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This may seem like a dumb question but I've never had to change tires on my boat trailer. Now that I've watched a video saying they should be changed about every 3-5 years I think I should do mine. Do I buy rubber tire and take it to a car mechanic to put on or is it cheaper to buy a whole tire and rim and just change them out? What do you do?

Dang, I wish you would have posted about 20 mins earlier. lol. I ended up ordering from Bass Pro and didn't think about Mike! Now it doesn't look like Bass Pro will ship them in time for my trip and I had to pay $5.96 for shipping....more than a pack of the baits!

We have stained/clear water here and use Zoom Super a Flukes in pearl. My bros gf isn't an experienced fisherman. Just casts and reels in and she catches a ton doing that.

lol. I almost never T-Rig Senkos. My friend almost always does. I don't feel I catch nearly as many fish with them T-Rigged. I do like how T-Rigged skips way better though, especially under docks.

Do you have to hook yours through the legs I assume?

Do you rig them vertically like a minnow or horizontally like a crawfish?

Good idea. Usually when they get that tore up they are basically tore in half. I just usually make one last cast and catch a fish on them. I'll look into getting some mend it though. The zip ties can hold each end on pretty well.

The sharp 90' degree bend at the top of the hook prevents the zip ties from sliding off the top of the hook. They are also thin and penetrate well without needing you to set the hook. I'm a line watcher but sometimes your line doesn't move and you do have a fish on that hooked itself without you even knowing. The wacky hooks don't have that 90' degree bend.

I just started wearing Columbia Omnifreeze Zero hot weather clothing. It is 30spf and when it gets wet it keeps you a few degrees cooler. I got the baseball hat, buff/neck gaiter, long sleeve pants, and long pants. I was so happily surprised when I found out how light all of this clothing was. It does actually keep you cooler then the actual temp. I also really like the buff, which I didn't think I would like wearing at first. When I take the buff off it feels like I'm walking out of the shade. That's how much cooler it is. I won't go out without wearing this stuff now.

I've had bites on bigger lures from small fish that they couldn't eat. That lure normally catches bigger fish. Because the smaller fish can't wat it and it only catches bigger fish you'd come the conclusion that that bigger bait only catches bigger fish when it's not necessarily true. Smaller fish were attempting to eat it and couldn't. If it had treble hooks they probably would be hooked.

How is that even possible? lol

So I've gone through about 11 packs of Senkos this year with the help of my brother and friends. At about $7.99 a bag that's $87.95 in Senkos and 110 indivual Senkos. I've found that Walmart has them cheapest standard price which is $6.99 and that sometimes Dick's Sporting Goods has them on sale for buy 1 get one 1/2 off. Either way, it adds up. So, I tried some tips from here on how to save some Senkos. I've tried the O-Ring with O-Wacky tool, surgical tubing, Zip ties, heated shrink tubing, O-Rings crossed over each other, different types of hooks including Skip Jack Hooks, and Finesse Wide Gap Hooks, and others. Nothing really worked. Sometimes you'd make your first cast with a Senko and see it launched off into space, or you'd land on a dock and recover your hook but the Senko was still on the dock. It was extremely frustrating and expensive, although I'm sure that Gary Yamamoto would couldn't be more pleased. UPDATED: Well, I finally found a solution and it is a cheap one. I didn't come up with the zip tie idea nor the vinyl tubing idea. "thebig1" is the one who showed me the tubing idea....and to give credit where it is due, I know someone else said something about it before in another thread. I've tried it on 5 trips now with other people also using it and it's worked extremely well. It's a combination of a 5" Senko, Gamakatsu 1/0 Offset Shank Worm EWG hook, and 1 small 3/4" inch piece of vinyl 3/8" inside diameter-1/2" outside diameter tubing (the kind you get at Menards or aquarium tubing). **** I've found that anything less then a 3/4" inch piece of vinyl tubing doesn't seem to work nearly as well because it probably doesn't have enough amount of friction to hold the Senko but anything longer then 3/4" is too long and makes the worm heavy which causes it to sink funny and bend unnaturally. If your Senko isn't bending correctly when you lift it up to look at it you probably have too long of a piece of tubing. **** After making this thread the "thebig1" posted that vinyl tubing works better and that he's had the same Senko for 8-9 years. Well, I tried his method for 2 trips on my own and then a guys fishing weekend. We all used 5" Senko's with the vinyl tubing and worked even better than the method I had tried before with the zip ties. We caught 94 fish over the weekend, bass, northern, sunnies, rock bass, and perch and did not lose 1 Senko. I still have the Senko from that trip. All of the components: 1 Senko, 1 piece of vinyl tubing cut 1/2", and 1 hook of your choice. And the other secret....buy Senkos in bulk! lol. From some helpful posters on bassresource.com I learned that you can buy Senkos in bulk 100 packs for $54.82 at Tackle Warehouse during one of their 15% sales and get them for $46.58 which makes them $46 cents apiece versus the normal $79 cents apiece. The only sad part is that I had to order them in green pumpkin, my favorite color is cinnamon brown. The 3/8" inch vinyl tubing cost $2.86 for 10 feet. Enough to last a lifetime. Now that the "thebig1" showed me how well vinyl tubing works, I don't know what I'm going to do with 100 Senkos. I bagged them up into 7 original packages. I already gave away a pack to my friend. So that leaves me with 6 packages left. At the rate I lose Senko's with the vinyl tubing I guess I will be giving the other bags to friends and just keep 1 or 2 for myself. Thanks "thebig1"!!!! I've come to the acceptance that Senkos are like livebait and gas, you buy them and to get used up. It's just life (Unlike a lifetime lure like a KVD Sexy Dawg, that as long as you don't lose, you can just keep sharpening the hooks or replace the hooks and have the lure for nearly forever.) I hope this helps some of you save some cash. Good luck and good fishin'. Try it out, it's only a $2.86 gamble and I bet you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Wouldn't get here in time....and I'd need to pay shipping.

