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I don’t know if they will get the weight right but Owner St-41s are the stickiest sharp hooks I have ever used. If you can combine them with the right size split rings to get it to suspend they are gold in my opinion.

Haha...this one might hit a little close to home for some! Not that I catch tons of fish, I just don’t have very much gear...

Mann’s 1 minus crankbait. Produced a lot but I just can’t resist throwing topwater.

You certainly can. For a long time a MH rod is all I had. Just make sure your drag is not to high and use a gentle sweep of the rod for the hook set.

I spent awhile trying to figure out glidebaits and still am. After awhile I realized every fish I have caught with them was by short turn of the reel, causing the bait to “walk” back and forth underwater. Kind of like a slow motion jerkbait. Only once did I catch a fish on a steady retrieve with them, and that when I was retrieving it over a beaver home and the fish struck just before it was out of reach. Also, I stick with the 5”-6” glidebaits because the big ones get bites so rarely.

Just about all my hardbaits I made myself. I don’t fish soft plastics much but for them I would say: Weightless: Cabin Creek Oval Sinking Worm on 4/0 Texposer hook. Jig: Santone Lures Swimbait Jig head with Boss Skirt Jig trailer: Zoom Super Speed Craw Texas Rig: Netbait C-Mac 15’ worm Dropshot: Strike King 3x elaztech finesse worm Frog: Teckel Sprinker Frog

Here are some to get the ball rolling. Let’s keep it clean so it doesn’t get deleted like the last one did!

I would say 4-5 pounds but fish always look smaller in pictures than in person so I’ll say just over 5 pounds. Nice catch!

I don’t have permission to view it either...

Anybody know where the fishing memes thread went?

Maybe the fish really are picky enough in you area to eat watermelon (a green) but not GP (a little darker green) but I think there is a more likely explanation. This gets me all time: People are good at picking up on patterns, it is often how we learn. If we have a few fluke failures (no pun intended), on a lure, we assume it is a pattern, and not an unlikely series of flukes. Once we begin to be suspicious of a pattern though, we are conscious of it and then more readily recognize times that confirm our pattern than not. For example, I have lures I have tried just a few times and never caught a fish on. Since they didn’t work the first couple time, I feel like they don’t work on my waters. Whenever I pick them up, I’m not very confident on it, throw it some and if it catches, I say “it’s a fluke success”, if it doesn’t catch, I say “it’s a failure like I thought”. The truth is though, even when I fish my most productive lures, there are stretches of time they haven’t produced just as long of longer than the low confidence lure. But, since I initially gained confidence on it, I chalk up those bad stretches to tough conditions, not the lure. Im not saying your doing necessarily doing this, I’m just saying minds have a way of playing tricks on us.

Why don’t you want the T-wing?

Although the Sprinker frog has a plastic tail, it is the most durable soft plastic I have ever seen. I have caught about 10+ bass and dragged them through what felt like a mile of mats and algae and the tail is still good as new. Once the hook pierced through the tail, then through the bass' mouth and kept it pinned. Even after that the tail was fine. If you need replacement tail packs are available, I think you can get them at Dick's. If the tail doesn't seem to plop correctly, try bending it out of shape a bit. If it is too symmetrical it will keep switching directions but once it is not quite perfect it will settle on a direction.

Would a bass hold onto the bait since it is soft, or would it most likely drop it immediately because of the exposed treble? Also, can anyone recommend a good hook size and style? I lost the one in came with.

I went to my favorite tackle website...and then I found all these charges to my credit card...

Don’t tell Ned but I think tubes were his original rig...

I know the minnows are junk, but those sweet soft plastic buzzbaits...I just can’t admit defeat...

Recently got the tatula CT...very impressed with how effortlessly it cast and pitches. Also drag seems very smooth and strong.

I can’t speak to fluorocarbon, I wrote it off long ago due to trouble getting reliable knots, but one thing I think is important to point out...if you watch underwater videos of lures using mono, the mono can very visible in bright conditions. Sometime it almost looks like a white fishing line.

You probably didn't want to hear this but...Teckel Sprinker Frog! The booyah has worked well for me for a walking frog, but I have had the most success on the Sprinker frog and an excellent hookup ratio.

If you have trouble with the 90 staying on the surface, I think it is worth getting the 110 to give it a fair shot. It may be hyped up more than it should be, but it definitely has something to it that has kept it so popular. I have tried buzzbaits because they are they are known to produce big bass but I have trouble casting them far and they have to be retrieved fast and steady to stay on the surface. The WP solves those problems. When you cast the WP let it sit on the surface a few seconds and then give it a two-foot tug. I have had a lot of hits like that. After that you can start a steady retrieve. In my experience a lot of fish follow it a long way and then strike as it gets close to shore, so buckle up! BTW, if your fishing water with too much vegitation for the plopper, try the Teckel Sprinker frog. The high price is worth it over the cheaper versions by other manufacturers. It has produced the same larger average of bass as the WP and has had the best hookup ratio of any frog I own.

I bought the 110 in bluegill and fish northern Colorado as well. I caught my PB on it this fall - 5lb 7oz. It’s not magic but it is the best $15 I’ve spent on fishing. It makes a noise unlike any other lure and arguebly louder than any other. You can make long casts and fish it slow, fast or stop and go and it still stays on the top. In my experience the hookup ratio is excellent and rarely gets shaken off. For me it has produced numbers but also it seems to produce a bigger average than other lure I have tried. Three of my top ten bass all came on the whopper plopper (and I only fish it an average amount).

I purchased a 6” Savage Gear Line thru trout and looking to fish it a good amount this spring. Here is my question: With treble hook lures, I usually just sweep my rod back as soon as I feel a bite (like a crankbait) but with soft lures, I wait a moment and then set the hook (like a worm). Since this swimbait is soft plastic but also has a treble hook, how should I set the hook?