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Color is spot on.

This is a special distributor color and not currently an active Zoom stock color. Zoom is unable to provide specific information as to the availability in your area. Contact your local tackle store or distributor for more information. Great color. Dang, new quest though.

Water was 70-72 degrees last weekend. I ignored what I was seeing on the sonar, bait was in 20 FOW, creek channel, near standing trees. I should have just marked that depth and started fishing it. I did for a little and caught a dink, then somehow convinced myself I wasn't doing the right thing. Turned out to be a bad choice, everything I caught was small up shallow too.

little more maroon-ish, probably no flake This has been a great color, would like something just like it with no flake. thanks. I have some orange belly stuff in senkos that I should try... maybe it'll work the same

You can actually buy them from amazon.com now - ie the US site. https://www.amazon.com/Daiwa-Gillion-1000H-Right-Handle/dp/B08NP3F5MV/

Nearly every time I fish. It's really quiet on a rope, and I can quietly pull up on a high probability spot and give it time to calm down. Helps me slow down too. I catch many more 'get the net!' fish with the anchor down. 18lb anchor, with an additional 10lbs for when it gets gusty, which is most of the year. There are definitely times when I'm on the move and catch a fish where I'd like to just spot lock down right there and can't, and that's a drag.

I feel like I have a pretty good playbook for winter, prespawn, spawn, post-spawn, summer. But fall, I really don't have any sense for where and how to target big fish. When they start moving up out of the depths for fall, where are they headed on weedy/shallower lakes? And on deeper lakes? I can find the spots where they were this summer, and start working back up shallower, but anything more precise for the fish that don't live just chasing shad around all day? Eating monster gills? Snacking on this years spawn? Hunting craws? Only pull up shallow to eat until it really starts to cool down? For context, fall water is 70 here now, and not falling fast. Winter might get under 50 for a little bit deep into the winter, unless we get some crazy cold snap for multiple days.

I was given a Deps Realizer (older bait) and it would pick up fish where mag squarebills didn't do the job. In particular where big fish would eat big gills, but one didn't need to fish slow. I lost it in a brushpile. At the moment I can get them on the bay but that's not really a long term solution. Any ideas for good replacements? I know it's kind of a niche question but I figure at least one of you fishes them or used to. This is what it looks like, although I had it in a good gill color.

I'm looking for something in between these two. The 175 feels like a training wheels glide, and the 250 is a little rough on the shoulder right now, and I'm not that confident with them yet to throw one that big all day. While we are at it, I'm likely going to buy a nice rat. Advice on the 'best' rat, or a nice high quality price/performance one? In both cases I'm happy to cough up for a nice bait if it is actually better.

Shimano World Boost Jerkbait, both deep and regular. Vision 110's catch dinks for me, I don't understand it. Maybe a texas thing. So far if they are biting jerkbaits they will bite this. One thing on deck to try though is some silent jerkbaits. Deps 7+ deep crank, I've talked about the day elsewhere here. If I had just immediately turned to fish the pattern I had a good shot at a 35lb bag. Fiddled around with big worms a bunch and some other deep cranks. Ended up with a couple of eights and a seven or maybe it was two 7's and and eight and some other misc fish, 4-5 didn't weigh.

Bought both of these, haven't had the right situation to really fish either much. Anyone using them to great effect? The panorama in 5.5" on a bare chatterbait jighead (the one that's a big eye) has a lot of potential. It moves like a fluke when you stop reeling, loops/dives/etc. I just haven't had moving bait bite that wasn't top or deep in a while. I cut the front off to match the size of the big eye on the bare chatterbait. I kind of hope the fat senkos work as well as a 6" senko, because they are 10 to a bag. They are kind of stiff compared to the 5" regular or the 6" so I don't think they are going to be a great wacky presentation unless they are weighted.

That's awesome. I feel bad about the yen getting crushed but thanks for the discount. If your state charges sales tax it may be a better deal on amazon.co.jp vs amazon.com. The former is usually 2500 yen for shipping, but the latter will tag you for sales tax. Probably easier to return buying from amazon US.

Nope but I have used this Picasso and it catches fish. Really good in pondweed or otherwise stringy weeds that you can't snap off your lure.

Mend it, set in the sun for 5-10 mins, ready to go.

