Fish Murderer 71

My spinning rods all have braid (dont like it on my bait casters) I use a bait caster for my wacky/senko with 12# fluoro. I use 15# for my jerk baits cause we have hybrids that really like the rouge on one of my main lakes that I fish.

I don't, cause I'll throw different lures till I find one that works. Yesterday I spent the entire morning going up and down a wind blown point went through Jigs, worms, cranks, rattle traps, and a spinner bait, and finally caught one with a chatter bait. So then I tried for about an hour with no more luck and switched to a rouge- in about 2 hours I had caught 26 bass with 4 being hybrids. Next time I may not catch a thing with the rouge and fill the boat with something else. NEVER BE CLOSED MINDED TO ANY BAIT! .be willing to try anything, cause the bass will only bite on what THEY want, not on what I want to throw

65# is 0.40 mm so something like a 30 or 40 lbs...

Something in the neighborhood of 0.33mm to 0.36mm...

Twenty birdnests really bad for me, so I suggest any braid that has the same diameter as the minimum diameter for the rod.

Only in the deep and have to find bait fish then its 50-50 chance. I've seen people catch catch fish in the shallow creeks between flats with it. I have yet to catch anything with mine, but then again I've only had a set up for it for about a month. Keep on keepin on and sooner or later it will happen.

No real concern from me about their feelings, hook em, toss em back and hope to hook its big mamma!

They are biting real slow down here in Texas.... tomorrow its going to be in the 70's but wednesday it was 28- not to rub your nose in anything- 630 am I'll be throwing everything I have in my tackle box till I find whats working. I hope you can find some open water soon!

A friend of mine told me when I first started to use a baitcaster, once I learned how to use the caster I wouldnt want to use anything but it. He was right- I cant tell you how many times I just wanted to go back to using an openface, but now I very seldom use them. I have come to love the Revo gen3 STX and have 5 of them. I have them all dialed in for specific baits and they work flawless. I also have a couple of the Promax series and I can throw them just as good. I think its all just a matter of mind set - "I can do/ I can't do". ultimately, my thumb is the master braking device and lots of failed casting has perfected it. I still have a few hiccups and have to pull out a few birdnests, but nothing like what I had in the past.

Look, I just spent a bunch of money at your site. So its going to be a couple minutes before I can buy anything else. The wife wants to take my cards from me already- hate to think about how much money I've already spent for fishing this year! and its only February!!!

This I know, I had all three products on my boat and have always used them. I was EXTREMELY disappointed when I learned about the warranty of information stored on an SD card. The thing that bothers me most about this whole thing is that I have 5 Spypoint Game cameras on my deer lease and have never lost any information from a SD card before. I've use SD cards in most of my automatic car washes for storing programming and wash packages and have never lost any information (and these things get wet, cold, hot, and shake around all year long). I've had cameras fall into the pool and never lose a picture on the card. So how do I lose the information from the LakeMasters in less than 6 months? Johnson Outdoors stands behind everything in my experience (my FF and my Trolling motor have both needed repair and were handled perfectly) and that was one of the main reasons I went with Lake Masters. Now I'm out 150+ bucks and really P-Off about it.

Dead stick a suspending jerk bait in 5-15' cover A-rig in deep cover, 10-12" power worms Black t-rig along the creek/river beds. rattle trap on wind blown points. and square bills for the fallen trees. Senkos on the rip rap. and be prepared to catch nothing. thats my general patterns in COLD waters Bass dont need to eat much when its that cold, they can go up to a week without feeding in those temps... which makes for aggravating day on the water. GOOD LUCK!

I went to wally world and low and behold a whole rack of them... Well, about half of them are in my creature bag now, should be good for a couple years now. I SURE DO APPRECIATE THE HELP! I very seldom go to walmart anymore.and look for soft plastics or any lures.

If one decides to purchase a Lake Masters SD charts, think Twice about it! I bought a Hummingbird 587ciHD last summer (if you can afford a larger screen go for it!) not a bad unit, worked for what I needed. I keep the unit in an cam-corder bag in my shop when its not being used. I also bought the lake mastsers sd MIDSOUTH STATES and man it was great! so I thought. A couple weeks ago I went out on Lake Jacksonville for an afternoon of checking brush piles and see if I could find some more for this summer when it gets hot. I fired up the boat and turned on the FF and waited for the gps to do its thing, well after a few minutes the FF tells me that the GPS is not connected. Long story short- GPS is fried. Called Hummingbird and sent it in, got it back about a week later, everything works great. New updates, GPS is working, life is great, so I thought... get out to the lake for a morning fishing on Lake Tyler and I cant get the charts to load. couple days later I take the card to Gander Mountain to see if it will load on a display model- it doesn't. I call Humminbird back, we go through the diagnostics, sd card reads as 0/0kb and then I find out that basically l'm out 154+ bucks. They only warranty their cards for 90 days. The first time I take the card out of the FF its fubar. So... IMO dont waste your money buying their junk. I bought a Navonics app for my phone just before I got the Lake Masters, and I think it was better than the Lake Masters software. Now, I don't know if I'm going to try to get into the Navonics nightmare of map purchasing for my FF or not, but I sure liked having a chart on the FF... Just thought I would share my experience with Lake Masters.

Thats easy... six pack of crackers and a big chunk of venison summer sausage. spit seeds and a big ole jug of unsweet tea (I'm diabetic). But I only eat when I start to get the shakes. The fishing obsession takes over and I aint got time to stop and eat.

They sure do! HOT MESS! Thanks

For bed fishing their awesome, I usually can see them at 20 yards in the water and when they disappear, set the hook like I'm trying to pull the soul out of the fish!

I use tubes for bed fishing, never really had much luck going deep with them.

I cant tell you what colors to use cause I live in East Texas and I fish impoundments (reservoirs)- you'r fishing something I haven't so this is what I would recommend- do your homework and find what lives in the waters you fish. turn over rocks for bugs, what color are the minnows, crawfish? Blue gills? Once you can figure out what lives in the waters with your prey then choose resemblances... No sense in buying things that are useless.

ok, I cant spell... Bleeding tubes...

I can't find the white ones anywhere.... Anyone know what happened- They were awesome bed tubes....

I tried it, its still on although I cant remember which set up I put it on... The joy of getting old!

Go with the BPS pro qualifier, dual braking systems ROCK!

I use a Revo gen 3 stx - I back with 15# at 0.40mm for about 50 yards which is about half the reel capacity (145 yards @ 12#) which leave me with 75 yards of 12# at 0.35mm. I can cast that whole 75 with a 5/8 rattle trap with a strong tail wind, perfectly thrown, so on average I get to make one short distance break off before I have to respool, for those of you that like to use nothing but XYZ on the whole reel my hats off to ya. I just hate to waste money like that, I waste enough leaving those 5/8 oz rattle traps hung up in a brush pile I didn't know of...

I got mine from a friend from when I first started to bass fish for two reasons. 1) I didnt have any idea what I was doing and let a LOT of bass swallow the hook before I would set the hook, so a lot of fish died when I pulled the hook out the gullet, and 2) I also ate most of the bass I caught... so he would call me a fish murderer and 71 is the year I was born.