Jig Man

This is what I use in the summer. It works great. It dries the boat in an hour or two.

FG is the strongest smallest knot that I have ever used.

I am fishing flat rocky coves from the point back as far as I can get a bite. Most of the time the boat is no deeper than 8 feet. The fish are from 2-6 feet deep. I’ve never seen fish this shallow this late in the year. I have tried backpacking off and fishing deeper but I can’t get a bite that way.

What has been good to feed the great granddaughters has been, chicken nuggets, pizza, fried chicken and burgers. They will eat potatoes any way we fix them.

The warmest thing I’ve found is a Gerbing heated vest. It has replaced several assorted items that I have tried over the years. https://www.gerbing.com/collections/battery-heated-vests/products/gerbing-7v-mens-torrid-softshell-heated-vest-2-0?variant=44873770139939

The rocky areas that I have been fishing were loaded with smallmouth 6 weeks ago. An occasional largemouth would be caught. As the winter has approached fewer and fewer smallmouth are showing up and more and more largemouth are in the areas. Yesterday I fished the same places and caught 18 bass. 15 of them were largemouth (5) keepers and only 3 were smallmouth. I am not complaining about the largemouth just wondering where the bulk of the smallmouth have gone.

I fish the water you have mentioned. I haven’t caught anything over 6.5# in several years. If I were looking for a large one I would be learning forward facing sonar and spending lots of time scanning areas looking for them. Baits to consider: Winter… Arig Late winter…crank baits and jerk baits Spring pre spawn…tandem spinnerbait Post spawn…jigs with large trailers Early summer…Zara spook Good luck on your journey.

When it is colder than I want to be in I put an electric space heater in my garage and point it toward where I am working. It isn’t great but it helps. My garage borders our sun room. I have considered cutting a hole in the wall and adding vents on both sides but haven’t seriously looked into it.

I’m not buying any but I have several. I have probably a dozen Shimano Stradics and Symmetrys. I also have several Shimano Curado E7s and some G 5s. They have been workhorses.

I have most of the same stuff as A-Jay along with jumper cables and tow straps. I also have AAA and insurance road side assistance. I don’t carry anything for the wheels because I had mine gone through and bearings, hubs, and seals replaced when I had new springs and fenders put on the trailer last fall.

I have 2 items which help me be able to take the cold days: 1. down filled bibs from Duluth Trading Co and heated vest from Sheels. They make a big difference on what I can stand on cold days. What about you guys who actually live where you have winter?

My experience is without the baking the paint won’t be hard and will chip very easy. I honestly don’t know how many I have painted. I used to do 1,000 a year for one guy. Here is my method: I use a fluid bed so I have a larger opening into which I can dip the jigs. I hold the jig eye with a Pop Snagger tool to keep paint out of the eye. I heat the jig just hot enough to get a dull coat of powder on it (shiny is too much paint and causes drips and runs). I hang them by the hook in my toaster oven and depending on the size of the jig I bake them for 10 to 15 minutes at 350°f.

I have 2 Curado 150 DCs. I love them.

I have returned to using fluorocarbon on almost all of my setups. I buy it by the 1000 yard spools and can refill often. Buying that amount can reduce the cost significantly.

Sorry about that. My wife’s father was a Naval officer stationed there. His wife was able to join him and they had house servants. The number reflects the condiments that go on the curry. Each one served by a different person. Of course we just put them on a counter and let everyone help themselves to what they want.

Most of my wpts are brush piles so I don’t do anything special. I do mark seasonal areas with names, for example, the ones I have been marking are all called the same (fall Ned banks with fish Icons).

I use them on the truck because it came with them. On the trailer it is a cable and pad lock for the spare.

My wife was born in Trinadad. She fixes six boy turkey curry and we feed 10-12 and have leftovers until I don’t want to see anything from the stove. So I am having beef sausage slices along with my pickled Jalapeño vegetables and catch up un a few recorded games.

12 is what I use for spinner baits.

I don’t have it and hope I don’t get it. I just walked in the door from a day down on Stockton lake. It was cold and windy but the fish didn’t care. I caught 16 bass with 5 of them keepers.

Summertime didn’t last. We’ve had 20-40 mph nonstop winds. On Sunday the temp dropped 53°. I’ve gone from open windows to a roaring fire in the wood stove. It’s supposed to be back to normal 30-50° Wednesday so we plan to go back down there.

I use the Pitzen for all lines. It’s basically the sdj with the final step left out.

We saw 7 eagles while we were there.

Boy howdy…pearl, wounded spook…blue, devil’s horse about any color. I wish I could say whopper plopper but it doesn’t even get strikes for me.