Avalonjohn44

Well, that review sold me on the lure. Don't know how well it works, but it looks darn cool inside and out. There will be three in my tacklebox come payday.

I swim/wade for baits often. Maybe I'm cheap, or maybe I just like swimming. Probably both. Either way, something in me just can't leave five or ten dollar bill laying on the bottom. I have also waded in for baits that I can see from shore, or climbed trees to retrieve somebody else's lost treasure. I have tried lure retrievers but they don't work well from shore for me. I have tried the extending pole before too, but many times I am stuck farther out than the pole allows for. So, into the drink it is.

I have several and they are pretty, but as Shady Oak alluded to, they are quite fragile. The finish on two of mine (I have 5) shattered in a star pattern in multiple places. Like a tiny little head hit a tiny little windshield... Two others have cracks after just nominal use.

Lunker City Salad Spoon - Topwater, virtually weedless and fun to fish. Rage tail shad if you have trouble finding the salad spoon.

Instead of different sizes/colors a different presentation might have worked: T-rig, C-rig, dropshot, splitshot, weightless, etc. That or varying the speed/cadence of your retrieve, fast, slow, hopping, crawling etc.

1. Cheap cigars - repels bugs, no deet 2. Ruger - repels idiots and the packs of illegals roaming my area 3. Duct tape - always useful. 4. Sewing Kit - always useful. 5. Leatherman tool - always useful.

The Koppers has a very different action from spro. I use both. Initially I was unsatisfied with the Koppers because it bobbed like a cork rather than drag across the top of the water like the spro. It wasn't until I fished the Kopper's in very heavy cover that it shined. The bobbing action looks like a real frog trying to hop out of or escape from the wa ter. This is Exactly what it was designed to do. Use the spro in more open water where you can walk it (or walk any number of other baits for that matter...), use the Kopper's in the weeds, pads, scum, sticks, etc I think people buy a Kopper's expecting it to be a fancier version of the Spro frog when it is not. It is just a different tool. Now, as to it taking on water, if it immediately takes on water, return it to the store for a new one. A premium bait should not need a fix to work.

For $10, pack it up and exchange it for a new one.

I have to pick some up. Like a flatfish, right? Always seen them, never tried one.

What baits are left?

Jigs. Don't know what I am doing wrong, I cannot catch a fish on a jig. I have caught more carp on jigs than bass. (1 carp, 0 bass...)

I have too, very good technique... Also thinking about trying one of the small 3" on drop shot. It will be the year of the the Sluggo!

Could have been turtles. Or it could have been any kind of fish or underwater critter upsetting an accumulated pocket of methane from rotting leaves/vegetation.

I haven't fished the Cacapon river yet, but wil do it this year. I have fished the state park and that little pond is loaded with good LMbass. The Upper Potomac and the Shenandoah around harpers ferry are still crazy productive for me, even with all of the tubers and kayakers out there. Last year rock hoping with rapala glass raps we must have caught 60 bass btwn my brother an me in a few hours... I have to check out the floppy lure. I'll use it. Good thing about wade fishing is if you snag you can swim over to get it back...

That's awesome! I agree, there is nothing like a sluggo... This year I am going to experiment with carolina rigging them. Can't wait.

What about other types of fish? Sunnies, crappie? If those are there, so are the bass most likely. Another idea might be to try live bait - minnows, shiners, whatever. Could be that they are uncommonly shy and artificials aren't doing the trick.

I have been orgnaizing my obnoxious amounts of fishing gear and stumbled on a little Flambeau tacklebox I probably haven't opened in years. In it were some baits that used to just kill for me when I was growing up, but got lost somewhere in the shuffle. Seems like there's a new bait or technique every time you turn around and another $200 to spend re-outfitting to accomodate the trends... I don't remember it being as 'complicated' as it is today. Here is a list of what was in that tacklebox that used to be staples for me: Sluggo's, Heddon Torpedos, Rebel Craw, Helgies, French Fry, Slider Worms, Rapala Countdowns, Mepps Fury, Large Kalin Grubs, Bang-O Lures, Silver Buddy, Johnson Spoon (gold, silver and hematite) and a ton of no-name ring worms, curly tail worms, etc. I used to do great out of that single tacklebox back in the day. From shore, with one rod, a $30 shimano spinning reel and 10lb mono I had summers full of amazing days wading down the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers... Tons of 50 - 100 bass days (nothing very huge, but some days it was just fish after fist after fish...) I'm going to take just that box out this year, hop in the river and see how I do... Bet I have more fun this year than the last 5 combined...

I love the Lunker City salad spoon. It's been around for years and is often overlooked. Great bait. It is a more subtle version of the rage shad.

There is just no harmony between the species. The carp think that the bass get all the media attention, the bass think the carp are freeloaders dropped into the pond to eat them out of house and home. Meanwhile the bream and crappie are busy reproducing at breakneck speeds, insuring that they will be the dominant population of the pond. Soon enough the fish version of jesse jackson will come along and jump in the middle of it and really screw things up. It's all just fish racism. Why can't they all just get along?

This, like the other thread for cranks, just boils down to personal preference. If you don't mind how the action is affected (for better or for worse) then use it.

IBTL?

LC Rick Clunn 1.5, Bandit 100, Bandit 200, Bomber B

I haven't found one that I didn't just delete a few minutes later. It ends up depressing me that I'm not really fishing.

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Silly, this is a bass forum, not a crappy forum. Sadly this person will be allowed to breed and vote. *sigh*