tate

I most fish a wacky rig on the slow to very slow side but a friend of mine fishes it with a pretty fast twitchy retrieve and has great success, even early season when the waters are still cold. When the depth is more than 6'-7' I will put on a 1/8oz weight to minimize the drop time and increase the time it will be in the strike zone. My buddy always fishes it with at least a 1/8oz weight with the fast retrieve and does very well with that technique. So don't be afraid to experiment with various retrieves. - tate

Jiggy PondX is calling our names.

I hope the surgery goes well. This will soon be a distant memory and you're back on the waters!

I find it hard to think of the Chiefs as an elite team. The playoffs are a whole different game. I wouldn't be concerned if the Patriots were playing the Chiefs in the playoffs.

Ma Vt

Fished Webster on Saturday, water temps around 66 under cloudy skies. Fishing was really slow for the first 3 hours....we were throwing, jigs, spinnerbaits, grubs, soft swim baits and wacky rigged senko's. Interesting how it was really slow hitting many of the usual spots but then tried a new area and we lit it up catching a bunch in the 3lb range and lost a few at the boat also. Most of them came on a 3.5" soft swim bait rigged on a tungsten 1/8 ounce 2/0 jig head.

That is one tall glass of water!

I'm hoping to make it this year and plan on bringing my boat. Made a deal with the wife that she will head to Fla to visit a friend that week.

Spent the week of Sept 15 on North Hero. The smallie and largemouth bite was really good, we caught a bunch of quality fish. We found then as shallow as 6' and up to 22', water temps 63, slower was better. Had a blast up there.

I understand extending courtesy to others and I personally will not jump in front or anywhere near someone fishing (unless Grampa or Rhino, lol) but I also accept the fact that I don't own the lake and that folks are free to come/go and fish where ever they choose. I hate to give in and move because someone just pulled within 20 feet of me but I usually will just move away. I just experienced this repeatedly up on Champlain for the week. It was amazing to me with the size of that lake and so many places to fish that boats will pull right up to where you are. In one case they pulled right up to where I was casting and they could see that I was casting to that spot. There are plenty of fish in the pond so I just moved along, not worth getting ticked off during a great day on the water fishing.

Just got back from a week on Northern Champlain. We found the most effective smallie lures were tubes and curly tale grubs in natural colors, in the gin clear water areas the watermellon/orange/copper/red senko's worked well and the most productive were 3.8'' Keitech Tenn. Shad swimbaits on the 1/8oz, 2/0 or 3/0 tungsten jig heads.

Congratulations to you and your son! Very cool

wow thank god it didn't get your eye! A solid reminder to all of us on the importance of wearing glasses when we're out there.

Yikes 3000 .... and that is a small order. Sounds like a great deal though.

I really like the Hudd Grass Minnow .... I've had my best results using it springtime in New England, gin clear water and 6-10' water in the AYU color. The Smallie's really like them.