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The St. Croix avid is a nice rod, try calling Dick's over the phone. I also have an eyecon 7' ml I paid $110 for and just love the balance and casting accuracy.

I will buy MegaStrike but I am dragging my meet on it. What gets me is last weekend I used the fish oil and jelly stuff all over every plastic I used in the morning, when water visibility was fair, but no bites. Later after noon, speed boat-o-rama clouded the water to no visibility. I threw in a bps green stickbait that had a single garlic clove in the baggies and BOOM! The fish took it before it hit the bottom. It's just weird, I guess its why I love fishing.

If you stick with pvc, drill small holes along a side and drop a bead of silicone on each hole. Then throw in some screws or nails, it will resemble a rake. You can tie some small buoys to either side if needed. Ive seen this done with broom handles as well

Sounds like a great idea for bank or dock fishing, I can't wait to try it this weekend.

Thanks Glenn! I will give it a shot Friday.

My main thing is how can I get cranks down to 35-40 feet where the walleye might be. If this lake is stocked their should be some good ones down there.

Kudos to Cart and Sam, you guys are posting useful information about the purpose of bait scents. I fish a 100 acre lake with visibility around 12". I've used scents to mask my odors and try to gain an edge. That and I'm getting my butt kicked by my girl and her $1.56 swimbait spinner combo she bought at Walmart.

I fish at my in-laws cottage almost weekly and noticed the quality and quantity of bass shrinking off. The lake is a private 100 acre natural lake with a stained color and clarity around 12". It is shaped like a beer bottle with depths near 50 straight down the middle. I just learned this weekend the lake association has been stocking walleye every spring for the last five years. I have never seen a walleye pulled from the lake and only heard of 2 being caught this past spring. We catch and release all our fish but haven't seen any 3+ pounders in awhile. I'm assuming the bass have been sharing food sources with walleye and the populations are fluctuating. Regardless, I've only fished the shorelines for bass and panfish but I would love to hook up some eyes. I'm could be trolling up the middle but the deepest cranks I own only drop to 20 feet. I will be up again this weekend and need a strategy quick. What should I be trying?

You guys are definitely going somewhere with a worm based attractant. The mix I made before the weekend yielded no results. I tried senkos and zoom trick worms loaded with the attractant in every rig possible. My girlfriend however was nailing bass and crappie on a swimbait with a spinner trailer. I do have a bottle of Berkley nightcrawler scent which I will mix into some jelly and try along with real bait.

Try to find some floating jig heads, my local bait shop carries them and I have dozens. I will be fishing a Carolina rigged senko with a floater this weekend.

Why not? You'll have some thump from the tail of the swimbait added to the blade. All you have to do now is go fishing.

I saw the Yum f2 spray on an end cap at Dick's and it made me think of the three bottles of other stuff like that I have laying around in my garage.

Much more beer

I too started with mono. I got lots of tangles and lots of snags, thank God it was less expensive.

I agree Sam, Dr. Jones sounds like a smart guy. I believe scents could make a fish hold the bait longer after proper presentation lures a strike. Adding corn starch to batch one made a bigger mess. After scrapping this I melted down some petroleum jelly in a baby food jar and added the super juice, 50/50. It solidified quickly and holds a solid consistency. Now I can scoop some of this stuff into a ziplock baggy and dip my plastics in easily. This weekend should be fun. Next batch could contain garlic and anise oils with salt for an alternative. Thanks for the tips guys, I doubled my batch of Dr J's super juice and made it more functional.

I will try it. I strained some bacon grease into the crisco mix earlier. As it cooled everything separated. Corn starch could glue it all back together. I will pick up vaseline after work for the second batch.

The lard came in a 40oz tub, way too much. So I put a tablespoon in a glass dish and mules it for a minute. I mixed in one tablespoon of the bass juice and chilled it. After an hour I pulled it out and let it sit on the counter overnight. At 50/50 this stuff is pretty thick, I will double the batch for thus weekend. Thanks bird dog and wrb I will pick up a jar of vaseline also

Don't forget about drop shoting those finesse worms, always good midday under a blue sky and hot sun

Copy WRB, stick to k.I.s.s.

I'll try a few things to make the juice useful. Im actually trying to imitate the thickness of megastrike without buying it.

Did I just hear a bait monkey screaming?

I am leaning toward using something organic. I narrowed it down to crisco or lard. I'll warm each up carefully and mix the bass oil in and hope the mix doesnt separate when cooled. Will the lard have to be refrigerated? That would be a deal breaker...

I have a bottle of Dr juice and would love to make it thicker. It's pretty viscous and messy but I don't want to waste the stuff. Any suggestions?