RealtreeByGod

I think Palomar is best as a braid knot but I haven't had problems with it with other line types. When I don't use it for fluoro or mono, I just use a Uni or Fish-N-Fool. But I also almost never use rigs/presentations where I have to swing for the fences to get hook sets.

I'm probably bringing them up from 25-30 feet of water and release anything over 10lbs because they're too much of hassle to clean when they get that big. And really I mostly just target them for the sport and the novelty of catching 30+lb fish. They swim off well enough under their own power, but reading stuff about how bass have hard times from that depth, it got me thinking.

My worst, least-favorite reel was a Shimano Nexave that used to be on my M/L. It was super smooth and had nice drag most of the time, but it would stick and grind to a halt if it got the teenciest bit wet. For something that's going to be around water a whole lot, I'd expect it to not do that. None of my other reels ever did. OFC, every spinning reel I've ever owned has been under 60 bucks so IDK how qualified I am on this subject.

I've only had the opportunity to fish alot for 2 weeks this year, but every bass I've caught with the exception of 3 pond dinks and a 5.5ish pounder that I caught as bycatch while catfishing has been on a Ned Rig.

I mainly use my lipper because I have big hands and it gives me much more room to work with when de-hooking. This one was a hair under 30

PB blue cat, my scale/lipper said 42lbs. It's still not really a big blue cat, but I landed it and netted it by myself with a medium rod, 30lb braid mainline, and a 20lb mono leader.

What the hell is this? I thought it was a spot at first until looking at the pictures where it seems awful dark and the eye really stands out. Could it be a red eye? I caught it on Chickamauga, a vagrant doesn't seem completely implausible to be in there.

I sent a UL Clarus I snapped in a boatseat back that got there 3 weeks ago and I haven't heard the first thing from them yet, so this thread isn't giving me any more confidence.

In terms of looks and size - bouncing around a 1 or 2 inch Gulp! Minnow on a small panfish jig or Trout Magnet will be the closest, but you'll have to break out your UL and wade through all of the bluegills and greenies you'll get as bycatch.

There's a park pond with a handful of 4-5lb northern strains that I'll see cruising in the shallows that ignore everything thrown at them because they've probably been caught 4-5 times.

Surely it's probably happened at least once.

I'll sometimes catch pond dinks with a Lindy Little Nipper tipped with a 1-inch Gulp Minnow, but it's mostly because they're so d**n pressured they refuse to hit anything larger most of the time.

Is the whole buoyancy aspect of the TRD kind of being upsold? Are they really hit often when standing up off the bottom and deadsticked? I feel like almost every Ned Rig bite I've ever had was either on the fall or while actively swimming it. Should we be looking for baits that fall and wiggle well more than anything else? Of course, that might also be the TRD because it is still by far my most successful Ned Rig lure.

I'm necroposting this thread because I finally caught a largemouth on cutbait after several years of half-way knowing what I'm doing. He picked up a Carolina Rigged bluegill head sitting on the slope of a channel while I was fishing for decent-sized blue cats.

IDK what I'm doing wrong but my Albrights pull through half of the time I try to tie them. It's with light line, normally 7lb fluoro > 10lb braid.

I replenished some of the stuff I was out of because I actually catch fish with them, got one of those Evergreen Gizmo topwater bugs because I randomly came across it and thought it looked neat, and some topwater flies to try with a casting bubble because it's incredibly frustrating seeing surface-cruising pond bluegills that ignore everything I'm capable of throwing at them with conventional tackle.

Pond I'm thinking about hitting up tomorrow has some pretty decent sized carp in it and I'm planning on throwing a couple of cans of corn in the water and coming back a bit later to see if I can't catch one. How should I rig when targeting them? Should my bait stay close to the surface or should I put it lower in the water column?

But they're often too light to cast very well. I was thinking something like 1/8-3/8oz but with small panfish hooks.

A ballhead jig small enough to catch panfish on, yet heavy enough to be thrown more than 20 feet by a UL, is intriguing to me and I'm sure I'm not the first person to ever think of it.

Cylindrical vs Spherical vs Tear-Drop Is there any practical difference? Is there a reason to prefer one over the other?

Lighting's not great, but the eyes look reddish here

Seems like almost every other predatory fish aside from black bass you hear about people targeting and catching them with cutbait and other "non-natural" baits like bread, dough bait, and bacon. Why is that?

10" Watermelon Purple/Red Flake Power Worm on a Texas Rig, was only like 4.5lbs though.

I generally prefer finesse fishing, but this is the one obvious technique I've never tried out. What time and what kind of structure / cover / bottom composition should I be using it around?

My UL is a 7ft Moderate Fenwick Eagle, and while it handles fish and throws smaller lures well enough, its length and whipiness make it very inconvenient to bring on a kayak.