Sword of the Lord

I basically fish every day. Lol. The pond is freezing over so now my Senkos and shaky heads just sit on top and I'm like whyyyyyyy as I keep casting to no avail.

Only in our sport LOL

The ideal snap is no snap. Gross.

I finally caught my first bass in 2 weeks yesterday. A little 1 pounder. It hit a Texas rigged 4 inch Senko thrown into shallow cover. It was just my 3rd fish is probably 3 weeks. They're being really odd. I'll approach the pond and see them along the shore, but then they take off and won't hit anything. They didn't do that all year long until now. A lot of times they would stare me down all year and take whatever I threw on their nose. It was amusing. I must have become ugly because they don't want anything to do with me.

Have you seen that paneling? He's definitely got shag carpeting too. No sweeping necessary.

Looks like a bluegill to me.

No, but the fish have run over my heart and soul a time or two.

No idea. Just going to throw my obnoxious 2 cents in about keeping bass from "very small ponds.": Disagree!

How so? I always run thin fluoro with finesse and I use lighter mono than most, and never use braid.

That's funny dude. I finally got a couple of dinks on the same lure a little bit ago. The first is pictured. Also, I hooked into my PB on this lure today as well. Only right at the shore when I was going to grab her, she shook off. She was barely hooked. Tried to be as calm as possible but the odds were slim. I d**n near cried.

My Senko setup is a 6'6" M/F Lightning Rod with a Zebco Platinum 33. Wacky or Texas. 10 pound Stren mono with 10 pound fluoro leader. Sooo much accuracy and sooo skippable. Handles Illinois bass perfectly fine. I've tried Senkos on spinning and baitcasting and it just feels like I'm missing an arm. I have the utmost confidence in Senkos with this setup. I feel like I can do anything. My wife knows my Senko setup as my "nasty $h!t" setup lol. Because I will get down and dirty with it and hit the most messed up places.

Central Illinois

Maaan. A big, fat skunk today. Not even a bite. I tried a Texas rigged Senko (didn't have my Wacky stuff on hand), some spinnerbaits (even got desperate and tried inline spinners and beetle spins), several lipless crankbaits, top waters, and swimbaits. Just...nothing. Tomorrow I'm going back to what worked in the dead of summer: Wacky rigged Senkos in the weedlines and pockets and big worms hopped on the bottom. We'll see what happens. These ladies and gentlemen are not chasing at the moment. It's odd, though, because for a couple of weeks there when the weather did cool off and before the water had a chance to cool of itself, lipless crankbaits and spinnerbaits were being crushed.

River2Sea really needs to put a warning label on the Whopper Plopper for the haters. Warning: Despite the price, this isn't a magical lure that is guaranteed to catch a DD. This lure may not even catch a fish on some occasions. Magic isn't real. Stop complaining.