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What's "smaller"? I use a Hvy-Fast 6-10 Falcon Bucoo with 1/4 oz. jigs and T rigs with as little as 3/16 oz. bullet weights. It works well. In fact, it can skip the 3/16 oz. T rigged Rage Bug very well. They also have a "finesse jig" model. https://www.falconrods.com/product/bucoo-sr

They don't produce big numbers for me. But they usually produce good size, especially during prespawn spring.

When it was determined the 90 had a tendency to spin. Some people don't know what I'm talking about because they fish standing from a boat deck. In a kayak your line angle is a good bit lower. I usually try to make shorter casts with a 90. I do prefer the 110 because it's more buoyant and won't spin unless it's fouled with weeds.

I can't imagine why that worm color is "tilapia".

I'm also open to the Pauleys Island/Murrells Inlet area. My sister has a house in Garden City Beach and we already have several friends down there. The Waccamaw and Black Rivers are just a short drive a way and the inlets are super accessible. I've already caught flounder there.

The H20 Xpress knockoff does a good job of staying shallower than the Trap or Spot. I find it's less likely to get the hooks fouled with weeds even when you rip it out. There is a "floating" Trap model that pretty much suspends during pauses. It dives down to maybe 3' upon retrieve and slowly rises if paused. It wouldn't be too difficult to get it almost neutrally buoyant. But I have yet to catch a single fish on it. It doesn't weigh or even sound the same as the standard. And where I fish, the Spot outfishes the Trap 2-to-1 anyway. I prefer gold in either of these models. https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/h2o-xpress™-lcr-5-8-oz-lipless-crankbait?sku=multi-03 https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/cotton-cordell®-super-spot®-1-2-oz-lipless-crankbait?sku=gold

Central FL. But my wife is probably never going for that. I like So FL, but there are simply too many other people that like it. Aside from that, maybe around Charleston, SC. A good mix of slat/freshwater fishing. The wife and I are kicking around the idea of moving once my daughter finishes school. I'll find the bass fishing no matter where I settle.

That's what I thought. These are bronze. I still have an old smaller one in baby bass pattern from the mid 80s that has bronze hooks as well. I asked her for pics and said I might want to buy some or all of it and she said this was the only thing of value in it. The rest was rusty hooks and oxidized lead.

I had an old carp colored crankbait that was in my late father's tackle box that the bass really seemed to like. I don't even know the brand. Alas, I lost it right after catching a dink. ?

It has a "6ART 1/4 oz. Model A Deep Running" sticker on the end of the box. I can't imagine why a guy who never used a lure would change the hooks. If I were to change them it would be to a size bigger. But I just sharpened these.

I use cheap mono for backing. I fill the spool halfway then attach braid with a double uni knot. It's way cheaper. The one time I did use all braid on a BC reel, I just taped it to the spool then started reeling. No largemouth will ever spool you.

If I want to change out a crankbait's hooks, I usually just swap the crank hooks with a Rat L Trap. They have quality EWG hooks and I don't use Traps anymore. I use the CC Super Spot and others. If I want to use one of the Traps, at least it has newer hooks from the crank on it. ?

Exactly what I was thinking. The only things that have worked for me lately are jigs, T rigged craw and blade bait. I got one on a gold spinnerbait slow rolled. But our water rarely gets that cold, and never gets hard.

Yeah, he was. I sent her this pic after cleaning off the oxidation and she said it was likely a gift he never even opened. He forgot he had a tackle box. One man's trash is another's treasure. I asked her for pics of the other stuff in it and she said this was the only thing of any value. And she knew I wouldn't turn around and sell it.

A coworker sent me this bait as a Christmas gift. It was out of her ex's old tackle box he left in her garage. LOL. It's the 1/4 oz., 2.5" version in rainbow trout pattern, if you can't tell from the pic. Looks close enough to crappie to work here though. It has the old paper list of other Bomber lures in the box and appears to never have been used. There's a price sticker of $2.99 on the back. If you know me, I'm gonna use it. I already cleaned the oxidation from old lead off and sharpened the hooks. Good as new. Does anyone want to guess at the year it was produced? I know they're still making them. I have a few in other patterns.

Me too, but with a 100+ lb thrust trolling motor.

And the gap between 42 and 52 will seem even smaller. Stay active and do what you love. It keeps you young. Happy Birthday!

And it's the exact opposite for me. I stopped buying jigs and trailers in anything other than black/blue. We are in different areas of the globe though.

Be that as it may, I don't catch anything on red craw lures. I do on brown or black ones. Perhaps it's water clarity.

It's all about forage. We have no red craws in SC, but plenty of shad, minnows and shiners.

I think it works better where there are yellow perch present. It used to work for me on my home lake. We used to catch yellow perch while fishing for crappie. But we sold the house there and I rarely fish it anymore.

I too have had little success with a red craw crank, lipless or otherwise. Gold works great for me as well, in all seasons. Firetiger and chartreuse don't seem to work well where I fish these days. Green pumpkin is not the killer color here that it is most places. Black/blue is my go-to most of the year. I don't even like brown jigs.

A Zoom Trick Worm or Finesse Worm. Maybe with a 1/16 oz bullet weight.

I have no desire to stand in a kayak. I have to look down when I walk to avoid falling.

That''ll be on my headstone.