Mbirdsley

i’ve narrowed it down to 2 differnt craw trailers that I use on a jig. if i want some action on the back of a jig ill use yum spine craw. if i want less action ill use a strike king rage menace. I threw a chigger craw for a long time but, the spine craw has replaced it. The spine craw can be used t-rigged.

First things first. I am a conservationists first, Bass fishermen 2nd. Fishing for bass is fun. We grew up hunting fishing, and being in the out doors . This new age of anglers ( not just picking in the younger anglers) and tournament angler have it flipped with being a bass fishermen 1st and a conservationist 2nd. Respect the resource and the resource will take care of you for the now and future generations. 2-3 years ago I was starting to get into watching tournaments and wanting to participate in them. Now the more I watch the tournaments and just kinda see the direction everything is going the more I kinda just get turned off by them. The majority of the major tournaments are a money grab for the tournament owners and the resource be darned. Tournaments have their place but, they need to do better in the future of protecting the resource. Even just as businesses decision to ensure more bass. Probably the biggest reason for my self that I fish for bass. Bass are a hardy fish and take well to being caught and released. Yeah, if you fish long enough you’re going to accidentally kill one. My wife isn’t a big fish eater so there is no point in filling my freezer of fish we are not going to eat. I grew up fishing salmon and trout on lake michigan. We fish for those by trolling which, is a total meat game. Typical both species will fight to the death. Having a good release after dragging them at 2.5 mph just isn’t going to happen. Even fishing for brook trout in a small stream it is only 50/50 if the brook trout survive’s the fight. off my soap box

Cheating is not the right phrase. However, with the type of prizes and winnings on the line it’s definitely fraud and at the very least it is poaching. There is definitely a pattern developing with him and it is never his fault. It is always some one else’s fault or thing. It must be ego because, anytime a high profile fisherman or hunter gets caught doing somthing unethical or illegal. They can never say “i knew better but, did it any way. it’s my fault i’m sorry”. Him saying that would go farther than trying to explain the situation and talk his way out of it.

yeah, i generally use them in 8-25 ft in the spring as the fish are coming up. that is what’s nice and annoying about LC. they have a ton of variations for 1 style of bait. mine are not the skeet reese lv-500’s . I actually didn’t know that about the different sounds. I knew there was a skeet reese version but, didn’t know what made it different.

IMHO the people that stress and promote speed cranking are generally fishing for the biggest bass in the lake and are ok with sometimes going hours or days with out a bite. i don’t have that kind of time or patience so i don’t speed crank. I consider my self a decent crank fisherman. I also believe, if your going to speed crank you have to commit to it 100% and that’s just how you crank fish or you don’t do it at all.

the Lv-500 was designed to be hopped/ripped off of the bottom like a jig. They work very well for that designed purpose. I have caught a bass, walleye and pike working them like that in michigan. They work fine on a straight retrieve but, being worked like a jig is what they were designed to do. the LV-500 also has a deeper rattle sound. it is not as high pitched as the orginal rat-l trap, booyah, or strike king ( not one knocker ), and cotton cordell version. I would rather use the ones mentioned above in a straight retrieve as a opposed to the lv-500

thanks. its not done yet. hopefully this winter i’ll get it finished up. its basically done but, i had some epoxy do some weird stuff around the rod info sticker. so i need to sand it down and apply more epoxy. than its done. the wife and I had twins in june ( i also have a 7 year old) . I’ve been bass fishing 1 time since june 24th. hopefully next spring i’ll get to try it out.

once i’m hooked up on a fish my success rate is around 98%. I may loose 1-2 fish a year while fishing offset worm hooks or ewg’s. generally speaking the 2 fish that i do loose will be smallies when they start to jump. i’m 6ft4 260 lbs and i don’t really employ a hard hookset most of the time. usually it’s just quick set up and the fish is on. punching i do tend to crack them a little harder.

nice. thats the same blank i’m using. it will also be a spinner bait and chatter bait rod. this is the second mb 843 that i’ve built. the first one i use as a light jig/ t-rig rod.

probably a spro rk crawler 55 in either a green color, sparkle shad or goby

what blank did you use ? that is what the blank on the post above is going to be primarily for along, with chatter baits.

it probably dosent matter 80% of the time or to averages sized fish Matte colors are going to matter more up here in the great lakes where it is gin clear and can see the bottom in 20-25 ft of water. big small mouth have gotten that big for a reason and not falling for everything that looks like food. some bait fish are shiny but, everything else that they eat are rather dull colored. some days it going to matters other days it doesn’t.

no problem. i was kind of figuring most people didn’t have lower lakers in their local fishing hole

probably the last fishing trip for a while. went out of lee street on the saginaw river in down town saginaw. The river has been busy with Freighter traffic lately. I was t sure where i was going up river or down bound but, after checking AIS boat nerd site. The 670 ft M/V Saginaw was unloading stone at the Old GM dock. which, is basically as far up river river as they can get before the shipping channel ends. Where the saginaw was docked is roughly 15-18 miles from the mouth of the river and the saginaw bay. after passing the M/v saginaw and catching a nice walleye on a lbs 1.5 square bill. the saginaw blew her whistle made the turn and started her journey back to the saginaw bay and lake huron. it took her almost 3 hours to reach the mouth/bay. I did manage to catch another 3 lbs bass on a black and blue spine craw. good day to end on for a while.

i fished stained water quite a bit. It’s a huge river system that is always has a lot of sentiment due to field run off year round. So black cranks will always work regardless of sky being cloudy or sunny. there are shad in the system and sexy shad will work almost all the time in sunny conditions. Silver will also work as most minnows are silvery color. Silver, chrome, silver and black sunny days work very well. On cloudy days black obviously works very well and so does chartreuse and blue back. those are the 4 main colors i throw on the Saginaw river system and i catch my share of fish.