BrownBear

Booyah! Nice catch!

Nice job and good story, thanks for sharing!

Never been there, sounds like I don't want to...lol. OK, well I am putting in at Soap Creek, maybe I will see you out there.

Did you make it up here yet? Didn't see any pics...lol. Going to go out tomorrow morning and give it a go, didn't go last weekend and its been driving me crazy.

Hello and welcome!

Use the snap swivels for my crank baits all the time, never had a issue with them.

Yup, sounds good. Congrats on the new job BTW! You can invite if you want, we can repost this when it gets closer too. This is a good spot, there are 3 launches within the area, 2 of them free which are not at the marina, see map.

Awesome! See you boys had to come to Georgia for real fishing...lol. Great job tho!

^^what he said. Been learning different techniques to use them, whole new world!

I saw it on a fishing show as well, downloaded it for free. I like it.

Congrats on new PB! Nice fish!

What is this P..a..t..i..e..n..c..e you speak of? lol

IDK for sure, never ate there, had my boat docked at the marina couple of years ago, but never even noticed a restaurant. Looks like it opens at 11:30am.

Soap creek area sounds good to me. July time frame is good too, as of now.

Biscuits and gravy!

Well I will def have room on the pontoon if ya need a ride.

Hi Bo, welcome first off. Second, see your in Augusta, GA as well. Also, don't forget to go to the Introductions and say hi.

Very nice jigs, bait monkeys are running ramped now...lol.

^^^I agree with this. I won't spend much time on top water if they aren't jumping, couple of casts with fluke, popper, etc., then I am going under the water and/or another spot.

Gary Yamamoto has a good video on setting the hook: https://youtu.be/AF54a6R2MNc It may help, it may not, idk.

Very nice!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WwRrKaq0IyY

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