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Walleye fisherman use a tool to store numerous types of crawler harness's. I would bet the same tool would work more than perfectly for you. just google crawler harness storage. Another very inexpensive idea would be to buy one of those foam noodles that children use in the pool. try and find the ones that are smaller in diameter than the large ones most places carry. cut it to size and just wrap your line/baits around the foam and inset the hook into the foam. you can also go buy a wooden dowel from any home department store and then buy some foam pipe cover insulation and slip it over the dowel and it will work the same as the noodle.

that's a largemouth. OP, if you have any sort of normal size hands, that's a giant blue gill!

If you sent it in this week odds are you will have it easily next week. I've sent rods to them before as well for upgrades. I only live roughly 5 hours from their plant but i've sent a rod in on a Monday and received the new one Friday of the same week. Their turnaround time is very fast.

i use 6# /w a fluoro leader on one one of my spinning set ups /w a 7# leader. i've dragged in 20# sheephead with this set up. 10# will be more than okay.

that's what she said.

I generally don't downsize for smallmouth as far as topwater is concerned. A sammy is probably my best producing lure for them on the river. I did pick up a couple of the bone zara puppies, switched the hooks and had a hay day for a couple hours last weekend. the only problem was the strippers went after the smaller offering as well. they wouldn't touch the sammy though.

it depends what species of bass you want to fish for (largemouth/spots/smallmouth). i'd love to be able to fish year round down south but I would miss the heck out of the fantastic small mouth and walleye fishing up north. of the three you mentioned,i've only fished texas put would still probably choose texas. the food is just too good.

agree. i never keep bass. have more than my fill of walleye and catfish from the spring/fall.

That's really the only thing that grabbed me. I really interested in trying this out.

How deep was the fish caught? 2 ft Did the lure contain rattles or have hinges? no(jig) Was the lure a natural color (brown, green) or was it an unnatural color (chartreuse, orange)? natural (green pumpkin/blue craw) If possible, what moon phase was your PB caught during?no idea. was caught in the first week of april 2 years ago.

I use high vis braid /w a fluoro leader on one rod and straight 7# fluoro on another. when the rod with straight fluoro runs out i'll be switching back to braid/fluoro leader. i love and religiously fish straight fluoro for just about everything but i ultimately prefer the braid/fluoro leader on spinning tackle. I would only be concerned about visibility issues if I were fishing straight high vis braid but the 4-5' fluoro leader eliminates that factor. Seeing the bite is a big factor in high vis lines. I personally only have it on my spinning rods for light jigs for walleye in the spring and fall where high vis lines are almost a necessity. My rods are ridiculously sensitive that I feel slightest tick more often than not. If I don't the high vis line is very easy to see moving in any direction. If there is a lot of wind, I go straight fluoro because you get more direct contact with your bait on slack line. If you are going high vis braid, just pick the brand you like and a color you can see in most conditions. not all high vis braid is as visible as you think in all conditions. I personally can't see blaze orange well at night but yellow sticks out like a sore thumb. ironically enough low light daylight blaze orange is more visible to me than yellow.

He's referring to a northern or wisconsin style swim jig. you are referring to a southern style or california swim jig that has a beefier build.

As stated above, as long as they aren't elaztech you can store them in plano boxes just fine. I store just about all my soft plastics in 3700 boxes and organize them meticulously. i like them fact that if I am fishing say a beaver bait, i have the a plano box with the specific size and colors right in front of me rather than going through different bags.

the swim jig style head, the bullet shaped head, not the triangular shaped head booyah makes(i think), comes through grass and cover better than any style jig head due to it's shape. you can by all means swim any jig head in open water and probably be efficient in doing so. brush jig heads are great as they can fish well casted or pitched into cover and if made correctly stand up right when the jig is moved along the bottom or at rest. swim jigs do not stand up well. brush jigs, while you can "swim" them through cover, don't come through cover when retrieving them horizontally at a long distance as well as your traditional swim jig. you can fish any jig anywhere but certain jigs work better in certain situaitons. If you still believe it's a gimmick, google "tom monsoor swim jigs" and there are dozens of articles about him and how he made the swim jig a science and won a lot of money doing so while others couldn't replicate his success swimming your traditional jigs.

The line is amazing in open water. any sort of cover it comes in contact with eats the line up.

i always sharpen my hooks after a few fish. i too use a small hook sharpening stone. i believe i purchased it at a Menards or Lowes. they are very cheap.

big fan of the hack attack jig by strike king.

it's the other way around. heavily salted lures sink at a much faster rate. are you sure it doesn't say "super salt plus" above horny toad on the package?

68mxf curado 51e 4/0-5/0 ewg sometimes adding a 1/16 or 1/8 oz tungesten weight if i want to go deeper in grass instead of over it but more times than not i fish it weightless 12# fluoro. i've used braid and it worked fine but just prefer fluoro. either or works fine. pearl white, baby bass, watermelon red are my favorites. there really is no wrong way to fish a fluke. throw it over grass, weeds, into school fishing, shallow, deep. twitch, twitch, pause. most strikes come on the pause. make sure it's rigged on the hook perfectly straight. it will walk the dog better.

i throw sammies and spooks on 15# for the occasion fish run me into weeds on weed lines. if it were all open water i'd be using 12. i use trilene xl. my top water rod is a ltb68mxf so the stretch the line gives compensates for the xf tip.

lc 1.5s kvd 1.0/1.5 xs100 colors are either a craw variant in brown/orange/red, a shad in sexy shad/american shad/tennessee shad, chart black

The biggest draw to tungsten is it's smaller profile in comparison lead in similar sizes. It is also more sensitive than lead as tungsten transmits vibration very well.

some people use a scale to pull against. most of the time you can do it by feel after you get the hang of where the drag should be. it's very easy to tell after a few fish.

Are you using any backing? The braid might be slipping on the spool. Unless you are punching mats or frog fishing slop, you don't need the drag locked down.

Swim jigs don't need that beefy of a skirt. cut that skirt material almost in half. your line is fine. on the rare occasion i am using braid it's with a swim jig in 30#. the rod is probably your biggest problem. I use the dx 745 as well but for pitching jigs. unless your swim jigs have a super beefy hook, the 745 is just too much rod for swim jigs. my swim jig rod is the 733c. though i am almost always using 1/4oz jigs and on an occasion 3/8. no issues at all with hook ups in grass or open water. i've use the 744 but still prefer the 733. you should have a weed guard and a very soft one. i can't see the hook in your picture but if i were to guess i think it would be along the same lines as the 3/8 brovarney swim jigs as they are both located near swim jig country. if you are dead set on the 745, while not ideal, use fluoro over braid to compensate for the rod. otherwise just downsize the power of the rod and keep using braid and you should be good to go. i use siebert's jigs but not his swim jig. i would THINK, but not certain, it's based off a northern style swim jig which won't have a heavy hook like the California swim jigs you are used to.