moguy1973

I have been using these also with good results. I have been using size 1/0 or size 1

I found that shrink tubing works great if you want the fish to just take your worm. I don't know how many times I had a fish swipe the worm and all I got back was a bare hook with the shrink tubing on it. I found that the Goody hair bands work the best. Double them over so they make an X and then your hook remains perpendicular to the worm for better hookups. Can get a package of about 100 at Walmart for a couple bucks in the girls hair section.

112lb trolling motor in a 14' boat. Hmmm, ok... That boat would be plenty fine with a 70lb if you really want anything over 12v. Even a 55lb 12v trolling motor would pull that thing around the lake pretty well... As for the deck, I wouldn't extend it all the way to the back seat. I'd do it just like the one you have pictured. If you extend it all the way to the back seat you won't have anywhere to sit when you are running the "big" motor.

I've done this before when I've had a fish on in current in my kayak and I was heading towards some downed trees. My Fish Grip is on a short leash and I just clipped it onto the bass's lip with the lure still in it's mouth so I could lay my rod down and use both hands to paddle away from the trees. It takes quite a bit for the jaws of the Fish Grip to open up.

Mine is an aluminum boat and I don't have anything in my drain tube.

Lake Taneycomo where the hatchery is located is a cold water tailwater fishery and has world class trout fishing in it. Bank fishing there depends on how much generation they have going on. If the water is low it's wadeable but you usually need waders since the water is about 50 degrees or so year round unless you don't mind your legs being numb. Generation schedule can be found here and anything over 25MW of generation is un-wadeable. Right now they are not generating until the afternoon for several hours but if you go in the morning it would we wadeable. https://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx Just to the south of the dam is Dewey Short Visitor Center and Table Rock State Park both have a good deal of decent access to bank fishing. Take some Ned rigs and some worms and bobbers and you'll catch some bass and nice blue gills.

What kind of drain plug do you have? The one I have is a t-handle style where you stick it in and twist it until it seals tightly. There's another that has a lever arm that you flip towards the boat to seal it. Are you just sticking it in the hole without activating the sealing mechanism?

I caught several 8-10lb blue cats on crankbaits a few years ago on Kentucky Lake. Thought I had monster bass every time until they stopped fighting after a few seconds and just became heavy on the line.

I'm pretty sure that Wheeler's marshal got out of the boat.

I'm guessing its ok to mount the charger on the gas tank? ?

After owning my kayak for a while now I would say the number one thing I would say to look for is a kayak with a comfortable seat. My older Ocean Kayak sit on top just has a thin foam seat that sits in the seat well and if any water gets in the seat well my bum is wet the rest of the day. If I could go back I would get one with an elevated seat. Unfortunately mine cannot be retrofitted very easily and even if it could I think an elevated seating position would affect its stability while paddling and fishing as it’s a fairly narrow kayak. I really can’t complain though as my kayak has tons of internal storage and I got it pretty much for free through my previous job performance bonus.

Learn to use a tube and match the color of the tube with the color of the craws in the river you fish and you'll be on them all day.

In some places of the country they probably are still. Not many though.

Not really much close to St. Louis that is decent unless you are going smallie fishing on the Bourbouse, Meramec or Big rivers. All the good larger bodies of water are all either private or a few hours from town.

Mine has weight transfer ball bearings in it that kind of rattle I guess. If you don’t hear anything when you shake it I’d call tw and ask for a different one.

Berkley is coming out with 16 new topwater hard baits it looks like. One looks like a whopper plopper knock off:

5 main ways to tell a spot from a LMB. WRB touched on a couple of them. 1. Dorsal Fin: Largemouth dorsal fins are separated from each other where spots are connected. 2. Tongue patch: Spotted bass have a rough patch on their tongues where Largemouth do not. (sometimes spotted bass do not have this patch so it's not always an indication.) 3. Cheek scales: Spotted bass have much smaller cheek scales than the rest of their body where LMBs have scales similar to the rest of their body. 4. Jaw length: When a LMBs mouth is closed the "hinge" of the mouth is beyond their eye where the spotted bass is typically right at their eye. 5. Belly spots: Typically a spotted bass will have lines of spots on their bellies where LMBs usually just have white bellies. Usually there is one of these features that will distinguish which type of bass you have.

Like said, probably a common carp or a grass carp. They spook super easy.

I'm not sure about using fluorocarbon for topwater since it sinks. I think it would make it hard to set the hook if the line is underwater. All the big frog guys use big lb braid for frogging.

Major dink fest. I thought they said this fishery was as hot as it's been for a long time? I guess getting past the dinks to get to the big fish is harder than it seems.

I fish a couple local park ponds that have that thick slimy matted algae on them and I do a lot better with texas rigged soft plastic Zoom Horny Toads than with hollow belly frogs. Pulling the horny toads across the mats seems come through them better than the hollow bellys and the hookup ratio is better usually. I've never had good hookup ratio with the hollow belly frogs.

I have an older Ocean Kayak Trident 11T that I got back in 2011ish. It's a great all around kayak. Not super wide so I can't stand up in it, but it has a ton of internal storage that is easily accessed by the Rod Pod and front hatch. I've had sleeping bags, tents, rods, camping gear all stored neatly inside where they all stay dry during my overnighters. That's the best part of my kayak I think. The thing it could use is an elevated comfort seat. I'm usually sitting in a wet seat which isn't the most enjoyable thing. Other than that it does everything I need it to do and I've caught many fish out of it.

I use a braided dock line with a built in loop for tying up to docks. It's made to run the loop through the cleat on the boat and loop it around the ears of the cleat to hold it to the boat and make it easy to take off. I just use the winch strap on my boat to launch my boat when i'm solo. Just reel some length off of it before I back the boat in, once it floats I pull it back using the winch strap, unhook and push the boat back off the trailer.

Took the kayaks out on a small Ozark stream today with the wife. Love catching these stream smallies on top water. They just explode on it!

I use snaps without swivels on everything except my drop shot and Ned rig setups.