I made a point of throwing the bama rig rod this weekend with a 6" boom boom/optimum swim bait. It's a big hunk of plastic, and was using an 8/0 owner beast flashy swimmer. Approaching but not quite two oz. Had to make sure. Anyway I could cast it further than I really wanted to set that big hook. It was a great fit. Little floppy for a long-distance hookset. Will be just about right for an s-waver, tippy enough for a 6.5 draw. 100% would not cast 4oz on it unless it was just lob-casting.

I've mostly been using cavitrons, but I lost one this weekend and need to replace it. Anything new or recently discovered? Seems like the early reports on the megabass and evergreen were 'meh'. While I'm at it, Skirt vs Toad? I've almost always used a skirt, although in fairness my biggest fish were on buzzbaits with a toad jammed under the skirt. Probably not ideal. My big fish came on a stanley buzzin ribbit jr, but that was really for matching the hatch on a bunch of fish eating some shad.

Texas? Might have lots of wind and weeds to contend with. I assume you are in a bass buster or another plastic boat like that? Anyway, buy a plain old deep cycle battery, they are cheap. Heavy though. And spend the money on getting a digital control (variable speed) trolling motor, and put a grass ninja on it too. 45lbs at least, maybe the 55 if it is windy where you are. I've been really happy I have the 55, getting buffetted into a grassline in heavy wind because I'm fighting a fish and now I have to get out. -however- it might be totally different on a plastic boat. Seems like worse since high up, but someone here can chime in. At least on a jon boat front-mounting is way way better than in the back, at least when it's windy. Dragging from the front and having variable speed will let you stay roughly in one spot without a lot of fiddling. In the back, it's a lot of correction or be prepared to spin.

Over time I'm trending towards two colors 1) white but a little translucent (ghost ice 6th sense, pictured below) and 2) silvery/flake (jackall). Occassionally using Fat Impacts but they don't seem like the right bait for this. I could see low-vis water + cloudy using an actual white, but I don't fish much water like that. You can use different colors on the same rig, particularly if they are close to each other, like pearl white and these ghost ice, and see if you see a difference in which one is getting bit. For me, the vast majority of the bites come on the bottom two. Then the back, then the two top, not sure they ever get big. Anyway I think the ghost ice is pretty good for a do-it-all. And yes there are a-rigs with no wires and no big head. Probably more suitable for neutral fish that actively eating ones.

Yall look closer, there's an extra bubble, not that the eye is bulging.

By the way if you are using softer plastics like senkos, Geecrack's "Neko Hack" is a better attachment system for neko than o-rings or anyhing else I've tried. Doesn't cut through the bait after a fish or two.

The Irod 1-4oz rated Bama Rig special is worth consideration. I bought it to throw A-rigs, and trying out some smaller swimbaits on it too. It's got enough mod in it work well with smaller a-rig hooks, so does fine with treble baits. It requires a bit more hookset on stuff like an owner beast hook. IMO the real range on it is 1-2 ounce. A bigger a-rig with eight blades running keitechs is too heavy for it. But what that means is it is useful for other stuff too. Heavy chatterbait, big spoons, smallish swimbaits (deps 210 is starting to get to the real upper end) , probably work great punching but I haven't tried it. Said another way it feels like an XH (non swimbait) rod, in terms of the progression from MH/H/XH, but it's got an action built for smaller hooks. I'm pointing all this out because you will get use out of the rod even if you ultimately don't like throwing swimbaits. I ended up buying a true heavy swimbait rod and a better mid-weight big hook rod, so this has mostly gone back to a-rig duty.

Amazon's sale has some silly prices on plano Edge boxes. Not all of them are on sale, but the ones that are are very discounted.

The Simms Rogue Jacket is one of my favorite bits of fishing clothing, especially in the spring and fall. Waterproof for an hour or so, not nylon (I hate noisy clothes) and a little bit of fleece inside. They made Simms Rogue pants, and they are as good as I expected them to be. It's the jacket, but in pants. Windproof, some solid water resistance, stretchy, warm, etc. Sharing, since they just came out, and it's that time of year. Only downside is they are Simms so they are on the expensive side. I have some of the random amazon brand fleece lined pants from last season and they were fine, but these are on another level of quality.

That's good data, thank you. 100% I think both of the above separate the implications of FFS in tournament fishing vs just in general, which I suppose was most of the original video's point.

How many rods? Might be some better alternatives, like the cal coast rod carrier.