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ww2farmer: Im giving away all your secrets. haha Yeah I like doing this with just about any style of bait, even when I shakey head fish I like to play with the drop rate. If im fishing 10ft of water with a heavy weight on the bottom and get no bites, I will switch to a lighter jig head and they will often crush it on the fall. If you watch a bass eat allot of times he will just sit on the bottom and if that wounded minnow slowly falls above his head he will ****** it. But when he's in that mood he may just stare at a fast dropping lure or minnows moving around him. Or he may fool us all and re-act to the fast dropping lure. Ah the fun of trying to figure out these picky wild lazy creatures from day to day!

ww2farmer: Im a little lost...haha Please explain?

I want to eat one of those! They look great!!

My most productive presentation for a beaver is rigging it texas style with the lightest weight I can get away with, creating a slow fall, pitching it around timber. It looks very natural falling slow. And I have had success doing the exact opposite with a heavy weight triggering a reaction strike on a fast fall. Go figure! Thats bass fishing for you though! And that's why I love it!

3 3/4 Swimbaits with a hook pocket realistic eyes and a few 3 inch dropshot minnows. Colors Swimbaits: Top left color: Electric Junebug, Top right color: Firetiger, Middle Left color: Sexy Shad, Middle right: BlueGill, Bottom left: Smokn Shad, Bottom right color: Special Brew Dropshot minnows: From left to right: Perch, Copper shad, baby blue back herring, baby blue gill

Is there a reason why my photos got deleted?

Worked, sweet! Now let me downsize all these photos and show you what this bait monkey has done to me!

Did anyone go today? If so how was it?

I had a bunch of brands just like above, but now I get all my plastics hand poured by a custom guy. His stuff is better then anything I have witnessed so far! And the best part is he has custom molds that others don't make, and he can match any color, or do any color you can think of. Indeed I have spent some money through him!

No problem CA thanks for the apology even though I didn't necessarily think you needed to, its shows good character on your part that you are man enough to apologize. If it works for you keep buying those reels, and good fishing!

For me this was a littler harder to learn as well. But really the same thing. Pitch just like you would but I like to flick my wrist a little harder to really get the bait moving. I also like to bring my hand up as the bait skips, you have to control it the whole time so your thumb has to skim across the line as it comes out. Trying using a 6'6 Mh or something shorter at first. Hope this helps!

Im looking forward to this, and I feel bad leaving them home so the bait monkeys will be coming with me to buy "morelures!" Will Daves tourtament tackle be there this year? If so I will be getting custom jigs made, great staff and great products!

Ib: All of them work. I first learned to skip with a spinning reel and then a baitcaster. At first the baitcaster is a little intimidating but if you set your reel correctly you can get the hang of it pretty quick. When you disengage your reel make sure everything is set to make your lure stop when it hits the ground. This will help you with the backlash a little, and then you can loosen it up as you get the hang of it. Skip the bait just like you would your spinning reel, dont hold back, let your thumb skim softly over your line, make sure you take your other hand off the rod if you cast like this, and I like to pull back with the hang im holding the rod with but this may be more of a mental thing. But I feel like it helps me give it a softer touch. (pratice just doing a plain cast with your thumb bairly on the line over and over again and then try to skip). Use a texas rigged pegged senko with a decent amount of weight, a spro frog also works good to practice and fish with. I have been doing allot of fishing ahhh lets say casting this month the water is 38 so I have just been going out and practicing over and over again, you will surprise yourself how fast you can pick up on something if you just stop fishing for a little bit and work on casting etc. I like all of the ideas above, like I said I skip to much. But I guess I will really never know for sure if its to much or not. I have caught some nice fish doing this. Even in deep water, I will skip to the wall of a bridge and let it fall, often they will hit it on the fall. But as stated above not all baits will skip good, but man I will try it, and man will I have a mess when trying to skip a bait that shouldn't..haha You can also practice in your driveway just put a round med size weight on and you can really get the feel for your thumb by skipping the bait on smooth concrete.

Thats rules man!

I was wondering what all of you that skip baits and have done it for some time now think about the technique? Obliviously it's a great technique when trying to get under a dock or tree limbs etc. But how well does it work when there is no need to do it, like just skipping a lure to your target when there is nothing to skip under? I have heard some say it excites the fish and I have heard others say its scares them. What are your thoughts, I love to skip but sometimes I think I may be doing it to much. And then I will do it when theres no need and catch a good one!

