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Anyone fish these baits, and if so whats your experience with them? Anything good? I know I've seen a post about this bait before, but I made a search and all I could find was "peanut butter" >. I know Dick's has a massive supply of em, so I figured I'd ask everyones exeperience with them before I look into em any further. These baits worth checkin out?

Go big?! You don't understand, im fishing tiny ponds, with tiny bass. I'd love to go big, but the biggest I see is 5lbs, and thats very rare. Most quality fish in the ponds im fishing I consider 1lb+. The common "big" fish you see are 2-3lbers.

Yum Wooly Hawgtail T-rigless ( ) Zoom U-tail Worm t-rigged (free sliding weight) Baby Brush Hog t-rigged (free sliding in less cover, pegged in more cover) Sweet Beaver t-rigged (Pegged)

I learned this the hard way... lost a luckycraft crankbait in some pads the other day :'(.

Hey, anybody get the opportunity to fish this bait yet? I've been doing pretty well with wake baits lately, and this bait seems like it'd make a great wake bait. Its only 4inches so thats perfect for my ponds as the biggest bass you see are 5lbers (and they are rare). And from what the video shows the action is amazing. Plus the colors look pretty good. Although on the downside I've never done too well with jointed baits, and I have never really liked jointed baits. But this one looks like it might be different. And the other downside..the are all sold out. So whats your opinion on this bait? Anyone fish them? Are they worth the 20$? Or are they nothing worth braggin about? Oh By the way... here is a link to the bait incase you never seen it; http://www.***.com/descpageSWIMTRUTUNG-TTMISS.html#

Well there has to be something making all those dinks. So yes there should be a few quality fish in there. Try using larger baits and see what happens. I know a couple lakes where you typically catch more dinks then quality fish, but I have always found there to be quality fish there too. Although I do find some of the lakes I fish I catch more quality fish then others, I don't know why, but thats just my experience.

I kill em on stanley ribbits, although there not "too" noisy. Have never fished the ragetail toad, but by the looks of the design it looks like it would produce more noise. As for how many fish it would produce I cannot say, but I can tell you the ribbit has caught me many bass, and is my go-to soft plastic frog.

Manns Stone Jig, has a color that would fit that perfectly, its like a lightbrown/white/blue. You should check that out. As far as my favorite jig colors/trailers go, I like black/blue or black for heavy stained/muddy water clarities, or on overcast days. (If the water is really clear, and its a overcast day, I will use these colors still) Greenpumpkin, Watermelon, Watermelon red, or any shades of green/brown in clear or lightly stained water clarity. As for trailers, Netbait Paca Chunks, and Ragetail Chunks are my favorite, although the downside to them is the claws tend to come off after a fish or two.. but the action is incredible. I will match the trailer color to the color of the jig.

Well I learned how to fish straight tail worms, and am currently learning crankbaits (not including lipless cranks, been there done that) so far this year, pretty good progress if you ask me. Although I still haven't become too confident with shaky heading, I've caught one bass like this, but I'll work on it sooner or later.

Is it possible to have the reverse of this happen? ;D. I hate using senkos and senko knock offs, I do it on occasions, but I really don't like throwing them as im tired of seeing them, everybody and their mother throws em where I fish.

I love Booyah Jigs, Especially 5/16oz Baby Boo in Black/blue or any shades of green/brown. Terminator jigs are pretty nice also, along with Eakins jigs. Although if you want a really nice jig, check out Keitech Jigs.

