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Bait Monkey does not like creeks. One spinning rod and reel, a few #3 Mepps or Vibrax,and a couple original floating Rapala minnow's is all you need. Throw in a few buck tail jigs if there are some slow deep holes.

I was thinking the same thing, so I bought a new scale. My wife doesn't understand why I spent $60 on a new scale, when I could simply use the same creative imagination I use when I tell her I wont be buying any more rods and reels. I told her I have no problem stretching a five pound bass, but once a bass is over 10 lbs. even a politician must tell the truth. As far as the cost of the new scale goes, I can honestly say $60 is in in the ball park.

All I know, is when the blades aren't spinning, a spinnerbait turns in to the worst jig ever made.

My precision casting is excellent. I can hit the only rock in one hundred yards to test the durability of a new crankbait. I can catch a single limb 10 feet up a tree that even a bird would have a hard time landing on. I can hit the water next to a lily pad so hard fish half way across the lake can be attracted to the sound. I can work the land side of a shoreline, better than most anglers can work the water side. I have even wrapped a lure in a power line. Now that is precision casting.

Shoulder Surgery successful, out of the hospital now, on way less medication, no more crazy posts.

A good fisherman can catch fish with almost any bait. I have been out fished by a Mexican kid fishing with an old soda bottle for a rod and reel and a home made lure made from a toothbrush. I am sure there are many members here that can catch more bass than me with one worm or jig. I have way to many lures but will by many more. Don’t know why.

Buzzbait works great all year here.

If you think you have too many rods now whatever you do, don’t take up flyfishing

My dog is not allowed in the hospital

Could be the trout is simply focused on the bottom and doesn’t even noticing an easy meal swimming above. If there were many mice and few eggs concentration would be on the surface and fish would not notice a tiny egg on bottom

Trout only has to move two feet to get mouse. Mouse is bigger meal than 50 eggs. Same trout will swim 30 yards to try and steal one egg from another trout. I have seen this happen many times. I believe Something more than energy in energy out at play. I can’t say what simply making a wild guess.

I believe you are right. The more abundant the prey, the more likely the bass will ignore other prey. My point was addressing the belief, that bass can eat anything and match the hatch is never important. I feel that sometimes the reason the bass are keying in on one or more aspects of an abundant prey is not because they like the prey more than others, but because a hunting tactic that is required to catch that prey may require them to become selective and key in on a certain, color, size, action of the abundant prey, in order to successfully catch that prey. If there were hundreds of quail flying everywhere I wouldn't be looking at the ground, or notice a rabbit on the ground because I was already trying to hit a fast flying bird. That is why a bass that is having difficulty catching fast swimming shad, may key in on flash, or a certain action to help him catch the shad and ignore a crawdad colored jig, but maybe while feeding on crawdads that are abundant, and easy to catch the same bass will hit a shad or bluegill imitation. The first example the bass appear to be selective, the second they are not due to the difficulty associated with catching the abundant species of prey. A rainbow trout feeding on salmon eggs will ignore a mouse swimming over his head, not because he likes eggs more than mice. Mice are a bigger meal that he will gladly eat at other times. The reason he wont hit the mouse is because he doesn't see it. The reason he doesn't see it is because he is concentrating on getting an egg that dislodges from the nest, before another fish gets it and without the salmon attacking him. He has to be focused in order to take advantage of the feeding opportunity. After the salmon spawn is over the mouse will surely be lunch, because the trout will start to look all around for other opportunity's. A successful angler will have to match the size color, and drift of the salmon eggs in order to catch the trout. Not because the trout is smart, or picky, but because he is focused on one thing in order to be a successful hunter.

