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Rod selection isn't as important. A good braking system for line management is probably the most important factor along with technique. Brent Erhler had a good tip of casting out 30-40' of line and throwing some electrical tape on the spool to prevent severe backlash when learning. Happy skipping.

I like having a lot of rod reel combos with tackle selection. I can't really recall getting bass thumb before all this gear.

I found the feet that spin would foul up with grass consistently. I'd fish an area with it and get zero bites. Retie a poppin frog and catch bass in the same area.

Thursday and Friday the best 5 went 20lbs. Spinner bait, chatter bait and flipping jigs and T-Rig. Tons of bass shallow and active. Saturday was tougher with the weather but still good. A few really big bass were lost. From my coworker I talked to this morning.

Couple of smallies today. Biffle bug. Water visibility was bad. More than likely on beds.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-JDM-Daiwa-SS-SV-103-Baitcast-Fishing-Reel-Lighter-than-SteezSV-Select-Models/142668752837?hash=item2137b867c5:g:zxwAAOSw2r5ak5Z~ Daiwa SS SV 103. Super light magnesium frame reel. I don't like the only 9lb drag rating. You might not like the smaller handle on it but it's an easy replacement. Can't go wrong with Daiwa Japan. Had mine a few years now without any issues.

All of the colors listed above are excellent. Slow rolling has been the most successful retreive for me. Cast out and let sink to the bottom. Reel and pop your rod tip to get the blades turning. Slow steady retreive so the blades are barely spinning. Maybe two or three times bringing the lure in, pop your rod tip again to get the blades to speed up. That triggers a lot of reaction bites from bass as the blades pulse fast then slow way down again. Bluebird skies, calm weather, and clear water aren't optimal for spinner bait. Windy, overcast and dirtier water are ideal. Bump your spinnerbait into brush, logs, tullies ect. to trigger bass. Good luck they're fun lures after you gain confidence in them.

Mail call from Japan. Really giddy to fish this tomorrow.

It's pretty bad here. Everyone is eating everything. I know it's none of my business what someone keeps with a valid license, but seeing bed smallies being stuffed in coolers is really making me angry.

Coworker is going tomorrow through the weekend. Cold front less than ideal conditions. I'll see him mid next week and ask how it was. My other coworkers friend just got back this week. It's slow. Maybe 16-17 pounds for the best bag for the day. The consensus is that Alamo will be hot soon with 100+ bass days.

In my younger years it was important to know the difference between Indica and Sativa. One was a productive day in the garage or sinking into the couch

Definitely a notable difference from water temps from high 40s during winter and 100 summertime in AZ. I believe Justin Rackley (LakeForkGuy) has some videos on youtube talking about Texas power plant lake summer bass having softer mouths. Surface temps there reach 100+ too.

Bass mouths are much harder and tougher to penetrate in the winter month vs summer. Touch up your hooks. As said above reel a few turns and sweep the rod about waist high. Put some stank on the sweeping hookset

Casting gear for my weightless Senko skipping. 7'3" medium fast action rod (6'5 height). Reel Daiwa SS SV 103 with 10lb flourocarbon. With Daiwa's SV spool reels skipping weightless senkos is super easy. No spinning gear needed.

I drank the hyper kool aid. Shipped this morning from Japan. There's definitely a quality difference between the Thai and Japanese reels I have. Pretty stoked to fish it soon.

With the cooler AZ weather been carrying the M&P 2.0 compact with 4" barrel, stream light TLR1HL light with Phlster floodlight holster.

Definitely lots of little buck largemouth in the tullies. Smallies are bedding now. I must have seen 15+ beds the last 2 days including a few with the female still locked. I think you are correct they're probably carp. I'm going to work harder to try and find the pods of big females. The full moon is the end of the month so hopefully there's time to get a PB.

I'm going to try a ned tomorrow and vertically fish the little 2.8 keitech. Packed a couple spybaits. I haven't fished the Damiki rig yet but will try.

Located large pods of bass off of mainlake points suspended at 15-20' Any tips to get these fish to bite? Tried Keitechs/Underspins, Lipless, chatter bait, and large swimbait glide bait. Absolutely nada. Water temp 58-60.

The singularity and AI's takeover of humanity ?

Happens a lot with my brother and I when we'd fish. Sometimes I kick his butt other times it's me getting the @$$ kicking. He's a Marine so you can only imagine the trash talk back and forth ? all in good fun. I'm sure there'll be another time when you guys go out that you will be doing the catching.

Any potential for Florida strain monsters in your area?

I believe the recovery time is a few weeks of the post spawn funk. The bass are finicky and hard to catch. If you know the routes and staging areas before the spawn, start those areas first working out shallow to deeper staging locations. I've had great days in the post spawn with a weightless Senko. Long casts to deeper structure letting it sink down with occasional twitches. Yes it's boring and slow but it works. Don't forget to fish around the bluegill beds. You'd be surprised how many really big post spawn females hang around very shallow snacking on panfish.

Only caught a few dinks on the various plopper colors and sizes I have. I guess conditions never line up right when fishing them here. Don't care much for them, but will try them more after the spawn.

USPS finally came through. Good deals on these Zillions on eBay popping up. Sights set on the JDM 2021 Zillion next ???