WhiteMike1018

Way to go craw

Maybe you should downsize next time

I think that 95% of what comes out of pro's mouths is pure crap. Most people I talk to have never heard of Ikas before. If no one throws them, then why does GYCB still produce them. Easy, people dont want that secret leaking out. Just like what Brad said, the senko was secretly used for awhile before it got popular. Give it a few years and the ika will be everywhere I don't think you guys are fully understand my point. And i must disagree Ryan, if 95% of what came out of a pro's mouth was untrue than we would be fishing with bamboo sticks with a rope. After all, they are the ones who write up the useful articles for us to read, and provide the weekend angler and others with better knowledge of bass and how to catch them. Just because they are competing for a lot of money does not mean they neglect to share useful information and teach. Now to think that the pros would lie to someone, if asked if they had any success with a Fat Ika is absolutely obsurd. There is no reason for them to keep a Fat Ika a "secret and not let it leak", and yes Ryan they might lie, but its totally absolutely unnecessary and there are a few good reasons for that. One is my own personal experience. I have a small lake near my house that i would go to almost every morning last summer and it held some nice size bass but there was this one lunker that held by this tree day in and day out......stay with me Every other day i would purposely throw a worm at him and he would take it, no matter how many times he seen it it did absolutely nothing. yes, bass have some memory but its very short termed and in crystal clear water they will shy away from lures that have been used with a lot of pressure. But nationwide there is not a chance in hell that bass are ever going to adapt to certain lures etc, lures that were made 40 years ago are still being thrown and catching fish. Another thing is the pros do not care if anyhting gets popular or not. Even if you were given the same exact equipment than KVD, or say Mike Iaconelli youre not going to beable to do what they do. They are absolute fishing machines and they know that keeping a lure secret is not important to their success. They are there to catch fish and fish only, they are not there to see how many fish they can catch with the secret lure, i mean comon guys i hope your not serious. And one other thing to keep in mind before throwing your "secret ikas" a bass CANNOT THINK OR REASON, they REACT which means if you throw a lure in front of a bass he is not sitting there thinking to himself, "am i going to eat this or not?, wait NO thats the bait that put a hole in the roof of my mouth". If you throw a lure to a bass he is either going to eat it or he is going to shy away and head for cover. thanks -WM

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I don't think it really would make a difference if they mentioned it or not. Your making it sound like they are some superbait that would automatically get bass to bite, and even if they did mention that they used them I bet you under 30% of the people attending the seminar would even take any intrest, because bass fishing when it comes down to it is all just a big game of confidence. A good example is RoadWarrior, as we know he throws Ika's most of the time because he if CONFIDENT that the bass is he persuing will take that bait, now if he attended a seminar with Marty Stone or Mike Iaconelli and they suggested for him to throw a tube instead of an Ika...do you think he would do it? ABSOLUTELY NOT because he has more confidence and has cuaght more fish with ikas. Get me?

Looks like i will just have to purchase a sweater and some shirts :-/ :'(

Not to hijack the thread, but i have one of these and I noticed the hook is very dull, its almost how sad how unsharp the hook is right out of the box...what do you guys do about this? hook sharpener maybe?

Ika's are not necessarily as popular as a lot of people think, at a seminar last week in Maryland i attended a few seminars with Marty Stone and Greg Hackney. At the end of each seminar they had some available time left and allowed open questions. I remember them both being asked by anglers attending the seminar if they have had success with the GYCB Fat Ikas, which both pros responded they had no experience with them.

LBH your my hero....

Just wondering when you guys will be getting more of the baseball style hats back in? Theve been sold out for quite some time now.i was thinking on purchasing one

ROFL added to favorites! Wow Matt, good stuff

That is absolutely untrue. Sorry, i must disagree, a book i read on the biology of bass stated that bass see the color red best in murky water, its a fact, it might be the first to go but we are not bass, us as anglers have to understand what a bass sees before we can make an educated point. Ill actually dig up the book if you want and post it here with the exact quote from the book, Thanks, -WM

Not only have i been skunked fishing! Ive been Skunked by a Skunk!!! :- >

AWESOME! You so lucky..also thanks for the tip

7" Berkley Power Worm in Red Shad

Good in most situations

What type of scent are you aplying to your soft plastics?

Ike. By Far

Try throwing different baits than the norm. Often creature baits will do the trick, while other fisherman are ptiching worms and lizards etc. The key word is different. Bass do not like change but when it comes to lures they absolutely love it!

The XR-14 isnt necessarily a deep model, of courseit goes deeper because of the added weight on the bigger body. They do have a deep model in different sizes though. I believe its the X-RAP DEEP 10 it has a bigger lip. When you cast it out you make really hard jerks at first to get it down there to suspending bass etc.

Wow those are some beautiful pics! I cant wait for the day i catch a 3lb plus smallie

They Actually have 4 sizes XR-8, XR-10, XR-12, XR-14 I was using the XR-10 with 6-7 seconds pauses. Sometimes i would twitch the bait a little on the pause. Even though it is sitting still suspended, the few twitches make it look like it is still alive and struggling during the pause. The XR-10's were the perfect size for the wintering bass, being that they arent too small, not too big but just the right size a bass is looking for. The XR-14's are the saltwater jerkbaits they are really big so no xr-14s will be going in your box unless your going fro striper etc. XR-12'S are a bit bigger than the xr-10's but definately way too big for wintering bass to extract all that energy to chase it. The XR-8, would work, i actually caught my first few on this size, but they were fairly small bass. So i went up to the next size bigger the xr-10 and thats what did the magic. The colors i were using was Olive Green-sort of like a babybass color And the black silvery one. Don't worry so much about what colors Im using. Let nature ...water clarity, and the position of the sun tell you what colors to use. For example i started throwing the jerkbait with the sun blaring. I knew i would go with the black/silver type because it would give off some flah. But when the sun went in, they stopped hitting that one, so i went to the olive green and got more strikes. Also, today i was fishing trying the same pattern and it wasn't as succesfull. I was throwing the X-RAP'S but they were short striking so i immediately switched to a worm fished a little slower and had some good hookups. Just pay attetention to what the fish tel you and youll get em!

Im gonna have to go with the Furbit Frog Legs are made of rabit hair and a little colorado for extra flash and vibration in open water

No problem just make sure your pauses in between jerks are long enough, most of the time they will hit it dead still. Let me know how you made out -Mike