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a jackall i-shad on the back of a scrounger is pretty awesome too

This guy makes a wicked awesome scrounger imo. He has long bills and can go 5/0 or 6/0 on the hook. http://xtremecustomtackle.com/

The red hooks are def more than just a confidence thing or a bleeding effect. Try putting them on the front hook of jerkbaits, especially if fish are really slashing at the back. You'll get better hook ups at the least. Also, with flukes a red hook or a red stinger hook can provide the same results. It's the red flash engaging the instincts imo.

hey guys, i had some ppl share some good info with me in here and thought i'd try and return the favor. I've been looking for a good orange silicone for a couple years now. Something that wasn't extremely harsh, (has some transparency). I found a color called cantaloupe on living rubber's site. It's definitely the best one I've found. Good for a bream skirt and if silicone will fade out in the sun like some hard baits do it would be spectacular.

Gotten on kick where I'm interested in fishing jigs/swimbaits with blue around the swimbait head and blue either on the jig head or blue skirt material flaired out around the underside near the head. Just wondering what blue you guys think is the best blue? True blue, light blue, turqiose, cyan. I guess another way of looking at it too, is not so much which blue, but who makes the best blue? What got me on this kick is hearing about swimbaits with blue around the head getting really aggressive strikes during spawning season, which can't get here fast enough. Thanks

Not everyone agrees with this, but when I am making a skirt for say a perch or bluegill I try to factor in whether I will imitating a perch or bluegill around grass or around rock for instance. If around grass, I throw in lighter colors, if rock darker colors. It may as subtle as choosing watermelon over green pumpkin or vice versa or adding 4 or so strands of smoke brown to go darker. Just my two cents. I also recommend checking out the yellow watermelon on that site you've been getting stuff from.

if it's clear water you are lacking, smith lake has plenty.

I've been using whopper baits stick baits for a few years now, his are a good bit more affordable, and i've caught tons of fish on them. (no, i'm a pro-staffer or anything like that)

extreme custom tackle is running a really good deal from now til something like dec 24th. also wallyfriedaburns on ebay is by far the best deal i've ever found.

Caught my personal best from a public lake on one, absolutely unstoppable bait during the spring. Reaction Innovations shakey head was the best one i ever found, but picasso makes a decent one too.

Now that the pre-spawn stage is only weeks or a couple of months away I was hoping to get some input on understanding what areas bigger fish will stage at for the pre and post spawn. There is a point on here, indicated in orange, where I caught somewhere around 250 bass post spawn last year,not in one day, over a period of about 4 weeks,but couldn't get any size. I was thinking that the larger bass must be somewhere else. I tried moving down the point but the size of the fish never changed. They were all largemouth. I was hoping for some input on where the bigger fish might hold. This is a picture with the lake down several feet from full spring pool. The other two areas i've circled are areas that hold larger fish, spots and largemouth, but are community holes that get pounded several days of the week.

If you look at the rods that Iaconelli and one of the big FLW guys (I think it's Dudley) are using there's a ton of bend. Before I saw them using those rods, I tended to lean in that direction to give fish more time to take it in. I would sometimes recommend the 7'6" crankbait rod, but most of time I would recommend a composite to still get enough backbone to punch-pull those awful (z-man) hooks into the mouth. Either way I would say always 7'6" or bigger. You should also check out major league fishing's current season for some good tips. Ike pulls out a great technique which he calls "feathering" the bait and mentions why he prefers fluorocarbon over mono for those type baits. Bladed jig trailers is another really interesting topic to get into. I'm still searching for a clear number one. Alot of the FLW guys seem to prefer the swimming senko which is a solid choice. Dudley says he has done really well on the berkley rocket craw.

x2 on the smallmouth, there used to be a painted blade colorado spinnerbait called a bush hog i believe that had a wide swing on the swivel, a great muddy water bait.

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x2 on the st. croix, i don't use any of their rods but the 6'8" medium extra fast. There is not a better rod out there. I got to hold the $400 megabass rod specifically designed for the vision 110's last week and as incredible as it is, the st croix legend 6'8" had much better feel.

yeah, i've got the larger splash-it tied up on another rod to try next week. i've tried single shad colored swimbaits in the 4.5" range with no luck, and the spoon just isn't getting the job done either for me. i can't wait to get a lunker punker, but don't have one right now. i kept thinking that if i left for 3 or 4 hours I could return to the same areas and pull another one, but it just hasn't happened. Not that what you are saying isn't correct, and on other lakes i really believe that those fish would go back, but I did neglect to mention that the visibility tuesday was somewhere around 20' which means that when they come up to the boat and see me they have a long way to go before they feel safe. All that being said, i posted this to get perspective, ideas, and solutions that we could all use and am really appreciative of any and all helpful comments. Just reading what has already been written it occurred to me that there's one solution that i didn't consider; which is instead of trying to catch multiple fish on one cast if I could catch the biggest 1 out of 3 or 4 of those groups it would be the best bag of my life. I also think I probably need to give the spoon another try, or give another spoon a try. I guess my question should really be-How to get the most out of groups on fish that are moving around together, not busting the surface, but are aggressive once triggered? thanks for the input

pop r type lure, and mostly spots on shad, did get one lm out of a school of big hawgs. the one i caught was just over 3 lbs and it was the smallest in the group. The one that came up and hit it while it was in the mouth of the one i caught was around 6.

Btw, good to be here, thanks for the welcome. I should probably mention that I started at 630 tuesday morning throwing a-rigs and spooks. Neither of them got a single hit. I put on the pop r at 9 am and got hits very regularly the rest of the day. The baitfish have just spawned and the fry are about an inch long. The other option i didn't mention was using a front runner, but i've never used one on topwater so i don't know how it'll affect the action of the pop r

Threw the a-rig at em for two hours, not a single bite. I've caught tons of fish on it, but they are just not on that bite yet. Secondly, the fish follow the lure back to the boat and even if I leave for a few hours and comeback, there's not a second bite that comes. The areas I'm fishing are relatively narrow creeks too which I'm sure makes it more difficult, but not a single one of those wolfpacks produces more than one fish even though they would hit it multiple times on that first catch.

Went out on the lake tuesday and fish were blowing up everywhere. Couldn't get them to touch a spook so i tied on a pop-r. The fish started crushing it. On every fish I caught I looked underneath and behind it as I was getting to the boat and there would be 3-6 fish with it. I caught several good ones, but with every 2 lbr there would be 3 3lbrs, with every 3 lbr, a couple of 4s and a 5. I started letting the fish I had on take some slack before getting right to the boat to see what would happen. Every time I tried it one of the big fatties would come up and try to knock the plug out of the fish's mouth. They would really nail it, but couldn't get it free from the fish. So here's where I need some help. Right now I have two pop-r lures tied in a ilne to try and help them out. I took the back hook off of one and ran a line from it about 3 inches back to another one. The first problem I see is that if a 4+ fish grabs that second lure, even though I have 25 lb test joining the two, I'm not feeling to great about my chances of getting both of them in, if any of them. The other options I see, although they also have some major downsides, are using the YUM double up rig, or doing a double fluke rig with pop-r lures and spending the day unwrapping the treble hooks from one another.