay for his horses so we're just going to continue that deal with them. That way I only have 2-3 acres to mow. Still need a new mower, the old push mower isn't going to work.

What size did you buy? I had a similar experience with a Storm Arashi Top Walker 13 last week where it was slow until I decided to try a new bait.

I use a sharpie to color my braid with no ill effects. I like the big chisel tip and always have a couple in the boat. Don't need it as much with the Seaguar Flipping Braid, but it fades a bit after awhile so I'll touch it up. Good for adding accents to baits too.

Spent my days off this past week getting us moved into our new house. I walked almost 14.5 miles back and forth loading and unloading stuff to and from the U-haul on Wednesday. Thursday was more of the same, but I at least had my dad to help get the last few big things. Friday a buddy and I carried everything into the house from the shop (we couldn't get into the house until Thursday but we had free reign of the shop Wednesday and needed to be out of the old house by 9 AM Friday, so we moved most everything into the shop). My wife and MIL spent most of the day yesterday putting things away while I was sleeping after my first day back from work. Last night was the first night we got to relax a little and really take in everything. It's a 1,700 SQFT house with a basement, 2 car garage, 1,200 SQFT shop, 8 acres, and a pond (not the septic pond in the first picture ). We're both really excited to be at the new place and out away from things even more than we were. All the way to the tree line is ours.

Flipping a Horny Toad with a pegged weight used to be a big thing (probably still is in some areas). It's not really a lot different than the action of a say a Rage Craw or Speed Craw, just a much bulkier body.

I have never had much luck out there in the fall but it's possible I've never timed it right. Seems like I'm always post cold front conditions in the fall out there. Dragging a jig is the best big fish deal out there for me. It seems like this time of year they'll be on one of the front corners, or dead center off the front of the docks. Never had much luck skipping under docks or along the sides this time of year. Dragging a jig on the drop off the dam is good for bigger smallies too. All Wabaunsee jig fish from the last couple years. I don't get out there very often and may not at all now that it's so much further away.

Count the rocks with your jigs, never let it leave the bottom.

They don't open until around 7am most days. I've night fished it a few times and never had any luck with topwater. I've had a couple days where it was cloudy that I got a decent buzzbait bite, but never anything worth losing sleep over. This time of year out there, I can pretty much plan on having a jig rod in my hand all day. It's always a matter of figuring out what part of the docks they're holding on, what color jig, what color trailer, pork or plastic. Something about the big fish in that lake, they like mismatched jigs, and pork trailers a lot of the time, at least for the largemouth. The smallmouth eat the plastic trailers better, but I still catch the big ones on pork.

I've done the same, and it does help, but I feel like it weighs down the skirt and keeps it from flaring as well. Doubt it makes much of a difference to the fish, but we all know how important confidence in the bait is.

Yep, that's what I've used. Same stuff I use to set weed guards in my jigs.

Check this thread out for some advice on hooking and landing frog fish.

I have the 176 VLO's biggest brother (189), and it's a very nice riding boat and well thought out. I believe @RangerDanger has a RT 178 so maybe he can give some info on that boat. I think if I was going to buy a smaller boat, I'd go with the tin boat. I used to have a 1652VPT Lowe Roughneck and fished a 7,000 acre lake often that gets very rough, never had any problems. I had it on Table Rock, Beaver, Bull Shoals, Lake of the Ozarks, and it handled all of them, although was not fun on the Ozarks the one time I went during the summer.

Other than my PB, I've only ever hooked one for sure DD bass. I had mine on heavy gear, but the cover was so thick, the fish so strong, and I so inexperienced, I put my thumb on the spool to stop her from being able to pull line and she straightened a 5/0 Mustad Megabite hook like an aberdeen crappie hook. I was 17 I believe, 13 years later and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

That's the only way I'd ever make spinnerbaits, if I got the supplies free. By the time you buy the wire, hook, quality BB swivel, beads/spacers, and blades, you can pretty much go out and buy one already made. I don't use a lot of spinnerbaits though, and when I do I can get away with the baits I find in stores. It's a good looking bait, why so light for that deep of water though? I have a hard time cranking a 3/4oz spinnerbait slow enough to keep it that deep.

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Snakes go after anything. Water snakes are really aggressive and strike at any movement. I have had them aggressively pursue a hollow body frog, strike at various baits that I cast too close to their limb/log/rock they were laying on, and I even caught one on a wacky rig senko that landed on the bank this spring. He stuck as soon as it hit the bank and swam off. I tried to pull it away but of course he'd grabbed it right in the middle and had the hook in his mouth.

I prefer without because it gets through the stuff a little easier.

Yes, I feel like they catch much larger fish. I think the bigger profile and vibration makes it a bigger, more appealing meal to the biggest fish. I pour, paint, and wire tie all my homemade baits.