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WOW!! Geog, great story as well, very interesting thread!

The 4" senko in Trout laminate (watermelon top, bubblegum bottom) is a go to for me year round

I thought you were joking! I looked it up, you learn something new every day. Your hair jigs look good, especially with the trailers. That's what works around here as well. Fitt lures makes a small craw and another lure they call the Chillie Willie. Those work very good.

Here is the same topic from Oct 2020.

Keitech has a color for their easy shiner called purple chameleon/silver flake, LT#33. Appears to be a European color that can be ordered from places like Poland. Wish they had it available for the US. They used to make a color, Sexy Violet, but is discontinued. I'll have to try that Sugar Plum color.

Well done, you've got some skills!

Good place! I make it a point to stop by each Spring and Fall on my way back home from the Susquehanna. They carry what the local fishermen want and use. Wish they had an online presence.

Agree, or gold blade combo

Agree 100%

Blue on the claws of a green pumpkin craw works

Me too!

Gold blade is a go-to for me for smallies, clear to stained. Fished some heavily stained to muddy water last year and my fishing buddy was throwing a double willow white blade spinnerbait, slow rolling, and was crushing them. I was throwing gold blades with little success. Switched to white blades and started catching them. Made a believer out of me.

Never caught anything on it. A few weeks back I found it in an old tackle box. I pulled the plastic/rubber eel body off of it to reveal a transparent crankbait body. I kept the treble on the belly and put a small gold willow leaf blade on the rear. I painted the body with clear gold flake fingernail polish with a finish coat of hard as nails. Haven't fished it yet but I think it'll work well.

I'm in

Spankey, try the spinner arm. I use the Bett's in gold arm with gold #3 colorado blade, the largest they make to my knowledge. I'll either use a fat albert grub or a baby rage menace grub. Just started throwing it last Fall and it's saved the day several times for smallies.

Reel gear ratio is most important but a close second for me is to use a buzzbait with a planer head such as the Prototype Lures Guerilla buzzbait

Refresh my memory. These are different from others because of...... I think I recall you looking for a difference in the cup of the blade. What sizes? Show a few pics of the finished product!

Food such as crawfish, hellgrammites, larvae, minnows, etc Current breaks depending upon size of rocks obviously, aerate the water for oxygen if ripples, camouflage to ambush prey Can warm water holding heat from sun

Chunking spinnerbaits all day for river smallmouth. I get sore across my back from one arm pit to the other across the shoulder blades after about 6hrs. If they are crushing them, the fun outweighs the pain! Usually a couple ibuprofen takes the edge off.

Wire here as well for the same reasons above. The lead point tends to blow out the plastic, especially smaller diameter plastic trailers like worms, twin tails. Lead point not as bad with a chunk, beaver, craw, more bulky body trailer

Another for bubble gut.

River Rock tubes on an Oldham's style weedless 3/0 tube hook in 1/4oz.

All three are "go-to" colors for me for river smallmouth in VA

They're back. Placed my order today.

I like the look of those blue craw tubes. Looked online but site said they were closed for a while.