Bankbeater

All baitcasters have 15# Big Game. Spinning reel has 10# Big Game. Ultralite has 4# Yo-Zuri Hybrid.

Usually catfish and crappie. Every once in a while I'll get a muskie or green sunfish.

Summer and fall. I always seem to get hit with a cold front in the spring.

Earlier in the year I was catching them on jigs and spinners. In the past couple of weeks they have started hitting t-rigged plastics in a couple of ponds that I fish.

The BPS in St. Louis has it on clearance every once in a while, but the only place that I can get it for sure is Cabela's Online.

When I got back into fishing a couple of years ago the first plastic bait that I bought was a pack of 6" scoundrel worms.

Pull the air filter all of the way out and see if it will start. If it does start then clean the filter according to the manual.

If it ever warms up, I'll be throwing a 5/8 jitterbug from when I get to the lake until sun up.

One day out on the lake there was a slight breeze with about 15 mph gusts. I throw over the anchor, but I'm still moving. Couldn't figure out what was going on since I wasn't having any problem casting. Then I noticed the anchor line floating on top of the water and realized that I never tied it to the boat. Luckily I was in about 4 feet of water.

I fish from the bank about 75% of the time and I will go along with what every one else is saying. Throw shallow running cranks or topwaters. I use light Texas rigged plastics and 1/8 ounce jigs unless I have already fished the lake and know what the bottom is like.

If they want to fight, I let them fight until they are tired. If its a dink and I don't know he's on until I see him, he water skis.

I never use one fishing from the bank but there were a couple of times last year when I probably could have used one to land a fish that got off right next to the boat.

A 6" junebug or watermelon color. Some time I t-rig them with a small weight, but usually I go weightless and dead stick them.

I think I saw that fish on MonsterQuest!! Great catch!

Thanks for that great post, it really puts thing in perspective.

I love to fish for big bluegill and crappie, and for a good fight there is nothing like a 5+ pound cat on the end of your line.

Just one? Yo Zuri in 10 and 15 LB.

I like to t-rig a Zoom small tube or a BPS large size tube.

Right now I have two on my Revo-S.

Another vote here for skirts that don't.

I still haven't learned. I do this at least once a season.

Not yet, but I'm working on it.

Glad to hear that you are doing better. Just take it easy and heal up.

I have had my s for about a year now and I have had no problems.

Various ponds Saturday 4-18-09. Air temp at start time about 59, at end around 68 Rain in the early morning ending around 8:30 AM. Low air pressure. Wind starting up out of the south around 10 AM Pond 1: 1 on a Black t-rigged tube, around 9 AM, about 2 feet from the bank. Pond 2: 2 on a 1/2 OZ. Chart/White spinner. 1 on a t-rigged tube, watermelon red. 3 on a Mann's 1-minus. Largest was 2-2 and 1-12. The rest were dinks. All were caught in less that 5 feet of water, in a dead lily pad stretch that extended about 30 feet from the bank.