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No need to hit the panic button there are still small mouth in the Tittabawassee. Launched from center and started north of gratiot and came back down. Nothing too big but, on the board finally for smallies mouth and no farm animals today . All came on a mojo rig with a 4 inch black and blue flake yum dinger. Couple bites on a jig and craw but, couldn’t connect . Last pic was the biggest smallie . The second pic looks like he’s been caught before. Landed about 8 total

Biggest that I have used is 3/4 oz. I primarily use war eagle and use them on the big rivers which have 10 ft+ depths. I have caught some nice smallies using them. Only issue I have with them is with the hidden weight style 3/4 oz spinnerbaits . The hidden weight style makes the collar bigger and it’s a pain trying to find a trailer that won’t split down the middle

Another day and more fish from up north. Bass came on a baby bass general wacky rigged and another walleye came on a lucky craft lc 1.00Dd golden shiner( I don’t know why they call it that). That crank is Becoming a go to in water 6ft and under. Can tell by all the character it’s developing

Peach lake Ogemaw county 4 pike total, 1 walleye, 1 bass. The one pike went 28-30. Had him out of the water to long so didn’t get a picture the pike all came on a spro little John MD chrome Olive crank walleye came on a zoom green pumpkin 4 inch tube. bass was swimming under the boat so I wacky rig baby bass general and caught him those spro little John md cranks have been on fire all spring. I only have two the chrom olive and the chartreuse blue

I use 1 1/4 oz and 1 1/2 oz tungsten weights and jigs for punching pads . Both weights and jigs. 1 1/2 oz tungsten jig is the same size as 1 1/4 oz lead jig 1 1/2 oz punching tungsten jig on the left and a lead punching jig on the right

Even the big rivers up here in Michigan are mid 70’s. Muskrat was mid 70’s and the summer pads that ring the lake are in full affect. the Saginaw bay has made it to the upper 50’s. Lake Michigan is still upper 40’s to low 50’s

Finally broke my bass less streak that had been going 4 over a month. Went to a muskrat lake north of Lansing. Took the family blue bill fishing but, caught bass instead on a 6 inch black and blue flak ocho worm with 1/4 oz wieght. Throwing to and into the pads . Not bad for a couple of hours on the lake

I have 2 #1 cranks #2 jigs I always start out by throwing cranks and hoping to get them going on that. Sometimes That’s the ticket other times it’s not and than I’m sending a jig

The ones they use on the cranks seem very similar to 1x short 1x strong mustad kvd triple grips. Supposedly though 6th sense has thier own proprietary hooks. Recently I have come to really like 6th sense and spro as they come with good hooks. Spro uses a gama hook which, is a good hook every other crank mfg I swap the hooks out for kvd triple grips

Black maxx hands down. I’ve never handled a sub $60 quantum bait caster that I liked. I had a couple older ones that were given to me when I first wanted to try a bait caster. They weren’t good and not newbie to baitcaster friendly . Black maxx was my first BC combo. I still have it 4 years later

I’m glad Michigan finally changed the rules 5-6 years ago and allowed immediate C&R open all year. If they hadn’t we would still be waiting for the Saturday before Memorial Day for the possession season to start ( lake st clair is 3rd sat in June )

In the State of Michigan untill the 1950’s/60’s. A married women didn’t need to purchase a fishing license as long as her husband had one. In Michigan at least I’d say it was common for women to fish.

Around and Below 50ish degrees. I like just using a 4 inch twister tail. Brand doesn't really matter and match the twister tail color to the chatter bait warmer the water the bigger the trailer I like Zacco’s/ razor Shad or kamikaze swimons. Never had luck with paddle tails.

I have a soft spot for daredevils. They make the best casting spoons. Eppinger still Manufactures every thingin Michigan. my grandpa took the Eppinger family on a salmon charter in the late 80’s/early 90’s. When the got on the boat they brought 3 boxes full of trolling spoons. Some of the spoons are still around up north.

I fish for both all the time so I use my rods and reels for both. I’ve pulled large mouth and smallies out of the same spot 1 minute part .It depends more on where I’m fishing and if it’s big river fishing or gin clear lake water in norther Michigan. if fishing a really clear lake I’d grab Spinning 7ft st.croix premier m/l with a abu revo premier spinning reel ( I like this rod reel more more as I use it more) 7 ft m/l dobyns cold with a phluegar president spinning reel 6ft6 berkly tactics wacky rig edition with quantum Accurist pti spinning reel bait casters 6ft6 MH Johnny Morris carbon light 2.0 with a carbon light 8:1:1 reel 7ft Okuma Evx carbon crank rod with phluegar 5:4:1 supreme( another rod I bought over the winter that that I love using. Way better than my old skeet Reese crank rod ) if I was floating in a canoe or wading one of local rivers loaded with smallies around my area. I would grab the premier for 4 inch tubes and real light craw t-rigs. the dobyns for rapala’s and inline spinners

I know this is a bass forum and in the last 3 weeks I’ve been catching everything but, bass. It’s been a brutal spring so far for me Took the old man out today. Probably the first time he’s been walleye fishing in 30-35 years. Put in at center street and went north of gratiot and worked are way back to gratiot. Caught my first Tittabawassee walleye which, was 18 inches. Also, caught 4 nice white bass but, those back. A spro little John chartreuse blue flat side crank bait caught all of the fish. I think dad had a good even though he didn’t catch anything. Still no bass that spro is a bass crank so it kinda counts, right ? It had just come in the mail today

In case you need to take your pet bass for a walk. Didn’t somebody a couple years ago have a pet bass on here. he was concerned about releasing it into the wild?

St,Croix premier 7ft m/l $10 more than a bass mojo and it is made in the USA. I like this rod more each time I take it out. It is been a killer 3.8 swim bait rod. I’ve got a abu premier revo paired with it. Using 8 lbs Berkley %100 flouro

We’re struggling to get into pre spawn. Last week the river was 57 degrees. At night it has gotten back down into the mid 30’s the last 3 nights. So I don’t expect to warm much unless this rain has helped get the temp up. 1) Devine swim bait on 1/4 swim jig 2) cranks 3) chatter bait

That actually looks like a good idea. I’d Rather it be dark green or some other natural color but, I’d say it would work. The 4 qrt one would probably be fine. I’m assuming water can run through it? You can pack a lot of minnows in a gallon when they have fresh water like that

Those are pretty smallies. Colors look really good on them

Unfortunately even C&R bass is a blood sport and killing a fish/bass will happen. Just the nature of the beast. All anybody can ask is to learn from it, move on, try to minimize it in the future. You did the right thing by eating it or donating to the eagles would be another good idea imho

I like maxx scent and think it works. I don’t know if it’s better than power bait. I think it’s more lure dependent. I have a lot of Berkley power bait lures that I use, love chigger craws or other power bait craws/creatures . I really like maxx scent general/ stick bait worm for wacky rigging in clear water. maxx scent is definitely more smelly than power bait. Get that stuff on your hands and it lingers around all day

After fishing the big river last week in dirty water and over cast skies decided to pick some stuff up. I knew the DT-10 was scheduled for delivery today but the project z chatter bait 3 pack were not scheduled until Monday. Now I have them for fishing the river Tommrow. That DT is bright bright red I don’t think they will have any issue finding it. hopefully y this project Z will get deeper in the holes

By tungsten in bulk. There are a lot of vendors on Facebook, eBay, etc