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Thank you everyone!! I crimp the rivets as well to get that good squeak out of them. And that’s been my biggest producing bait this year. So I’ll retire that one. I bought another to replace it. I honestly probably should buy all they have next time I’m there lol

When you guys wear through a buzzbait river do you bend the wire and replace it? Or just retire that buzzbait?

Back when I fished in a kayak ( fish from an aluminum boat now) I crossed there eyes. I lived in Florida then and was always aroudn pads and vegetation. And I straight winched them in. No reason to finesse them around. I’d haul em in so fast they were mad they didn’t get to fight. I get it tho everything moves my lil Aluminum boat around. Wind and fish. As ya know tho everything is way harder in a kayak. I used to kinda high stick them to net them it kinda minimized them throwing slack. But it’s also horrible on rods lol This hands down. Winch them suckers in. Don’t give them the chance in their home environment to do what they do best.

Back when I fished in a kayak ( fish from an aluminum boat now) I crossed there eyes. I lived in Florida then and was always aroudn pads and vegetation. And I straight winched them in. No reason to finesse them around. I’d haul em in so fast they were mad they didn’t get to fight. I get it tho everything moves my lil Aluminum boat around. Wind and fish. As ya know tho everything is way harder in a kayak. I used to kinda high stick them to net them it kinda minimized them throwing slack. But it’s also horrible on rods lol

This! This was so well said. I have a pond and a lake I can go to and catch 1 pounders all day easily. Sure it’s fun. And scratches an itch. But there is nothing like a ride through the middle of no where to the lake and having to think And hunt for fish.

Had the day off work. Went to a new lake. I didn’t care for it at all. It’s a nature park in the downtown area. Really nice place. But choked out in weeds and very steep drop off banks. Just made it hard to fish the way I like to fish. Got a few bites and one that wanted to be 3 pounds but just wasn’t on a buzzbait. Killed time and rode around running the motor since I don’t run it often. Fished the pond by the house caught a ton of 1 pounders on caffeine shads.

Nice work! And love the native ultimate I had a 12 and 14.5 great boats

Green pumpkin/watermellon red Black and. Blue or June bug And a spike it marker. That’s literally all you will need. Don’t get caught up in colors. Simplicity

I have a small aluminum boat. And used to kayak/canoe fish. So I keep it really simple and don’t leave anything in my boat either. So I’ve used a Plano sportsman tub and a flambeau soft plastics tub. And some hard boxes. Flambeau tub for plastics and trailers 1 3600 for Jigs and blades jigs 1 3700 for hard baits and buzzbaits and spinnerbaits. 1 small gamakatsu folding box for my terminal tackle And a small tub for my scale and tools and a spare reel and such. I can pick it up set it in the boat and off I go. Usually bring 4 rods that are versatile in use and I’m goood to go.

Something to remember here is bass pro reels and many many other manufacturers are all made by doyo. Sooooooo don’t get to hung up on who’s name is on the reel. And pick something affordable with the features you like. That said my best casting reel for like lures is a Shimano slx mgl71 it slings light lures amazing and was built for it. probably my only non lews ( doyo) reel I like

Idk anything abut names or anything. And I’m not that smart. But man I’ve caught a absolute ton of fish on that exact color bullet pop lol

I like that! I kinda have the same issue my trailer ya have to be kinda on the money to load the boat so I have to walk out and hook the winch on and winch it up as well. I need to look into making something like that! Looks great man.

Thank you. That’s a great point

This update was a total pain. So the previous owner used an unknown adhesive and glued rubber gym flooring to the bow cap. It was falling apart. And crumbling and bubbling. So I stripped it off scraped and sanded the adhesive off. The bow cap is in rough shape. But the boats 60 years old. In the future I’ll get a sheet of aluminum and replace it. For now it got a couple coats of etching primer and flat black tractor and implement paint. And remounted everything. The corner caps in the back I chemically stripped and sanded satin finish. As far as I can tell this boat has been gray, red, white, and teal lol. I also gave the inside a scrub and vacuumed the carpet really well the one lake being on a gravel road has made it a mess. I think I’m don’t with cosmetics at this point. I’m getting tired of trying to make it something it’s not haha. Great lil boat though.

Kinda need some info to really help ya. Lakes or ponds? Bank fishing or a boat of some kind? What lures are you trying? Is there lily pads or grass? Rock banks? More info and we will get ya on fish for sure.

Until this thread I never thought or knew to bend the hooks I must have 4 different frogs at home that I’ve never bent the hooks on

Grew up the first 33 years of my life in west central Florida. I still struggled with a frog there too. Just not my thing I suppose

I’ve fished 12 and 15 pound invizx. I liked the 15 the best personally.

This is spot on well said with everything in it.

Oh I fully agree. And that’s an excellent point. I worked pretty hard this past weekend fishing jigs and Texas rigs. All Small fish and slowing down. Found that groove again. I’ve always been great at slow methodical baits. But god I just can’t get a frog down lol. I can’t stand there and fish a frog slow for more than say 10-15 minutes after that I just gotta move on to another bait lol. Yet I’ll stand there and fish a jig all day lol

I agree with all Of that for sure. But when I can switch to a horny toad and get in the same cover and start catching them I’m happy. It’s definitely me. But I think it’s the fish too personally. Very seldom do I ever have a bass actually explode and inhale a frog they knock it out of the way, nip what’s left of the legs all That jazz. Mehh I just fish other baits that get explosions lol

I don’t think we are alone. I think there’s a lot of fisherman out there who fish on hope and anticipation with a frog. It’s more an entertaining time killer for me lol. Not to say there isn’t people out there who do really well on frogs.

Every year I tie a hollow body frog on. I’ll downsize to a smaller one. I’ll get strikes through the slop, I’ll get follows, I’ll trim legs down. And it’s more of a comedy hour lol. Getting fun blow ups and almost hooking fish. I’ll end up hooking 2-3. Then I come back to reality and tie on a buzzbait or a plopper or popper and actually catch fish again. Anyone else just not find frogging that productive?

Exactly!

Yeah I use some of those heads as well. They just aren’t purchased as shot callers from siebert thats all. Thank you for the strand count I assumed it was close to 2.5 tabs.