PaBassMan13

Thank you all for the very warm welcoming! I hope to learn even more from this page and hopefully I can pass on a bit of knowledge as well. Glenn.....PLEASE put up a video on Neko Rigging. I absolutely love your videos but I have searched and searched and it does not appear as if you have taught us the Neko Rig yet, haha. I am new to the Neko Rig this season so I would love to hear/see your explanation of the technique.

Hello everyone! After reading info on the page for many years I decided to join yesterday. There was a particular post that I wanted to reply to so I thought; why not? I'm from Pennsylvania and have been Bass fishing for over 40 years now. Here in SE PA I love to fish the numerous small electric only lakes and also Blue Marsh Lake. I have been fishing out of a 14' john boat for many years and recently purchased my first Bass boat. I am still getting to learn all about the new boat but so far am loving it. I typically fish for LM Bass but want to venture out to SM Bass this season as well. Over the past few seasons my numbers have been dropping as the lakes around here receive more and more pressure. So early last season I sold all of my standard Bass gear (rods, reels, baits etc.) and went shopping from scratch. I now fish Finesse 100% of the time and am loving it. My numbers doubled my top previous yearly count over the last 8 years. For years there was no way I was going to use; let alone purchase a spinning combo. But now; that is the only thing I own. Unless I have a 6-6 to 7' ML spinning combo in my hand I am no longer comfortable or confident. I love fishing wacky rigs, ned rigs, neko rigs, french fry baits, small swimbaits etc. I looked upon this page a lot of times to gather info from you folks when I made the change to finesse. This page is/was priceless to a finesse newbie! Now through my own experiences with the switch I am hoping that maybe I can help someone else with advice etc.

Being somewhat new to the Neko rig I decided to follow the advice of John Crews. I use a Missile Baits Fuse 4.4 with a 1/16 oz. weight and a size #1 Berkley Fusion Drop Shot Hook. So far it has worked very well for me. I can certainly recommend this to folks from my successes.

Sorry you were unsatisfied with my post. I stumbled upon this page and wanted to reply to this topic. Sorry I did not add any personal info before I replied.....WOW.....tough crowd! That was a nice warm welcome to the page!!!!!!!

I was very skeptical about this bait but I guess I watched enough YouTube videos to leave an impression. I typically do not fish swim baits so this was a whole new world to me. I ordered numerous patterns in the 3.8" version and was pretty impressed when they arrived. I took them out on a pond that first weekend and was instantly hooked on them. Not only did I catch Bass; I caught a lot of Bass. The action on these is awesome; the tail kicks real well but the bait wobbles back and forth quite a bit as well. It almost reminds me of the searching action of a 2.5 square bill. The durability of the plastic is great; after many bass there's not a single mark on the bait let along any type of tears etc. I had numerous bluegills hit the bait too but they were not able to tear off the paddle tail. I just ordered 6 more packs of these; it's time to start stocking up now. I did snag one of the baits and lost it so I have two tails left in that color but no heads any longer so when they start offering the replacement heads that will certainly be a good thing.