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I lke to use a flat sided Yum Swurm , no weight and a large hook . Texas rig it .

Jelly worm. Just bite an inch off . I usually do that anyway after I catch a couple and it gets torn .

Its only 10 acres . Not much structure or cover . I would take sinking lures such as a Strike King Rocket Shad , Bayou Boogie , jig and grub ... cast to various depths , let the lure sink to the bottom then retrieve it following the contour from deep to shallow . I would start with first cast right down the bank , next cast a little deeper and so on . Move a few feet and repeat . You want to keep the lure close to the bottom . Every few turns of the reel handle kill the bait so it gets back down there plus that draws a lot of strikes . Of course , any cover you do find work it thoroughly .

Heres another question . The front sight needs a special tool for windage adjustment . Do any of you know if these guns usually need to be adjusted left and right ?

You probably did this but if not , get your rod tip lower .

You suspect ? Proof enough for me .

Have you poured spinner-baits with it ? I only had about a 50 per cent success rate getting a wholly formed lure using a pot and ladle .

look in the clearance bins too see if anything interest you there .

...or stuff a piece of tore up plastic worm up a tube .I've done that before .

Thats an idea too . I wont be mass producing anything . I always melted lead in a pot on a Coleman stove and poured with a ladel . I had a lot of incomplete product , or got the lead to hot and it ran out of the seams .

I decided to get one . I'm thinking a ten lb pot would be just fine but the twenty pound one is not that much more . I have lots of lead and a few molds . I'm not going to make lures for sale or anything like that , just make some for me and friends . For you guys who pour what size would you get ?

Except for winter which I dont fish much I go shallow and deep all three seasons . So the lure pretty much overlap .I do fish more spinnerbaits in the spring than the rest of the year .

I grab a big flathead opposite of the way we all lip bass . I shove my fingers in as far as they will go and grip with the thumb on the outside .

I have an old spinnerbait mold and if I wanted to , I could make 1/8 ,1/4 , 3/8 and 1/2 ounce . Just insert a wire in the cavity and no hook .

It a dang pretty fish and has some mass too . It might go 5 .

I bought 1/4 ounce lead ones , I just cant find the web site .

You can buy bullet weights that will hold a skirt giving the same appearance . I have some lead 1/4 ounce ones but dont remember where I got them from . In the 1980's I use to take 1/2 ounce weights and grind them down until they would accept a skirt . That was a lot of work.

You need some sort of water craft . I've fished from 10 foot jon boats on up , plastic boats , canoes , kayaks and bass boats .

I have one ,. I dont remember if it a rebel spoonbill or a smithwick . I havent caught a fish on it .

Dalton Specials are good lures .

The boat is rated for a 150 so the lighter 115 on it should cause much stress . i,ll just use the flip up bracket built on the motor .

Paul Elias has a a couple of real good videos that I rented at the video store , remember those .That was back in the 80's .

I bet you wouldnt have did that if they were bass fisherman in a boat . LOL I had a bass on one day and a boat was coming by I acted like nothing was happening and then the bass jumped ...That was the last good day I ever had at that spot .

I fished there once . Fished it four days straight under flood conditions and dodging thunderstorms every day in the Missori section . . The water was so high boat ramps were closed . We slaughtered two too four lb smallmouths thirty foot deep on points using tubes . Didnt catch any largemouths .

There are two lakes . One with a ramp and one where you have to drag the kayak up over the dam . I have fished neither. I'm in Hannibal and there are a whole bunch of public lakes with excellent bass fishing within 50 miles of me . There should be a bunch close to St Louis also .