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I agree with AJ. You have more time than you think(especially with no stretch line) and the more you fish it the easier it is to relax and not just jerk at the sight of a blow up. Try to count, while taking up slack, 1-mississippi, hook set-mississippi! Take it easy on fighting a fish with treble baits, play him gently. They'll often hook themselves with the other treble if given the chance.

I've done both and I'll stay down here. Anyone who watched any of the forest wood cup can tell how tough the summer fishing can get. But i can fish all winter long. In fact my favorite times to fish are when everyone else is hunting. In the summer i fish rivers almost exclusively. Find some current and you'll find feeding bass. Don't know if that'll work up north, but you might give it a try.

another vote for the lews bb1 in 5.1-1. i spool it with sniper floro and love it. i like to reel pretty fast and with this i don't have to worry that i'm going too fast, plus if your cranking all day you'll notice a big difference in fatigue. I also have an old abu wench that is in the 3's on gear ratio that i use for bigger deep divers.

I got a new fishing shirt this year and couldn't figure out what the patch sewn in to the shirt tail was until i pulled my sunglasses off to clean them and what do you know - sims had sewn a sunglasses cleaning patch into the tail of the shirt.... brilliant.

have you replaced the trebles. really sharp hooks will cure alot of hook set problems. also, i'd say that set up is a little fast for treble hook baits. softer rod and or line with more stretch will help delay the hook set. i'd start with trying mono (much cheaper than getting a slower tip rod).

Just saw the very back end of the live coverage. Looked like a lot of zeros on the board. Super tough day,

And he's in a tin boat. So he's alright with me.

Coming back from fishing yesterday afternoon I was almost killed by a guy in a 30' cabin cruiser going 50mph. Idiot passed me on the wrong side while cutting inside the channel marker heading down river. I was hugging the right side of the channel near the turn in to the boat ramp when the cruiser passed from behind about 10' off my starboard side just as i was about to turn that direction to the ramp. Never heard him coming. If i'd turned a few seconds early he would have t-boned me. Almost swamped me as it was. Thing is he had a channel that's 100 yards wide that he could have used by passing on the port side with no other boats in site. There's no way he didn't see me. Just don't get why someone would intentionally risk collision. Then I'm at the ramp and he comes flying back from his joy ride just off the ramp through the no wake zone throwing 3ft wake onto the ramp. Luckily I already had my boat on the trailer or he would have wrecked it with the waves hitting the ramp. This guys gonna kill somebody someday. I just hope he runs that thing aground cutting corners on the channel before it happens. Maybe after destroying a $100k boat he'll decide its not for him.

i'm more of a walmart popping bug fan.

^^^This.

you mentioned you are using a weighted hook. i would use a true texas rig, with a bullet weight.

supposed to get a lot of rain this week. i'm gonna say john cox wins on a shallow bite.

Nice read. The fish on the Arkansas river are doing same thing. Pinning schools of shad on sand bars. It’s hard to find the holding spot or the spot on the spot. Donkey rig and a shallow crank bait are working for me. But I’m gonna have to try a hair jig on them for a change up, thanks for the idea.

and you would think the cell phone battery technology is way ahead of marine applications. since everyone is carrying one around.

nice. i thought for sure you were gonna say 15-20 pound drum.

hot springs arkansas is pretty nice. lakes oauchita, hamilton, degray, and catherine all withing 30 min drive. less than an hour to little rock. lake hamilton is fully developed with lots of lake front housing options.

wow. $2.98 for a lure in 1954 was high dollar. same lure would cost you $28 in today's $.

I got giardia once from a beautiful mountain stream. It was not fun.

I choose the weight of the swim jig more on the speed i want to fish it. Heavier the jig the faster you can fish it; it has little to do with the size of trailer. In other words, i use the same trailer on a 1/4 oz. jig as on a 1/2 oz jig. typically in the summer months i fish a swim jig pretty fast, so 1/2 oz is standard. On swim jigs i use a shorter trailer or bite it off to the right length. I don't want it too far behind the skirt. When a bass hits it, i want them to get the hook and not just nipping at a long trailer.

I really like my ducket ghost for flippin.

zoom 10' ol monster worm, x20 deep diving citrus shad crank bait, sexy shad square bill, pop r, dirty jig compact flippin jig.

I know what you mean. It'd take me 15 min to stop shaking. Tom, 18 in an hour is really an impressive physical feat. I'm sure i couldn't do that even if the school was there and biting. Heck, i don't even think i could be your net man at that rate.

I'm a CPA. I have a strict policy not to count unless someone pays me. In fact, its probably an ethics violation. But... if i were catching a 10lbr every 3 minutes I might have to break that rule.

i see why they call them kentucky bass.

Sounds like perfect conditions for a vibrating or bladed jig.