I've mostly used Gamakatsu 5/0 with Twistlocks. But I just picked up a set of Stanley Ribbet double hooks with weights and a set without weights and I am going to be trying them now.

I'm going fishing and Mike from Sieberts recommended the Ragetail Menace in bluegill and smokey for my bloody shad swim jigs and blue pumpkin sapphire or bluegill for my bluegill swim jigs that I just received from him. The problem is I can't find them at Cabelas, Gander Mountain, Dicks, or Walmart. I can't even find them on their websites even though they carry most of the entire Ragetail like lf products. So, Tackle Warehouse carries them but I don't want to have to pay for shipping plus it wouldn't get here in time. If any of those other stores carried them I would have them shipped to them and not pay for shipping. I live in the Twin Cities of MN. Where can I find some Ragetail Menaces?

Cool. I'll look into it.

That's supposed to be used just like the Toad, right?

I leave them in their original bags all in a big Powerbait box if they are opened. I have another box for all unopened plastics. I always unhook all of my hooks every trip so if I have a plastic that's still on the hook I just put the whole thing a tackle box that I have for frequently used lures. Because these are almost always a single hook with a Senko, a Ragetail Toad, and swim jig with some type of trailer it doesn't take up much space. I hate taking off plastics because you are most likely going to ruin the.

Stanley already has these double frog hooks with twistlock out or awhile I found out today. Couldn't find them at Gander (they used to sell them, guy said they don't anymore). Didn't have them at the local Woodbury Cabelas (smaller store then their destination stores, so no surprise). Went to Walmart and found them. lol. Who would have thought? Found the Stanley double frog hooks with weight and without. I bought one of each. I only use hooks with twistlocks (usually Gamakatsu's) when using Ragetail Toads because when I rigged toads with regular hooks they would get peeled back and ruined. Switched to twistlocks about 5 years ago and haven't had that problem since. Also found an Arbogast Buzz Plug Jr. there for $5.96 and couldn't pass up getting one just to try it for that price.

Exact opposite for me. lol. I'm just getting into using worms/lizards, creature baits, and craw imitations and I've been using the SK Rodent. Perhaps I will have to look further into this worm/lizard thing. I'm surprised how many more people chose worms over everything else.

Only when it's out of my garage. When it's in my garage unlocked.

Worms and lizards are very similar in shape. Long and slender. Creature baits and crawfish imitations are the exact opposite, short and thick. Trying to get an idea of what type people use the most.

This comes down to what do you throw more often when using T-Rigs, C-Rigs, Rage Rigs, or anything in between: do you use long, slender baits (ie....Power worm, lizard) or thick, short baits such as creature baits and crawfish imitations (ie....Ragetail Bug/Rodent, Rage Craws). What percentage do you think the difference is?

I have a pack of these. Never tried them before. I see that they have a weighted double hook for frogs now too and that looks good. I think I will try my double hooks next time I'm fishing.

Cool. Are those two boats similar in price?