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Forgot about these. First time buying anything from reaction innovation. For spring jig fishing picked up some smallie beavers in penetration and tramp stamp. When trying new plastic I like to buy a dark and light color. Tramp stamp definitely looked lighter in the photo, guess not I need to get out and fish. Couldn’t this weekend as the truck wasn’t done. Should be done tommrow. Sunday ill take the boat and I’ll drop the wife and kid off and her moms while, I fish

Latest and one of my last purchases for a while. I’m proud of this one. This is a special mate box used for storing stick baits. It is 8 inches tall . Kinda expensive at 70 bucks shipped but, I think worth the investment. Obviously if I was fishing on some one else’s boat I wouldn’t bring it but, pick out what I thought I need. First 5 rows are for walleye or trout trolling with some Husky jerks, orginally rapala’s, Deep down huskies, deep bandits, rouges ( jerk bait or trolling). Middle section is my bass jerk baits ( less than what I thought I had) , 3rd section Shad raps ( bass and trolling), and 4th flicker Shad ( bass and trolling. No more hook tangles or baits getting knocked around. I cleared out 4 Plano boxes of stick baits. Just under 50% full

That blue back herring color by strike king is one of my better colors. I’ve had good success with the kvd 300 deep jerk bait and killed it a couple times last year on a flat side. It doesn’t resemble any one bait fish in Michigan dead on but, it’s close enough to mimic a lot of different stuff. Big thing is it looks natural. Some times close enough is good enough.

1/2 oz Poison tail swim jigs and 1/4oz-1/2 inch brush jigs. Couple of the brush jigs are finesse cut. Couple new skirt colors. The black one is black with green flakes. Bottom right natural craw. Top right ripple cut blue olive. I’ve got like a $100 jig skirt order coming soon. So I’ll be busy for a while. 2 new pro tech paints are coming with order which, are baby bass and black blue flake. That baby bass color with the baby bass skirt should look really cool

Like stated it is flouro coated co-polymer. The kast king flouro clear is decent stuff. Probably imho better than pline flouro clear, Berkley vanish, and stren flouro or best of the cheap flouro co-polymers. I have had 20 lbs kast king flouro clear spooled up on my swim jig rod since last may and I have had no problems with it at all . I also use it as leader material for my t-rig and jig rod which has 30 lbs power pro spooled on it

The mustard kvd 1x short 1x strong regular or needle points will allow you to upsize 1 size. Due to how short they are and the way the hook points are. Maybe won’t be the same wieght but, they won’t tangle

Yup do it all the time. I caught my very first t-rig fish 4 summers ago using 1/8 tungsten worm widget with a discontinued green pumpkin orange clawed zman craw z t-rigged. It is also a very effective technique for the Saginaw bay also. I use a 1/8 tungsten wieght and t rig your favorite plastic. My favorite worm for this is a zoom magnum swamp crawler. Before I up graded my equipment I was using a MH ( acts and feels like a medium) Berkley tactix wacky worm spinning rod

I’m not sure about cabelas but, in my experience they usually run half a size smaller. I wear a size 14 shoe/boot so my waders had to be ordered. They were a a tad snug on my feet but , they worked.

I bought a pair of $65 waders-from gander right before they went out of business. Which, was 2016. They are still going strong. Big thing is when Not in use they have to be hung up. Just add a layer if fishing this time of year. Neoprene would be in godly hot in the summer time

New chatter baits that I put together last night. I didn’t pour the jigs just bought them unpainted from lure parts .com. One is black and silver, blue gill, and a green pumpkin. Hand bent the lure eyes the blue gill I used disco green pro tech. Skirt was blue gill from Easy Kasting and I added a half a strip of chartreuse.

