Hook2Jaw

Scale, no scale, guesstimated, or expertly estimated matters not. That's an awesome fish and you should definitely be proud.

Sending an H2O CRS Square for both of them in Chart/Black and a bag of YUM Craw Chunks in black and blue. I think those colors should work for your fishery and hopefully it'll introduce them to more budget friendly offerings. Those two are definitely my two favorite brands.

What lures do these guys favor?

I'm having the same issue, except I'm having to rebuild my baitcaster arsenal after having four stolen in addition to two spinners. Here's my rebuild order, from what I found most important to least. I've currently knocked out the first two setups. My priorities are setup to move me into prominent techniques throughout the coming months for kayak tournaments. 1. 7' MHF, 6.3:1, 12# fluoro. Universal setup. 2. 7' MHF, 7.3:1, 14# fluoro. Universal setup. 3. 6'7" MXF, 6.3:1, 10# mono. Jerkbait setup. 4. 7'3" MHF, 7.3:1, 14# fluoro. Carolina, Texas, casting jigs. 5. 7'4" HF, 8.1:1, 50# braid. Pitching, punching, and frogging. 6. 7'3" Crankbait Rod, 6.3:1, 12# fluoro. Chatter, swimjigs, small swimbaits, medium crankbaits. 7. 7'9" Crankbait Rod, 5.4:1, 10# fluoro. Deep crankbaits, medium swimbaits, A-Rigs. 8. 8' Swimbait Rod, 5.3:1 round reel, 20# copoly. Large swimbaits, A-Rigs. 9. 7'1" MF, 2500 Spinning Reel, 20# braid to 6-10# fluoro, finesse baits. If I were you I would get a 7'-7'6" MHF with a medium to high speed reel for casting weighted worms and jigs or the finesse setup in the area of 7' and a size 2000 or 2500 spinning reel. That Nasci is an incredible reel.

I feel bad for you guys up North. At least all your personal best snowballs are bigger than mine.

@NittyGrittyBoy fileted 10 reds and 3 trout last night, gonna get the slaw made tonight. Be at the house at 7:30. Dressing is for sissies, I personally eat my ruffage on all fours with my face out of another man's garden. @LuffDaddy this entire thread started when you attacked a man not even here to defend himself.

I didn't know that. I like to use it as a substitute for steak sauce, which I never use, so rarely.

Listen man, it's cool, but if you like thousand island over ranch dressing and don't do bison burgers it's gonna be some problems.

Please send your wife's portion of Bullwinkle lasagna to me.

I bought the Rapala 6" filet knife out of Wal-Mart not long ago, and they have a little red plastic sharpener with ceramic bars. I've used my grandpa's whetstone, multiple diamond stones, etc, and while I can make a knife sharp eventually, nothing does it quicker than that little plastic and ceramic sharpener they package with that filet knife.

My closest whole foods is an hour away. Perhaps I'll go see if they have any and cook some up, never made my own bison burger. I'll be fileting some Georgia redfish tonight, might even bake some up and make some tacos.

@Junger, my mouth is ready for some food right now. I gotta stop eating or I'm gonna be overweight for my kayak. You guys have bison in your grocery stores? @LuffDaddy, five or six instances of you telling the entire audience of your grand accomplishments is certainly bragging, and that's okay. It's gonna be fine. People brag, I just found it a little annoying that you felt the need to come trash a beginning bass angler for expressing how accomplished he is and then following suit before the entire audience. Everyone brags, I don't think you should be so offended by it if you're going to do it yourself. But you'd already asked if you were too sensitive to him thinking of himself highly when it comes to largemouth. You are. Like I said, every one brags, and you should most definitely let it go. Shoot, just the other day I caught a bass, tail tied him with a reverse Palomar over the hill hitch, and trolled him slow behind the boat. Fifteen minutes later I reeled him in and had 20 half-used discarded senkos.

