Airman4754

I hate boating in summer. I never go over 40 and I make a point to stay as far away as I can from ski boats and trout trollers.

50lb Spiderwire or Suffix 832 and 12lb CXX. You're not breaking anything off.

I wish I could catch fish on a Ned, good for you.

The algae bloom is starting already. Got five really good smallies today, but it was slow slow. Caught all of them on a drop shot.

I use two, same company, same color. 4" Mister Twister, Twister Tail and the 4" split double tail. Chartreuse.

That rainbow Senko is such a good bait up here.

I always use a trailer and a trailer hook.

Anything from Kicker Fish. The Hightail 4" and 7" hole shot worms. The 11" ribbon tail is good in the summer. I've had success on their 6" and 8" lizards. The action on their stuff on a shaky head is wicked. Those little air pockets work wonders.

Is anyone fishing them yet? They look like they would be killer on a drop shot. It's going to be hard to rival a Robo, but those look like they could potentially do it.

The first rule about Whiskeytown is you don't talk about Whiskeytown.

I have 30. I wouldn't want anymore, but I wouldn't want any less either. You'll find your number over time.

When your fish and game holds planter trout sacred above all else your bass recover very quickly.

Water temp determines how I retrieve mine. In the summer I fish them really fast with 5 to 10 second pauses. In late winter I slow roll them and I'll dead stick them up to a minute. Wait until you start getting followers. You'll have monsters swim right up to your boat.

First, I want to give a shout out to Power Tackle for the rods they make. I just bought their football jig rod for C-rigs and big footballs and it's an absolutely ridiculous rod. I compared it side by side with my NRX 894 and it wasn't even close, Power Tackle by a mile. Caught two smallies right at 3lbs on an S-waver and a spawned out largie dragging a lizard that was teetering between 3.9 and 4. I just hit those smallies in a huge school and some bank fisherman showed up right on the point, put down their lawn chairs and have me the "you can leave now" look. You know, even though I had been there twenty minutes before them, but I digress. The highlight of the trip was hooking an 8" smallie on a 10XD. The crank bait was still wobbling at full strength with this little fish just getting the life shaken out of it. It was hilarious.

I was running an aluminum boat for a long time, but I wanted a 21' glass boat. I was really patient waiting on Craigslist and I had a range of 1,000 miles. So, the boat I have now pops up for $18,500. It was nine years old, the motor had 52 hours on it. I call Triton and ask them how a 21x from 2004 was different from a new one. A new one was $71k at the time for the same options. Once I waded through the BS I found out the newer model was 1" wider, ONE, and the front compartment came with a really slick plastic organizer that I could just buy and put in the 2004 for $275. Pretty easy choice. I could buy the 2004, replace every single thing on it and still be up $30k.

Gusts up to 50 is the most I've fished in on a pretty small lake, it sucked. I don't really have a threshold. If the fish are there and they will bite I'll be there too.

10" & 12" Power worms for T-rig. Rage Anaconda for C-rig Kicker Fish Hightail 11" ribbon worm for shaky heads. When they are in their true summer patters I like to peg a punch skirt on the T & C-rigs.

For jigs it's 30lb SS8 and a 17lb fluoro leader. I do use 20lb Big Game on a couple of my salmon rigs though and it definitely does the job.

It depends on the model and what you are doing with it. There are some great NRX rods, there are some great GLX rods, and there are rods by other companies that cost quite a bit less to nearly the same that are also great. There are like 30+ NRX models. Not all of them will be home runs.

I use SS8 on most of my setups and it's awesome. I just went back to it today on my Senko setup.

Omfishingsinkers.com Paint them whatever color you want. For me personally I can't really tell a difference. I run really hight end rods with braid or fluoro. The main advantage is they are smaller and get hung up less, which is nice.

I use 17lb fluoro for leader with jigs.

I love their CXX for crankbaits and large swim baits. I use their 100% Fluorocarbon for leader on everything that isn't straight braid. They've never let me down.

This is fairly common with the little planted trout in this area. We either run a magnum fluke near the surface or a 3/4oz lipless yo-yo style below them. I know a few guys that throw underspins It rarely works, but if it's a slow day I'll give it a whirl.

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