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Huh I hadnt heard of them till now, but a google search showed up and they look fair interesting. Might give a falling tube better action. Ill have to buy some.

Done! I doubt I can get a rewards card since I have 0 credit

Ok so my birthday is in a few days and I plan on buying as much new tackle as I can. I have a big list on BPS, but of course I cant buy it all. This will be a slightly long post but...here goes. This is my list: (by the way if you have color recommendations on any of them, please feel free to throw em out there!) Bomber® Bill Dance Signature Series Hardbaits - Fat Free Shad (different collors) Berkley® PowerBait® Chigger Chunk (different colors) Sufix® Siege Fishing Line - Camo - 14 lb Zoom® Soft Plastic Baits - Trick Worm (different colors) Booyah Boogee Bait (1/2oz, different colors) Bass Pro Shops® Beaver Bug - 3-7/8" - Roadkill Camo Berkley® Gulp!® Shaky Worms (different colors) Mann's® HardNose Finesse Worm (different colors) Berkley® PowerBait® Original Power Worm® - 10" (differnt colors) Strike King® Kevin VanDam Swim Jig - 3/8 oz (different colors) Berkley® PowerBait® Original Power Worm® - 4" (different colors) Strike King® 3X Plastics - 3X Chunk (different colors) Zoom® Soft Plastic Baits - Super Fluke (different colors) Zoom® Soft Plastic Baits - Trick Worm (different colors) Yum® Flavor-Enhanced Soft Baits - Wooly Hawgtail - 4-1/2" (different colors) Yum® Flavor-Enhanced Soft Bait - Wooly Beavertail - 4" (different colors) Lunker City Slug-Go® - 6" (different colors) Zoom® Soft Plastic Trailers - Big Salty Chunk (different colors) Zoom® Soft Plastic Bait - Finesse Worm (different colors) Arbogast® Hula Popper® - 3/8 oz (different colors) Plus dropshot weights, bigger hooks, a cheap rod rack, spinnerbait and worm binders and a hook threader!

Did you try anything besides the senko or a different color?

MINNERS!

One way I like to fish 5" senkos is texas rigged weightless, and Ill cast it over the weeds and drag it across and then twitch it and let it sink all the way back to the boat or shore. Or just cast it under a dock and let it sink a second, then twitch, sink, twitch etc. it looks a lot like a rolling baitfish if you do it right

Gary Yamamoto Senkos Zoom finesse and trick worms Berkley Power worms Yum worms And if you check the sponsor link here, youll see * which makes the same kind of stuff as all of these for cheaper

Ugh this is ALWAYS where I am. If you've found the fish you probably dont need to change baits

I love froggin! Nothin like that huge top water explosion. It still makes my heart race when it happens. I honestly have used about 6 different frogs and had almost all the same results. I like Scum Frogs and any frog with skirt trailer type "legs" I've also used Zoom and Yum frogs when I want to go under. About 2 years ago I was in TX fishing and my uncle had a purple Zoom frog in the water when I pulled the boat out and got a hit RIGHT behind the motor, churnin water and everything, about 3 feet deep.

if I'm in light cover I like to fish tubes weightless. Use an offset hook, poke it through the tip of the tube and have it exit on the side, with a gap the side of the offset. Then twist it and run it back up through tube and out the other side, and bury it back in the side of the tube. Dont bury the hook shank too deep because you want a bite to pop it out of the plastic. You can simply add a bullet weight to the head (i like to use a bead between it in the jig sometimes) if you need to punch through cover.

Mine was Friday around 8:30, so I voted early morning because thats early for me!

I Just got two BPS Extreme XPS rods (currently on sale for $70). They are compatible with the BPS rod balance weight kit. I got both of them balanced to my taste using the weight kit and now they feel awesome. The counterbalance of the weights in the butt of the rods really makes a huge difference. You should try out this system or a similar system if you are having trouble with your rods being "tip heavy". Thanks! if i ever get that much money ill try it out!

I was just reading my newest BASS mag, and they were showing the history of the worm. They were talking about the salt impregnation thing and it made me wonder, why salt as an attractant? This may be a step ahead, along the lines of why bass even like worms, but, why are bass attracted to salt? It seems to me the best scent for a bait would be whatever its supposed to smell like...mainly...fish?

Set it! People wont laugh when you set the hook 20 times on weeds and the 21st time you pull in a big fish. Ive been having a hell of a time setting the hook. This last trip I was on, I had a dink bite and I set the hook about 6 times to make sure ;D I'm in the same situation at you and I'm gettin all kinds of awesome sticks, weeds and clay clumps

ALright thanks guys! Offtopic, catt and fishfordollars, did either of you get hit by those huge wind gusts last week and did you have any luck at all?

Alright, cant try it tonight but I'll go in the yard tomorrow and try it. Thanks for the tips. Just for curiosity, do most triggers line up with the reel like that? Or is mine set more forward than most (ie would the trigger usually be more underneath the reel)

I tried that, but I have small hands and that puts my thumb over the side of the reel and makes it very hard to hit the release. Where should the trigger line up with the reel? My trigger is about flush with the closest end of the reel, maybe even a very small gap, could that be the problem?

I have currently have a Pflueger Trion LPL, on a Quantum HSX54 7' MH. If I put 2 fingers infront of the trigger instead of 1 it feels better but still not as good as Id like

Hmm the only thing I can figure out is my baitcasting reel is left handed because I dont like casting with one arm and then switching hands, so my rod is ALWAYS in that hand. But the weight feels off. Like when I hold the rod the balance is all forward and i'm constantly straining my wrist to hold it up, but when I used this other pole without a trigger i could get my hand underneath the reel more and the balance felt fine.

Depending on the rod, either one or two fingers in front of the trigger. When I was in TX I used a spare rod with my reel and it had no trigger and felt so much better and i had better control over the spool. I didnt realize all the rods had triggers, I have no idea what brand rod I was using. Guess im stuck with triggers!

Yeah I did that, and I didnt really mind picking the weeds off but I worry that if I'm flipping into some weeds and its dragging them down with it, its not going to look very realistic moving around with half a pound of green stuff around it. One dink I caught had more weeds wrapped around it by the time I got it out than there was fish

So I'm pretty new to fishing these kids of dense cover. I read a lot about people fishing jigs and other "weedless" stuff through hydrilla but while in TX, I was fishing heavy cover and nothing weedless seemed to really be weedless. It seemed like no matter what I did I was pulling gunk off my bait or lure every single cast. Is this normal?

Hah, sadly I got no pictures. I had my cellphone with me but the only picture I actually took was of a 14oz crappie. Next time I go (hopefully this winter) ill remember to bring a camera with a flash.

Wow! I've been looking around BPS and google...do ALL baitcasting rods have a trigger grip? They kill my hands!

Ahahaha...wow. Nice catch! Thats a big turtle! I've fished lakes with huge amounts of turtles at all depths and never hooked one. They usually run as soon as they see the splash of the lure or the boat gets too close.