Bluebasser86

You're joking right?

I had one for about 1 season that I used for squarebills and medium depth cranks. I didn't like it and ended up selling it, just felt really dead to me.

Are you using a braid main line?

If you have any interest in multispecies fishing, Beaver Lake can be an absolute blast that time of year. You can catch the big 3 species of bass, stripers, wipers, white bass, walleye, crappie, all 3 big species of catfish, drum, among others, sometimes all from the same spot on the same bait. A friend and I went 2 years ago and combined we both caught new personal best stripers and walleye, while he caught new PB smallmouth and wiper, and I caught a new PB spotted bass. We also caught largemouth up to 6.25 pounds. It can be really tough too, but that's why they call it fishing right? Plus there's plenty to do in Rogers and other close by cities.

I enjoy it, even though I'm not very good at it. Not many chances to fly fish for trout around here, but bluegills and bass are a hoot on a fly rod. Flyfishing for Kansas bonefish (carp), is gaining somewhat of a cult following too.

For smallies I like either a Zoom shakyhead worm or 5" BPS Stick O.

I fish mostly stained to muddy water and I do really well with black and blue or sapphire blue jigs or a few different colors of bladed jigs. Fish tend to be shallower and hold closer to cover in dirty water, making them easier to catch IMO. I've found it helps to slow down a bit since they have to locate your bait by feel rather than sight.

Nope, not many spots around here though, mostly just largemouth.

The lipless looked something like this Didn't take a picture of the A rig, but the odds of catching it off the log in 25' on my jigging spoon have to be pretty thin I'd think.

Zman Batwingz in the 3.5" size or a Uncle Josh pork frog.

Exactly. I had a boat similar to the 1236 that was very unstable and hard to fish out of, even if it was just me. I also had a 1448 that I fished 3 grown men out of standing up and had a casting deck built on it with no issues.

I pour my own heads and about the only plastic that I don't use occasionally on a shakyhead is a tube. For worms I like Zoom trick worms, finesse worms, and shaky worms as well as the Netbait Tmac and finesse worms.

I use a telescoping lure retriever from Frabill. If I can reach it, I can almost always get it back.

I mainly use 50 but our vegetation isn't very thick for the most part.

I've been fishing them on that Pinnacle Perfecta DCH5 7' 6" MH/F. Before I got that I was using either a 7' MH/F or 7' 6" MH/F LTB's.

Dang, I would have guessed bigger than that. I guess that's still a Palmetto bug isn't it?

I just realized that's one of my swing heads What plastic did you have on it and did you weigh her?

Looks like they'll be even harder to hook fish with than a regular frog, I won't be buying any until someone proves otherwise.

Welcome to the forum from another KC area member! Check out the KC area thread for tons of local information! http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/41660-for-us-kc-area-guys-fishing-reports/

I'm sure you see it a lot around there too but I see a lot of pop bottles with line wrapped around them, same concept.

Jerkbaits will work in stained water, but much better options when you get into muddy water. Jerkbaits are actually one of my favorite baits to fish for trout, all the way up to 5" slender pointers. If you can see your bait about a foot below the surface I'd still have confidence in catching bass on a jerkbait.

Home made round or football with a screw lock.

You fish Mozingo and hate buzzbaits?? I've caught so many fish up there on buzzbaits in the timber and over the grass, some big ones too.

The top two jerkbaits look very familiar

Welcome!