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Great video Glenn! When you finished rigging up, the result looked like the first time I attempted Texas-rigging a Senko back in my youngest years lol. Previous to this video, I always paid close attention rigging a weightless trick worm to perfection. This really has me pondering now. Thanks for sharing

First thing I’m going to watch when I get home from work today. You da man!!!!

Right now - 4.5” Roboworm FAT Straight Tail in SXE Shad on a drop shot Bed Bait - 2.5” Original FAT Gitzit Tube In Brown Craw/S&P please

Took my sunglasses off at that one. Mercy

Dink magnet but my favorite lure for spawning slab crappie! I use a 2” Grub in lieu of the split tail

I’m a huge fan of the G-Lock Worm hooks. I buy them in bulk and use the 3/0 for trick worms. I Texas-rig a lot at night and needed a hook that was forgiving with my hooksets when the margin of error is magnified in the dark. In my experiences, the fish hook themselves using ribbontails and straight tailed worms. Then again, I’m also dealing with that margin of error with Megastrike or Spike It Dip-n-Glow. Oh yeah have not been gut hooked, to date, from these hooks. It’s all about this specific hook’s angles too that help your plastics stay entact and on straight after pulling thru cover.

Thank you. Can’t wait to try!

Now you really have my attention. Never used a Thunderstick before. Partial to a certain color? How did you retrieve?

One last final point. The Ned Rig should be mandatory IMO. It’s so versatile and it’s that morsel that even inactive bass strike, plus you keep yourself engaged by having opportunities for other species, such as crappie, catfish, bluegills, list goes on. You can swim a ned rig subsurface like a grub all the way to fishing it like a shakeyhead. Deadsticking does wonders too. It covers all water columns below the surface.

I have two young children with a busy work schedule so I can not venture far from the city to fish these days. To get my fix, I have to urban fish extremely pressured ponds and it’s definitely a challenge. However, it’s rewarding once you figure out their ever changing riddles. Best advice, fish at night where it’s lawful to do so. Know the primary forage. I’m a strong believer in marching the hatch and most forage in urban ponds are very small so learn to master finesse fishing. Fish SLOW! Every body is throwing spinnerbaits and loud lipless cranks so rely mostly on soft plastics. Where I roam, Threadfin Shad make their ways in the ponds I fish through canals connected to northern reservoirs. With that said, white grubs, Small swimbaits (Keitechs, Sassy Shads, Roboworms on a drop shot, Berkely Gulp Alive Black Shads on a drop shot) are staples. Where I’m from, in Denver, those metro ponds were full of crawdads. Strike King Bitsy Tubes (2.75”) were phenomenal.

What do you recommend for top water presentations when imitating Threadfin?

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought the stocked hooks were garbage

There you go http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/6th_Sense_Splash_Back_Topwater_Popper/descpage-6SSBTP.html

Cool topic. Pretty diverse with my hard baits so I won’t cover that, plus I’ve evolved into a soft plastic junkie over the past couple years. Unsurprisingly, grubs take the crown. Started fishing them in Colorado for saugeyes and walleyes. I discovered that they were bass magnets there and even more so in Arizona. Surprisingly, I have a surplus of Roboworms. I do not drop shot as much as I should, but when I moved here, every AZ angler told me they were mandatory to carry in your tackle box. 7” Power Worms are one of my confidence baits. They never let me down.

Mini chatterbaits. 2” or 3” Berkley Power Grubs. Strike King BitsyTubes

Thanks! Those fish were nice and you caught them in such a short window. I’m going to try those worms out next week

Are you fishing that U-Vibe weightless?

I have a dissenting view on grass carp. The older ones are very persnickety, but the 15”- 30” class are very easy to catch. Get some whole grain, seedy bread and roll a large jawbreaker sized ball. Next, mix it in your hand with some mulberrry flavored commercial carp dough. They are available at BPS and others fishing outfits. Check the catfish aisle. I call this PB&J The mulberry dough will adhere the bread roll together into your Eagle Claw size 2 baitholder hook. Without that “glue” your bread will likely fall off during the cast, especially on a Carolina rig. I’ve evolved these days to fish for em with a slip bobber rig. This is the secret to the finicky mature mommas who are line shy and super finicky. They do not feel resistance of any weight on that initial take when you master the slip bobber rig . Food for thought. When you want to take it to the pinnacle for grasses, fly fish for em! My buddy living in Colorado tied custom floating algae flies for the canals here. They take surface flies like manatees. Good luck keep at it!

Master finesse fishing. Fish at night for the larger fish. For highly pressured ponds, I have the utmost confidence in: 2.5”-3” tubes, Ned rig, trick worms, grubs, 4” senkos, and 7.5” ribbontails for the summer time. Clear water- Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin, baitfish colors

I’ve been throwing that exact same black and blue Chatterbait w/ black and blue Menance Grub all year with no luck. That chartreuse black back Squarebill and sexy shad RES are money!

Incredible smallie ?

Haven’t tried it yet. However, The Livetarget Threadfin Baitball Series Squarebill is one of my favorite lures of all time.

X2. I use Bitsy Tubes and Gitzit Tubes in natural colors

Post-spawn: This year shallow cranks/wakebaits like the Baby One-Minus (see pic from last night). White grubs are always a staple post spawn Last year- White chatterbait with a Fluke Jr (white ice)trailer.

The Threadfin Shad fry are plentiful and small so you need to stand apart. I like to match the hatch, but focus on various ways to isolate a feeding bass’ attention. The key word too is ‘feeding’. At night, when the Shad are close to shore and prolific; I ignore all of the visible signs of baitfish until I see the surface commotion from predatory fish. This will make for the most efficient use of your time. These listed techniques have been killer for years now and I hope they work for others 1) 3” white or smoke grub on a 1/4 oz chartreuse roadrunner or a 1/15 oz ned rig TRD, The Deal specifically. I’ll locate the school and lob casts around the area I mentally mapped out, just passing the edges of the school, a foot or two subsurface, waking it even sometimes, while lightly bouncing the tip of my rod on the retrieve. 2) drop shot right in the middle of the school with a long leader (“18). Rebarb Roboworm light wire hook with either: SXE Shad 4.5” Roboworm ST, 2.5” Gulp!Alive Black Shad, or Zoom Tiny Fluke in Smokey Shad. I let the bait fall on semislack line then twitch up to only repeat. If no action after a 2-3 rounds, I’ll reel in some feet and try the dance again. I get more fish fishing the drop shot more aggressively than other times of the year. 3) exception to the baitfish imitation rule, but has caught me bigger fish, is to throw a weightless Trick Worm in a bright color that stands out like a sore thumb. In my case, the Candy Bug with the tip dipped in Spike It Dip-n-Glow gets destroyed from the the start of the shad spawn thru early fall. Sidenote: can’t speak on personal experience, yet, but I have a buddy who swears by using a finesse mojo rig with a GYCB 3” Senko. He’ll incorporate a twitch, twitch, pause retrieval almost like working a weightless soft jerkbait At least the bass are easier to catch during the shad spawn than walleye. That’s a puzzle I’ll never figure out.