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My frog reel is the Piscifun Phantom X , 65lb braid on a 7 foot mh rod. Three years running and performing like a champ .

Waters are different everywhere, so what works for me may not for you . Post spawn is the easiest time of the year for me to fish . Spinnerbaits , top waters and Texas rigs work year after year by simply going down the banks and fish whatever .

A reaper is one category of soft plastic I never tried . They intrigue me but for one reason or another I've never bought any.

I carry an ultra light travel rod and a small box of various jigs and beetle spins. in my truck . If I happen on a public lake with a rip rap dam "there are plenty of those here in northern Missouri" , bass are almost always willing to hit a small jig bounced in the rocks. I'll lose a few but they are cheap.

Youre a lot better than I .

First thing I would do is get rid of one rod , then fill the tackle box with lures of the weight that rod will cast the best .

I use the Long A Minnow as a top water and always in the silver flash . Its not chrome but flashes like chrome.

I havent done it for several years but I use to buzz 5 inch Riverside grubs in a river for smallies . They crushed them.

The junky Zebco 202. Dad bought a case of them . They would not last one outing . We had to dunk them in the water to keep them lubricated enough for use.

I've been called Indiana Jones, Al Capone , the goofy guy on Two and a Half Men and Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin didnt even wear a hat .

I dont sharpen trebels very often but sharpen single hooks a lot . If the hook slides across my thumb nail it fails the test and gets sharpened . I use the diamond file on a leatherman

Wow, 600 pages .

I just pulled a tick off my scalp while reading this . I use Deet . Spray clothes liberally .

He was asking what colors to use . I answered what I used in that color of water.

That water color looks normal . Ill copy and paste from a previous post . Waters here are always stained. I use bright colors until around spawn and then switch to more subdued hues because 99 per cent of the fishermen are chucking chartreuse/white lures. Deep cranks I still go to chartreuses and whites a lot but experiment around. Texas rigs , purples are hard to beat .

Waters here are always stained. I use bright colors until around spawn and then switch to more subdued hues because 99 per cent of the fishermen are chucking chartreuse/white lures. Deep cranks I still go to chartreuses and whites a lot but experiment around. Texas rigs , purples are hard to beat .

My favorite pizza is from a small midwest chain called Cassanos. People either love it or hate it.

I eat chain pizza, drink Busch Light, use piscifun reels and carry Mountain Dew on my boat .? Whats it!$#@$ LOL to you.

Cooked over charcoal . liberal amount of barbque sauce sweet onion and slice of tomato.

I do that. No problem.

I've been catching some decent bass this early summer by fishing shallow pockets off of deep coves.

Most new bass anglers, me included, over-complicate this sport . Bass are every where. Just work your way along the shore and you will be fishing where bass are.

Bass will get deep inside it but lures will not because there is no root system .

I define finesse as little lures and light line on a spinning reel . Most of the places I fish , those setups will fail . I will use them in open water , rip rap...