drscholl14

My wife doesn't fish often and sometimes gets a little annoyed at how much I fish (1-2 a week), especially with a kid under 2 in the house, but I enjoy it when she comes with me.

I've got two of the 3000s. Love em. It is the slower gear ratio but I've had no problems keeping them hooked or catching up to a fish that swims towards me while fighting it.

Strike King KVD Jerk and it's deep version as well. Caught many Spring and Fall bass and think it has some of the most erratic action on the market.

Nothing special, stocked back up on VMC neko hooks, nail weights and got some Daiwa Fat Neko worms and Yum Genies to try out.

Still is the big story. On another board that's pretty much based out of MN there was a thread that had the estimated numbers of smallmouth in Mille Lacs that recently came out and the walleye guys were up in arms saying there's no way there's only 67,000 smallmouth in the lake. There's literally millions they said. We all know that smallmouth are a main predator of walleye...... Welcome to living in the walleye state......No other fish matters.

Green Pumpkin and Black/Blue flake for me. Probably actually lean towards Black/Blue Flake

This. It had gotten really bad before the merger here in MN. Bare shelves, no rod selection if you wanted anything other than St Croix, GLoomis or Fenwick. Same with reels.

TUBES!!!!! Or jerkbaits. I fish the Mississippi quite a bit and tubes are really hard to beat. Make sure you always have bottom contact and toss them behind current breaks, eddys, and current seams and you will find fish.

Neko Rig in deep (20-30 fow) hands down.

Daiwa for me. Used both, liked both, but the Daiwa's just feel smoother to me.

Not good. Almost had that happen last two weeks ago during a tournament. Darn near jumped out of the boat to get it!

I don't know if he's the best but I really like Jason Mitchell. Great guy also. I would agree that Al Lindner would probably be 1 or 2.

I don't know your area at all but after we get a good rain I tend to find a lot of fish up in shallow structure because the rain washes a lot of nutrients and forage into the lakes. So I'd probably go with #2 and throw T-rigged creature baits up shallow and if that doesn't produce move out to the standing timber and throw cranks or something else that moves a lot of water through the timber. I'm no expert though.

If you have time and can find them say hi to the Line Cutterz guys! Good friends of mine and great guys! Was going to go with them but the wife had a conference this week as well. ?

I have never thought that the hook direction really mattered. I always hooked them perpendicular to the work. Now I threw the wacky rig away for the Neko rig. Then you hook it parallel with the worm. I use an o ring. Caught about 12 fish last time out on a single senko before it was to the point I needed to change it. Doesn't take much effort to put it on either.

I don't care for them personally but you can't deny they have gotten thousands and thousand of kids into fishing. Which is a good thing. Personally I don't watch them because they're videos don't have fishing in them most of the time and some of the dumb crap they do just annoys me. I like LFG a lot but he has turned into the Googan type after he joined them. A lot of it has to do with generating views and people love to watch other people doing stupid things. I have a very small channel and try not to be click bait-ey and I believe it is one of the reasons I only have 1k subs.... Oh yeah, and the fact that I'm not that great of a fisherman!

I enjoy both. I'm filming a lot of times but I do enjoy the peace and quiet of being out there alone. But it's tough to beat fishing a good buddy or my old man also.

2012 Ford Explorer pulls my 18 ft Nitro plenty well.

Before I bought my bass boat (used) I was thinking about buying a kayak just to get out on the water. The only one I felt that I would want to fish out of would be a pedal drive kayak which were around a couple grand. I thought about it and decided that if I spent that kind of money on a kayak eventually I was still going to want to buy a bass boat. So I kept the $2k and stayed patient and a year later I bought my bass boat. Couldn't be happier with my decision.

Definitely have the same problem however the only three I ever seem to use are Black/Blue flake, green pumpkin and a red craw color.....

I like the Fuego's and the BG's but for the $$ I've been LOVING the Legalis. I've caught numerous 4+ lb fish on neds and neko rigs on the two Legalis reels I own. The drag is one of the smoothest I've had and converted me away from my Pfluegers. Been nothing but happy with them. However you won't go wrong with any of the 3.

I'm the opposite. I find the Tatulas are smoother than the Chronarchs AND for longer. I'm in the process of replacing all my reels with Tatulas. Also, you can't really compare the speed of two different reels when they are different gear ratios.

Welcome to the boards. Always good to have another MN guy here!

I love Strike King cranks. Only crankbait I throw. BUT as everyone has mentioned the hooks are not great. I notice that after a decent fish the hooks bend out. I have been using VMC short shanks in the #4 size and it has seemed to help. Those crankbaits are so good though!

Figure out where the weigh ins have been..... .