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Seems great this morning, no delay at all. The problems I was having were not consistent, they seemed to come and go. If I experience it again I'll make a note of the time and comment again.

I've been having issues for a while, maybe a week or longer. Freezing up occasionally, images (including BR logo) won't finish loading, etc. Works fine when it's working, just sometimes when I click on a new page, it won't load, or it won't load all the way. Come back in a few minutes, and sometimes then it works, sometimes not. Dumped cache, cookies, logged out, restarted browser. Didn't seem to make a difference.

I got into my dad's tackle box at way too early of an age. I know I couldn't have appreciated the lures as much as I would now. I still have the actual steel tackle box, but the contents are all long gone ☹️

I'm trying to imagine how that would swim. It seems like it would be very erratic. What a crazy design. How in the world did somebody come up with that thing? Was this the same lake where you found the Twin Spin? It's a shame somebody is throwing away these classic lures. Probably some kid with his grandfather's tackle box.

It depends on the content of your channel, you can post your videos, but not if there's anything promotional on your channel, or if it's deemed to be promotional in any way, or links to anything promotional, etc. I'd advise you to read the whole thing though, because if you get it wrong, you may be gone. https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/guidelines/

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's not an H2O. It would have an "X" on the bottom if it was (unless it was like one of mine that was painted over or scratched off 😉). They only had one walking bait (the TWS) and it is/was shaped a little different and I don't think they ever offered that inside mirror finish in any of their lures, they just had chrome or printed foil outside. It is a nice looking lure whatever it is. I'd love to have it. Good find.

I found the problem - the line tie was bent. I have no idea how it could have gotten that bent. I don't remember anything serious enough to cause that much damage, there must have been rocks involved. After straightening it out, it swam fine with no trailer at all, and I put a super fluke jr on and it swam fine too. I can't believe nobody suggested to check that! I can't believe I didn't check that!

@AlabamaSpothunter nailed it. I don't mean breaking the surface. It vibrates normally at slow speed, but speed it up and it stops vibrating or vibrates erratically (stops and starts erratically). If it was hard for me, I wouldn't be asking the question. In my limited experience, size of blade, the bend on the blade, size of trailer, and even the skirt play a part in what speed a bladed jig vibrates. Another example of where our experiences differ. have never played a big part for me. I don't have a ton of experience with chatterbaits because they've never been very successful for me until I started burning them, and then I caught more fish on a chatterbait in a week than I had in a few years. 😄 Is what I'm using. What size do you use?

When I tried the Ocho for a trailer, it was hunting like a foot in every direction, a little too crazy for me. I actually got a bite with it though. Ah ha. That may be it. The Spunk Shad is pretty symmetrical, which helps, but I'm not great at hooking trailers straight and centered.

I’ve got a Jackhammer, I think it’s 3/8 oz (7/16 oz total weight), that wants to blow out at anything more than a very slow retrieve. I’ve tried a 4.5” Spunk Shad that looks great at slow speed, but when I try to speed it up it will blow out. I tried half a KVD Ocho thinking that being more streamlined would help, but that was worse and ran crazy. Running with no trailer it doesn’t really work at all. Will something heavy stabilize it? I assume it has to be small? Is the 3/8 oz Jackhammer just too light to get any speed?

Search for "Shin's knot" and you'll get a bunch of links to medical sites about bumps on the shins. You have to search for "Shin Fukae knot" This video has been around for six years but from a quick search it's all I see about the knot, no illustrations or anything. Is there another name for it?

I was throwing that same color yesterday. That's a weird coincidence, because I don't know if I've ever thrown that one, and I rarely throw Whopper Ploppers anymore. I like that color though, it's basically green pumpkin. I don't why they thought it needed those silver stripes across the top. They call that color Yoda 😄

Save them for the next pandemic 😉 Seriously though, when the supply chain broke, for once I was glad I was a bit of a packrat. I don't like putting them back in the same bag, but sometimes I do. I prefer to put them in a can, keeping the reds and other troublesome colors separate in a bag(s).

In almost 30 years of internet experience, I don't recall ever seeing any website revert to its old design. It's more likely to be patched to fix the most blatant errors. I also don't recall any redesign ever being popular with most of the users. That's not a defense of their design, I think what they have done is a terrible shame.

Easy come easy go, is what I always say when that happens (and it happens a lot) ? I guess it doesn't matter what it was now. If you find it again, we can revisit the topic.

I don't think so. The nose is too sharp for one thing. Looks more like a Lucky Craft, but it's not. It could be some kind of imitation from China. There's so many squarebills made though, I'm not sure. Are those chrome hooks? That's a sign it's possibly a cheap knockoff. Do an image search for "square bill crankbait" look for that overall shape, then try to find one with that exact gill pattern, then look at the way the tail tapers, then look at the eyes. Or start a new "lure ID?" thread.

There’s a popular fishing spot here at an intersection of a spillway and a creek. There’s a heron that hangs out around there, and it flies low along the creek, below the treetops lining the creek, at an altitude of 15-20 feet. You’ll be sitting there fishing, unable to hear anything over the rushing water, when it comes silently flying up from behind, and just as it gets right above you it will let out a screech that is blood-curdling. It sounds like a pterodactyl about to rip off your head. It rattles my nerves every single time, but it also makes me laugh every single time, because I think that heron loves doing that.

So, one month later, how do you like it? Also, why did you want to change from PowerPro?

A lizard or craw can't lay on its belly with an EWG.

Try lightly twitching/jerking that rig instead of swimming it, @Mobasser

Rust smells like blood to me, but I think it's unlikely that rust would attract or repel a fish. Chrome hooks? Why? I don't particularly like them, I never buy them, but I don't go as far as removing them from like all my Heddon lures.

I'm pretty sure Big Bite Baits was making their new soft plastics. I don't know what will happen now BBB has been bought out. I bought some 'flukes' (just called 5" Jerkbait) from BBB not long before Academy made the packaging change, and it looks like the same mold. They are not bad, but the plastic is a little too soft for flukes.

I do this with my small Plano type boxes. One 1/8" hole in each compartment, and on both sides of the box with the holes aligned on each side so air can flow through. It works really well. On rare occasions a treble will find its way through one of the holes, that's the only downside. I found Scotch-Brite pads work well for removing rust from hooks, but really, generally once something rusts, it will eventually keep coming back in the same spot no matter what you do. The finish is ruined. The exception is when the rust is from contact with something else that's rusted.

Having a list is contrary to the way I fish. My pack changes a little bit every day. I will add something new and then after a few days realize how heavy my backpack is getting, so I go through and remove everything that I’m not really using. That's in addition to the seasonal changes I make, based on my history of what they've bit in the past. Sometimes I pack for mobility and carry very little, but sometimes when I know I’m going to be fishing only one spot and haven’t had much luck lately, I will pack a lot of different things to try. If I’m not going to throw something, I don’t want to carry it around. That’s the goal. But I fish the same lake every day. It sounds like you are going to a lake you've never been to before and know nothing about. Finding the fish is hard enough. I'd concentrate on that with the bait you have the most confidence in, rather than carrying a bunch of stuff you'll never use. All that stuff will just make you lose focus.

I do this, but wrap it around two fingers instead of my hand, so the leftover bits are only an inch. Like @garroyo130 I have removed hundreds, if not thousands of feet of line from my lake and probably filled a garbage truck with other garbage I've picked up. I don't feel guilty leaving a one inch tag.