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How deep ? I have different favorites for different depths .

I remember very early in his career the buzz was how consistently he finished in the money . He hasnt slowed down .

Maybe split the tourney in half . Half fish saturday and half fish sunday .

Next theres going to be a thread "Has this ever happened to you? " about catching a rod and reel with a fish on it . I had a channel cat yank my rod in the water . I just set it down for a few seconds to do something and off it went .I dove in head first and got it .

I have a box for lures that dont work . Isnt it funny how some lures are really good and others junk . I have two Rattlin Thin Fins that are night and day different .

Small bait vs big bait ? I just try too make good decisions based on the conditions. Could be small or big but mostly medium .

Its a sonar detector .

I would fish it but would never follow anybody . I like to find my own fish . To me thats the whole sport . If I see a pro I would probably give way to him but would like to have a brief conversation . Now the wanna b pros wearing their jerseys and fishing bent rod patterns , I'll give them no leeway .

I'm a worm guy but I'll tell you that I have caught most of my tourney fish on Texas rigged lizards .

I had three anglers in the bottom twenty .

Boiling Plastic worms will make them softer .I have done it .

Texas and Carolina .

This is the answer to most questions about bass fishing lures .

The biggest bass I have caught the last few years was on a buzzbait during a light drizzle . Love top waters during a summer rain .

Bass anglers run into the same scenario all the time . Unless the bass are feeding heavily on them at the surface , which it doesnt sound like they were , I would keep an eye on them but try to locate some nearby cover or structure . I wouldnt chase after them but if one bust surface within casting distance I'd fire a lure that way .

Hall of Famers still produced that I use . Norman Deep Little N and Bomber model A .

I've been wanting one of these since I was a kid .Traded for it . Nylon 66 ,, cherry .

The reason I use them is because it is what the local tackle shop sold . They are hand poured . I bought them on cards by the dozen and still have quite a few left .

How do you guys feel about jigs with the one piece " Y " weedguards ? Those are the ones I use the most on an Arkie head .

Correct . If theres a 15 foot thermocline in 100 foot of water , then you can eliminate 85 percent of the water column . The thermocline may not be the magic zone , it can be anywhere in that 15 foot range .

Like others have stated , eliminate water below the thermocline . . Next thing I look for is the zone where most of the fish are located . It could be right at the thermocline or shallower . Even though the thermolcline is at 15 foot , for example , the sonar may show most of the fish activity at 8 foot , which was the case on a lake I went to last week . That is the depth I caught most of the fish at that day . Why the fish were at 8 foot I can only speculate . I'm guessing it was a comfort zone , perhaps the most O2 rich area of the water column .

Trilene knot is a lot simpler to tie if you put your index finger in the second loop created .

I was fishing at Bull Shoals and there was a storm in some far away hills . I wasnt too frightened by it . I was using a tube on a quarter ounce jighead . I made a cast and my line would not lay on the water . The lure was in the water but the line was trying to stand straight up in the air . I connected the dots rather fast and got off the water .

At one time a lot of top waters were white with a red front , so they are good fish catchers , I just havent done well with them . Its probably just a confidence thing

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