Bankbeater

Batman has better toys .

Welcome home! Glad your back trip was ok.

I throw everything with a bc that I do with a spinning reel. The difference is in the weight, and how I rig it up. I'm not going to throw a c-rig, with a 1 ounce weight, on a spinning reel. In the same way I'm not going to fish a weightless tube with a bc.

X2. You better buy a lot of jigs, because you are going to lose quite a few.

I usually start with natural colors like greens and browns in clear water, and black or junebug in muddy water.

Jigs, spinnerbaits, topwaters, frogs, and t-rigged plastics.

3/8 or 1/4 jigs, 1/2 ounce rat-l-traps, 1/4 ounce 1-minus, and weightless flukes.

Around here swimming a jig works better in the warmer months. This time of year I'll have my jig on the bottom working it back slowly.

Swim a jig over the top of it like you would submerged vegetation.

I go through about a spool a year. I keep the line down in the basement in a drawer. That way it is cool, dry, and out of the sun.

I don't believe that they have any bass down there less than 5 lb.

There is a lake near me that has pretty good topwater action. The bass will hit a black jitterbug, and a frog colored spro bronzeye. If you throw a black spro bronzeye, they won't touch it. Same with a light colored jitterbug. You just have to try them all and see what works.

I had a black one long, long time ago. I would look on ebay.

If the water isn't hard I would still try to go after bass. The bigger girls need to feed more that the smaller ones do, so they may be more active.

I would put Yo-Zuri #15 on whatever rig you buy.

You can never go wrong with chrome/blue or a crawfish color.

IMHO, darker colors would probably stand out better.

I try not to use anything with a long tail. Sometime the tail will get wrapped around the vegetation.

I would try fishing a weightless fluke around the vegetation.

Black

Thanks for posting Glenn.

When I got back into fishing I was using a couple of reels that were probably 20 to 25 years old, but in great shape. I bought new because I didn't want one of the reels to break out on a trip and have to spend $150 on a new reel because no one carried a $1 part.

I have an old 5000 and a 5600 C3. Both reels send the baits out like a shot. Especially crankbaits.

I voted for the Shimano, but in reality you need to do your homework. Get on the internet and see what other people think about them and what problems, if any, they are having.

A vote for Yo-Zuri.