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I see a bait, buy it , catch a bunch of fish only to find out later I've been fishing them the wrong way.

sixteen years later and old style worms still the best lure made.

I dont have a bait that meets the 2.5 to 3 inch criteria. I use the old school Bomber Long A's. The one with the prop on the tail . It gets hammered while waking it in the spring. S\ I have one of the old Ripplin Red Fins in my top water box and for some reason have never thrown it. I'll have to give it a go this next season. Its probably close to 40 years old or older.

Dont know the name but when I was little I had a 45 record of Santa and three elves Hardrock, Coco and Joe.

There are fish inside the locks, so they move from one body of water to another.. I was allowed to fish in one . I caught carp that were sucking on the surface. Just drop a treble hook baited with may flies down to them and they sucked them right in.

Ned Tube Bomber Prop A Spinnerbait Chatterbait #1 Texas rigged worm.

I still have a few Picos and Boogies but they are not in my crank box. I have moved on to other baits. When I first started fishing from a boat back in the 70's , a 200 acre lake near by had a lot of emergent timber. I talked with guys who fished it and Picos were a favorite lure. Thats how I started fishing them.

I used both of them . Pico Perch shallower in emergent timber. Bayou Boogies deeper , yoyoing them off the bottom.

I experimented with cahatterbaits this year using them with and without trailers. I saw no difference in bites and think I had a better landing percentage without.

One of the youtubers states that a bait with trailer gets sucked in easier.

Seldom. I'll add half a stick worm for a little extra weight If needed.

Angler number two is my uncle Steve.

One of my favorite standing timber cranks is the Rapala Fat Rap. Its not a square bill but doesnt dive deep either, around 4 foot. No rattles. I dont know if the gold foil is still available but its been a steady producer over the decades fishing wood.

I have never used a rod over 100 dollars. My worm/jig rod right now is a seven foot Okuma Inshore rod , heavy action. I like the way it feels and fishes. I have three more in medium heavy action. I hold the line between my index finger and thumb WRB style.

Exactly. My casting rods all have a fore grip which are getting hard to find.

I havent been keeping score but I think purple wins.

I've been carrying since grade school. Had lots of stockmans that cleaned a lot of rabbits, lost them often . Now I carry a Swiss Army knife in my left pocket and a Swiss Tech one hand knife in my right pocket . This Swiss Tech Wurdig is 30 dollars , a great user and fishing knife.. I bought a second one just in case I lose it and are no they longer available.

I havent fished one in years either. I experimented with them a lot way back when . They just were not producing in the waters I fished. I do remember having a good day with them fishing a mud line created by boat wakes on a point .

I dont remember catching one on a sluggo . There use to be a pork sluggo .It may have been called a Pork-O. I dont think I caught any on it either.

Purples of all kinds. I also have a lot of success with bright green worms. They are hard to find but when I do find a pack the disappear fast. Something about the color of a Mountain Dew bottle.

Bounce them off the bottom.

I use texas rigs extensively.

Its consuming, fishing a lot of unproductive water.

How to pick up a ten pin.

Texas rigged worm was by far the most productive technique this past year. Chatterbaits around scum worked well. Neds and tubes on rip rap were consistent. The little known "Bomber Prop A" did well in the spring, again.