Bluebasser86

I can't make my eyes see it. The fish is hooked in the side, I see that. Then it also looks like the front and back treble are both in your hand. Even looks like the front treble is pulling on the skin ?

I'm hoping they do well. Top 10% qualifies for state, which is on the power plant lake I fish all the time, so I could really help them out there if they get qualified for it.

Did you take a picture of a fish while it was hanging from a bait with hooks buried in your hand??

With any mass produced product, always a chance of getting a bad one. I've got the same 15lb Tatsu on one of my bottom contact rods as I had on it last year. Used it to catch almost all my fish in my last kayak tournament, pulling fish out of timber with a sprinkling of zebra mussels on it. Never had any problems.

I use a 6.3:1 for both my A-rig reels. They're a slow retrieve bait that needs a lot of torque.

The Berkley Drift Walker is a great finesse topwater bait, but it has to be very calm to use it.

Spinnerbait was the main player for us yesterday. I was using both white with gold blades, and chart/white with gold/silver blades. My backseater was using pink with twin pink willowleaf blades. I caught the most, but he caught the biggest. Had a good mix of largemouth and smallmouth, probably over 30 fish between us. That's a fun day when they're eating a spinnerbait like that.

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There was probably bugs falling out of the trees as well. The smallmouth were just playing the odds that if they grabbed enough of the things falling in the water, eventually one would be edible.

Next weekend I'm going to be a boat captain for a Kansas Junior BASS tournament at Wilson Lake in western Kansas for a couple young men that are hoping to qualify for state. I've fished with them both a couple times and took one of them again Sunday. We both caught a bunch of fish, but he got big fish of the day with a solid smallmouth on a pink with pink willowleafs Stanley spinnerbait.

Every year, your post make me try to make these things work for me. I did actually catch some bass on them last year, so it's a step in the right direction.

My short trips before work have been way more comfortable with the cooler temps, but just complete waste of time in the fish catching department. I was so surprised by the feeling of a bite on my line, I almost missed this little guy. Thankfully he wanted that FishLab craw so bad that I don't think I could have taken it away from him if I tried.

I've tried it a few times but have never had a bite on it though. It usually just does what all double rigs do for me and loses baits twice as fast.

I have a 7' 2" M/F spinning rod. It's one of my favorites in the arsenal.

Whenever I can. To get an idea, yesterday and the next couple days; Wednesday- work 9-5, in bed at 8pm, up at 9:30pm, at work 10pm-2am, in bed at 2:30am Thursday-up at 7am, work 9-5, probably take a nap 7:30/8pm until 9:30-work at 10pm-2am, back in bed around 2:30am. Friday-up at 6am-work 8-5, sleep 6-9pm, work 10pm-6am Saturday morning, spend the rest of the day at soccer and football games for my kids.

I still catch most of my fish before 10am even during the winter months.

I pour my own Ned heads with a 1/0 hook for smaller Keitechs. Works really well with the 2.8's.

KGB makes some really realistic ones.

One of my last kayak tournaments of the year, I noticed a sudden appearance of smaller (see also, perfect prey sized), bluegills that were holding very tight to the trees I was fishing that hadn't been there the day before. My bite had slowed down considerably from the day before on the ribbontail worm I was using, so I switched to a Hard Candy colored Rage Menace with the tails dipped in chartreuse JJ's, one of my favorite bluegill imitations. I had a little over an hour to go when I made that switch and culled twice in that last hour that added around 10" to my total and got me the win. Don't think I would have caught those fish if I hadn't paid attention to those little bluegills mulling around the trees.

It's like anything else in fishing, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've seen times a swimbait trailer is a killer, other times it makes no difference. One of my favorites is a bright chartreuse split-tail trailer on a white spinnerbait. It gives good contrast and a good target for the fish in the stained water I fish most often.

Depends a lot on a lot of variables. Cranking is always a popular option. Dragging a football jig or swinging football head can be good but at times snaggy option. I've done well on spinnerbaits and topwaters. Bladed jigs are one of my favorites as well as Ned rigs.

I use it on most any of the full sized spinnerbaits I fish; War Eagle, Booyah Coverts, Strike King, and Nichols mostly.

I like a 4.8" Fat Impact

I remember reading about Paul's fish when I was a kid. Pretty cool to fish a lake with a history like that.