BigAngus752

I pitch, rather than flip. I can tell you that I personally find it much more difficult to practice pitching in the yard rather than on my boat because I'm so used to being at that specific height above the water as I've done it so much. Put me on flat ground and I lose some skill. Perhaps your issue is the opposite and you just need practice from the height of your boat.

Absolutely and at any depth. I very frequently catch big catfish by accident when using a bladed jig. Gear ratio selection is a personal preference is based on your ability to move it as quickly or slowly as you want. That is mostly dictated by the bladed jig itself. For example, it has been my experience that the Original Chatterbaits have to be reeled faster to get them to vibrate. On the opposite end of that spectrum is the Fogy from Siebert Outdoors. If I give it a sharp snap to get it started I can then slow down to the point of barely moving and still get hard, slow thumps out of it. I've been told by good fishing friends that the bladed jig bladed jig is of the same ilk as the Fogy when it comes to slow rolling. I'm sure there are many quality bladed jigs out there that can be slow-rolled easily.

I have had exactly the same experience as @AnonymousSoreMouther as I ship/receive both for work and personally. I'll add one more thing; For FedEx and UPS I typically must have work items shipped to home. I work for a major university and our main building hours are clearly posted and clearly not nights or weekend, but they don't care. I had a $4000 'signature required' delivery left on our doorstep on a weekend by FedEx. Fortunately I had email notification so I drove in and grabbed it before it was stolen by college kids. UPS is worse. We documented with our surveillance cameras a UPS driver stopping his truck in front of our building, sticking his cell phone out the door of his truck to take a pic of the front of our building, and then submitting an "attempted delivery / door locked no answer". He did it THREE TIMES in three days. USPS delivers reliably to our building during our open hours and never leaves packages outside or lies about delivery attempts. I strongly suspect, however, that all of this varies as to WHO is working for which entity in your area.

You want to make sure you're getting the most out of every rod that you put on your kayak. I understand. My preference for spinnerbaits and bladed jigs is a rod with a moderate/fast tip and a very parabolic rod. It's a wavy tip with a strong backbone that I'm looking for. The Duckett Jacob Wheeler rods fit that bill perfectly. Turns out they are also excellent for slowly running deep cranks on the bottom. And I've also fished Carolina rigs with them.

Definitely blessed with good water when I fish my closest lake for bass and a bycatch is a 1lb 10oz crappie.

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Look at the size of him. He should have moved out by now. Failure to launch.

During a season I will visit at least six different lakes, possibly more. Each lake is different. The only generalizations I can make are: -A bottom contact t-rigged plastic -A finesse set up -A mid-range moving bait -A topwater -Once the water temps are above 80, a deep mover -Football jig Which of each thing depends on the lake and weather in the past few days. All will not be used unless I'm having a horrible day. My singular goal is to get a pattern identified where I can have no more than two rods on deck. My perfect day of fishing is a single rod on deck. I know it's weird, but if no one else on the lake is catching fish and I get them dialed in with ONE rod and boat five bass, that's an epic trip for me. That's why I love fall. 30-40 bass with a single rod and lure. In November, I'll only have 3 or 4 rods in my boat.

Love my Huk shirts, however, you have to pick the really thin ones for height of summer. The really thin shirts are significantly cooler than bare skin in the sun.

I subscribe through Roku to MyOutdoorTV for $99 a year. So much interesting stuff on there. I'm going to confess that I watch more reruns of MLF from ten years ago than anything else.

I would suggest you definitely skip the entry level Chatterbaits. If you want to spend money on cool stuff there are a lot of well-known, big name bladed jigs out there to try. You can spend a lot on them also. I should know. I did that for several years. Now the only bladed jig I fish is the Fogy from @Siebert Outdoors . Incredibly reliable thumpers and you can build it like you want it. I highly recommend you get a few with the Turbo blade. It's a tough condition blade that has saved me from a skunk a few times. It's the customization that has me hooked. Siebert Outdoors LLCFogyThe Fogy is a classic blade bait known for its powerful thump and proven fish-catching ability. Designed with a football jig head , the Fogy produces more vibration than many other blade baits, while

Happy Sunday to all. This chunky shad queen was a lesson in patience. Our forecast called for over an inch of rain to fall in the course of about 90 minutes this morning. I was geared up to head to the lake the second it quit raining. Unfortunately, it didn't rain a drop. Instead I was left with overcast skies, a bottomed-out barometer, and a north wind. It was slow going to start with just four or five smallish bass. I was about to head home when I threw into some shallow brush and my t-rigged worm slipped over a small branch. I jiggled it a little bit to free it which caused a 3 1/2 to bite. I let that one go and decided to throw into the thickest stuff I could find. I skipped that Trick Worm into a pile of "I'm not getting my lure back" under a fallen tree and this 4lb 9oz bit it like she hated it. That was the one I was looking for. That was my last cast and I went back home to spend the rest of the day with my perfect wife. Another blessed weekend.

A few years ago a young man made a post on here. He was fishing my home lake from the bank and was concerned because of all the obvious carp activity. He decided to go with the flow and started throwing at the surface activity, knowing it was carp spawning. He posted a pic with his new LM PB of over 6lbs. Our brains tell us that the bass are going to hate all that drama the carp are creating, but it turns out they are used to it. It's a bit like marriage.

That's a great day!