NittyGrittyBoy

I vote carpet. Sound goes a looong way, and you don't want to spook the fish before you get to them. I built a deck and carpeted mine, nice and quiet. Use pressure treated wood and outdoor carpet and you can get a couple years out of it.

I Snell 8/0 and 9/0 circle hooks for flatheads. That's bout it. We use live crappie, red breasts, warmouth, shell crackers, any panfish for bait.

There not that silver to me, probably some corrosion. They are new but probably had moisture in my box. And that tip and in the round bend part chips first. Only hooks I resharpen are frog hooks, jigs, and the occasional chatterbait. I keep a small wetstone in my box just for that, my grandpa taught me to sharpen my hooks. But worm hooks and trebles are too easy to replace

Shaw Grigsby

BOOM! Goes the dynamite haha! When I set the hook, I do mean business. @Hook2Jawwhen the big girls start to go on the beds I got some ponds I can take you to! Home of leprechaun's and Unicorns. @WRBfirst hook is fine, the rest are bent out, and the Berkeley fusion must still be on the bank because I couldn't find it. I'm still going to order straight shank hooks to try my local bait store didn't have any. When flipping or t-rig I reel up slack, and give a hard upward motion. Crankbaits, topwater the rest it's a side sweep hookset. My Ive also always thrown 5/0 as well, it wasn't until I downsized to a 3/0 I started having more bending out problems. And thank you guys for the help and suggestions that's why I joined Bass Resource!

Those with the weird bend at the top are kvd mustad hooks. Just says 3/0 on package. I'll save my EWG's for flukes and Swimbaits. I just bought these hooks to try, maybe they'll be stronger than this junk I've been using. And no presharping the hooks. Paint being chipped just means I wrastle with giant bass ?

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Hook on far left is good hook for reference to the 3 bent hooks on Right

Never caught a gar or mud out of this pond. Yes a 1.5lb bass bent hook. All the hooks are bending out, opening up. No stumps it's a flat muddy bottom, strewn in a hairlike thick as snot black grass. It may be hard to believe but I'll post some pictures of all the hooks involved yesterday.

Gama 3/0 ewg, mustad KVD ewg, and Berkeley fusion ewg. And some shakyhead jig I had. All new. That's just today's list. It's like this every trip

@GRebNo way fish had it by the tail, I felt the familiar thump, set the hook, and fish went to pulling drag. And I keep a tight drag. The fish pulled till she opened her mouth apparently. Same pond I caught and released a 11 in and earlier this year guy caught and kept 11.5 @WRBhooks we're plenty sharp. I know it was operator error, that's why I asked what I'm doing wrong.

After countless YouTube videos. I think the answer to my puzzle is trash my ewg hooks, and swap to straight shank hooks. And when using t-rig I will be using braid. I'm still thinking about that fish I lost today.

So upon talking to friends, maybe it's my quality of hooks? I used Berkeley fusion and mustad KVD ewg 3/0. Maybe I need to use nothing but trokars? Straight shank stronger? Anybody else have problems with bending hooks or hooksets? I've never had this problem.

Beautiful Florida Bass!

Choose the least pressured pond you can, and chances are fishing will be pretty good.

Ok, so I have a problem I need help. I was using a shakyhead jighead with black trick worm, dobyns 6'6 MH/f with 30lb braid. Fishing about 3ft of water set the hook on a nice fish reeled in 2 scales and a bent hook... So I had my 7'3 heavy rod I was throwing a swimbait one, pegged a 1/8ounce bullet weight with 3/0 hook. Put another black trick worm on, caught a decent 1.5lb bass. Bent hook... So I changed hook put a cinnamon/blue flake senko, got a good bite set hook bent hook, no fish. So after getting ticked I grabbed my 6'6 micro magic w/ 15lb big game mono. Tied on same setup, moved down pond, got a good tap, set the hook hard. Rod doubled over, pulled drag (dang nice fish) line got slack. Reeled in senko, the dang hook was barely exposed. So now I'm kinda mad at the mono for not getting hook through worm. So any advice is greatly appreciated, what am I doing wrong? That was a huge fish and now im second guessing everything

Little pond by the house, missed quite a few

There's a reason why one of greatest (cough kvd cough) anglers, has won numerous tournaments by using a crankbait. Next to soft plastics, I've caught more big bass on crankbaits than any other hardbaits put together They just flat work..

1. Spend more time on the water. 2. Fish outside my comfort zone. 3. Quality over quantity

Smithwick rogue suspending jerkbait and black and blue jig, throwing them right now, both in a muddy ole river.

The joys of fishing River systems...

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Minnows or jigs?

You dangled the bait and I had to bite this one. Because anglers fish for spawing bass, and the bass may not return, in no way hinders the future of more Bass. If that was the case, Fla alone would be extinct of bass because of that. But on the contrary, fla in my humble opinion, is still King of Bass fishing (sorry Texas and Cali). So please don't let that wrong thinking, stop you from enjoying time on the water. Until then, Good metal detecting Sherlock

First off, I am grateful for not having milfoil or zebra mussels. And second, I'm not to prideful to learn. That's why im here, I want to be a better angler. I think if I did loosen the drag a tad, and go down to smaller line it would help. Thanks. sorry for the hijack op