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I bought a crankbait rod 2 years ago and have thrown nothing but jerkbaits on it. Keeps trebles pinned very well, gotta love the 704cb. Haven't tied a crank on it to this day. Now for throwing cranks, like little cotton cordels, I am using a "shakeyhead" crucial. Does it work for shakeyheads? Yep, but I use my 703 champ more....you get the idea... like many topics in the forums, it really comes down to preference.

probably more righties out there, but I'm ambidextrous so I can pick up just about any setup and fish. Prefer left hand retrieve reels and working the rod with my right, yet right hand dominant with everything else in life including writing, throwing a ball, using a comp mouse ...etc. Shim make lefty cores so that's all I care about in sense of the market. Fire bush in the house.

I use them a lot in the rivers I fish, can really make them dance without busting outta the water on surface. I don't like screw on swimbait hooks for flukes. I use 1/8 and 1/4oz keel weighted superline EWGs. Still spirals down fine for me, just not as slow... with a D-shad it sinks so fast it will flap the straight tail. Take your time rigging them up or you'll be wasting baits. If it spins when you just reel it in slow, its not rigged straight. Had more luck this season with weighted hooks than weightless, last year I killed them nose hooking weightless on a 1/0 gammie dropshot hook. Really depends on what "fluke" style bait I'm using. Zoom fluke I tend to run weightless on a skip gap, TS Schooling minnow I use weighted hooks, D-Shads I use both.

Straight tail worms...Robos, Dreamshots, and custom hand pours account for most of the my DS fish. Bento minnows, dace color. 3" Erie darters ... watermelon magic Craws and creatures work too

2 I've had success with this season: Strike King Bitsy jig and bitsy flip for small profile, 3/16 to 1/2oz. Black, pumpkin, watermelon for skirt colors. I like to use a single tail grub for a trailer. 3"-4". Dirty jigs finesse football, trim skirt spider style to reduce profile. Baby rage craw, zoom ultravibe speedcraw, or strike king baby chunk for trailer. Green pumpkin, watermelon, and black/blue for colors. Iaconelli posted a pic on his fb today of a smallie he got on a skirted jig. Looks brown and the skirt is cut spider style. Cant see his choice of trailer.

Bought a pack of them to try next week, what weights were you using?

Check the gear ratios too, JDM reels are usually geared lower. In the case of the reel you want, its a 5.0:1 or lower.

I fish it all the time. I pitch it to docks, laydowns, weed patches. Cast it to rock piles, drag it around with the wind, drop it below the transducer when I see something. Use the right hook and its just as snagless as most presentations. Working it...well you can get pretty creative. One thing I have had some luck doing is getting a light weight, 1/16 or 1/8oz tungsten weight and rig the hook so you have a longer tag end. Cast this ahead of cruising fish and swim it back. Drop it when they start following so they dont grab just the tail. Robo straight tail worms work good for this technique, rig them straight as can be or they will spin and cause line twist. This is not the conventional way to fish this rig, but it works especially when you know fish are shallow or suspending at a given depth. Conventional wisdom says: Rig a heavy weight you can easily feel, cast to an area you know holds fish, let it hit bottom and fly your bait like a flag and wait for the bite. No shaking. This will work, but not everytime. Shake the slack, dead stick it, twitch it close to bottom on slack line, drop and raise violently (stroking), hop it....lots of way this rig will work. Some of my biggest bass had the bait in their mouths before I even got slack out of the line...hit it on the fall. This more often when using a small swimbait or curly tail grub (little dipper/swing impact). They work too. Experiment and prosper.

I gotta say I'm not impressed with the one I bought either. Looks awesome, legs are pretty life-like. Fills up with water too fast, tried sealing with silcone and super glue, didn't last long. Just keeps on taking water in. Never got bit on it so didnt have a chance to lose legs or get tore up yet. I've went back to pad crashers, they're easily the best value for frogs out there right now.

The internal weights are a tight fit, but the smaller ones work. Go 1/0 owner offset shank worm hook. Skip gaps I only use for weightless flukes.

Sure can. Texas rigged and weightless makes for great side to side darting action...make sure you take your time rigging it straight as you can. Could also rig them TX on a keel weighted EWG hook to get them deeper.

My cumara (same one you've got 7'2" M/XF) sits home usually because the DX 702 does my dropshotting now. I just like the ML for what I do. You could get away with one rod really for open water / weed edges... the DX703SF. It's got more meat in the backbone for sure. If you want two rods to dropshot specific locations, get em both. Can't comment on *** rods, no experience with the brand.

