IndianaFinesse

What rod and line are you using? The shroomz is designed for rods with a medium lite power and six to eight pound line, and if your using line that's heavier than that or a rod to stiff that could be your problem.

No, when you peg the sinker it's pegged so it can't slide forward from the nose of the worm. A Carolina rig is where an egg or bullet sinker is first put on the line, then a bead, and then a snap swivel. After the snap swivel tie a leader on somewhere between 1 foot and 4 or 5 feet, depending on how high off the bottom you want the bait. After that you tie on whatever plastic you want, with lizards being a popular choice. So the difference between a Texas rig and a Carolina rig is with a Texas rig the weight is snug against the bait, with a Carolina rig the sinker is up in front a couple feet held in place by a swivel.

Start out fishing points and if that doesn't pan out move shallow into the coves. The bass should be active, so don't spend much time at each spot if you not catching fish.

Fished for an hour and a half tonight, and caught seventeen bass. Started by the dam and caught eleven of them on a jerkbait using a two to four second pause. After that I decided to moved into the coves to see if they had started moving up shallow again. the remainder of the bass were caught in coves in two to six feet of water on the Ned rig. All but four bass were little dinks, but it was still fun to just catch a bunch of bass.

I was looking at dicks and saw they had a lews carbonfire and the daiwa exceller on sale, has anybody had any experience with either reel?

I have found some people that don't believe me when I mention catching abnormally large fish, but I don't worry about it that much and figure it's there problem if they don't believe me. So I just go ahead tell the truth without trying to scale it down from what really happened. Most people will usually take your word for it anyway. I'm amazed that you were able to catch it on four pound line, it takes a lot of skill, and a bit of luck, to be able to do that!

Even the weedless head will get snagged in rocks, the only way to minimize snagging rocks is to use lighter heads so the bait doesn't sink into the crevices as fast. The weedless version does do a good job at not snagging wood, but z-man only makes the weedless shroomz down to 1/10 oz. so you will snag in rocks more often. So it's really a trade off, either way you will lose some jigs. I usually just use the regular heads as they are cheaper and are made lighter weights. If you continue losing a lot of jigheads I would recommend starting to pour your own, then they only cost about five cents each after the initial investment of about sixty dollars.

Lol, I once caught a egg laden 40.1 pound, 43 inch carp from a canoe! I was really bummed that it wasn't a state record, missed it by just over a pound. Caught it with a trd on a medium-lite rod of all things, the carp towed the canoe around for over a half an hour! And it pulled me through a group of people swimming in front of there dock who weren't very understanding, but I couldn't exactly control it. That was definitely the most exciting fight I have ever had, and the closest I've ever come to breaking a state record!

Half of a zinkerz is very similar to a trd and both work extremely well, but the zinkerz are slightly cheaper, eight of them for the same price as six trd. The other advantages of the zinkerz is that they have hundreds of tiny holes that hold scent better, and they are softer and have more action than the trd. Ask T-9 about the differences, he knows much more about Midwest finesse fishing than I do.

Nearly everyone that purchases the zinkerz gets it with a the intention of stretching the salt out, because once the salt is out it floats better than traditional floating worms. And instead of only catching one or two per bait like you would on a senko, you can catch upwards of two hundred. And usually the zinkerz is cut in half for the Ned rig, where being soft, buoyant, and most importantly durable is necessary. When the Ned rig often catches fifty to a hundred fish in four hours, you don't want to use a bait that only lasts a fish or two, unless you can afford to go through five or six bags of senkos a day.

Jerkbait and drop shot.

If you use the entire zinkerz on a 1/15 oz. jig, the whole rig floats. If your set on using it anyway, upside the jig to a 1/8 oz. I have tried that and it is effective, but other baits often work better. Usually when I want to upsize the Ned rig, I use either a hula stickz like T-9, the finesse wormz, or a zoom four inch c-tail worm (wich is just a regular ribbon tail).

Just use a lighter leader, if you stay with four pound use two or three pound test for the leader. Although you run the risk of breaking off on a fish, it's the same risk as using a weak knot. I would personally switch to using eight pound mono as the main line with a six or four pound test leader.

Do-it makes a "shake it" mold with a screw lock. The upside of pouring your own jigs is that you can use any hook you want.

Don't worry about it, keeping some small bass actually helps the lake. My dad's the same way, one of his favorite shirts says, "fillet and release".

Another vote for the Berkley lightning rod shock series, and check FFO out for them. At FFO they only cost twenty dollars. Great rod for the money, and nearly bullet proof.

If I lived there and had kids, I think they would "tag along" to.

Then you are missing out on some very good fishing. I didn't either until one trip I wasn't catching anything and my buddy was catching the tar out of them on the Ned rig. Try using the Ned rig, catching fish after fish will change your mind.

Got out this evening for an hour. I tried the area where they were on Saturday, but only got one bite. Then with only a half an hour left, I went back to where I caught the 8.2 a few weeks ago and caught a couple of nice fish. Five fish between the weights of 1.4 and 3.8 pounds on vertical concrete in two to five feet of water next to a small inlet stream. I was surprised at how fast the bass had moved up shallow again, they seem to be getting a little more determined after each cold front. As usual all of the bass were caught on a half zinkerz (until recently I used a trd, but now I'm finding that the half of zinkerz has a better action) on a 1/16oz. homemade mushroom head jig fished with a drag and deadstick retrieve. Can't wait till next week when the water temperature should be in the mid to upper fiftys if the weather forecast stays the same. Water temperature is 49 and the water clarity is only about a foot thanks to the heavy rain.

Nice boat, I hope to see you on tv and hopefully compete with you someday.

I think you came to the wrong place to be talked out of buying a mojo.

I have caught a few crappie on the Ned rig, but not that many. But I have caught a lot of big crappie on a small pointer while bass fishing, and my pb crappie was caught on a 110 size pointer.

Nope, it doesn't make any difference since the mono never leaves your spool. People actually usually say to use old cheap mono just because you wouldn't ever actually use it as a main line anyways.

Like the above posters, make sure you slobber on the line before starting and several times during the knot tieing process.