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No joke . I use to buy them by the hundreds and used them up quickly . They are Dynomite .

I dont think you got the answer you were seeking because its a hard question to answer . We all just sort of play it by ear .

I have a couple hundred 8" jelly worms in blueberry . Its a good size for both quantity and quality . I have caught thousands of bass on the six inch size , the 8 inch is a size I just started using the last two years and its worked well .

Must be nice . I love taking one to two weeks to a lake that has cabins and covered docks . Wife and I have discussed moving to LOZ or Table Rock .

Same here . I dont hate change , Duckett , MLF ... I just lie the 5 fish format . I dont watch the home run derby at the All star game either .

25 miles

I figured it would be an unlimited supply .

A couple of days into a warm spell Big bass will sometimes move shallow on sunny banks . I target steep banks. Fish in the afternoon . I personally like to throw a crankbait in a crayfish pattern . Parallel cast the bank and retrieve excruciatingly slow .This is a good way to get a lunker to bite. I like Arbogast Mudbugs but they are no longer available . A Wiggle Wart would be a good choice .

The reason I choose a Lizard over a worm is it can be buzzed like a topwater .

I dont know , I'm just guessing . I have limited experience in dock fishing . But when I do go to a lake that has docks such ad LOZ or Table Rock I choose docks that are in shallow areas . Look at topo maps and find docks that are less than fifteen foot at front and shallower in the rear . Docks that are in deep water I pass on .I want to be able to fish all the way around them and hit bottom . I wont stick with a spinnerbait for thirty docks unless something is caught ,choosing instead to mix it up . I really like jigs on docks and will stick with them longer than other lures .

Its just a guess . With me I'll have several rods rigged with lures that will fish the cover or structure I'm facing effectively . So its easy to lay one down and pick up another . You mentioned rip rap . A lot of lures fish it effectively . Crankbaits , spinnerbaits ,buzzbaits are my favorites there. Texas rigs work too but they are constantly wedged , so they are my last resort . If I dont catch any with the selected lures its time to do something else .Whether its wood , weeds , algae , rock , docks, steep contours , flat contours there are several lures that excel there .

One of my favorite patterns is the Rapala perch but I have never used the DT series .

Yep Rapala Crankin Raps Rapala Fatraps Rebel Deep wee R's Berkely Dredgers Strike King Red Eye Shads Rogers Big Jim Storm Wiggle Wart have seen the most action the last few years

I have more bass come off with a drop-shot than I have landed . I must be holding my mouth wrong too .

6 inch Zoom Lizard purple .

Under water the Motor Oil Jelly worm changes colors , I dont know how to describe it . I concede . Motor Oil is not brown , it just sort of is.

I quoted a quote . Oh well .

Bill Dance, on his shows ,says to always use the lightest weight you can get away with . Larry Nixon says he tends to use heavier weights because he said it gets more bites on a faster fall . Go figure . I fall in the Larry Nixon camp .

I dislike to use spinning too but it is necessary . I/8th ounce and less I use spinning .

I grew up vertical jigging for crappie in brush piles along the Mississippi and backwaters . I held the string between my index finger and thumb to feel bites while using cheap fiberglass rods . When I ventured into bass fishing , still using fiberglass , I employed the same tactics and still do so today, except glass has been replaced by graphite . One clue for beginners . If you feel the slightest tap as the lure is falling , any lure , that is most likely a strike . If you feel the tap when lifting the lure that could be a bite but more likely a limb .

Looks brown to me . Motor Oil is just a label .

He holds the rod handle behind the reel when retrieving a bait . I think that would make it difficult to detect strikes .

I forgot all my soft plastics one time . So searching through my stuff i found a bag of black Gizits . I Texas rigged them and didnt miss my other plastics a bit . Caught many bass on points and in wood .

Tubes work well for largemouths . i usually just Texas rig them and fish them like a worm .

I have a hard time pitching Texas rigs with anything less than 1/4. A 5 /16 is what I usually use . I use a lot of 1/2 ounce jigs . If I want a faster or slower fall I usually switch lures instead of weight .