I am recovering from a shoulder injury, and have way to much time on my hands to think about bass behavior and come up with theories, that could be describe as boredom BS. I apologize for being long winded in advance. Until a bass is able to talk, the question, why bass can become so selective at times, and at other times hit anything they can get down their mouths will never be answered, but this is my best guess. I wont be offended by anyone who calls BS on some or all of my theory. I consider bass exceptional hunters, and often compare them to human hunters when trying to make sense of their predatory ways. I'm going hunting one day in the early fall, I can legally shoot ducks, geese, rabbits, pheasants, and quail. I like all of the game equally, and have a shot gun and amo that will work equally well for everything. I know a field that has lots of rabbits, and considering the weather is warm, and most of the ducks are still north of me, I feel I have the best chance of being successful targeting the bunnies. The grass is taller than usual, making it difficult to hit the rabbits as they run away. After missing a few, I realize if I spot them before they take off running I can get a quick shot in and am successful. The key to spotting them quickly is to spot their white ears, when they raise there heads. I become very focused on any slight movement, and a flash of white. This works but takes total concentration. I am so concentrated on looking for white ears, I don't even notice the weather cooling and a few ducks flying over head. Having to focus has made me selective. Even though I don't favor rabbits over the other animals, in order to get the rabbits which are the most plentiful game, I have to concentrate so hard to find them I ignore all other game. After I get a few rabbits, I take a break, and notice a duck flying over head. I shoot the duck, and wonder how many have flown over my while I was busy looking down concentrating in the tall grass. I start looking at the sky more often, and see more ducks, but start missing the rabbits from lack of focus. It is difficult to look up at the sky and at the ground at the same time, so I give up on the rabbits all together, and start to look up at the horizon hoping to see more ducks. This works and I bag a few ducks. The ducks are very colorful, but the color, size, or how they fly makes no difference to me, because I can see them silhouette against the sky and they fly straight making them easy targets. Problem is the ducks don't fly over the same place, and when I try and change my position to get in their fly way they spook out of range. I know there is a pond over the next hill where the ducks will probably concentrate so I decide to go there. While I walk to the pond I am ready not only for ducks to fly over, but I could easily flush a pheasant or quail so I am basically ready shoot anything that moves. I get to the pond and hide in the tall grass on the shore. This works, and soon I have many ducks and even a couple of geese. No need to be selective because tactics for the geese are the same as the ducks. Again, I am not concentrating on size, color, or movement to get them. I can see the ducks coming from a great distance and don't have to concentrate on finding them like I did the rabbits. This gives me time to look around while waiting for more ducks. I spot a pheasant and a covey of quail moving out of the cover to feed. I decide I can sneek over an shoot a couple of them and still get back to my hide in time for the next flight of ducks. I am not being selective on what I shoot, because I don't have to focus on any one thing in order to be successful. Now the fog moves in. I can't see the ducks coming, and the pheasants have ran and hid. I am about to go back to the rabbit field, when I hear a goose honk. I go to where I here the noise, and get close enough to get a goose. Now I become focused on the sound of geese, and shut out any other distractions. Due to the fog I am becoming selective again. All the other animals are still there, but I must concentrate on one thing, sound if I am to be successful. The fog clears and It is time to walk back to my car. On the way I go back to shoot anything that moves mode. I get a pheasant, but miss a couple of rabbits, because like before I have a hard time hitting the rabbits once they get going, and because I'm not focused only on finding the head movement and white ears I don't see them in time to shoot before they run. I feel bass are no different than other hunters. Sometimes like the hunter with the rabbits, they have to focus in order to find and catch their prey, these times they can be selective and matching the hatch- movement, size, color, sound, smell, individually or in combination, may be the only way to catch them. Other times what they are feeding on doesn't require a certain tactic, is not difficult to catch, or does not require extreme focus. Making matching the hatch less important. Then there are those times, when there is no particular prey and they are basically shooting at anything that moves. This is why when someone tells me a bass will eat anything they can get their mouths around, I will say yes and no or when someone tells me bass are selective feeders I give the same answer. Not because they are selective, or smart, but because they are efficient hunters. I live for the times, when they are in shoot anything that moves mode, but am prepared to match the hatch.

