Everything posted by OkobojiEagle
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Largemouth bass died.
^ Take a deep breath and hold it as you pull the bass from the water. That bass should be back in the lake before your next breath...
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Your Top Five Top Water Lures for Fall ?
Lucky Craft Gunfish original Berkley Frenzy popper Caffeine shad I'm pretty much a smallmouth guy...
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Hover jighead
Put them in a tube bait and you may have something there...
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Old PowerPro VS New
Fin, you nailed the description about right... original Fireline has similar attributes.
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Barbs
Not entirely, but yes I fish quite a little for bass, as well as, walleye barbless.
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Angry people while pitching docks?
Quite often the same people who need to run their cocktail cruise between you and where you are casting to... they usually wave and ask if you're catching any. My usual response is "I was".
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Angry people while pitching docks?
Smile broadly, wave cheerfully and shout back "congratulations".
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Went to Cabela's to get my new reel spooled up, left with a scratch on the reel
much ado about nothing
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Hover Rig
Yea, I call it a hook exposed tube bait...
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Charlie Brewer Weedless Slider Head
The Brewer Spider head bronze hook version is available with 2/0 or 3/0 hooks. I use the 3/0 for bass plastics, it provides better hook up rates than the 2/0.
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Done with the alberto
might be your expectations are a little high...
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How long do you leave the plastic on your cork?
As soon as it gets to my boat... my wife has a sharp eye and would know immediately I bought another rod if she spotted one with the plastic still on!
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Unfortunate Incident
I don't know how soon that particular bass will take another meal, but I'd be too embarrassed to return to that pond again until other anglers there stop laughing about that nit-wit who let a bass pull him into the drink...
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Float tubers! How many rods u pack?
Usually one spinning rod, occasionally an additional bait casting rod, but I'd rather use the space for a short handled net than a second rod/reel.
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if one particular bait is killing it..do you change up to keep it interesting?
Yes I'll add a different bait, but I won't quit using the "hot" bait. A couple casts with a new bait, then a couple more casts with the "hot" bait. Sometimes I circulate through several different types of baits... oe
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Stainless steel guides and braid (smackdown on a bass x)
I want the tip guide to have a ceramic insert even if other guides don't... oe
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Jerkbait Question
Lucky Craft Pointer 78 and/or 100 78 = silent 100 = rattles
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Strike King Red Eye Shad vs Bill Lewis Rat-L Trap
I don't believe the silent red eye shad is being made anymore... am I correct?
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Strike King Red Eye Shad vs Bill Lewis Rat-L Trap
Very little talk of silent models?
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Need help with hook sharpening
I free-hand the hook at 5 - 10 degrees to the stone. oe
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Double uni knot users?
hmmm... 19 of 21 internet search results being wrong?... seems about right.
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Strategy for fighting bass when barbless......??
An experienced back-reeler will know what to do... oe
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Bass fishing 2023 glossary
A DNR built rock wing-dam... structure or cover?
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Local or Regional Goodies
We've got a business started a few years back by a local boy named Berkley Bedell. It still makes a few baits locally...