I fish from shore 99% of the time. And jigs are one of my most productive baits. Especially for catching quality fish. The areas you want to target with jigs from the shore would be as listed. 1. Rivers/Feeder Creeks - Anywhere the lake branches off into a river, or simply a river itself. These areas often have mud/rock bottoms, and you can crawl/hop the jig around without getting caught up in weeds/leafs every single cast. 2. Anywhere there are stick piles, especially the large stickpiles, or what you could even call "tree limb piles" . Just hop/crawl the jig through those big sunken branches, this is where I find the jig shines most, simply because the weedguard allows it to be almost entirely snagproof, allowing you to work the jig slowly through the branches without gettin caught up much at all. Even if the stickpile is in a area that has a weedy/leafed up bottom, it is worth casting and working that stickpile. 3. Light weeds or Duckweeds. When duckweeds pile up in a section of the lake, quietly pitching/flipping a jig through them is one of my go-to tactics when coming across this type of cover. Bass use the light weeds mats/duckweed as shade, so when that jig quietly falls through the mat, they are quick to suck it up. 4. Water Pipes man made holes. Alot of the lakes I fish have a pipe built into a side of the lake, I find there always to be a bass or two sitting in the pipes, and quietly flipping/pitching a jig into the pipe is a deadly weapon. Crawling that jig on a cement bottom can't be any easier as theres rarely anything to gunk up your jig. And those bass in them pipes are quick to suck up that jig. 5. Rocks/structure. Any big boulder, or any sort of cover in the water, wether it be a sunken chair, a bike, or a trashcan, what ever it may be it doesn't matter, as long as its cover its worth flipping/pitching a jig to. Now remember, there is no rush when fishing a jig, and you want that jig to remain in the "hot spot" the entire time, so take your time when fishing that jig around that peice of cover because thats where the bass will most likely be, if you work it to quick you can pull it right away from them, and we all know a big bass can be too lazy to chase. So theres nothing wrong with taking a solid 3mins to work that jig around each individual peice of cover..although I usually give it 2mins ;D. Sometimes the bass will hit it quickly, and you don't need to fish it that slow, the fish should tell you the speed they want. But I find its mostly always slow. Remember, a jig can also be fished with a "swim" type tactic. Basiclly retrieving the jig as you would a spinnerbait. I find trailers with alot of action are best for this, such as Hulagrubs or Ragetail Chunks. Although the advantage to this, is you can always stop and let the jig fall into any peice of cover you come across and begin slowly workin that peice of cover with the jig, if nothing hits, just retrieve it again bringing it to a swim tactic. Obviously you could not do this with a spinnerbait :. Good luck, and trust me, don't let anyone tell you a jig I'snt a good shore angler bait. I've caught many big bass with jigs and I fish from shore pretty much always. My pb came off a jig, it is the best bait in my opinion for fishing individual peices of cover. Definetly a bait worth having in your arsenal wether you be a boat angler, or a bank fisherman.

I use alot of Bill Lewis Rat-L-Traps, but my all time favorite is Luckycraft Lv-0.

As im looking at all these shallow crankbaits, im seeing some in black. Anybody do any well with black crankbaits at dusk/night? Or am I better off sticking with a black or blackblue jitterbug/spinnerbait/chatterbait?

Hey, I did pretty well with shallow cranks today, and I hear there a great bait for fall. So my question is whats your favorite Shallow Crankbaits? The one I've been doing with is called a Lucky Craft Fat cb I believe (Small bill, fat body). By the way, any great colors for fat shallow crankbaits? Such as black/blue is to the jig.

For me it depends what the bottom is like, if the bottom is how you described and the jig will repeadetly get caught in muck as soon as it hits the water, then im not going to throw the jig. I'll prefer a t-rigged creaturebait, or a weightless bait like a trickworm, senko, etc. I prefer to fish jigs on muddy bottoms and rocky bottoms, not weedy bottoms.

Its a great scent. I use it on all my soft plastics and I find it works great. I Don't use it on skirted baits such as jigs, but always on all my soft plastics. Very easy to apply as its a gel based scent, not messy and its effective, what more can you ask for in a scent? For jigs I prefer Yum Crawfish spray.

I'd go with the snag proof, I hate the spro frog, the hook up ratio is terrible for me, and some tend to take in water very easily. Some spros are harder/softer then others. Just too many problems I've ran into with them. I found the snag proofs gave nice hooksets and float well. So out of the two I'd recommend the snag proof, although my favorite floatin frog is a original scumfrog.

I've been doing pretty good at dusk/night with black/blue chatterbaits rigged with black/blue hulagrub/double tail grub. (Slow and steadily retrieved) The daytime has been pretty slow for me though..

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1121527643/0#0 this link will list links of questions regarding fishing a senko, you should be able to find anything you need regarding a senko in that link.

