king fisher

I fish out of a kayak and try to limit myself to 4 rods. I sometime replace one bait caster with a spinning set up. 1.Medium fast Diawa Ardito travel rod, Tatula CT reel. Sunline Defier Armilo line. Most crankbaits, poppers, lighter jigs, and worms. 2. Medium heavy fast Diawa Ardito travel rod. Diawa Tatula CT reel. Sunline Defier Armilo line. Spinnerbaits, chaterbaits, larger crankbaits, most topwater, any other moving baits. 3. Medium heavy fast Diawa Ardito. Diawa Coastal SV reel, 40 lbs. JBraid. Jigs, worms, buzz baits, some crankbaits if snags are bad. 4. Heavy fast Diawa Tatula rod, Diawa Coastal 200 reel 50 lbs. JBraid. Punching, flipping, frog, A rig. Way to light for A rig but does work, I need a new rod. I occasionally bring a medium spinning rod. Just when I thought I had everything I needed, I found a new lake, with clear water, I need to expand my spinning gear and learn some finesse techniques.

I highly recommend them. I own four of them. I fish them side by side with my Tatula's and don't notice any difference in sensitivity, casting distance, or strength. I have owned my medium power one, for five years now. I have used it for numerous techniques in both salt and fresh water. I have landed double digit bass, and many saltwater species up to 50 lbs on it. I do think the medium is more like medium heavy, and the medium heavy closer to heavy than medium. Many bass fisherman tend to believe multi piece rods are more fragile. Salmon anglers fish heavy weights, in strong current and land large fish with no problems on multi piece rods.

I may get tired of a certain technique, or body of water, but never tired of trying to solve a new fishing puzzle. I guided in Alaska for 30 years. On a couple of the streams where I fished for silver salmon, the fishing was too consistent and too easy. After helping clients catch hard fighting fish, that are all about the same size, almost every cast to the same spot, I would be tired of silver salmon. At the end of the day some of the new guides would want to go fishing for silvers. They were excited and hadn't been doing it long enough to become jaded. I would go with them only if they agreed to fish new water, try different techniques, and fish with lures, and flies with hooks cut making it impossible to land the fish. Get hit, watch one jump, then move to a different hole. Fishing for bass, even in Mexico, is not consistent enough for me to get bored. Double digit bass on top every cast all day is not going to happen. Getting tired of fishing can only happen to me if fishing is too easy for too long. As long as there is a challenge and something new to learn, then I could fish every day.

Zoom Trick worms. Zoom Ol Monster Senko

It has been illegal to use any live fish for bait in many western states for decades. The reason has always been fear of introducing unwanted species from one body of water to another. This management practice is common in many western states including AK, WA ID CA and has been around for longer than most people on this forum have been alive. (Long before the tackle industry was big enough to have any influence on fisheries management decisions.) I try to avoid any discussion on weather or not any fish and game laws are good or bad. Like most laws, they benefit some and are bad for others.

7 inch Senko, rigged weedless no weight.

Not as many as I bring on a given day, not even close to what I own, and I keep buying more.

1 Big Swim bait glide bait. I haven't tried yet. I am scared I would catch my PB on the first cast, then would end up broke and divorced long before I would complain about fatigue from fishing them. 2. Crankbaits. I was catching bass with them when they were called plugs. I don't have any difficulty catching bass with crankbaits. 3. Jigs. I catch bass with them, but they are my most difficult lure to fish. I constantly miss bites, and snag them in wood and rocks, far more than other lures. I plan on working hard on my jig fishing skills this year. 4. Jerk baits. I caught hundreds of bass and other species before I even knew you were supposed to jerk them. I jerk them now and catch bass, but if my wrist gets sore I simply switch to straight retrieve and catch bass. 5.Buzz Bait spinnerbait. Only difficulty fishing these lures is sore muscles from landing bass.

