CrazedL.IFisherman

Thanks for all the info guys, hawgin i appreciate it also but i looked for the username you were talking of and when i was trying to send the meesage it said the username doesnt exist, o well ill just use the info you guys stated and look for those reels

Very nice fish guys, bass fishing should happen all over the planet, it truely is the best, keep up the good fishing guys!!

This color along with bright pink, orange and very strong chartreuses catch bass when they are aggressive, seems to work in the early a.m times for me, but they can work whenever, while on vacation an owner of a tackle shop that i go to put it best" when they want these bright colors, thats all they want and they will smash em, when they dont want em, they'll ignore them", so basically some days they will only touch these colors and others they ignore them like the plaque, after learning this my friend bought bubble gum colored worms, used them the following day and was catching fish left and right, i used more natural greens and darker colors to test the theory, sure enough i was lucky to catch a bass or two.

To answer your question long mike, my fishing buddy and i did purchase his snakes and i thought they were garbage, not to take anything away from the man, hes a great fishermen and extremely smart when speaking about bass and their habitats, but as far as the lure goes, the eyes would constantly fall off, the plastic used was junk, within about 10 minutes in the hot sun, either directly in the sun or in its original packaging and shaded by being inside a tackle bag, the lures would melt together and their would be gooey plastic everywhere, ive owned roughly 200 different types of plastic lures and none have done what these have, the hooks that came with the lure did noy stay rigged proper after fixing them constantly, overall i think this lure could have been perfected better and more field testing could have been done, i know when i saw these things the first time on the internet i was psyched and when i used them i couldnt be more dissapointed and for the price of the kit they werent cheap either, id steer clear from these, as far as the big snake comment, just using big 10-12 inch worms can get the job done, it doesnt have to be a snake but more likely if its a big worm it resembles a snake and works, these are all my experiences and my opinions, just throwing it out there so im not attacked haha Jon

Want quality but not crazy being a college student, prefer a used something like 50-120 bucks but would be willing to go to like 175. Hopefully theres things decent in that range or i can find a sweet deal on ebay.

I have a 7 foot Berkley Lightning Rod thats heavy casting, i also have the braid...just bought sufix performance braid 30Ib test so the diameter is .11''/0.29mm. So i have 2/3's of the puzzle and just need a Baitcasting REEL that can handle heavy line like this braid and also heavy mono and fit well with the rod, any suggestions would really really help and i thank you guys- Jon

Yeah seriously that is one crazy cool looking design, ive got to control the disease and not purchase one

Sorry Zack that came off misworded and might of seemed arrogant, we all miss hooksets as do i, i just meant to say that i dont miss fish due to hooksets on a daily basis but yeah it happens to everyone

Nope for me fishing since i was five with and only with spinning gear ive had no problems setting hooks, how long has your cousin been using spinning tackle? Maybe he's just off on his timing and missing the hook sets

Boondocks i took a quick peek at cabelas webpage, type in fat ika and if you can live with the 4 inch ones, their selling for $3.98 per pack of 5. Hope this helps out

Use whatever your comfortable with first, id say if you want to expand your horizons use the spinning gear with soft baits first, the reason i say this is because you can use soft baits that fish will grab, and you will have to do very little, im not saying this is always the case with regards to having to do little, but for example like a senko often you just pitch it out there and they take it on the initial fall, the reason for this is, it will give you sometime to get used to your new equipment, once familar with the gear use anything, in my particular case ive used only spinning gear my entire life, im going to join the baitcasting crew this spring, therefore im going to use lures that have the least techniques needed, that way i can focus on the reel and how to use it, bass can do most of the work, then ill learn the proper use of the reel to reel them in with the new equipment, for me it seems to simplify things for first timers getting used to new equipment. Hope this makes sense and helps- Jon

For the most part i think many of us are going to agree regardless of location but as a new yawker id have to say first and foremost slop, absolutely love pulling bass out of the weeds, the more weedage as i like to call it the cooler the strike and explosion is, after that id say lily pads, fallen trees hanging in the water, and definitely stumps round it out for me

I'm a canoe guy as well, its my friends canoe and i fish in the front, im one of those standers, and only sit down when flying down the bank doing 5-10miles per hour haha, i just love the feeling of fishing while standing up and setting the hook home

Hey Skillet, what ive heard and have yet to try which i really should is... if you take a drill and make to small holes on both sides of the metal plate, that it really makes a difference and the jitterbug now gurgles a lot which drives the bass nuts, thats just what ive heard but now that you've brought it up im going to take one jitterbug and sacrifice it for the sake of the experiment ;D

haha i second that bass109! I also wish they worked on better and new types of snake lures, maybe both hard plastic ones as well as new soft baits

I texas rig it weightless with ewg gammy hooks, and for some darn dumb reason havent used this lure much in the last year or so, it really is a good lure

A discontinued bps brand lure named "rockin daddy" which is a soft plastic crawfish rigged weightless mostly or with a small bullet weight

Id personally leave them in their original packages and get a small pack like by bps to carry them in, then when your done fishing for the day, put the rigged worm back in the package to regain salt and the attractant the others give off I.M.H.O. Jon

Id be a Manns also because they have quality soft baits, and this small tackle shop in Maine that i go to always seems to have old mann soft plastics that ive never ever seen before, i purchase them and they always seem to work

I too have purchased a few boogie baits and cant wait to try em this fishing yr, hopefully they dont tangle like crazy

the known lure would be bomber square a and lesser known is the pogo minnow which is impossible to find

Interesting and i have a similar bird lure the one by thornwood, havent caught anything off it yet but im going to save a rod for it this spring to give it some qaulity time and see if there is a future place still held in my tackle box :-?

Kind of a side note and sorry to not answer your question, i am interested in purchasing a bottle of this stuff but ive heard that it leaks into almost all baits and changes their colors, so im hesitant to buy them, not positive if this is true but thats just what ive heard

I had the vampire spinnerbait by hank a few years ago, i thought it was going to be the next best thing since sliced bread, sorry for the corny phrase, anyhow i didnt get a thing on it and my line tied directly to the lure would get caught up on the blades consistanly, id avoid it like the plague in my opinion

I think im too kind sometimes and give away too much info to other anglers, usually we'll exchange just whats working but who knows if what they are saying back to me is truthful, most fisherman are good guys but giving away secrets seems to be like pulling teeth, personally i dont seem to mind much giving away what lure and color works but exact location i try my hardest not give away, at the best it would be very general, like their being caught in the weedlines about 3-5 feet deep but i wouldnt give away my honey holes!