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I fish the susky near Harrisburg PA, summer depths 3-5’. We have alot of fun with flukes or soft minnow of your fav, mostly white with Chart. tail, nose hooked with a 1/0,2/0 wide gap drop shot hook. Small size hard jerkbaits, senkos.

Absolutely Not, dues paying member of the bait monkey club or what ever it’s called….lol

10.51# on a 1/2oz double willow spinnerbait I poured

1154, I live in Carlisle and fish up around I-81 and the Juniata up around Newport. Retired, if you wanna cast some new water.

Thanks for info guys 👍🏻. It does not have anything to tell manufacturer? The yo-zuri’s i have do tho. Reckon I’m gonna have to get a couple these crickets.

Need help with Ident on this jerkbait. Buddy of mine pulled this thing out the other day and almost put a spankin on me. I asked him what bait it was and he like me, suffers from oldtimers disease! We were in susky smallmouth jerkin. I’m guessin it’s an older Yo-zuri. TIA for any ideas TIA

Bird, I use this at times on rivers for smallies, works great

3/16-1/4 oz for the most parts, shallow go lighter, deeper or windy go heavier

What A-Jay said…. Welcome, 68 yo yaker here

As a noob to stream smallmouth fishing, only been at it for five years. My experience in this short period is once water temps get to or above 50-52, they seem to turn on in the creek near me.

Pitch a jig or crawworm as close to the trunk as possible and let it fall on slack line and watch the line, fall rate makes a difference some days. I use 3/8oz most times, 1/4oz or 3/16th if I want a slower drop. Mostly dark colors

I did buy the 150, rod I picked up is a St Croix Mojo med action 7.1… had no $ left for the bait monkey…lol

Thanks for input guys, finally had time to make it to tackle shop. Wow, that 150 is nice! Stayed in the shop too long and found a rod to my liking. Hope to break it in soon on some smallies.

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Thanks for the info, thinking I’ll go with the 150 first ??

Would like some input from you guys or gals that use or have used the Curado 150 mgl vs 200k. I own two Curados that are over 20 yrs old and still working great. I am wondering if both have magnetic braking?, haven’t had an chance to check them out in person. TIA

3/8 is my go to, but on windy days or if I need more distance, I’ll go up to a 1/2oz. 3 colors, white, black, chartruese

Buddy called midmorning asking if I could fishing, caught 3 SM, lost 2, but the biggun didn’t get away, new PB 19”er. All fish on spinnerbait, 50 degree h20

I’m learning tricks for SM from a local where I reside part of the year, near Harrisburg,PA. Jerkbaits, hard an soft, the hard is a yo-zuri 3DS 70mm Ayu in the creeks and rivers. The soft is a white fluke tail dipped chartruese and nose hooked on a 1/0-1 drop shot hook. Have only been fishing for smalls for 4 years, PB so far is 18 3/4” on the Ayu wading in 2ft of H2O.

I have used The Devcon epoxy for nearly 30 yrs, 2 ton, tip don’t use the Quick setting type.

Had a order for these 1/2 oz, have 4 3/4oz in the works for same friend

Been soaking worms, real and plastic, for a tick over 60 yrs. love the tug

Longest I ever use is 36”, most of the time 20-24”

Completely homemade with 3 pvc tubes, used the bottom 3” from another crate to make a lid/tray in the event of a turtle

Another option, is fingernail polish