Did you try to follow up on his missed buzzbait strikes? Pitch a senko to the same holes as he keeps moving on. Woulda been buzzin a horny toad in a diff color right there with him myself. Care to elaborate on the spoon he used?

Try a feathered/mylar rear treble hook. Edit: This is #4 owner dressed treble on a spook jr. Still walks good. She inhaled it.

I become fond of the Dirty jigs finesse swim jig in black/purple with a penetration (blk/blue laminate) R.I. little dipper. I havent thrown many others at all, this was my first year swimming a jig and it worked out pretty good.

There's so many women out there....you simply cannot get bent outta shape if shes not interestedn when you man up. If she dont want the attention, walk away, dont freak out, dont start crying. Just move on to the next. Her own state of mind at that time will dictate her response to you showing your interest. If shes into you, she's yours to lose regardless of what you do.

NO. First of all, do not self sabotage. By indicating your interest in her might be "weird"...thats the best way to make her think you are indeed strange. Its not weird for a guy to be into a girl. Get that crap outta yer head before you even walk over to her. Your 2nd error is that you want to only say hello upon first making contact and then proceed to walk away and not have a conversation...lol man, this is the biggest issue I can see besides your lack of confidence. You need to be able to make small talk with this chick before you walk away, or shes gonna think you're.............WEIRD.

3 lines I use for hard jerks are 7lb sunline biwako FC, 10lb power pro and a FC leader, 4/6lb Yo-Zuri hybrid. Might seem light to some guys, but I get more casting distance, in clear water I think it makes a difference when you can back way off the school and still bomb a pointer 65/78 to them. Thin braid and leader requires the least effort, less fatigue overall... keep in mind if youre gonna be jerkin' it all day. Long casts + fast cadence + stretchy line will wear you out.

Stradic FJ is worth the extra coin. Look for a deal.

The bass in my lake compete with big pike and brown / rainbow / lake trout. Both LMB and SMB in here...they are healthy fish for a lake less than 300 acres. Stocked annually with small rainbow trout. No follows on my hudd 68 yet, but have got bit on trout pattern jerkbaits. Likely operator error, not the hudds fault. In my opinion its a 2 tier fishery, the lake trout usually take the deep water, rainbows and browns all over the place surface to the bottom and anywhere in between, and most of the SMB can be found near the mouths of bays and off rocky points / rock piles, not all that deep. The largemouth seem to be around the limited laydowns in summer time. The pike are elusive, have seen some in the weeds/ posted up next to docks/ generally shallow. This is not absolute, just my own observations. Occasionally these fish seem to work together, herding large schools of suspended bait over 50+ feet of water. Bass on one cast, trout on the next. They're doin alright for getting dumped in the lake outta milk cans in the 1800s.

yellow 1/4oz rooster tail spinner a clear or white bottomed tiny torpedo pack of # 4 hooks and a split shot for multiple live bait rigs

Hard jerkbaits, they will catch many species of fish all year round. Modifying suspenders/floaters is fun and a good way for me to kill time in winter.

Oh yeah they will, try a black 1/4oz cavitron.

You've found fish, thats half the battle, but are they still there?? What's your rod/reel/line? If you're not catching them, but are seeing them..... those fish know you're there too. More than likely this is your issue. Back way off your spot and make the longest cast you can to them if you know theyre still there. Put the blades and hard jerks away til fall/spring. I'd start earlier too, with a topwater, or a crank to see if you can relocate fish and get a reaction. If they are still where you found them, focus hard on the dropshot, try different style baits and experiment with leader length. Or back off them and toss a 4" soft stickbait wacky rigged. A tube is my confidence bait, and I would not leave until I dragged the bottom with a brown or black one. A soft jerkbait rigged weightless might be the ticket in that shallow water, I'd recommend a zoom fluke or yamamoto d-shad on a 2/0 skip gap gamakatsu hook, although I also like them on keel weighted EWGs if they wont come up to the surface. Give them an erratic action, fast jerks and then kill it. Many bites will be while bait is moving and they will slam it good if you show them the right color. Usually smb are roamers, so dont always assume they will be that shallow, because 8ft of clear water in the blazing heat of summer is not the norm. Hell, by the time I am done typing this your fish might be offshore for the day, or maybe they'll stay put, really depends on where the foods at. Back off them and keep a low profile, and you can score. Be silent and patient.

Same here, and most are usually out of stock so I get them online. Give Oxblood light red flk a try if you pick up some more. This weekends color was hologram shad for me, a good suggestion from Jezi.