PersicoTrotaVA

Hair salon rubber bands, a bag of thousands last forever and you can get them in several different colors to match the plastic. Totally agree with this. I usually use Yum Dingers but I was at the shop with my brother and I saw the GYCB Senko's in Red Shad and I had to see what all the fuss is about. Well it's about catching fish...well literally 1 fish per bait. Either they swallow it or toss that thing to the depths because so far I have gone thru half a pack and only caught 1 fish on each. A Yum Dinger I can catch at least 3 fish before I am looking to change it out.

I like rigging them weedless with no weight and dropping them over a pile of rocks or rip rap to mimic salamanders. I also drag them t-rigged through beds during the spawn.

I own 3 Spikeit bottles(blue, fire red and chartreuse) and a bottle of spray scent(Gulp Alive), all of them in garlic except one bottle of Spikeit, its Gamefish(made a boo boo when I bought it). I dip soft plastics like senkos, grubs, worms, flukes, plastic swimbaits. I also keep a ziplock full of Q-tips in my tackle box for applying it to hardbaits and coloring sections of plastics baits like legs, bellies or backs. So I guess my one scent is garlic.

Welcome back and welcome to the board!

Used them many times during my life. My dad swears by them. I've never caught a fish on one.

Why not?

You could use it in the same instance as a spinnerbait but a swim jig is a smaller profile and its less noisy. My brother throws them into fallen trees and swims them out, almost always gets a strike.

For me its all of the above but I guess it would have to be worms though because I am always throwing a wacky rig.

Black, black and red, black and blue, black and chartreuse, black and green pumkin...I fish a lot of dirty water. For trailers I like using Fat Alberts in white, junebug, green pumpkin and watermelon red flake.

There are a lot of streams and creeks, the Potomac river and a few other rivers around there to fish. Google Earth or Maps is a good tool to use to find places to fish.

Color changes with water clarity and light conditions. Darker conditions call for darker baits. When I say darker it could mean low light or dirty water. Black is your best friend in these conditions. Black/red and Black/blue as well. In clearer water you want more natural colors. Greens, browns, reds and blues. This is just a general guideline. You can catch fish in darker water with natural colors baits and vice versa. There is going to be that guy that catches them in super clear water on a hot pink worm...

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Nah, I live in Va Beach but its close enough that we should have similar conditions. I was asking the other guy if there was current in the mudflats. I have been catching them in current or in deep cover in shallow water but I will say fallen trees have been my best friend these past few weeks and I have been catching them more towards the point(deeper water). Jigs, squarebills and plastics. Drop them right in the middle of it and start jiggin.

Was there current on the mudflats? It's been tough these past few weeks. They are either deep in cover or suspended in current in dirty water. When I go out by myself, I can hook up. If I go out with my brother(its his boat), I won't catch anything. He believes in bank beating. Even if I ask him to back off the shore, 2 minutes later we are back to beating the bank. Granted its pretty tough to control the boat in current...I don't want this to turn into a rant. I suggest slowing it down, find dirty, moving water, its going to be cooler than clear, still water.

They are the only crankbaits I use. I prefer the 4S, 1 and 1XS over the KVDs. I also fish a lot of shallow lakes. If I fished deeper lakes I would have deeper running crankbaits as well. I hadn't fished for over a year. This year was the first time I used a squarebill. 10 casts in and bam caught a decent fish. I was asking my brother what a bite feels like and as soon as he was about to answer I said "nevermind, I know what it feels like".

Bed making mostly, If there are bigger fish in the lake then it could be battle scars. That one looks like he was nipped by another fish or a slight case of fin rot. If you caught it during the pre spawn or spawn time of year it is most likely damage to do building nests.

Drop a heavy jig in a thick tree and jig it over the branches and see how long light line lasts. If I get hung up I wanna be able to jerk my jigs out without losing my lure. I throw into heavy heavy stuff(trees, rip rap, rocks, boulders) and I don't want to be replacing lures, I work hard for my money and don't like just throwing it away. 60+ lb braid is a good investment to me, I don't waste money replacing lures. Not only that, I can set the hook as hard as I want and know I am not gonna break the line. Also tournament fishing, I don't have time to play a fish. ****** it up and get it in the boat and keep fishing.

I use a medium power extra fast action spinning rod. I don't "set the hook". I just lift up and start reeling. I have lost 2 fish on a wacky rig and both times it was my fault for trying to horse them in. Set the drag low and let that fish run with it. It may take longer to get them in but its worth it. Are trokars really that good?

I've seen some big bass caught on fly rods around here. Awesome video. They have an international film festival for fly fishing videos. They have some of the best cinematography I have ever seen in any movie.

Welcome to the dog days of summer in NC. Its hot, its humid and fish are lethargic as can be. Use big slow moving baits and fish deeper water ledges and structure.

Out of those 3, jigs 95% of the time, 5% goes to the T-rig and what is a rage rig?

I caught my PB on a 1.0 KVD squarebill. Small baits catch big fish. My biggest hook ups are on a jig. Big bass like jigs for some reason. I haven't caught anything smaller than 3.5 lb on a jig and had my biggest hook up, fish had to be at least 6 lbs probably closer to 7.

I have 3 different senko style plastics, Yum F2 Dinger(my favorite), Backwater T-float stick worm(2nd fav) and the KVD Ochos(3rd fav). I don't use GYCB senkos, they are too expensive. I like the Ocho a lot even though it's my 3rd fav outta what I fish. The coffee scent is amazing and stays around a looooooooooooonnnnngggggggg time. It's basically my last resort, I just wish I could find it in Red shad color...

I love the way that LC lures look, they are amazing. With that said, I have never fished with one. I fish stained to muddy water so I can't just justify paying so much for a lure that the fish isn't going to really see. Strike King cranks flash just fine and are only 5 to 7 bucks each. If I had clearer water that I fished more often, I would probably drop the money and try out LC cranks since in clearer water the fish can see the awesome design and colors.

If you think a bass' lateral line is sensitive, a catfish's barbels are way more sensitive. Our lips are very sensitive, imagine if we had barbels hanging off how much more could we tell about our surroundings... Anyone that has kept tropical catfish know they aren't just scavengers. I have caught catfish on a wacky rig, a jig, a spinnerbait and t-rig...just this year. My fav lake is stocked with blue cats only and they like to find a dock or some kinda structure in a deep(for around here) water current. I have fished a dock for an hour pulling nothing but cats out from under it, 1 after another.