Rick Howard

I use a craw chunk or a grub tail. Flipping and pitching or working the bait along the bottom I use the craw chunk. Swimming it or popping it up and down off the bottom I use the grub tail.

I tried the ones I just bought. They run good. I'm pretty sure you fellas are correct.

Quite possibly correct. Dick's is where I found more.

Found it... Strike King

Thank you fellas. This river has very little current. Its there but its hardly moving. If they open up a lock and the river moves a little the fishing is awesome! Shallow bass all day long.

Maybe someone can help me put a few things together. On a river where 15' is deep, all my catch is between 6 and 8'. But I am not finding them deeper than that either. Spawn is just about done maybe a couple stragglers behind. We have had some unseasonably cool weather and a decent amount of rain that cooled the water. Then temps that climbed for a bit and warmed the shallows up. Then cooled again followed by warm and is now climbing back up. These were sustained changes for decent time periods. I have tried fishing shallow (less than 6') in every possible situation. My thery is that the bass have found a threshold at these depth because the water temps are not fluctuating as quickly. These depths are shallow enough for some spawn and probably stage post spawn fish fattening back up to retreat to their summer hide holes. Does this some right or am I missing something? Helpful to know you know something and not just thinking ya know something. (hence my search for confirmation)

Lol if your getting them to the boat and you still have your lure you've done good don't put your hand in their those teeth are sharp. When they flop (and they will flop) youll get cut. Use pliers. If I can't unhook them in the water with the pliers and I have to grab them the watch out for Their gill plate. It can be sharp also so grab them farther back closer to mid section. If they are n the 40" category I just use a net. Most that size make off with my lure before I get my chance anyway.

I only have 3 setups in the boat. 2 casting and one spiining. One casting with a spinner and one with a jig. Sometimes I will switch either of these for a soft plastic Texas rigged. The jig Rod is heavier and has heavier line and I use it for the heaviest cover with heavier baits. the spinning rod will normally have a floating type jerk bait. Also it will be used for weightless senko. If I find myself in deeper water its setup for drop shot. I fish a bait the meets the requirement of the condition(s) that I'm fishing. Normally in that few selections I can find what I need to get the job done. Primairly I fish the spinner bait, the jig, and the floating jerkbait. The jerk bait I work along the top most often but sometimes they like it better just under the surface. The spinner I can fish a half dozen ways and cover a lot of water. The jig lets me rip them from their hide holes. I do fish Texas rigged plastics at times and hollow body frogs sometimes too. But 90% of my fishing is with the three mainstays I described.

It's my favorite. Don't recall who makes this particular spinner. It's my last one though and really want to scoop a few more. Anyone recognize who makes this?

I grew up fishing spinning gear. Last summer I decided to finally get a bait caster. It was worth it to me. I use a spinning rod for light baits and a casting setup for heavy baits. I also have a casting setup just for flipping and pitching. Between these three or even minus the flipping setup I feel I can cover every situation without a lot of clutter in the boat.

Free is my price range. And I don't subscribe to any theories over what makes a good Rod or bad one. If I like it than its a good Rod.

Fire stick at my house. Canned cable 2 years ago. Outrageous expensive especially for something I do not use. My wife liked cable but I finally was able to talk her into firestick. We pay for netfilx and HBO. My wife was is a prime member so that gives us a few extra goodies. She uses the free hulu also. Internet is $40 a month. In total we pay $67 a month. We enjoy TV more than we use to.

I will give them a good home. I will PM you my address.

Seams are about to rip on that fish suit.

This is what troubles me nation wide. We can't fix anything until it becomes a problem. Then when it becomes a problem we argue over what the problem is. Then we can't agree on a solution. Meanwhile things get worse and all new problems arise and/or the problem gets bigger starting the cycle over again. Which is I think where this particular situation is now. Neglected for too long. Correct?

Making more sense now. I am curious to how this works out. A real catch 22.

I have a couple of fenwick Eagles and a couple HMX. Spinning and casting. I like them. Lookforward to see what you think of the HMG.

I did read the entire thread, however, I was failing to understand that the water was being artificially being pumped into the lake then let out through the river systems. The Everglades are better suited to deal with the excess then? This is interesting to me and I'm not trying to me a smart @ss. Even if it comes across that way in text.

I have been eyeballing an HMG.

Ha! I asked this same question a few months ago. Those toothy bastages like to steel ly lures. I tied on a 50ld braid leader and still got cut on a few.

I am confused. If the water is polluted than why is anyone okay with letting it into the Everglades either? I suppose it has to go somewhere. Which leads me to the question which systems could better handle the excess.

Bill you have quite the sense of humor.

I am not a fishing retail expert, but I have some experience in a different retail industry. The stuff that made money were the expendables. In my case, golf balls, tees, gloves, blah blah blah you get the picture. I see the fishing expendables like lures being dead inventory for a boat dealer. That is unless they are all in and draw people beyond boat sales making regular customers for those product. Which is more risk that I would want to take on. If it were me, I would have rods, reels, tackle boxes, line, and a few expendables like bobbers, hooks, jig heads, and plastic grubs. My efforts would focus on pan fish. I think it is unlikely that you get a new angler who is one stop shopping for a $10,000+ boat and all the goods to with it. I think it is unlikely that a veteran angler whom is purchasing a new boat will take the time to buy $10 worth of stuff he/she already has. The customer you may catch are the folks buying a family boat and pick up a couple setups for the family to fish with on their outings (hence why I recommended pan fish accessories). I would also focus on bigger items like depth finders, trolling motors, anchor systems and their installations.

Thanks.

What eats me, is the house brand take overs. Its not limited to one retailer. The places that are suppose to have everything have replaced half the product with their in house brands, which is often what is on sale. I am not saying that retailers self branded stuff is not good I am just tired of seeing the depletion of everything else to be replaced by their brands.