MIbassyaker

I'm going to find out. never tried it before.

Jig. Tube. Shakyhead worm. Texas rigged lizard or creature.

Combs Ike Bobby Lane Kennedy Alton Jr.

I had this exact team until a few days ago, and then I changed three of them...

Green Pumpkin Green pumpkin w/ chartreuse tip. That's it -- all I need.

Yep, Devil's Horse and Rattlin Rogue! As it happens, my first bass of the year came a couple weeks ago (I don't get to fish much until May) on a clown-colored Suspending Rattlin' Rogue, in 37 degree water.

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I don't use the weighted ones, but I use the 3/0 owner twistlock for both 5" senkos and 5" flukes; I believe that's the size Gary Yamamoto recommends too. I'm sure 4/0 would be fine too.

That looks like a worm hook I've seen in old magazine ads, made by Culprit I think (not sure if it's the same one, but looks similar). The short end goes straight into the nose of the worm as a keeper, and the long end goes into the side of worm, as in a texas rig. I think I'd rather have a closed line-tie, though.

I use them both and like them both a lot. The owner hooks are pretty light wire-- i use them on M and ML spinning rods exclusively. They come through cover very well, but don't stand up like the megastrike heads do. I use the owner is sort of an all-purpose light, weedless jigworm head. The megastrike I like specifically for shaking, and for making plastic craws stand up on bottom.

I have had a 7' ML Tourney trail for a few years -- nothing fragile about that rod. It doesn't have the sensitivity of a high-end rod, noticeably more so than an ugly stick, still quite sturdy, crisper action, and excellent backbone. For the price, it's a solid option.

Tackle warehouse says it's 5"....so, maybe not finesse (depending on how you define "finesse", of course). The tail reminds me of a biffle bug, which suggests a swinging jighead. Or, t-rig or jika rig. Punch, flip, drag it around. Maybe use it as a chatterbait trailer which would have that tail flapping side to side. As with most plastics, the options are limited only by your imagination.

There is no way to avoid twist on spinning reels -- it is just part of the design of the reel that they put one full twist into the line every time the bail goes around on a retrieve. You can do things to make twist less disruptive and more manageable, like using limp line (like lower test rating, or braid) rather than stiff line, avoiding letting the line slack too much after a cast, and you can let out twisted line to untwist it (for instance, let out a bunch of line into the water with nothing tied on, and drag it behind a watercraft for a little bit), but you can't prevent the twist from accumulating as you retrieve.

Ah, of course. Those are under 1/4, but still doable.

Shad raps are on the lighter end of the lure wt range, around 1/4oz. Same with the power worms and chigger craws, which should be around 1/4-3/8oz by themselves, not including the hook and any weight you fish it with (like a bullet weight, jig, or jig head of some kind). Not sure what you mean by "top water originals". A medium power rod that can handle 1/4-3/4oz should be very suitable for many different things.

I will defend the OP. I interpret the question as a hypothetical -- if you had to pick one finesse technique, what would it be? Is this a realistic literal scenario anybody would plausibly deal with? Probably not. I understand the frustration with discussions of implausible things. But I do not share that frustration. Is it a dumb question? I say no. Granting the premise, it asks you to consider what would you consider the most essential finesse presentation for your purposes, whatever those purposes are (e.g., enjoyment, challenge, tournament success, whatever). The answer you give carries combined information about your perception of a rig's' versatility, its effectiveness, and your confidence using it where you fish, and your preference for particular kinds of presentations. This is may be, but is not guaranteed to be, the same as your favorite rig or most used rig. In other words, the question asks for a combination of things rolled into one answer that there is no other direct way to ask about. Whether your answer is useful to anybody is another issue, but that's hardly unique to this question.

Owner bullet ultrahead + 4" Berkley power worm:

This thread deserves a sticky.

I have had success with the Swagger Jig, the Baby Momma, and the Snooze Alarm buzzbait. Better than other options of their kinds? I don't know about that, but they do the job at least.

Michigan smallie record was broken twice in the last two years, in 2015 and again in 2016, after holding steady for over 100 years. In totally different waters.

A homemade number: 3/8oz arky head, split ring, blade, snap, skirt, zoom fluke:

I have a cabela's tourney trail/summit combo and a pflueger trion combo. The are both perfectly good budget options for a combo and both are far superior to an ugly stick. I would get a 6'6" M power, unless you think you specifically need another short rod.

It's fishing. So now I'm sitting at: 3, 6, 8, 96, 102.

Lol, Scroggins -- to the camera, about Mercer urging somebody to put him on a fantasy team: "Sorry, dude."

Meanwhile, according to basstrakk, the current place of the top-owned angler in each bucket: A: Tharp --7th B: Bobby lane -- 12th C: Hackney -- 11th D: Rojas -- 14th E: Chris Lane = 76th