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I primarily throw the Greenfish Tackle Swim Jig or the Hack Attack Heavy Cover swim jig. I mostly fish shallow water so 1/4oz. and 3/8oz. are all I throw. I keep the colors pretty basic, Green pumpkin, Black Blue, White and Blue Gill. Trailers are mainly a Rage Menage or a Rage Craw, sometimes a Zoom Fat Albert curly tail grub. I fish them on a 7' MH Carbonlite 2.0 rod with a Shimano SLX DC 6.3:1 or a Carbonlite 2.0 6.8:1 reel with either 30lb. braid of 15lb. floro.

Wow! Lucas holds on to best Wheeler by 1oz.! Both of these guys are on fire!

Chalk one up for the old guys! ? I watched the day 5 and then had to go back and watch the day 4 coverage. Pretty good stuff! I love how he put things together using those three different jigs.

Until Sturgeon Bay, I didn't realize that Lucas was such a good smallie fisherman!

My last order from TW was placed on 8/2, shipped on 8/4, and received on 8/11. Shipped via their standard free shipping option. Given the current environment, not bad IMHO.

Whoa!! You found a mermaid!!

That's a hog!! Wow!!

Back in the day, 8# line on a medium action spinning rod. My primary lures would be 1/8 or 1/4oz. ball head jig with a 3" grub (Mr. Twister or Kalins) or a Sassy Shad, Blakemore Roadrunner, #3 Mepp's spinner or a 1/4oz. Rooster Tail. Oh and a Beetle Spin anywhere from 1/6 to 1/4oz. Panfish love those 1/6oz. Now, medium action spinning rod, 2500 sized reel w 15 or 20 pound braid to a 8# flouro leader. I still throw those ballhead jigs with grubs especially in rivers. I like a 4" grub now. NED rig, and drop shot. On the drop shot I like a robo worm or a 4" senko typically.

Me too! I'm having a hard time finding 1/8oz. bullet weights though. BPS, Cabela's, TW and Discount Tackle are all out online. So far, everything else that I've needed I have been able to find online without much delay at all. Of course, I do have a pretty good back stock of most things!

To answer a question from above, what surprised me is that flouro is generally thought to sink thus potentially inhibiting the action of the buzzbait. I've always thrown mine on a good quality mono or sometimes braid. As mentioned above, flouro seems a bit spendy for that application IMHO tpp. I don't remember ever throwing it on co-poly so I'll have to give that a try.

Never tried it on a swim jig but, I have put a Zoom Horny Toad on as a chatterbait trailer with good success.

Interesting take on fishing a buzzbait. What surprised me most is he uses flouro!

Shipping is pretty much the same everywhere, especially with USPS.

Pretty wild final day with that wind! I was pulling for Chris Johnston. Glad he was able to pull out the win!

2 - 27lb. Bags today with a 7-13 Big Bass! Wow! You know things are going well when five pounders just jump in the boat!

I have to echo what @Jmoney402 said. The St. Croix Mojo Bass rods and the Bass Pro Carbonlite 2.0 rods are excellent. I have 2 of the Mojo Bass and 4 of the Carbonlite rods and love them. I think they're both an excellent value and very well built. Bass Pro often runs the Carbonlites on sale for $99 too.

That was a great tournament to watch. Sturgeon Bay really showed out.

I’ve seen the same thing with the 90s. It’s a bit annoying so I’ve started throwing the Choppo 90 when I want to use that size. I still throw the whopper plopped in the other sizes. That being said, You didn’t mention what line you were using. You should use mono or braid when throwing any top water bait. Floro is denser than mono and sinks which impedes the action of top water lures.

I generally like the Booyah (standard) or War Eagle. This year I bought several of the Jason Christie Booyah spinnerbaits and love them. They've become my new favorite.

Plus 8lb. braid on a casting reel is no beuno!

Wheeler has it going on! Great bit of strategy in removing that wrap.

My vote would be St. Clair, Thousand Islands, or Lake Champlain.

Texas rigged Rage Craw 4.75" Rage Swimmer Bladed jig The Whopper Plopper/Choppo bite is just starting to turn on so that's been a player this week.

A red bloodline curly tail worm, tru-turn hook. Can't remember the brand of worm. I still have a bag of them from the 80's.

Did anyone catch the episode from last Thursday? Any idea what lake he was on? Pretty cool show.