Bluebasser86

The through the gill method is quick and easy with just a little practice and the right tools. Learn to do it and don't leave hooks in fish. I've caught too many paper thin fish with hooks in their throats to believe that leaving the hook in is the best option.

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In the 2oz range, it's a 1oz head with a 6oz fat impact body

Why stop at the trailer? Make the bait huge too! Shown next to a standard 3/8oz bait for scale.

I can't catch fish on a popmax to save my life ? The R2S Bubble Walker kills them, but the Popmax does nothing for some reason.

Kind of need parameters on what a "small" popper is. Most of them listed are not what I'd consider small, just standard sized poppers. The smallest sized Booyah Boss Pop is 1/4oz, so it cast on casting gear no problem, walks and spits very nicely, and gets bit really well.

3/8oz 95% of the time.

Already has for me. Trips are much closer to the house to the lakes that aren't nearly as good and trips are much less frequent. Not sure how much longer I can keep the Stratos at this rate either. It's killing us as a single income family.

I wouldn't buy one for an UL. Nothing against Ugly Sticks, but I'd want something more sensitive for an UL rod.

We have lots of species of snakes here in NE Kansas. The copperhead is the only fairly common venomous snake followed by the Timber Rattlesnake. Contrary to what lots of people will tell you, there are no cottonmouths within an hour or so of here. I've seen them in the Ozark streams and a couple times on Table Rock, but never this far north into Kansas.

I'm been gut punched by a few on the river when they come shooting out of the water. They leave almost a perfect imprint where they hit your clothing due to the amount of slime that covers their body. Their extremely short digestive track is always packed full of bright green slime from them filtering the water. The low set eye and severe underbite looks like they have some sort of birth defect. Nothing about them looks like something that should be eaten. Maybe they're delicious and I think they would be an excellent option to help provide a protein source for homeless shelters if they're edible, but I have no interest in ever trying them myself.

Have you ever seen/held/been close to one? They're a disgusting fish. They're slimy, smell bad, and start mysteriously bleeding the instant they're removed from the water. I'm not a fish eater personally but no way I'd eat one. They make excellent cut bait for catfish though.

10lb mono or copoly

I have a few of the Savage Gear weedless gills and really like them. As long as they're rigged straight and you don't reel them too fast, they swim great and fish smash them.

Nice! I'd be looking for a different flipping hook if I broke one like that.

Exactly. Most likely someone getting jumpy from being under water and not being able to see well and thinking they saw something. No doubt they've probably bumped into some large catfish. A 60+ lb flathead would be a massive fish to ram into you if you accidentally ended up nose to nose with it in murky water. If there were 200-300 lb catfish, why aren't we finding them dead on these lakes since they blow up like balloons when they die?

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Fishing kayak tournaments has been a very cerebral experience for me. So much more thought has to go into everything, from where I'm launching, to what tackle and rods I'm bringing, what direction is the wind blowing, do need to update the app on my phone, what time is lines in/out, what is my travel time to potential plan B's, do I have the right identifier, is my camera lens clean, so many things to worry about that are non-factors in boat tournaments. I think that this internal chess match I play with myself is part of what I enjoy so much about them.

Daiwa Tatula TWS SV 103 Daiwa Tatula 2500LT

Does your complex have a camera that records and saves? Maybe you can show that you stored it and hadn't retrieved it before the incident occurred. Then you might have a chance of them being liable for replacement.

Any fluke style soft plastic will produce similar results when rigged similarly. A nose hooked fluke or power minnow on a dropshot is very effective. Berkley makes the Champ Jerkbait that is fairly similar. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Berkley_Powerbait_The_Champ_Jerk_Minnow_34_6pk/descpage-PBCM.html

I caught a 22" fish last fall that was just a shad shy of 7, but it was much thicker than that fish appears to be. I'd say the guesses around 5.5-6 are probably pretty close.