Bluebasser86

I fished Jacomo quite a bit last year. Sold my last boat and just fishing out of my brother in laws 15' johnboat for now. Only has a 15hp tiller drive so it's great for Jacomo. If you see me out there sometime swing by and say hi. Can't miss me, bright blue boat with "Rippin' Lips" painted on the side and there'll be a golden retriever barking at you or trying to knock me into the water.

Welcome!

I remember the first bass I caught on one of my home made jigs, exciting times.

I've found the opposite of this to be true, normally I do better with a spinnerbait than a bladed jig when it's calm and clear. Just shows the importance of experimenting and finding what works best in each situation and location.

Sufix 832 or Performance Braid.

I went 2 years ago when it was at Grand Lake. If you have a chance, GO! It was an awesome experience and I'm looking forward to the next time I have a chance to go.

The smell doesn't bother the fish in my experience, just us. I use a comb with separate out the ones that are stuck together. It seems like some colors are worse than others in stickiness.

I use the same rod I use for traps (7' M/F 6.2:1 reel and 15lb copolymer) because I'm usually fishing them around fairly heavy cover. I really like the Arashi wake bait.

I have a 7' 6" H/F Ethos I bought for $40 as a fill in until my custom was done and it served the purpose well enough that I kept it for a back up swimbait rod.

Fallfish, creek chubs often have a black stripe down the sides, similar to a largemouth bass, and they have much smaller scales when they're that size.

That is the grass carp killer If you look closely, you can see the gum marks from the carp Close, no spotted bass in that lake, just largemouth and smallmouth.

I'd have to agree that they do fight harder in the normal size ranges I catch. You don't want them around you though. They're eating machines and unless you want the bass to get super skinny or disappear altogether, you're better off without them.

Another fishing buddy of mine snuck up on gardnerjigman and I the other day while we were on the water and just happened to have both our limits of wipers in the livewell and he was nice enough to snap a picture for us.

Hi Salenity and I fished one of the power plant lakes last Friday. Rained on us most of the day but other than that it wasn't bad until the wind started to blow the last hour we were there. Caught fish on a little bit of everything but I really put the Pinnacle Optimus/Perfecta combo through a workout Dragging a homemade swinging football head through the rocks with either a Netbait B Bug or Zman Palmetto Bug caught a lot of our fish. I started with a S Waver and moved a ton of fish right off the bat, but had a lot of swings and misses, couple on a fluke too. I got tired of missing fish so I picked up the Optimus/Perfecta with a 1/4oz swinging football head and started wearing them out. Once he tied on one of my swinging football heads, Curt was quickly to a big fish, but it turned out to be the wrong kind. but he righted the ship quickly and really started to put the hurt on them towards the end. Great day on the water and I'm really, really liking this Pinnacle combo

Well kind of lost some of it's thunder after that monster he caught the following day but Curt and I tore them up at Wolf Creek on Friday. My homemade swinging football heads with a beaver bait probably caught the most fish but we caught them on a lot of different baits. Much better numbers of brown fish in the outlet than I've ever seen out there, and the ones we were getting were much fatter than normal. Several of them coughed up small shad so maybe the shad had a good spawn out there this year. The Pinnacle combo is continuing to impress me Greedy little fella had someone else's hook and tube still stuck in his mouth when he ate my bait. A rum, pa, pa, pum, Curt and his drum

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/147586-spy-baiting/

Swinging football head

3" boot tail grub on a Scrounger head.

I use to use Pline exclusively before I went to fluoro. I would still use it with confidence if I had to.

Nothing to see here, move along... It's a killer rig that catches everything in the right situation. When it's on around here NOTHING COMES CLOSE. The Elaztech baits are a vital part to the rig because as they wear out, they float and glide down to the bottom more than a regular stick worm does on the same rig. A braid/fluoro combo is another key for me, if you're using straight fuoro, you're missing fish. Your dropshot setup is a great Ned rigging rod. It doesn't just catch little fish like folks will try to tell you, my biggest smallmouth of the year fell for a Bama Craw Zinker on a home made 3/32oz Ned Head. It was the big bass at our first KC area get together too at 4.80 pounds. I prefer the 3/32oz size head but will also use a 1/32 or 1/8 depending on the situation. I pour my own because the mushroom style heads are crazy expensive if you buy them while they cost me pennies to pour. Don't laugh at the colors, pig smallies pop them like potato chips.

Welcome!

I have a 7' 3" MH/MF with 50lb braid I use for C rigs and a 6' 10" MH/F with 40lb braid I use for swim jigs/jigs/t rigs when I can get away with braid.

I fill a Cabela's Super Magnum until I almost throw my back out to lift it, then I start putting plastics in binders.

We can only use 2 hooks in KS, kind of pointless unless I travel somewhere else to fish.

I don't think the A rig would even been on my radar by April at Table Rock. I've thrown them a good bit in April down there and had very limited success. Much better (and easier to fish) options on the Rock in April IMO. Plus they've been seeing them all winter long at that point so they're pretty wary of them to boot.