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never thought of just buying a teckel frog tail for making a homemade one. I tried making one last year and used mostly paddletails cut off plastics and while it caught fish, it didn't spin and have same action.

OP, How well does it rip through weeds? I really like the 130 because of how it can handle weeds. I think I get more strikes when I can make contact with the weeds. I still get lots of dinks on the 130, I dont think the fish can see the size or color that well on the 90-130. R2S need to put split rings on all of them like the 130 and 190. Anyone know what brand rings R2S uses on the front of the 130 and 190? Those things are nice and strong -doesn't sink is a giant one too.

Did it actually hit the lure? I'm a little south but longnose gar were freaking everywhere this week, must be spawning, I had about 40 on and only landed 2 and 1 of those was after tying on a hookless rope lure. they were loving the ned rig though, was pretty crazy. but most likely carp. spring is redhorse and summer common carp when you see big tails fanning

spro or home tied hair jigs/bucktails. River2Sea Lane Changer 150 topwater lure is what I think is finesse, had a good week fishing that, wasn't a big fan of that lure until this week. No wind, clear water sightfishing most of the week and other "noisier" topwater lures were spooking fish. I've never seen water in this particular river this clear and I been fishing this river for 40 years. Tiny ice fishing spoons for bluegill, gsf, rock bass is a favorite of mine, I often get a couple bass with them too. jigging rap for open water walleye(lure was designed for ice fishing)

i use it as my follow up to buzz bait or whopper plopper, if I get a blowup and miss the fish, I'll throw the topwater one more time through same spot and if that dont work, grab the goose turd rig and often get that fish to hammer it on first cast. I been using neko and weightless stickbaits too but ned is the champ for me following up on topwater. Unless I think or know it was a pike, then I follow up with a daredevle spoon or zman's bucktail chatterbait .

Shimano Tekota 500lc The brand of rod doesn't really matter as long as it ticks all the boxes you need for trolling, you really dont need anything over 8ft

lots of alligator gar

the Lane changer 150 is like a finesse topwater, caught a couple smallmouth on it and lost a nice pike but I'm not crazy about it, doesn't create enough disturbance, in real shallow calm water though it works well. Anyone use the big mistake and top notch yet? I bought the turtle with props but haven't caught anything with it yet. I just wanted a turtle lure I think lol

Does anyone know of a trailer hook that will allow this thing to continue floating? The VMC trailer hooks I'm using make it sink, really slow but it still sinks. This thing has to have a trailer hook in my opinion. I miss a lot less fish with the trailer hook, even get a few I don't see coming. Still miss the ones that attack the ploppers of course

I just kept the original box and throw them in a bucket, doesn't fit right in anything else I have for storage

that one in bottom left(cant see his head) is pretty big.

chucking big lures on light tackle will wear sharp nicks into the eyes of your rod from the weight on the line if you keep your rod tip up a lot, when retrieving heavier lures on smaller rod try to remember to keep tip down if you are throwing a lure heavier than what your rod is rated for. I actually did this to one of my st. croix rods chucking a whopper plopper 190 (also some 8" bucktails) on a heavy walleye rod(my Lake Erie trolling rod) that was a little too small last year. top eye is easy to replace, the eyes after that a little more work. Could have been avoided if I didn't always keep rod tip up to get the best action on the whopper plopper immediately after it hit the water, the weight on the line gradually wore channels into the top 2 eyes and didn't notice until my line cut on a cast and I had to go swimming to get an expensive lure back. You can also buy eye inserts that will avoid this. Just something to keep in mind, Good Luck on the muskie hunt

Unless there is literally nothing else to eat, they aren't eating many bass. They are also usually sterile and not going to take over. State is stocking either purely for anglers to enjoy catching or they have an overabundance of some sort of baitfish they are trying to control. Just trust your state biologists know what they are doing My state stocks 1,000-2,000 tiger fingerlings in my favorite river for last 15 years and I've never caught one, and only seen 1 caught and I target pike/muskie all the time. Pretty sure they get eaten by pike and standard muskie or I would of ran into one by now

all sorts of jigs and crankbaits. Seems to happen more when river is muddy or they are in their spawning period

they are fun but the problem is when they get in bass ponds. I have family in Poconos area and they had a couple nice bass and bluegill ponds they let their neighbors fish in for awhile. Well one of them must of felt like being a bucket biologist a few years back and dropped a few chain pickerel in and they have completely overrun the ponds. I know there are a few big bass left but hard to catch them, pickerel are so aggressive they get to your bait first. We were sighting the bass and dropping baits right in on top of them last fall and a pickerel would always steal it before bass would commit. Ponds need redone