Avalonjohn44

They do fine for me, but after one has caught two fish, they do sometimes start to slide. If you are having problems with a bait sliding down, a good solution are Parasite Weights. They are a bullet style weight that pegs itself to the hook. It keeps the bait from sliding down, awesome weight system. For weightless presentations, Parasite has a clip that goes on the line above the hook, then loops around the shank, doing the same thing that the weight does. You get more mileage out of a worm. Gander Mountain sells them. Super Glue will help too, but I have a bad track record of spilling it on my fingers...

The Sweet Beaver skips really well. I rig them weightless. That flat section of body will skip a mile.

Eat something out of the Potomac? Sir, no sir...

What is the penalty for releasing them if you catch one?

Bass are an invasive species in the Potomac too...

Those are the ones I must have gotten... I'll try to find some newer craws this week.

The craws have an anise scent to them.

Huh?

There are a ton of blogs out there, and there are some seriously hostile bigfoot believers out there. They're out in full force defending these two guys. Poll on CNN shows 44% of people believe there this a bigfoot... I never thought it would be more than 10%... I don't believe in bigfoot, but love to hear this kind of X-Files stuff... I predict that either a) the body will be 'stolen' before DNA tests can be done or the DNA tests will be 'inconclusive'...

It is a beautiful bait. You can slowly swim it, walk the dog, slash it, whatever. I have gotten a lot of fish on this bait, including a lot of sunfish. They seem to really hate it. Haven't gotten anything over 3 pounds on it though, for me it is a 'numbers' bait, not a big fish bait.

I've tried swivels, and they help a lot, but they don't totally eliminate the twist, for me at least. I use spinners mostly on moving water, so if the twist gets bad, I cut the lure off and let the current un-spool my reel. It untwists just like it would if you let the line out from a moving boat.

Most inline spinners work great. I always have four or five Mepps Black Furies in my box. Hate the line twist though.

I have two things to say/ask: 1 Match it to the color of frogs you've seen when fishing. 2 Are you Dean Rojas?

Yeah, whenever I know I'm gonna be spending time in Clarke Co, I stock up on the hand sanitizer...

Yup. It is very similar to the Bandit Footloose. I like the footloose better. More colors, does not look as junky as some of those SK Cranks...

I use Mozilla and I get there fine. Are you using this link: http://micromunchjigs.homestead.com/welcome.html On IE I had trouble getting to it before...

This is a shock to me. I wonder if this is a true statement, or if the head scientist at Berkley Bait Company might have an ulterior motive by saying this...

Walmart sells a pre-rigged Lake Fork Live Magic Shad for around $2.50 a pop. Great lures. They only last a couple of fish though. 1000x better than anything storm puts out.

Spinnerbait: Terminator Green & White skirt with dual willow blades, one gold one silver Buzzbait: Black Cavitron Shallow Crankbait: Bandit 100 Chartreuse/Pearl Medium Crankbait: Megabass Cyclone Deep Crankbait: Bagley DB3 Splatterback Lipless Crankbait: SK Diamond Shad Blue/Chrome Topwater: Cultiva Tango Dancer Blue Chrome Frog: Gambler Sizmic Toad, smaller size, Pumpkinseed/Pearl Belly Plastic Worm: Zoom Trick Worm Bruised Banana Plastic Creature: Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver in Roadkill Hard Stick Bait: Bagley Bang-O-Lure #5 in Black scale over yellow Soft Stick Bait: 5" Senko Pumpkinseed Swim Bait: Lake Fork Tackle Live Magic Shad Watermelonseed Hard Jerk Bait: LC Pointer 78 in Purple/Chartreuse Soft Jerk Bait: 5" Sluggo in Alewife Spoon: Johnson Silver Minnow in the Nickel Finish In-line Spinner: Mepps Fury #4 Red Jig: SK mini jig in black w/ green highlights

There is a campground near Berryville VA called Watermelon park... Nothing great, but access to a nice section of river with Largemouth and Smallies. http://www.watermelonpark.com/

No, I agree, it was a dismal outing. My cousin talked me into using hand-lines instead of cage traps...

Cool, thanks dude.

I see pieces like that sometimes, but don't know what they are, I leave them usually... Where do you guys go for your teeth? I used to hit Stratford Hall like mad until they closed it off. I make a trip to Calvert County MD and put a Kayak in near Dare's Beach and search, but haven't gone at all this year... Anyone ever go on any VMNH field trips?

There are a ton of websites about the Brown Recluse, and two things tend to jump out... First is many spiders are assumed to be Brown Recluses when they actually are something else - usually harmless... That pic is not good enough to tell. Secondly, only 1% of Brown Recluse bites actually turn into anything greater than a mosquito bite... and usually old folks or people with bad immune systems get the rotten wound that everyone is so afraid of...

I haven't tried that lure in particular, but I have been disappointed in everything I have bought from megabait... From the Charlie, to various cranks and jerkbaits I got from Gander, every megabait lure has been cheap and non-productive for me.