Latest 6th sense monthly box came in. Looks like good stuff . Soft plastic Blue gill fire prawn, ghost ice divine swim baits, curve 55 in natural craw, thud 70 in black magic, provoke 106x herring Shad, and a black vegga frog. I don’t have a frog rod do everybody can see where this is going haha. between the walleye trolling stuff and bass lures I have bought a metric butt ton in lures over the last month. I would put most ma and pa shops to shame right now. long as my truck is done getting the front panels tommrow I’m hopping my first trip of the year is Saturday

8 wraps. I’ve never went back up. I’ll check that out

What I look for in a good spinner bait? 1st and foremost that it catches fish. I don’t really care how much they cost . 2nd run right out of the package I've only had 2 spinner baits just absolutely refuse to work. Both were booyah vibra wire 3/8 white spinner baits. No matter what I did I couldn’t stop getting line wrapped around the wire or rolling their sides constantly 3rd take a licking from northern pike and big smallies and keep on ticking. IMHO a spinner bait only has so many fish in it before it’s just junk and time to move onto the next one. Some may not agree and that’s ok but, my Times precious. I don’t have time to be re-engineering a spinner bait after a couple pike have given it the business. 4th like anybody else I’m a sucker for a good paint job 5th so far I really like my war eagles they seem to catch fish, not horribly expensive if I shop around, and can laugh after getting knocked around at a decent sized northern. 6th my second favorite spinner bait is the photo. I know strike king makes spinner baits with this blade but, I think booyah does too. Could be a couple differnt mfg’s. However, behind the war eagles this blade with an eye and scale color has worked very well. Color dosent matter

Your just doing your patriotic duty to stimulate the economy. Somebody has to do it. Might as well be you and me

That’s what I am expecting too. Glad I made my rod purchases and other big ticket fishing purchases Last Nov-February. I had a feeling somebody would put the garmin echo maps on sale. However, I didn’t want to be caught with my pants down looking for a deal when the stimulus checks dropped

That Midwest finesse mold is on my radar too

I plan on learning and using the split shot rig a lot this year. There is one popular lake/state park near me that has a ton of weeds in it I think it will work wonders in. Also good to know another finesse tactic. I actusllied just ordered some mojo style weights in 1/16 and 1/8

Yeah I they do work good for that. I decided to cut the skirt on that one in the picture when I was fishing in November. Air temp was like 70 but, the water temp was low to mid 50’s. So my thought process was water is cold so, I’ll try cutting the skirt to a finesse skirt on the fly. It worked caught some nice smallies on that jig I was getting ready to order more jigs on eBay. Than the total came up to like $32 and I thought to my self “that’s only like 10 bucks more for the mold its’ self “. So I bought the mold instead

New mold came why I was up north fr lure parts. It is 1/4-1/2 brush jig mold. It works very well for large rivers. When I mean large rivers I’m talking From 6ft-30ft deep. 3rd picture is of a jig I bought via ebay already painted but, added my own skirt. So this will go with my flat eyed arkie 1/4-1/2, poison tail 1/2-1 oz bass molds

We’re still in a almost full blown winter pattern. Supposed to be 65 in central Michigan Monday. Than it will get down into the 50’s for the next week

1 Jerk bait just about any sources of fish will hit one 2 inline spinner 3 3 inch black twister tail on a small lead head.

With working 4 12hrs days 2 days off and 1 10 hr hour day. I don’t get that luxury. I fish when I get the opportunity. That means I can’t wait for favorable barometer conditions. I have to go when I can. I’ve all ready made the decision this spring because, Michigan weather can suck this time of year. If it’s safe to go I’m going no matter the temp or precipitation. This current schedule is better than what we were doing which was 8 hrs 7 days a week for forever . Only down side is I can’t fish after work

Aluminum is cheaper to get into. Lighter to haul around but, your not going to have that problem if you have a dock and lift. With being lighter your also going to be one of the first to be blown off the lake Also, I’d say aluminum is cheaper and easier to maintain. Resale value will be less than a glass boat. glass boats more expensive to get into. Hold thier value better and are one of the last boats to get blown off the lake. Won’t get knocked around as much by a wake as an aluminum boat would. I’d say glass is harder to damage but, once it’s damaged it’s a little harder to fix. Just like life everything with a boat is trade off just depends on what you need in a boat.

Well actually they are more like clubs. The 2 I’m thinking of doing has yearly dues. No I don’t expect to do very well the first year. I fish alone most the time so very least at least meet some other people. I think one is on Friday nights the other on Saturday mornings. I figure between my work schedule and the differnt fishing days. I could make a couple a month. I still need to get a live well built and other stuff. I think the first couple at least I’d rather be the non boater. We will see. I know there is usually a glut of non boaters than people with boats. I know when I was looking at the Michigan B.A.S.S sanctioned clubs most were not letting non-boaters in. The 2 clubs I’m looking at are not affiliated with BASS. I think they are just local all good info captain Phil thanks.