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Cranks are one of the best lures for covering water fast and triggering reaction strikes. Work them with pauses, directional changes, and banging them off the bottom and any cover whenever possible.

Those baits certainley will catch big fish, but try bigger plastics and bigger jigs if you still aren't getting anything of size.

How do you rig those robo worms?

I am primarly a finesse fisherman with plastics but I use power techniques a fair amount. Cranks or buzzbaits are my favorite power lures.

What's your favorite plastic worm for numbers of bass? I mean plain worms (not senkos, creatures or french fries). How do you rig it and how do you fish it. My favorite worm is a 4" Bass Pro Shops ring worm in watermelonseed color, fished on a split shot rig with a 1/0 EWG hook on MH spinning gear.

Do you guys just use a slow crawling/hopping motion over the bottom with the crawbugs?

Cavitrons are the best because they plane faster and can be worked slower than any other single bladed buzzbait. They also have an especially loud squeak and leave a big bubble trail.

Oh it works great, that's why floating stickbaits are so versatile. I troll them on bottom bouncers for walleye and have picked up a lot of smallies by accident.

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I will be working on my frogging, crankbaits, and spinnerbaits more.

To fish these I use the 4" models with 8 pound test spinning gear and a MH action spinning rod for extra backbone and sensitivity. A 1/0 EWG gammy is my hook of choice for 60% of my plastics fishing.

Weightless senko or a split shotted centipede.

They are good for flipping and pitching into cover, in which case I almost always peg the weight. I usually use regular worms or lizards for more open presentations but these baits will work in open water as well.

They make great worms for just about any finesse presentation. Best on split shot, mojo, light carolina and texas, and shaky head rigging. They have a nice wriggling action.

By far the best buzzbaits made. 75% of my buzzbait collection are Cavitrons.

That's the way it is for most weightless or lightly weighted plastics when I'm fishing them. Also if your counting down how long it takes your bait to sink to the bottom, and it hasn't hit bottom by the time you think it should have, set the hook because sometimes fat bass just inhale a lure and sit their with it.

I've read all the reviews. Half say jts perfect other half say it falls apart. Is there some preventive maintenance that might avoid that? Yeah I've had one fall apart once and the spiral tip came undone. But that has only happened once and with the amount of lures it saves it is well worth the investment.

Parasite Weights and clips. They stay snug on your hook to give you the best presentation. parasiteweights.com

Thankfully we don't have them hear in Colorado, they can be a lot more aggressive than Rattlesnakes, though their venom is far less potent. A bite can still easily cause you to lose a limb from horrific tissue damage though, and you will have terrible pain and bleeding disorders. We have a small species of Rattlesnake around here called the Midget Faded Rattlesnake, and they posess venom 10 times as toxic as an Indian Cobra. Fortunately they aren't aggressive and I've only seen a couple. Without antivenom, death from this snake's bite is almost a given.

Really hard to say, I'm going to go 9 pounds 11 ounces.

I have been able to get Cordell Super Spots for 99 cents sometimes at Wally world.

They will work as jig trailers but I like fishing them in weeds and brush with a pegged texas rig. One of the best flippin/pitchin baits around too. If the water is murkier or I'm after nothing but big ones I will use the full sized brush hog.

Mine is a MH, 7' long Berkley Tactix Wacky rod.

I would say in the late spring through mid fall the period before sun rise to about 10:00 am is the best, but the evening is pretty good too. Only at certain times of the year is the midday bite here in Colorado that good, but during pre spawn through early post spawn it is quite good, but can be awesome in the mid summer if a storm is moving in and it's cloudy. A common scenario for me is to catch five or six bass in the morning, maybe 1 or 2 in the afternoons, and five or six more in the evening.