Fish Murderer 71

17 lbs seaguar Abrazx and forget it. Braid has its place and function in your arsenal, but it's not the magic bullet.

That doo-doo is all in your head. If you believe you're going to do bad, you'll do bad! If you believe you'll have a good time, you'll enjoy every dink you catch!

10,000 comedians out of work and your trying to be funny? JK. Keep at it brother! Once you figure it out, it'll be hard not to use it!

Thats three different rods for three different baits/lures. Flipping rods are generally heavy to extra heavy(7'6"-8'), umbrella rig (A-Rig) can usually be thrown deep with this set up also. I use a 7' 6" Medium Fast S-curve rod for my swim baits, and for the frogs I like 7'3" med/heavy - fast rod- I'll also throw my small A-rigs with this in shallow waters. Of the three you mentioned, I would have to go with the Magic stick as the best of the three for the purposes you have in mind.

A-rig has yet to produce... My chatter bait is most effective at night in shallow waters, although it doesn't catch a lot of fish.

Chatter baits seem to work really well in the thinner areas of the lillypads I fish. Wacky jigs with a senko are a bass slayer. 10" worms and big lizards on a t-rig, There's a punch jig that someone (I can't remember who posted it) put on here that looks like it would work very well in the pads. Have fun!

CAREFULL! this is how a fishing addiction starts. Just get one... then another... soon you'll have 20 different set ups, thousands in soft plastics and other lures. Wondering if I can really afford a 40k boat, but buy it anyways. Wife is mad at you cause your always gone to some dumb tournament on a lake you barely know...

I think Catt said it best, Find which bait and rig works best for you... I try to be versitile until I find what seems to be working best and then hammer out the rest of the season with it. example: during the prespawn this year- jerkbaits in shallow waters off a long slow point in early evening... This is the basic pattern I would start with, I would modify bait colors and retrieve rates per weather and water conditions. This is the "how and when" I would be most effective during the pre-spawn season. Now that summer patterns are here - my basic mentality is, bass stay to cover and take short trips to eat. So I look to areas that.. A. have a creek close by, B. have grass close by, and C. have some kind of cover in 15- 25 FOW. Water temps are in the 80's so I need to find where the thermocline is at, which is about 18'. This is what is referred to as a seasonal pattern. Nothing more than an average starting point. Now that I have a basic idea to start, I have to choose a bait- soft plastic swim baits T-rigged have been most productive so far this year for me. I fished a tournament Thursday night from 6 to 10 which I call evening. so the pattern would be- Swimbaits in tall grass close to deep water cover in the evening. Colors and retrieve rates depend on weather and water clarity. Thursday, it was 9 mph wind right after a rainstorm, water clarity was 2-3' (which is clear for this lake so I'm looking for a natural color)... So I used a Havoc Swamp Gas swimbait and was stroking a 1/2 oz T-rig with it. I went to several different locations with those conditions and did the same thing and caught fish at all of them. Caught some out of the grass and some out of the brush. I'll replicate this pattern until conditions change or the fish dont bite on it. JUST TRY TO KEEP IT SIMPLE!!! Its not rocket science, it more about organizing a system in your head that works for YOU!

I have 5 of the STX's and now have 4 of the Lews tournament pro- of the two I prefer the Lews. I have one STX that gives me problems with the centrifuge brakes coming out on its own during a long cast with an 6XD. I haven't used any of the Tatulas, so I can't give you an opinion on those. The STX reel IMO, feels like all plastic and cheap compared to the Lews and does not cast near as well as the Lews. I can also tell you that I tried using 20# braid in my Baitcaster and had nothing but a headache with it( power pro )! I only use 50# (Seaguar Kanzen) now and very seldom have any issue with it. I had bought some of the spiderwire 65# for my umbrella rig set up and never had any issues with it- bent a couple hooks out straight on hang ups, but I just didnt like the white line color so it all ended up being used as backing for when I would respool my fluorocarbon line... Thats my 2cents, Good fishing to ya!

I so much prefer summer fishing to winter fishing!

I have two lakes I fish just like what you described. I don't like fishing them much- small and skinny fish! I caught one last year that was 23 inches and weighed 3 lbs. Caught it on the rocky point. If you can add anything to the pond, I would recommend that you drop as many tree tops as you can as lay-downs along the bank. Christmas trees just dont last that long and if your going to spend money on concrete - get the best bang for your buck- HARDWOODS...

You didn't go home skunked- you had a great fishing trip! I've gone back to the boat launch with EVERY rod/reel set up out and only caught one little dink several times. I just hate it when I go back, load the boat, and spend an hour putting original lures back on the set-ups and got skunked! Hasn't happened for quite a while, but then again some trips were a couple hours longer than planned!

The Water Authority kills off most of the grass (or adds grass carp) in the lakes I fish around here in East Texas- so Punching through matted grass isn't an option. Most of the time I'll rage rig creature baits for shallow, and T-rig with 1/4 oz for 10-15' waters and 1/2 oz up to 25'. Anything deeper and I go 3/4-1 oz depending on wind.

I go Plano- I also get them at home depot- 4.00 vs 7.00 at academy for the same box.

None. wont peg a T-rig. If I get to needing a leader I switch to a speed rig- just like a C-rig without the bead or clacking ring and a rubber stopper in the bullet weight at the barrel splice.

3/0 EWG Gama - Senko, Lizards 2/0 EWG Gama - brushhogs 4/0 EWG Owner twistlock- 7" swimtails and finesse 5/0 EWG Gama - craws, flukes, 10" swimtails 6/0 EWG Owner - 5" swim baits

WOW! I never thought of that!!! your a genius! Thanks for that!

Noisy and bright!

We had one hell of a storm blow in yesterday- didn't slow the biting down much at all. we were hitting the grass lines on the deep side and bet we caught 25 fish in about an hour. Good Fishing to ya!!!

The T-rig is the second most effective bait I use, right behind the ALMIGHTY SENKO!

about as much as you swallowing bubble gum!

Yes you are... I'd of jumped in the water to get my pb!!!

something with an orange claw!

I'll try to use the jigs under docks and out deep, and occasionally near the private boat ramps on many lakes...

T- RIG ALL DAY. I catch more fish with the rigs than the jigs, I still try when I fish deep or skip docks. The fish here seem to like the plastics without fuzz.