Wisconsin Heat.

WOW! i would kill for that perch!

its been happening to me too lately, i got a paycheck and decided to go spend some cash on fishing gear, but found nothing, i decided to keep that change and put it toward a very much needed reel.

i live in eauclaire, and there are alot of waters around here where if ur not fishing the right area on a lake, you will swear the lake is dead, or you may even be fishing some not so good bodies of water. in line spinners are dynamite for smallmouth in rivers, but i dont fish them much in still water. i also use a more power approach in rivers because there is more "dead water" you have to cover and i believe its harder for the fish to find a finesse bait in slightly stained, moving water. knowing when to use your lures is more important than buying more. also, i catch more fish on softplastics than hardbaits, for your question: my two favorite baits have to be a senko or finnesse worm. also, if you have a rapala original floater in the silver black back color. thats magic. idk why but it catches everything that swims.

wacky rig!

Rage Toad! hands down best toad made. rig it with a 5/0 ewg hook

I use a skeet reese tessera Jig/worm rod

average 2-3 pounds....lucky! my fish average about 1- 1/2 pounds, and i catch em on 9 inch worms, bigger 1/2 ounce spinnerbaits, 4 in flippin tubes, oh and a strike king king shad. little bass will and do eat big lures

I cant seem to be able to get my flourocarbon leader to connect to my braided mainline. im trying to do a blood knot but i just cant do it. It always comes undone with only a little pressure. what kind of knots do you guys use to attach a leader?

looks like it has wave worm's Scorpion's legs also

Ive been flipping and pitching alot

I use superline offset EWGs, they work, i havnt used a straight shank yet, but I will try it soon, but theres nothing wrong with ewg's

green pumpkin watermelon red texas craw ( mostly brown with a little black and chartreuse) chartreuse shad black with either red or blue flake.. cant decide, red worked last year and blue this year

i have heard from alot of people that carp isnt edible.. but alot of people havnt tried eating them. i have read articles saying that carp actually tastes good. i have never caught a carp, but you can bet im taking it home to try the first time i catch one. dont judge a book by its cover...or a fish by its ugly appearance

thanks guys! ill be sure to bring a few spinning rods cuz skipping with casting gear is a pain!

So at this lake i fish there are a decent number of docks, and i was catching a few fish off of them...but i think i couldve caught alot more. I was mainly pitching a jig and a tube to them. any other techniques i should try? Bonus question: where is it usually best to target on a dock ( front, sides, under it)? i was fishing the end of the dock most of the time.

actual boating: i think around 6 or 7 because ive only used my boat 5 times on new lakes. otherwise i remember catching around 20 keeper sized largemouth opening weekend (14 in. give or take a few inches) and last year i spent two and a half packages of handpour worms catching a ton of micro bass that were 12 inches and under, average was probably 10" , i lost count at 21

just make sure you cover some water, best advice i can give you.

hmm, wow it has to be subscriptions to bass fishing magazines.

I like that crappie very much!

I own a few mini's and theyre great. Most of the bass in my lakes are under two pounds, thats why i use the mini's, if the bass in your neck of the woods are 2+ pounds id go with the reg. skt's.

weird, just last week i was fishing with a new luckycraft my dad had picked up for me.it got tangled in some branches and i snapped the line. so i went swimming! ( i had made about 6 casts with the lure and even caught a bass, no way i was letting that woodpile take my crank) i eventually got the lure out and when i went to exchange the lure between hands...yeah. the hook went in kinda funny. it started at the end of my thumb nail out towards the tip ofmy thumb. it was well past the barb. ouuuch, my dad wanted to rip it out of me as fast as he could...I politely said no thank you (there may have been a few curse words here or there . ) after about 15 minutes of staring at it with minimal wiggling i figured out that if i twisted the hook completely around it should have enough room for the barb to slide out. thakfully it worked and i didnt suffer too much Note: i am considering to switching to barbless hooks

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i would cut off one hook on each treble so your left with only 2 hooks riding upwards, works for me

a twin tail grub, bu i rig it vertically so the claws better mimic the tailfin of a bluegill, i also like paddletail worms like half of a zoom speed worm

i saw the berkely havoc wideload in scheels today. looks like it was made for a shakey head!