Bluebasser86

The WP is a very unique bait in the way it sounds, how much water it throws, and how much of a commotion it makes. I fish the 130 and have not tried another bass bait like it.

Sure it will, they're not even that big. The small one is only 4.25" and 1oz. I've caught plenty of 12" fish (and smaller), on 7", 3oz glide baits. The fish in this video are all pike (Mads is from Germany where there's no bass), but some incredible slow motion bites. I think a lot of thought went into this bait and really feel like it's going to be a good bass bait. Guys that live where pike and muskie roam are going to need at least a couple for sure. Start around the 3:40 minute mark if you just want to watch the strikes.

The Savage Gear 3D bluegill floating version has been catching some fish for me. It has a great glide if you crank it hard and kill it.

I have the Garmin version and it also counts either cast or maybe even turns of the reel handle? I take it off before I go fishing now. Not taking too many steps in the boat anyways.

Tatsu is worth every penny to me. It's incredibly strong and smooth handling. I was about done with fluoro until I tried it.

I had a dog that was a mutt that loves chasing anything. Bank fishing with a buddy one day and he grabbed my buddies floating rapala while we were talking and it was just swinging back and forth from his rod tip. Dog got a hook in his lip and I jumped on him to try to keep him pawing at it and getting hooked worse. I had him between my legs with both hands around his snout when he put it in reverse hard and buried the front hook into the back of my index finger halfway between the first knuckle and my fingernail. So then I was connected to 70 pounds of panicking mutt who was doing anything he could to get away from me but having no luck. I had to tackle him and just lay down on top of him. Lucky for the dog, he'd pulled the single point through his lip so my buddy quickly clipped that hook point and he was free. I wasn't so lucky. The hook had suck as far as it could possible go into the middle of my finger and required an ER visit to get it removed and get my tetnus shot updated. I hope to never outdo that one.

It can be fished on the bottom. I live very near where Ned lives in NE Kansas. A majority of our lakes have weeds and/or zebra mussels, both of which make bottom contact baits impossible to fish. I generally fish them with a slow retrieve that Ned refers to as the "Swim-Shake-Glide", retrieve that keeps the bait just off the bottom. I've had very good days fishing it very quickly just below the surface as well though.

I don't fish treble hooks at night, almost without exception. Even with lots of experience, I don't like unhooking fish at night on trebles and dodging a bait in the dark with treble hooks isn't any fun and it will happen eventually.

I make my own floats out of pipe insulation foam. It works pretty well and it's streamlined enough that it's not too annoying with spinning gear, casting gear sucks with floats but I dumped all 4 rods when I flipped mine. I was able to recover 3 of them, but the 4th is still on the bottom of the lake as far as I know.

Most of the lakes in the area (where Ned lives), have grass in them. You fish a Ned over the tops of the grass and around the edges, it never sinks to the bottom or into the grass. This could mean 6' below the surface, it could be 6" below. No amount of "weedless" jigheads are going to keep you from catching weeds with them if it's allowed to sink into the weeds. I don't know about the Neko rig, a very different rig from the Ned rig and not one I've fished much.

Flush and relube the bearings. Use a Q-tip to put a thin layer of oil inside the brake drum before you put it back together and you should be good to go. Mine make a little noise from time to time and it's a pretty well known issue. The oil on the brake side of the reel fixes it quickly.

I'm using a 7' 3" H/F Ethos Micro with a 8.1 BPS Titanium 8 reel and have been very happy with it. My whole combo cost $180.

Most folks use PVC because you can use thinner pieces that are like the branches of a tree, but nearly impossible to snag on. Stake beds are pretty popular, as are pallets, culvert pipe, tires, about anything can hold fish. Make sure to check the local rules and regs though, some places are just going to see it as littering instead of building fish habitat.

The Ethos from Academy are the way to go in that price range. You can get them on sale pretty regularly for around $40. Their MH is a little light, I use it for rattle traps actually. Their 7' H/F makes a pretty decent jig/t rig rod though.

I've caught some nice bass on a Top Walker fishing for muskie. Similar concept but with a bucktail instead of a solid body.

7.51 pounds 7.76 It's a very good looking fish, but I don't believe it's 8 pounds.

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I'll take 2 please.

H2O series from Academy. They're the first bait I reach for when I need a squarebill and they're on sale for $3 all the time. All their hard baits are good really.

It's a largemouth. Nothing about that fish suggest a spotted bass. Little largemouth just have little mouths. Spots look way different and even feel rougher than a largemouth.

3 rods is legal in Kansas if you buy the permit, 2 is the limit without it. From what I found, there is no limit in Texas to how many rods an angler can use except in certain bodies of water.

My biggest bass last year was caught deadsticking a 7" MS Slammer. Let it sit for a solid minute and the first hint of movement she came unglued on it.

I wasn't interested in that bait until I watched the video. Add another one to the list of baits I'll be trying.

I believe you can rent them on Jacomo, which is a pretty good lake. I don't know if they're really fishing kayaks though. BPS did a kayak demo not too long ago so you could get to try out some of the kayaks they had available, so you might check with them. Kayak fishing is a lot of fun. I enjoy the simplicity of it, not just the fishing but being able to just throw it in the back of my truck and go instead of uncovering my boat, unhooking batteries, making sure tires and lights are good, hooking everything up, and spending a lot more on gas hauling it. I'd really like to fish some kayak tournaments but my schedule doesn't allow for it since I don't have weekends off.