BigKev77

Oh yeah! I wish I had a pond around here with fish like that. Congratulate him for us and tell him to join up.

I fish a lot of mud. The usual suspects for me have been black blue flake, Junebug, and red shad. Pretty much something dark. Recently have had good luck with green pumpkin red flake on some bulkier baits so I am trying more browns. That doesn't really make sense to me in brown water, maybe it is more a water displacement thing with the bulkier baits than the color. Just happened to notice the pic on the left with the fat guy. That little gal was caught on a green pumpkin red flake brush hog if I remember correctly. Notice the muddy water.

salt&pepper egg wash thinned with a little milk rolled in a mix of yellow meal, flour, garlic powder, cayenne, salt Will at times use mustard instead of egg wash and don't add salt to the meal. All depends on which way the wind is blowing. Throw that in some grease and we call that larapin.

Biffle reels the fire out of that thing on that 7:1. Weight keeps it down. Deeper water needs more weight.

The other day I sat down to tie on a spinnerbait, I put a trailer hook on and I tossed it over the side of the boat. Unfortunately I missed the important step of tying the lure on the line.

A jig with no trailer is like a Thanksgiving turkey with no stuffing. It just aint right.

I wonder if the mend-it for lures is the same stuff as the mighty mend-it for fabric. The fabric mighty mend-it is a lot cheaper $10 for 4oz

The regular zara spook is 4.5 in long with 2 trebles, the super is 5 in and three trebles

No votes for the old flying lure?

I'm surprised to see so many say tubes. For me it is mid to deep diving cranks. I love lipless and shallow runners are ok I just haven't had much success on the rest. I do want to change that.

Nice_Bass took the words right out of my mouth.

look up the San Diego jam knot. Easy, quick, and strong. Edit: just noticed papajoe222 mentioned it.

You can only let a bass tell you what they want if you find bass. I say let the bass tell you what they want a lot but that has more to do with what lure and retrieve changes to make. Finding fish is the hard part. Look for food then look at the structure and cover in the area. Choose the best lure and technique to cover water in those conditions. Once you find some fish, try something that might increase the number of fish you are catching or maybe try for a bigger bite. I won't for a second act like I have it figured out but that is the simplified version of it that lives in my head.

Dink, It is just another way to present the bait. The old saying, the bass will tell you if they like it, gets old hearing but it is the truth. I like the way the worm tumbles along behind the spit shot and I have had good luck with it. Just give it a try. It might not out perform the drop shot one day and it might smoke it the next.

Floating plastics is just another way of using the split shot rig. I use it with a simple berkley powerbait or culprit worm 2/0 hook and 9/10 times the bite comes on a simple slow steady retrieve.

I can remember going through a bunch of line before I got the hang of picking out backlashes and how to set the reel. Buy a big spool of line. You will be awfully glad you learned to use a baitcasting reel.

Yep split shot is a good rig. subtle and simple. I tend to overlook it a lot of times just because of all the choices out there but when the fishing is really tough fish it slow and it can get it done. If I bank fish it is my #1 choice.

1. arkie style jig and trailer 2. plastic twist tail worm 3. rat-L-trap 4. spinnerbait

If I can't rip the bait free of the weeds, yes I will reel it in to clear it. I have never caught a fish with weeds on my hooks. Of course that doesn't mean they won't hit it. It just hasn't happened to me.

I can't say I have a go to brand as I am a budget fisherman, aka cheap/broke. I like an arkie style head, black and blue(I fish a lot of muddy water) a brown or green variation if the water is cleaner with a big chunk trailer, 1/2oz

Only the fish can tell you what they want. Throw them both till you can establish a pattern.

I used to get bent out of shape over that stuff and I have had a few yelling matches on the water. Now days I just let it go. There are some real morons out there but I am not going to let them make me one too. I was fishing a cut in a rock dike where water would surge through. It was a little wider than a boat so it is pretty much a spot for one boat to fish. I am parked on it catching pretty good numbers and a flat bottom pulls up. I figure I have had some fun no big deal if they come up and catch a few. Next thing I know they pull up and start throwing a casting net right in the middle of the break. They had a kid with them so I just said you are lucky you have the kid or I would be in that boat with you. They looked at me like they had no idea why I would be upset about the situation. Ya see, they are morons. Had the kid not been there I would have been one too. Glad I can keep my hat on these days.

Fished some backwater in pool 5 today. Fishing was a little slow but managed several small males and 2 females 4lb+ and 2.5lb. Both Females had spawned out. Noticed lots of fry. Definitely moving past the spawn. I heard a guy crappie fishing say they weren't liking his minnows so they must have been slow today too. We did catch one nice crappie. All where caught on chartreuse, gold willow leaf spinner bait and a craw colored shallow crank around wood cover. Slow but always good to be on the river. All fish released to be caught another day. Conditions were low 70's and WINDY. Water was getting muddy. Flow at a touch over 40,000cfs. Never turned on the DF so can't say exactly what the water temp was. I figure mid 60's.

I will have to try these. Nobody like a good cheap bait better than me.

Those look great. I am wanting to try my hand at that myself. I love looking at all the pics yall post.