Sounds like you had the experience for a perfect country song. Maybe you can take a bad luck day on the water, and turn it in to fame and fortune. You could use some poetic license and throw in something about an epic backlash, lost lures and your dog. Don't feel bad. Happens to everyone. When I was 18 I went ice fishing by myself on New Years Day. I got skunked, fell through the ice, lost some gear, and got a ticket for not having a new fishing license. I just looked at it as a learning experience. After that I always bought my license before Christmas, I know where the spring is on that lake, and realize getting skunked is not the worst thing that can happen. I do wonder why the game warden drove all the way to that lake to check the only fisherman there that day. I guess it was good luck for him. Check one person, write one ticket, at least he didn't get skunked. I just wish he would have at least asked me if I was ok, beings as I looked like an icicle and my hand was shaking so bad, it took me three tries to sign my name on the ticket.

It might be better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.

They look like they will catch a bass to me. As far as when to throw them. Any time the water is wet.

Was the plastic insert in the middle smooth, or did it have bumps? If it had bumps, it was a Blue Fox Pixie. Probably the most popular lure in Alaska. The most common colors are orange, and pink but also come in green, blue, and white. The plastic insert is supposed to look like salmon eggs.

I am currently not using floro carbon for main line and hope to stay that way. If I do relapse, I will be using Sniper.

Some times a simple solution is best. I was fishing with a guide in Mexico, and I needed to get more depth out of my spinnerbait. He suggested sliding a bullet sinker on the line above the spinnerbait. I asked him if that works. He said why not? I didn't have an answer to that so I tried it. It worked great. I do it all the time now. It only takes a second to add any amount of weight. I use a bobber stop to peg the weight against the spinnerbait, but it works fine letting the weight slide.

The big reason I wouldn't do that is snags. You could end up loosing a lot of cranks with that light of line. If you are using small crankbaits, and don't loose many than why not? A larger crankbaits action is not going to be effected by 12 to 15 pound line, and when you snag there is a much better chance of working the lure free. As far as loosing a big fish goes, 6 lbs. test can land the biggest bass in any lake, as long as long as you are fishing in open water. Get around any cover, and you may be setting yourself up for heart ache.

If, the odds of hooking a bass over 22 lbs. is over 18,000,000, to one. and according to my calculations, the odds that I get a severe backlash on any cast I hook a bass of 22lbs. are 1 to 1. My question is what are the odds of both happening at the same time? What are the odds of my being able to dig the backlash out in time to land the bass, and what is the chance of lightning striking me while attempting to dig the backlash out? What are the odds, I wouldn't care about the lightning?

Only time will tell. It may help, or it may hurt the bass population. It has helped in the Great Lakes, but those lakes are a completely different ecosystem than rivers and lakes in Missouri. Warmer water may enable the Goby's to reproduce at a more rapid rate, causing them to over populate and completely dominate the fisheries. They may end up becoming the top prey for bass, and DD get to be common. There may be no affect at all. I would hope for the best, and learn to use a drop shot.

I might have to buy one because of the name. All the tackle I have used for many different species, both fresh and saltwater. I have never owned one with a guaranteed to catch big fish name like Wizz Bang.

Bait Monkey is responsible for all my purchases.

1. I'm not going to forget my camera, scale, or tape measure on the day I catch my PB. 2. I'm not going to leave lures on the bottom of the lake or in trees. No need to replace lost lures if I stop loosing them. 3. I'm not going to let work get in the way of my bass fishing. 4. I'm not going to miss any more top water strikes. 5. I'm not going to get skunked. I am going to win the lotto twice.

1/2 oz spinnerbait black and chartreuse skirt, tandem Colorado willow blades.

Ya. I think my scale was off. It read 10.3 lbs. I bought a new scale, now all I need to do is catch that fish again.

6th Sense Cloud Nine mini mag square bill.

Pull your boat south. Don't forget your passport and heavy line.

I know a kid that fishes with a line wrapped around a soda bottle for a rod an reel. His lure is a tooth brush handle, with a hole drilled in both ends he runs the line through. He adds split shot for weight if he needs it. He can walk the dog on the surface as well as any one can with a Spook. He can also work the tooth brush lure slow on the bottom, but his biggest talent is he knows by the time he makes his third cast what retrieve he needs to use. He fishes where I launch my Kayak, and if he is there, I can't get away from launch fast enough.