My Grandfather gave me a Helin flatfish, that I caught everything on. I don't use a flatfish for bass anymore, although I'm sure it would still work. I do often use Flatfish for trout and salmon. My guaranteed to catch something, is a gold Vibrax #3 inline spinner.

The single hook hangs back and up when retrieved, It snags less than the same lure with trebles, on the rocks and logs, in the rivers I fish for salmon. May not be the case where you fish I wouldn't know. Most crankbaits are not considered weedless.

A common way to rig a Wiggle Wart for salmon is pictured below. The same method using a bead chain swivel instead of a barrel swivel was actually an option Storm sold in their salmon series, a few years before they were bought out. Rigging a single hook in this matter greatly increases the number of salmon hooked and landed compared to stock treble hooks. Simply putting a single hook on the back split ring made the lure unstable at high speeds. Has any one tried rigging a crankbait this way for bass? Any theories on why or why it wouldn't work?

Twitch on the surface, reel and pause, straight retrieve, troll, Carolina rig, tie two together similar to a double fluke rig. No wrong way to fish one. Disadvantage is they are light, difficult to cast, and you need to use a loop knot for most methods.

I tie hundreds of FG knots every year for salt water fishing. I see no need for an FG for any bass fishing I do. I used blood, surgeon, double uni, and Albright knots for years and still use Surgeon, and blood knots for fly leaders. I tied my last Albright, the first time I saw an Alberto tied. I can tie an Alberto faster than any other braid to leader knot, including blood knots which I have been tying for over 40 years. The Alberto is slimmer, and stronger than a double uni, which is my second choice. Use whatever knot you can tie well, but don't think you can't learn to tie an Alberto quickly.

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Only a few were not named by members. Here is the complete list. Top row. -- Heddon River Runt, Aquasonic Undertaker, Storm Hot n Tot, Rebel Deep we R Second row.--Fred Arbogast Razorback. Heddon Super Sonic, Fred Arbogast Arbo-Gaster, Cotton Cordel Big O Bottom row.-- Burke Deadly Dudly, Cotton Cordel Spring Killer, Strike King Bill Dance spinnerbait My PB for over 40 years was caught on the spring killer spinnerbait pictured. The Undertaker is one I found on Ebay but is not the color I had. The one I had in 1977 was fire tiger color. If anyone has one in fire tiger, I would like to buy it.

Now that I consider myself an experienced outdoorsman, I never backlash ( professional over run), I never miss a guide when I rig my rod, I never try to cast without opening my bail, on a spinning rod, I never have a knot fail, I never miss a hook set ,I never set the hook in to a log, I never cast my lure so high up a tree, a fish would have to have wings to get to it, I never pull a top water bait away from a fish, I never break a fish off at the boat, I never knock a fish off with the net, I never miss or wound a big game animal with gun or bow, I never loose my hat while driving a boat, I never forget to hook up fuel line, or attach kill switch, I never buy more tackle than I need, I never get lost, and I never exaggerate about the size of my fish. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I wish my wife would understand this excellent example of financial logic.

I have had good luck this year with the 6th sense color shad scales.

Yes you do get a lot of bang for the buck. Even with an Echomap some small ponds and lakes do not show up on the map. I fish a small lake near my home that didn't show up on my Echomap plus. Just a white blank screen when I first fished the lake. First day I fished the entire shoreline with the quick draw feature on outlining the whole lake. After a few trips I had almost the whole lake mapped and color coded. A Striker unit would been exactly the same only the map would be saved on the unit instead of an SD card. Here are a couple pictures of the lake. One a screen shot off of the unit, the other from Garmin connect. You can share maps off of both units on Garmin Connect.

The big disadvantage of the Striker series compared to the Echomap series is the Striker not only does not have any contour maps included, or SD card, but doesn't have any kind of map at all. When you get to a lake the screen will only show white until you make a quick draw map of the lake. The Echomap will show the outline of the lake in blue even if the lake is not one of the lakes mapped on the card you have. It is nice to at least be able to see the shoreline of the lake on the unit while you are mapping the lake with the quickdraw feature.