Every pro that has a family worries about putting food on there families table, if they are a stable father, and KVD is. Sure KVD is very well off now, but in the begging this wasn't so, and he had to play the business smart in the begging and he still does. Hopefully you will learn this one day...Just because you have money does mean that it will always be there. I never said he makes all his money from sponsors. He makes a significant amount from them for sure (and the pros that dont place in the top 5-10 all the time really depend on there sponsors to make a living). I never said he would jeopardize his career for a sponsor, if you read through the post's I actually said the exact opposite. To each there own but I personally don't care for Quantum's especially there new over plastic made tricked out reels. Ask many who sell reels and they will tell you that they get returned often.

When fishing the Drop shot, once you feel your weight hit the bottom practice feeling the difference between actually moving the bait instead of the weight. Allot of times you can slowly move your rod tip up and when you feel the weight that is when you want to let your line go semi slack. As you get the feel for it you will know just when you are about to feel the weight and that is when you should drop your rod tip again. This is what gives the bait a natural quivering action. Using this presentation the only time you want to move the weight is when you want to actually move the bait to another location. This rig is also deadly just dragging it slowly as well, sometimes pausing for a few seconds. Most people think of this rig as a deep water rig only but you can through it at any depth. I like using 8lb flor test. Using a heavy weight will help you feel the rig better. But I have had more hits on the fall using a light weight. I love to throw this rig in the front of docks or against bridge pilings and make the bait look like its eating off the structure like minnows do. Im looking forward to checking Flukes vid out.

If I was able to make my cranks come to life like this I would do it all day long! Great work!

I dont see anyone Looking for a sponsor in this post? And I dont see anyone's r ésum és? Maybe the person who moved your post will explain it, I dont have a clue.

I am wondering the same thing?

How can you say there is no price tag on it? Every sponsor they have on there shirt has a price tag on it. They either pay the pro to promote there company or they get a free product from them usually both for the top pros. Do you think I can call KVD and he is going to put my "new crankbait company" logo on his shirt, just because he thinks they are a good lure. Nope, there will be a price tag on that. And he may even have some type of exclusive contract with Strike King that prohibits him from advertising other crankbait companies. Now Im not saying that any company could come along and KVD would drop Strike King, because he is building and has built a great relationship with Stike King. But there are many factors that would be considered more than likely if a company approached him with allot more money and a good product. This is what keeps the industry competitive. There are ton of independent lure makers that don't get the exposure that the bigger corporate companies do even thought the independent lure makers product may be better, because the smaller companies don't have the money to sponsor most of the top pro's. (not always but often) Just like a sales rep considers selling another product if the other owner of that company approaches them and tells them what they have to offer. If what the new company has to offer is allot better changes are made, to improve that individuals living.

Check Walmart I found 2 packs non scented for a $1.00 a pack! They only had 2 packs though and they were a dif color then the reg priced ones.

Sure its possible but Nitro is smart enough to know that they must pay him enough to keep him happy or he will go with another boat sponsor that is willing to pay him allot more (this is how he makes a good % of his money). If Ranger came and offered him allot more money, he would probably go with ranger once his contract was up. Even if his first pick is Nitro he is still going to use it as an advantage when making a deal with them, its business and to say being a pro isnt a business is like saying a car company isnt a business (they have to sell themselves). This is his job, he loves to fish and compete but he is out to make money and put food on his family's table just like everyone else.

Cadelta: Im not sure what you consider a bad sponsor but Pros go with sponsors that they are not thrilled on all the time because the money is good. If Pepsi comes to him and says here is $10,000 put our logo on your shirt, more then likely the guy is not going to say but I like Coke. Often the pro will have an agency or a manager working for them that has a whole detailed sponsor information sheet ready for when people contact the Pro. The information sheet will tell the company how much it is to get the business logo on the pros shirt truck etc. Sure Pro's will hunt down sponsors they want but they will often take sponsors that find them, once again even if they are not thrilled on them. I don't think they would take a snoopy pole sponsor because it would hurt their image, but they would take a zoom sponsor even if they never throw zoom if the money is good. Pros make allot more on their sponsors then you may think (but then again it all depends on what kind of deal they have (royalties, flow, monthly, yearly, etc).

Glenn: I wasnt saying that he is or has I was just saying that it wouldnt surprise me. And I would bet that it has happened before with other pro's. When a product goes into mass production sometimes it looses the quality it intented to have. I bet the rods that KVD are not the ones that are being pumped out by the thousands but the ones that quality controll are going over many times. I don't think they use secret stuff, I know they are at the top because they know how to find fish. Just like with custom hand poured baits, its so easy for a pro to use a red/shad 7 inch shakey head worm because the action or impeded scent is better then the "Zoom" product that sponsors him, but the pro tells the public and the magazines he was using "Zoom" because they pay him. Heck, some people will throw a Rat L Trap and then tell the public it was a Strike King red eye shad that won it for them since thats who pays their bills.