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This, unless you want to get custom made ones. The SK Bitsy Bug and Bitsy Flip Jigs are awesome little jigs.

I grew up on Plano but I bought a Flambeau shoulder strap little bag thingy for crappie fishing and I loved that little thing. It was lightweight and carried a lot of stuff. I still go to Plano first but I always look at the Flambeau stuff because it is decent stuff to price match. Basically I go for whats on sale or what is less expensive. Sometimes its Plano, sometimes its Flambeau, sometimes its BPS gear...

A jig and the wacky rig.

I trim the tip off to make it angle with the profile of the jig and fan it out some to limber them up. Skirts are what I fear trimming...

Rage Tail Chunk could work...

Owner 4/0 Rig N Hook with a 5" Yum Dinger or a Backwater T-Floater Worm with a nail weight in the tail. Colors are going to be Red Shad, Junebug, Green Pump. Red Flake and Black Neon for the most part. I sometimes throw a white or pearl white with the tail dipped in Red Spike It.

Head doesn't really matter as much as people think. I have dropped finesse football head jigs in trees before and caught fish. I usually stick to Strike King Jigs. The Hack Attacks, the Denny Brauer Premier Pro Models, Denny Brauer Structure Jigs, the finesse football heads and I just picked up the rage blade swimming jig. As far as colors, you want to match the hatch. I have a black/blue, green pump. craw, and bluegill color with me at all times with rage tail chunks and zoom fat albert grubs in similar or matching colors. Everyone on here goes nuts for the Seibert jigs but I haven't used them...yet.

The size of hook is in direct correlation to how much action the bait will have. The smaller the hook, the more action the bait will have. With that said I personally don't go over 3/0 with a 5" senko style bait, unless the bite is on, then I will go with a 4/0.

Power Pro is great line! I have 65lb spooled on my flippin gear. Its the only line my brother uses, only line, no fluoro. no mono, only power pro braid. I have 30lb VIscious braid on my spinning gear, and I really like it. Power pro is kinda stiff and waxy and I don't like it in smaller diam. line.

I lived in San Diego for 7 years. I fished a lot of the reservoirs there. Otay, El Cap, Hodges, Miramar, Poway, Wholford, Palomar, Santee Lakes and the river. There are a lot of big fish in SD county. They stock the lakes with trout and the bass go nuts on them. A 8" trout colored swim bait will get those bigs ones out.

Lower Otay, I know exactly what you need to throw. A trout swimbait...a big trout swimbait. Big t-rigged worms work as well. Use bigger lures, deep diving crankbaits, large spinnerbaits and jigs, and the thing that will work, if all of that doesn't, is a drop shot.

I don't really understand having more reels that rods or more rods than reels. When I buy a rod, I buy a reel, kinda need one with the other to fish. I am the kind of person that I need a specific rod and reel together or I am not happy. I usually buy them together. They are both cool to me and I get excited when I get a new rod and reel. I am satisfied when my rod and reel combo catches fish the way I want it to catch fish. Although I do feel that sometimes rods are overpriced for what they are, especially when they keep breaking...

Alabama rig or Donkey rig, crankbaits(choose model depending on depth), spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, swimbaits, swimming jigs, spoons, topwater walkers, broken back minnows, plastic frogs and hollow body frogs, pretty much any constantly moving bait. Schooling fish are usually feeding on smaller fish so you want to mimic that type of forage, match the hatch so to speak.

A really big worm in black and red(Red Shad). When I say big I mean at least 8" preferably around 10". Spinnerbaits with colorado blades are another good choice as well as chatterbaits. Dark colors with bright. Black with chartreuse, white with red, white with chartreuse. You want the bait to have as much presence as possible. Increase size, slow down presentation and hang on!

I like it. if you bought the dip, get some q tips and apply with the q tips. It lasts longer and you don't melt the plastic. Quick dips for tails. I have the fire red, blue and chartreuse. Mixing them makes for some interesting color combos.

Millworms, crickets, grubs, mice, goldfish(illegal in some places), bees, lizards, frogs, snakes, crayfish...I'm sure there are more but I can't really think of any more.

Man you must have a big boat! Chatterbaits, jerkbaits, poppers, tubes, grubs, swimbaits(hard and soft), spoons...

I'll use them all except GYCB Senkos. Yum Dinger, KVD Ocho, Jackall Fick Shake, Backwater Tackle T-Floater in several colors of each. The one that kills the most for me is the 5" Yum Dinger in Red Shad on a 1/8 oz wacky jighead. That's in stained to muddy water though, in clear water(not much of that around here) I have a Jackall Flick Shake Worm in Cola color, looks like a real worm.

I fished all day yesterday. My one and only bite was in the heat of the day on a 3/8 oz hack attack jig with a Rage Tail chunk. I didn't get the fish to the boat but it was the biggest fish I ever hooked into. Heat of the day fishing is tough but that's when the big ones bite.

It's not the hook ,its your hook set. No sweeps, no hard sets. When you feel the fish, wait 2 seconds(count it out) and just lift up and start reeling. Don't ****** up, don't jerk up, a simple lift of the rod tip and start reeling. I haven't lost a fish on a wacky rig since Glenn showed this technique on one of his videos. It's a light wire open face hook, you don't need a lot of pressure to get them to penetrate.

I love lizards!(I love a lot of lures) Texas rigged with a 1/16 oz or a 1/8 oz tungsten bullet weight, 6mm faceted glass bead. Just slow reel it back and it will get hit. I like shakyheads with small lizards as well. it looks like a feeding salamander or newt. Dropshot is another good way to rig it. The most popular with bigger lizards is most likely Carolina rig(at least it was when I was a kid) although I personally don't throw a C-rig anymore.

I always tie a knot and most of the time its a palomar knot to the split ring. Clips and Snaps change the action of a bait and they are too bulky for me.

Drop it, drag it, hop it, swim it, jig it. twitch it. pop it...there are probably 1000 different ways to fish a jig. Today I was pitching one into fallen trees and just picking it up and letting it pendulum down out of the tree towards deeper water. After it hit the bottom again I would wait about 3 seconds and then pick it up and let it pendulum down the slope again. If no bites I re cast and kept doing that. Hooked into a big fish doing this but he spit the jig because I didn't get a good yank on him...woulda probably have been a new PB as well.

I got those in my box as well. Gonna use them on the Freedom Zodiac Jigheads that came in the box with them and shaky head as well.

I don't use them anymore, I have in the past. It takes me 30 seconds to tie a palomar knot and maybe a minute to tie a loop knot and I like to keep in practice of tying knots so I can stay proficient at it.