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I'm in Wisconsin but similar bass fishing in my opinion, I've personally seen an 8.5# pre spawn female from a smaller state park lake, I wouldn't doubt there's a few over 10# in the state at certain times of the year, I believe!

Maybe a Wisconsin thing, hard to beat a tube rivers or lakes!

You probably mean purple olive craw POCW, I have that one, a personal favorite of mine as well! I've got about a dozen different colors I really like, I bet half are ike colors!

Always searching, always searching ?

I've got a couple dozen of my favorite colors to fish with, searching for new colors gives me a reason to look at fishing lures pretty much non stop throughout the winter! Lol

They did get a good OL Benzschawel from Wisconsin (UDFA), he's one of many on that Wisconsin team who loves to bass fish as well!

Very nice! I've been on Rapala Nation, but not for years, I've gotten some of the lures I have from a guy in Germany through RN, I've started a few collections, was going to do husky jerks but fizzled out, I'm a real fan of the dt6 in our area of Wisconsin, it's been a couple years since they released any new colors, but I'm sure some countries have colors I've never heard of, these 2 are exclusive to S.Africa from what I can tell, took me a lot of trust and time to get these and I probably paid more than I should have, but everything worked out. I figure if these are exclusive to them they see them as common, how many other countries have colors I've never seen? Right? Lol

I'm partial to the Buckeye mop jig, but the sk jig does seem very similar in size, same bait keeper, probably same living runner just different heads, I'd say go with the best deal..

Hard to argue with results, pad crasher, close 2nd for me would be R2S bully wa

Every so often, I make a post looking for any factory colors of Rapalas dt6s nib, (I'm assuming I have all colors released in the US, if anyone knows of some I've missed state side or over seas, please feel free to point them out), and to show off my collection! This is said post, enjoy.

Find dams, fish rock below dams...

Also interested in the steez sv tw, I've got 2 steez A's and only real complaint is the cast control knob is a little hard to get to and I wish it had a clicking system when making adjustments.

Cheese county bass club, Southern Wi. cheese county bass club/ facebook We get local businesses to donate 100$ spots on the backs of club tee shirts, (20 spots @ 100$/ea = 2k), use a portion of that money to buy shirts (150 shirts for 500$) sell the shirts at 10$/ea 1500$, that's 3k/year if all goes well, plus a 20$ annual membership fee (20$/20 members = 400$, all that funds our annual kids event and free raffle each year and buy what we need for the club to be effective and efficient! I should point out we haven't taken in more than 2400$ in a single year, lots of shirts get donated or sold cheap just to rid stock for next year! Always looking for ways to improve, and our way relies on member involvement in order to succeed.

Lake Owen, up near Hayward? If your driving that far from Illinois for a fishing trip go to Door Co! Late May, smallmouth heaven! Any bay around the peninsula will produce world class smallies! Just don't go there same weekend as the SBOBT out of little Sturgeon bay, or a little closer to the flatlands, the Madison chain is fantastic lately Monona/Mendota, great food and entertainment to boot!

Tubes, smaller tubes, ned rig...... and squarebills in green pumpkin or some variant of gp!