Ok here is what you do, cast the senko out and let it fall to the bottom on slack line (When it first hits the water do not move it, just let it fall). You don't have to necessarily "feel" the bites, most of the time with senkos I see the bite, I don't feel the bite too often other then when Im feeling the bait, but I'll get into that in a sec. Ok, now that the bait has hit the water and the line is slack, just reel a little bit so the line is what you could call "semi-slack", having the line semi-slack will make it easier to indicate a hit, a hit will either come as a sudden twitch of the line, or the line will just pick up and start headin off. When the line picks up and heads off, just give a solid hook set. If the line twitches I'll often feel the bait by just slowly lifting my rod into a 12 O clock position (reel a little if the lines too slack to feel the bait, but be gentle your really not tryin to move the bait when your feeling it), this will enable you to feel the bait as softly as possible, not spooking the fish and not moving the bait much at all. If you feel the weight of the fish, give a quick hard hookset, if not just continue to work the bait along as described below. If you don't get a bite when the bait first hits the water (which is often when the bite occurs). Begin to lift the bait off the bottom by bring your rod into the 12 O clock position a little faster, you want the bait to come to about mid water lvl, or a bit higher, then you let the bait fall back down again on slack line. When the bait hits the bottom reel a bit if necessary to get a "semi-slack" line going, and let the bait sit for a good 4-6secs. Sometimes I even let it sit longer (7-10secs). Remember to pay close attention to the line. If nothing hits, you can give a quick jerk to dart the senko upwards, and then let it fall again on the slack line. What you have to remember, is the fish catching action of the senko is the wiggling fall of the bait, so that is what you want the senko to do. If you fish it with quick jerks, or a straight retrieve you most likely won't do too great with the bait. I hope I helped you some, this is pretty much how you fish the senko and other senko knock offs. Remember to pay close attention to the line for any twitches/line carries. And remember the best action from the senko is its seductive fall, thats the action you want to repeat several times on each cast. Best of luck to ya. Some senko colors I recommend are Greenpumpkin, Watermelonseed, Cinnamon Brown, and (black..only on overcast days/night/ or muddy water.)

Hmm, can't seem to find a yum dinger in that color. The color to me looks like a color called "Red Bug". You can look for that color and see if you can find a dinger in it. If you still can't find it you can always try and find another "senko" type bait in that color. But the color pattern definitely looks like Red Bug.

12lb Fluoro, 6,6 Medium/Heavy rod.

But if im threading a hula grub onto the chatterbait, won't the trailer hook screw it up?

Ok, I had a horrible experience with the chatterbait tonight, and I want to know if any of you guys also had this problem, or any possible solutions to fixing it. So I'm casting a black/blue original chatterbait rigged with a GYCB Hula Grub as trailer along the sides of the lake. Bang I get a nice grab, I set the hook and the fish makes a few head shakes and hes gone. Ok.. big deal it happens. I start makin some more casts, nothin. Cast and cast again, and bang!, another fish on, again.. makes a few head shakes.. fish gone.. OK, now I'm startin to get a little P/O, but w/e it happens. I make a few more casts bang! Another fish on, a few head shakes, gone... OK NOW WTH! Make some more casts bang! another one, pops off before I can lift him.. I don't think this was a coincidence.. 4 fish.. all came unbuttoned.. Now all my hook sets were either right or left swipes, not straight up as you would set a jig. This is because its alot more easier to give a side swipe when fishing a chatterbait in my shallow lakes because this is the way you are holding the rod when working the bait, if I hold the rod tip in a position to give a straight upwards hook set the bait rides too close to the surface. What do you think the problem was? Was it my right/left side swipes for hooksets (They were good hard hooksets).? Oh, I also noticed the hook on this chatterbait was not in a perfect "j" shape, it was just a TINY bit up, could this have been the problem? I tryed to bend into a better "j" shape, but its very difficult to bend, seems like the hook was made like this. Anyhow whats your solution? Can I use a trailer hook on a chatterbait? And if so, will the trailer hook screw with the action of the hulagrub? I love this black/blue chatterbait because it got tons of hits, but I can't use it if its not going to hook any of the fish.. I need some help!