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If it is, then yes. A problem. Take a pic and blow it up.

Rod sleeves, reel covers, then right over the shoulder like a stack of 2x4s. I keep one rod in my hand as wand to knock down spider webs in my path. In the moment there's nothing quite as awful as a spider web, including the spider, wrapped around your face.

Try every retrieve you can think of until they tell you how they want it. They've gotten attention lately here being slow rolled/paused, hopped, or burned. No way to know which way is right beforehand. I tend to work a zone over completely before moving on, so a single bait will be presented with several different retrieves/cadences. Very often a zone that seems to be dead will light up with bites once you find out what they want. Selecting a dark or light version can be just as impactful regardless of retrieve. If bass are there it's usually for a reason. It's hard to know ahead of time what they're keyed in on. They'll tell you, but you might completely miss the boat if you don't show them what they want. Last trip out I started with the black/blue because it's been working well. Not a sniff in several areas. I switched up to the lighter shad colored version and immediately started getting bites. It was that drastic. The fact that it was dusk may have had something to do with it. The extra flash, which is usually rejected at this lake, might've been the difference maker under this particular ambient light condition. Whatever the reason, they wanted it. I ended up with a jumbo running it exactly where I'd ran the black/blue one several minutes earlier.

If you're going to try out a variety of perch cranks then definitely add this one to your list. Balsa. Silent. Easy to control running depth over submerged weeds. Killer when this is what they looking for. Everything in the lake will attack it. I like the 07 size. https://www.fishusa.com/Rapala-Shallow-Shad-Rap-SSR05-Lures?quantity=1&L-Size1=94&L-Color1=15135&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyMiTBhDKARIsAAJ-9VvGTukAJW7RRG1WlJvcxnZHJBURBidNWPWTd6dMaR8GQHDxyoDtSFEaApWqEALw_wcB

Anything you can do for the cause that works is good. Personally I just hang mine to dry. I have a spot in the boiler room with open wall studs. I stripped the jacket from a few 4' lengths of 12-2 romex, then stapled the conductors in a few rows horizontally to the studs. I've made it a habit to quickly hang my baits after each trip, then stand the empty boxes on the floor like an open book. The baits drip dry and they're typically bone dry by the morning. As long as I don't sleepwalk into the boiler room, trip, then get velcro'd to the wall by trebles...

Hey. There's no such thing as a bad bass just like there's no such thing as bad p...Well, sometimes.. Dahhh, you know what I'm sayin?

The knot banging through the guides makes me want to go on a rampage. I hate it, so I stick with straight whatever. I put up with it on spinning rods, but I don't use them much anyway. This was zero help, I know. Forgive me.

It's probably not a good idea to recharge them where you bake your chocolate chips anyway.

I use these when I do 3 rod hops. One rod is always in hand and 2 are placed in these, then I rotate as needed. On the shore and also when I wade way out on shallow flats. As long as your shoreline isn't made of granite they poke right into the ground. Send them home using your foot with the attached handy foot thingies.

That's why god made trees and bushes. To lean your rods against.

I think so. Unlikely they'd stray from mag for a shallow spool finesse version.

Several centuries of Italian stonemason's genetics passed down courtesy of my momma. They were human pack animals. I seriously doubt I'm as hard as they were, 'cause ya know, I'm from L.I., but I can hack it most days.

They need to be dried out in an oven to be useful after they've been exposed to atmosphere for a certain amount of time.

I'm on my home PC. Sez mag.

I feel like I'm covered well with what I have here, so I never second guess what I've brought. Covers conditions of where I fish. No problem wading out or bank fishing with this entire show hanging on me. 3 rods will cover it all, but I like to have 5.

Another good reason to avoid Fluorocarbon

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I know his cousin. If he sends me a fish pic there's no need asking which bait he caught it on.

Yeah, I feel and look like a goofball when I wear it, but it really keeps the sun off of my neck, even sun reflected off the water. That'll get you too.

Here's another option https://www.columbia.com/p/schooner-bank-cachalot-iii-CU9108.html

Wheeler steams on out of oblivion again.

I'm not sure. I use Haynes Lubri-Film which is food safe. I bought it for the large o-rings on our water filtration canisters. Just a light film on the worm will help the o-rings to slide right onto roboworms, trick worms, etc. Much less of a PIA.

Some great spots out east. I have a relative who's a resident in a resident's only township out that way, so I get to play there. Fantastic spots with 25 bass days and lunkers. Paradise compared to my Nassau puddles. My SIL got his PB 7.5 out there last summer, and we've ogled pics of 8s and humongous Pickerel. Love it out there.

Thanks! Added a better pic. On another note, I'd never gotten a sniff on this Bluegill Freedom chatter. Yesterday I repainted the head silver with gold accents, added red gills, stole a skirt from a Megastrike chatter, then added the 5" Diesel minnow. It's probably dumb luck that a big ate it, but I can pretend it was because of what I put together.? I thought about your flippin' hook mod while I was working on it, so I tried to install one, but it was really tough to thread it onto the head's keeper. Not in the mood to perforate myself trying harder, I gave up and stuck with the original hook. I'll try to find a lighter gauge hook and try again. I had several misses before I hooked up. Might've been the stock hook.

Last year I couldn't crack the 6lb mark at my favorite local spot, but came close with two confirmed 5-15s. Rang the bell tonight with a 7-6 chunk and my new PB for this place on a Zman Freedom chatter bait in Threadfin with a 5" Diesel Minnow Bad Shad trailer. My camera got soaked from splashing, headlamps were blaring, pictures are a mess, but I did my best to salvage one with color editing. My brother ran back to get his phone, but couldn't get his flash to work until right before I needed to release her. It took a minute but she bolted off. He was way late for a date and needed to tear out of there. I'll get a look at his tomorrow as long as his phone doesn't spontaneously combust before he hits "send". Hopefully I'll get at least one solid picture from his roll. Aside from all of that fun, 4 more fish came on medium sized wakes! Good times. P.S. Added normal pics