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Pepper Hawg Jig, green pumpkin 3/8 ounce with a matching Uncle Josh pork frog.

You know what? Those self righteous fly fishermen can go eat dirt as far as I'm concerned, and that's putting it kindly. They make up a TINY minority of the anglers in Colorado and in fact a small minority of fly fishermen as well. If you want to spin fish in Boulder Creek and they give you the look, give them the finger as far as I'm concerned. There are lots of ponds around the Denver metro area that have nice bass in them, and lakes like Chatfield, Aurora, Horsetooth, and others have some decent smallmouth fishing. Thr lakes in the Rocky Mountain arsenal (Derby and Mary) have nice largemouth too but you have to take a quick orientation class and it's barbless hooks only for some dumb reason, as no reliable study has ever shown barbless hooks to have lower hooking mortality than barbed. Colorado's bass fishing isn't bad actually in many areas. I should know, I live on the Western Slope where the goons with the CDOW and USFWS slaughter bass in our rivers and we still have good fishing.

Power pro is by far the best braid. IMO though braid is LOUSY for topwaters with the exception of frogs. Braid just does something to the action because it doesn't have any give to it.

Works fine as long as you have a fluorocarbon leader.

I think he means the frogs. The spro frog draws lots of strikes for sure but it takes on water pretty bad. If you caulk the hole where the hooks are and then cut a small slit on top near the eye so the frog will still collapse when a bass takes the bait, it works better. I haven't thrown the Tru Tungsten yet, but I bought one a while back and plan to use it when frog season rolls around in June. The drain on the back end of the frog is supposed to deal with the water problem, and the body seems softer and more pliable than the spros, and that exposes the hooks more when you press down.

Lunker city's line up is awesome!

Yep, rig them like an ika with the hook eye up around the base of the tentacles.

With the pond being a decent size I would say use presentations to cover water and switch to the fluke if you find bass.

If there are bass in it, but in low numbers I would use a natural colored crank. If bass are abundant enough, I would go with a zoom super fluke.

Never used them yet, but they look intriguing. I carry around a hound dog type lure retriever and also the telescopic extender one from BPS. The extender will free any bait that's in 18' of water or less virtually 100% of the time, and the hound dog type has about a 60% success rate for baits that are out of the extender's reach.

It's a great lure for bass and pike as well. I prefer the fast sinking model.

Anyone ever fished this lure? It's a do nothing type bait that is injected with air and will thus float up on a carolina rig.

Berkley Tactix. GREAT spinning rods!

I have had real problems with Berkley Vanish. Main problem with this line is that it frays way to easily. I lost at least four fish from break offs that were two or three feet form the the lure. I don't know if it was a bad batch or what but I'm never buying it again. X2 Vanish is weak, brittle garbage.

Spinnerbaits and buzzbaits do a good job of keeping the teeny ones off.

Superlines are best for the following applications: Hard Jerkbaits Froggin' Heavy Cover Flippin' and pitchin' Getting extra depth from your crankbaits Superline excels for those jobs. Anything else though and mono gets the call for me. I am a power pro guy though all the way, it just handles, casts, and lasts better than fireline.

Always use a leader unless your slop fishing or in murky water. Fluoro leader for everything but topwaters, and a low vis mono for your topwaters. Don't forget to put on about 20 yards of mono backing first though.

The BPS Pro Qualifier in a lower gear ratio, matched with a Medium or Medium Heavy BPS crankin' stick will cost you less than $200. For lighter cranks though spinning gear is the way.

Anyone here used the LC salad spoon? Supposedly it has similiar action to a Rage Shad and is used the same way, on top over heavy cover.

Once the water temp hits the 60s the bass start hitting topwaters, though I've caught them in water temps down to 54 though. The top bite really gets going in the mid 60s though.

The sluggo is a must have too, it has a little more wiggling and twitching action than the fluke and it sinks even slower, so it's really good in the shallows down to about 7 feet or so.

Dang that's a PIG!

Few things work as well for smallies as a curly tail. I really like hula grubs and double tails too. The odd thing is tubes usually work well when curlies are producing, and I'm had days where curlies didn't work but tubes mopped them up when they wanted a more erratic action. Slip your insert jighead only halfway into the tube and it will have a really erratic action.

I fish Colorado's Yampa River, which averages about 50 - 100 yards across and runs about 2 - 10 feet deep in most places with some deeper holes. There are tons of small fish in there and at times it's hard to keep them off. That being said there are tons of 1 - 3 pounders in the river and they often strike bigger lures since that keeps some of the smaller ones off. There are quite a few 2 - 4 pounders and some bigger than that. It all depends on the stretch of river and the size of lure that you use. A buzzbait is one of the best big smallmouth lures for river fishing you can find, as are spinnerbaits.

The P - Line pure fluoro is the best I have used, not all that much memory or twist and that's on a SPINNING reel.