roadwarrior

Two boats, four fishermen = 74 smallmouth, 8 green fish and a dozen or so "other species". EVERYTHING was caught on a 3" tube, although I threw a variety of hard baits, jigs, soft swimbaits and other soft plastics. Also note: the color was BPS 71 except for one smalljaw I caught on an original Gitzit, baby diaper yellow (chartreuse).

I also use the Shellcracker as a swim jig trailer.

I think you might be on to something. That's just too many fish to clean! There must be more to the story.

Congratulations!

One and done. Too many other options to choose from.

T-rigged, 1/4 bullet weight, tail down. Let the Cut-R settle to the bottom, then retrieve slowly, just off the bottom.

How many colors do you plan to bring out initially?

I am a big fan of the original MegaBug, look forward to giving this size a try.

The Bug will be available in a couple of weeks.

Question from cjam93: Hey guys so I want to get out of only fishing what I can see above water. I have been doing some reading and I understand idling over humps and all to find a sweetspot to throw to. However I need some advice on how to start on my local lake. My problem is that there are no topo maps available for the lake I fish. So I cant really try to find structure from a map and then apply it on the lake. To give you an idea about hte lake, it is a reservoir, and I have seen water up to around 50 feet deep. However I have never caught fish, or heard of anyone else catching fish any deeper than around 20ft. Most of my summer fish last year coming off of 5xd's so around the 15ft range. The deeper water fish that I did catch were just from backing off the bank and still throwing in that direction, so I was not really using my electronics to target underwater cover. So without a map to find structure, how would you go about fishing deep for largemouth? I was thinking just idle in the 10-20ft range until I find something that looks good on a point or just going down the bank until I see something, but that seems like it could take up quite a bit of time. Is there a more efficient way to go about it?

The topic is already running 5 pages. Look down a couple of lines. I reposted your question in that thread. -Kent

Twelve years ago my daughter was a training for competative Hunter- Jumper riding. We moved her horse to stables just outside of town. I drove her to her lessons and noticed a pond in the back portion of a very large pasture. It looked to be about 20 acres or so. I asked the owner for permission to fish the pond, which was fine by him. I asked if it was stocked and not being a fisherman he didn't know, but he had bought the property about ten years earlier and as far as he knew, it had NEVER BEEN FISHED! Huge and hungry. I do not believe these bass had EVER seen a Senko.

That reminds me of a trick I like to use: Using your "outdoors" voice, yell out "This is my last cast" then wait a minute and cast again. The fish will think you're gone!

Heading down to Florence tomorrow. Anyone been out this week?

If that were my experience I wouldn't use it either! Now regrding the wine...

Hmm...I don't remember you telling me this story. I'm surprised to say the least. I have been fishing Tatsu for over a year without a single issue.

Do you generally use a trailer or not?

No problemo, I will send them to him.

Medium Power/ Fast Action

Congratulations!

I think so, too.

Yep, this is the story: http://www.bassmaster.com/news/david-hayes-and-world-record-smallmouth-bass#

I'm sure you will do just fine. Good luck!

Truth