Scott F

I had nearly the exact thing happen except I had a disc burst in my lower back. Two weeks later, I was in surgery. The day I hurt my back, was the first day of my vacation. I never did to go back to my old job and had to retire.

At night or in the daytime?

I’m trying to follow your thread but I need you to tell me what a “house” battery is. Also, why would you use a common ground on a boat? Are you grounding each of the electronics and accessories to the hull?

I’m leaving for a vacation in Northern WI to a lake that is loaded with bass, smallmouth and largemouth. There are trophy sized muskies, but VERY few pike. So few, I don’t even use leaders on my expensive suspending jerkbaits.

I fish the Ned rig on 8 or 10 pound braid with no leader in very clear water. I can’t see any reason for heavier line.

Same baits that work at noon or evening. It’s not the baits that make the difference, it’s where you throw them that matters.

Back in the days when I travelled a lot to fish, and was broke, I wish I had the money to have hired a guide. My usual patterns on Northern lakes don't work on southern impoundments. A guide would have shown me how to fish the the reservoirs and made my trips more productive.

You are listed as one of those who "follow" anything that's posted in the "Post a Photo a Day" forum. Go to that thread and remove yourself from following that thread and any others your are getting notifications from.

The bottom line. If you fish where pike and musky swim and you don’t want to lose lures, use a leader. If you don’t want to use a leader, don’t get mad if you lose some baits.

Leaders won’t kill the action. Guys have caught tens of thousands of muskies and pike every year using baits that can cost up to 5 times your $25 swimbait using steel and fluoro leaders.

Gorillapod with a mount to hold your phone.

If I could by 2 or 3 to try them out first, they might be worth trying. Having to buy 30 at a time wouldn’t work for me. I used to make my own spinners years ago. They worked fine, but, you don’t really save much money unless you go through a lot of them. The cost per bait isn’t high, but you have to buy all the components in bulk, plus the cost of the wire bending tool.

My guess is a brown trout.

Guess the weight of what?

I had the same problem with 8lb braid. It was one of the reasons I switched to 10, but closing up the eyes on the hooks and buying "superline hooks", solved the problem.

The only spinners that cause line twist are defective ones. With properly running spinners, only the blade spins, not the entire lure. So they don’t twist line any more than any other bait. If your spinners are twisting your line, buy better quality baits.

That’s a fake. Eagles just don’t have enough lifting power to pick up a lamb.

The answer to this question lies at the Cabelas location where he takes it for repair. Doesn’t matter who the manufacturer is, the speed and quality of any service repair always depends on who is actually doing the work.

My belief is that the big triggers that Senkos have is primarily the slow fall. Next, is the erratic, jerkbait action when you twitch them. Injured, dying, baitfish sink slowly and will move erratically. Bass prefer an easy meal they don't have to work hard to catch. Senkos mimic that behavior and look like that easy meal. For me, weighting a senko, just removes the prime thing that makes the bait so successful. Same thing with wacky rigging them. That takes away the jerky movement. Obviously, adding weights or wacky rigging still will catch plenty of fish. But, If I'm using one of those techniques, I'll use a different plastic.

Make sure to measure the battery compartment to make sure whatever battery you buy fits the space you have.

The biggest difference is that all the other brands are more durable than actual Senkos, and, they are all less expensive. Senkos probably fall a bit faster than most others, but for me, the difference isn’t worth spending so much more for the Yamamoto’s. I catch ‘em using all the brands.

Do you guys actually enjoy sitting on a single bass, which is trying to spawn, throwing baits at that bass that isn't eating, for long periods of time?

The big brown bass I hook into most often are in shallow rivers. They often have no place to go but up.

I don’t use any scent, and I don’t allow anyone who fishes from my boat use it either. Had an accident with some stuff. It stunk up my boat and my garage all summer. If I want my wife to keep allowing me to fish whenever I want, I can’t take the chance of anymore accidents.

I've been using WalMart batteries for years and I always get 4-5 years. How you charge your batteries and the device you use, has a big influence on how long any brand of battery will last.