In the spirit of talking about salad and burgers, I have deleted my post.

24.5" inshore red, biggest out of 11 my friend and I caught yesterday.

Man, no offense, that salad and dressing choice is so far out. Sounds very hipster. Fear not! I climb trees for a living and drink cheap American brews... ...but I also watch The Bachelor/Ette with my fiance. My favorite salad dressing is ranch and I love a good burger, do you have a B&D Burgers where you are? My local one offers bison, elk, and beef, and it's pretty awesome for 10-15 bucks a burger.

This thread is now about overpriced salad. The most overpriced salad I've gotten is that time I miscalculated my cast with a Zara spook along a weed line and hauled it in. What's your favourite dressing, @Junger?

In this episode of Bassresource.com, the thread starter complains about about the Stormwater Senko Sleuth and his excessive bragging before bragging about his own impressive bass snatching skills. I prescribe a Facebook argument followed by, "fite me tho bro!" before you both block each other.

Throwing topwater on this rod as well, and I was getting subsurface spook action. Didn't like it.

Went against most suggestions after receiving my jerkbait rod in the mail, was worried about pulling trebles with the XF tip. Went with Berkley Trilene XL monofilament, proceeded to catch quite a few bass on it and took it inshore yesterday. Smoked a 17" seatrout and an 18", but weirdly, on the first cast I caught... A d**n stingray. Second one ever on artificial.

I love Vanish. Yeah, it's cheap, and yeah, it coils a bit. I've landed my personal best bass on Vanish and with two fights with a pair of foul hooked 25ish pound carp, I have all the faith in the world in Berkley Vanish. The PB was on 17#, and the two carp were drug in on 12#. As for what everyone said, I'm going to try out copolymer and braid to fluoro. I'll figure out which I like from there. Thanks guys!

Crushed them on an h2o squarebill yesterday, those cheap suckers are absolutely legit. Nice fish, @LuffDaddy!

I've touched them up a tad with that retrieve before. They weren't having any of that yesterday, they wanted the whole world fast. Vicious strikes.

Finally got a dedicated jerkbait setup, suggest me a line, if you would. Once this fizzles down a tad I'll evaluate opinions fully to best present my rips! Thanks in advance! The setup: Daiwa Fuego 6.3:1, 6'7" Medium Fast Rod(banned brand, ***, if anyone has any opinions on the rod please PM me.) I've been jerking with the same geared Fuego with a 7' Medium Heavy Fast Daiwa Aird-X with 12# Berkley Vanish Fluoro, losing maybe 1 in 10 fish. Help me catch number 10!

They wanted the jerkbait ripped super aggressively with a constant reel accompanying it. The way the H2O Jerk Shad moves impresses me greatly, super erratic. I was slashing the water so hard you could hear the line whip through the air and bubbles would rise with every downward slash. I just won a new Fuego on eBay in 6.3:1 for 51 bucks, shipped, and scored an 80 dollar rod for 70 shipped. Ready to get my jerk on as it continues cooling. They would absolutely annihilate the squarebill on a deflection or on the pause. Five quick turns and a pause absolutely brutalized them. Good to see your Georgian ass back on here, @NittyGrittyBoy, how you been bro?

So, I've been at this bass fishing thing for about two years and my confidence started in Texas rigged worms, moving to weightless sticks and flukes, and then finally to jigs and smaller paddle tailed swimbaits. I've been a skeptic about power fishing for a while, but today I got on them and a combination of cooling temperatures and the H2O Xpress Ultimate Jerk Shad and H2O Xpress CRS Crankbait produced my first ever 30+ fish day. Nothing exceeded two pounds, but it was a great action packed afternoon from 5:15-6:30 PM. I caught 8 on 8 casts bouncing the squarebill off the bricks of the pond overflow drain, and also fired up a school with the jerk shad before that. I am now a believer in a jerkbait and the crankbait, and very happy to gain confidence in the lower priced academy brand.