BassFishingMachine

The basic rule I follow is the color that the fish can see most easily in any given condition is the color im most likely going to choose. That is why when you have dark/highly stained water a light color, like chartruese etc, will stick out more then a flashy silver. Therefore the chartruese is the choice, same with how on over cast conditions a dark black lure will sometimes do the trick, cause the silhouette effect it causes. Now in sunny conditions and fairly clear/ lightly stained water, the flashy silver is the color to go with, because its going to reflect off the sun and stand out. Throwing a silver rapala, in muddy waters on a overcast day is pretty silly imo, so I say there are some color choice basics that are worth looking into. Just my honest opinion.

What brian said pretty much covers it. Also, black at night, and dark colors in overcast conditions.

They say to rig them tail up, but I have a pack and when im taking a good look at them you'd have to rig them with the hook coming in there side for the tail to be perfectly upward, is this how they want it rigged? Or is do you rig it under the belly like normal?

What color choice you go with? I can guess the black/red flk at night, but what about during the day, do you go with shad patterns as in the whites, pearls etc? Or more of a greenpumpkin, chartruese type deal?

Jig would definetly be my best flipping bait, but If for soft plastics I'd say Zoom Baby Brush Hog, GYCB Kreature, and Sweet Beaver.

I like the Slender Point

I would have included at least one SALAD FORK lol

What is the parasite? Can anyone post a link to it? Also the smart peg thing by Tru-Tungsten is ok, but they aren't reusable, so you have to keep buying more.

I'd love to just use toothpicks but they get jammed up in the weight and you can't re-use the weight after your done fishing, it just slowly wastes away your weights, any solution to this?

Hmm Tin, are you talking about the gambler bullet weights with the plastic fill inside to keep the weight pegged? I use them but the paint chips on them, and sometimes they start moving on the line, have to keep repositioning them. The thought of the screw in bullet weights tearing up my softbaits scares me though cause I use alot of GYCB. But I might buy a pack to just give them a try. Do you think that glue that repairs soft plastics I hear people talking about will fix the problem with screw in bullet weights causing damage?

A 5inch GYCB Kut-Tail, its just always seems to work for me, but I'd really hate having to use only 1 lure :'(.

I never hear too much talk about screw in bullet weights. If they are what im thinking they are then there my answer to pegging without having to use a toothpick etc. Do screw in bullet weights really work well? You just screw them into the bait and your pegged with no worries? Or is there a bad side to them which is why I don't hear much talk about them? Whats your opinion on em, are they really a good pegging tool?

All I know is GYCB are some great baits so I wouldn't change them. Just my honest opinion.

Yep, megastrike is some good stuff . Try Yum Crawfish Spray when it comes to your jigs, its also good. But for all my soft plastics I always use megastrike.

Hmm I guess I blew my cool a little bit seeing that someone could be ripping someone off so easily it just irritates me, let me just say this, if you buy this lure, your a real winner .

Hmm some good techniques you guys listed, I'll probably be giving them another good try when May comes around and the bass are extremely active. Weightless and fished a little quicker then a senko, and shakyheading, and inserting a nail into the tail. One of them rigs has to work, hopefully it will and the Zoom Trick Worm will have a place in my arsenal other then taking up space. As for the GYCB Kut-Tails I t-rig them weightless, I kill the bass with them in 5inch, probably my #1 Plastic Worm. I don't use them too much though, because the sunnies tend to bite em, and rip the tails, so I'll only use them as last resorts, or for fishing beds (seriously these things are amazing). Kut-Tails, and perfect condition Gulp 6inch Night Crawlers are the only straight worms I do good with. (By perfect condition I mean they have to be soft, but not too soft where they are just ridiculously soft, and must look straight and undented, this can be hard to find, but there are some good bags out there).

Well I never do to good with straight tail worms, so I just wanted to know how you guys fish them. Do you t-rig them weightless, and cast them out, let it sink, and give it a occasional twitch, like you would a senko, or what do you do with them? Everytime I throw a straight tail worm I most likely don't get bit. The straight tail worms I plan to give a try again are Zoom Trick Worms, and Berkley Shaky Worms. How are you guys fishing this bait to wheres there catching fish for you, any secret technique to them?

Hmm my favorite is probably a Zoom U-Tail Worm with colors being: Pumpkinseed, Junebug, Pumpkinseed/chart tail.

Well I bought the Booyah Boogie bait, and fished it a bit with limited success, nothing to make me fall in love with the bait. I got it snagged and just never bought a new one because it just didn't do anything special for me and a spinnerbait just seemed to work plain out better for me. Although with all the talk about it being good if you remove the skirt and add a soft jerkbait, I might buy a new one to give that a shot. And I might also buy a 2nd one in black/blue to try at night. But I'll tell ya this, im not spending 6$+ for them which is what I think I paid for the last one, so unless the price goes down a little I won't be buying one as IMO its just not worth that much money. Oh yeah, now that I think about it, I did buy one of the original chatterbaits and still have it in one of my planos, but the quality of the bait IMO was so crappy that I never had the guts to tie it on.

Hmm.. I should learn how to get to some of the bigger lakes around NJ, instead of fishing my small local ponds.

The Booyah Baby Boo Jig catches me fish, so Im going to keep using them. As for their other versions of Jigs, such as the Booyah Boo Jig etc, I haven't tryed yet, but I own a few so I plan to give them a shot once the cold weather passes. I have also fished the Terminator finesse jigs, and Strike King Bitsy Bugs with good results, and I'd say I like the Baby Boo jigs the most, but they all work so what ever.

For me its currently a Rapala Rattle Trap, but I plan to try Rat-L-Trap's, and LC Lv-0 this year, so will see what happens

The ponds I freshwater fish 95% of the time are small/local. But Ive found a few areas that aren't iced over yet, and I've been doin pretty good with the crappie, using tiny tubes, trout magnets, and these little Berkley Powerbait Nymph soft plastics, all fished on a tiny jig head that comes with the trout magnets and bounced along the bottom. I have also been catching a few small bass while targeting these crappie. The bass are just barely the size of my hand, but overall more crappie then bass. I also caught a nice 18 1/2inch carp while fishing a trout magnet for crappie about two weeks ago. So you can say I've found my solution for the winter ;D, I just hope there is always a open area of water in the pond for a little longer so I can keep fishing.

Try the same technique, but use a trout magnet instead of a fly, put the bobber about 2-2 1/2 feet above the trout magnet, works for me. I buy my trout magnets at sportsauthority and Dicks sporting goods, you should be able to find them around your area. Here is a pic of trout magnets incase you don't know what they look like. http://www.beebarb.com/images/products/thumbnails/311.JPG

If it were me I'd fish em exactly like a Super Fluke, weightless with constant jerks and slight pauses.