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I tend to fish jigs more early and late in the year. Texas rigs during the warm months but it varies year to year.

My canoe anchor was a railroad plate that the spikes go through . It already has holes and it lays flat. Just walk down some tracks and you will find one.

They just dont have it going yet,

A lure I used more than ever was a small soft plastic paddletail . I pitched worms into wood cover a lot this past year and I fished a DOA paddletail on a 1/4 oz jighead while moving from cover to cover. Also caught a lot of fish with it by casting to deep water at the mouths of coves , letting it settle then pumping it back.

Buzzbait . It just did not materialize for me. Its my favorite lure to throw too.

I rediscovered Bomber Prop A this past year. Its a lure I have used a lot in the past but being stupid, the past several seasons have ignored it. It slayed them this past spring.

I cant even cast a regular Thin Fin . The rattling version is thicker , heavier and cast like a trap with a tight action.

I'll often toss a marker buoy close by said cover , then cast where I think the middle will be. I'll cast past it and work my bait into it.

I have two Rattling Storm Thin Fins. One of them doesnt work , I ought to just throw it away . The other vibrates like a Rattle Trap . I toss it around wood . It snags less .

No but I add a split ring ,or wire to the shank of the hook on both the H&H and Strike king Rocket Shad. Not to keep it in place but to keep the hook from coming off during the fight with hard pulling fish . It has happenned to me twice battling hybrids.

I usually fish the outside first. But if I get in perfect position to make the perfect presentation in the middle, I'm taking it.

I dont fish them around wood because they snag easily . I cast them upstream along river rip rap . Let it settle and as soon as it touches down , pop it off bottom and try to time the retrieve so that it stays slightly off bottom but fast enough that the blades can be felt .

I like H&H spinners on river riprap in current.

If they're zigging and catching fish and I'm zagging and not, then I'm not that dumb. Zigging it is.

The back half of the lizard lying in the bottom of the boat.

Funny how that works but its true.

I like the 5 inch Yum Dinger because number 1 , it gets bit. Number two , its heavy and easy to place in bass holding spots. Lots of baits are tied for the second spot.

I dont care what it is. I really like fishing for common carp .

I was tight lining in a flooded river where a creek dumps into it.

The past two years I lost huge musky and sturgeon . I bought the biggest net I could find locally .Its awkward to carry but if I had it I probably land these two fish. The sturgeon looked like a shark . I have a screen shot of its head. This fish was 5 to 6 six foot long. You can see its body under water if you look carefully. I hope some day to use the net on a worthy fish and not a dam Asian carp. I've caught some huge carp.

If its emergent timber, I have never been able to throw deep diving baits in it. There are always limbs that the line lays over halting the bait from performing as desired. I have my favorite square bill for emergent wood but they have not been made for decades and hard to find.

I have never caught much on T rigs when the water drops below 50 degrees. Dont know why. And T-rigs are the lures I fish most.

I have several hammer bowling balls.

I'm in and let me be first to share my selections. Cox Palaniuk Swindel Zaldain Davis

Buckets are already in for Toledo Bend Feb 04. I made my selections