Dogmatic

Consistently between 20'-25' in my home waters, but some guys report getting them deeper.

Savage Gear, has an impressive looking line of shrimp and crabs. Haven't used them, but they look very realistic.

Saw this on Facebook, from Bobby Clark, too bad it uses the same space as the electronics pod.

Nope, too many baits in the arsenal, so the rotation is long. In addition, every lure has its place, or situation. Right now, top water is king, so 3:16 Wake Jr., Black Dog Lunker Plunker,and MS Slammer are tied on. Also, I don't fish swimbaits exclusively.

$150×3 Deps Slide Swimmer 250s, and 3:16 FS Shad. Approximately a dozen fish between them.Total would be higher, if I fished them more, because they never failed to catch fish. Just wait til the guys with the Hinkles,HP's and other custom swimbaits show up. (I won't feel so bad).

Looking at Master Bait'r's boat, it seems solid to me. In my 12'er I use velcro with foam padding, but a lot of vertical too. In my canoe I use mostly horizontal using metal "broom holders".

If I'm fishing a spinnerbait, it's got a trailer hook on it!

I was going to say Pike. Tigers, at least around here(PA), juvenile or not, are more brownish in coloring. Pickerel more spotted than striped.

+1 weedless spoon.

Some great advice here(especially, as usual, WRB). "Find the themocline". To answer your question though, my favorite technique by far is deep cranking. I also use swimbaits, and this season, for the first time, big spoons(replaced the drop shot.).

I have swivels attached to all my spoons, always have(4.5"-8"), didn't know ya fish them any other way. Isn't line twist a problem w/o. a swivel?

Nice rig! Did you ever consider plastic glue on skegs that attach to the 'toons. It's what I used, and it dramatically improved tracking, that and a Bullnose rudder on my TM, and it tracks like an arrow.

I'll add, for $20, that LC is pretty durable, I "accidentally" smacked it on some rip rap on three consecutive casts, and although "bruised", it was not broken. And that's the thing, it's $20, not a $60+ Hardgill(if you could even get one). Cheap enough that I bought three, just so I could play with them, do some mods I saw on another site.

Lucky Craft is a great bait for the price, but to be honest, I haven't fished it much, and only caught a dink on it when I did(same can be said of my Gantarel). I have options, and usually go with my proven fish catchers, Mattlures Hardgill. When it comes to the Mattlures Ultimate, well, I can say early this spring it was easily responsible for half the fish I caught(20+), it's just a proven fish catcher. I'll add that I use it much like a big jig, dragging along, or slow swimming close to the bottom, and along ambush points.

Both good baits, but one is a hard bait, the other soft, kinda an apples and oranges thing.

Ding ding ding! "Chicken Rig"! Thanks guys.

I need some help finding out the name of a rig that was posted on BR a ltitle while ago. It was similar to a neko rig, head weighted plastic with a wacky rigged hook, but instead of the hook being wacky, it is rigged weedless, with the line coming out of the plastic at the top. I tried searching, but to be honest, I don't really know where to start? Thanks in advance. F.

Looks great, but I use hair jigs for cold weather and under a float(buy them from a local maker). It seems it might be effective, but expensive (7" versions) when there might be a better technique. Would bear hair work?

I have a heavily modified CA Colorado, rear mounted trolling motor, pedstal seat with a swivel, pretty happy with it, but then I saw a YouTube video with a front mount mod. and I'm considering making the change, although I too like bringing the fish in between the toons.https://youtu.be/PS_Gadd7MRg https://youtu.be/q7KcsWoofa0 https://youtu.be/eYfr0th-rSE https://youtu.be/S3wjNM1ptBc My 'toon(not fully rigged) I also highly recommend a Bullnose rudder, really helps with steering and maneuverability

Yes, I use tungsten for as much as I can.

Our DNR,and Fish and Boat commission(PAFBC) are absolutely the worst for managing our resources.

I see gold and white, my wife sees black and blue...; )

+1 on the Okuma GS(select) series.

I'll jump on the band wagon here, Heavy fast with 65lb braid, and a relatively fast reel. I will say though, because I'm not one either that thinks you ned a rod for every single technique, but for frogging, it just makes it easier, and I do use this rod double duty as a punching outfit.

When all is said and done, as cool as it would be to have your home lake on the list, aren't you glad it isnt?