Jig Man

Go straight to the horse's mouth look up Do It molds. http://www.do-itmolds.com/

A quick easy way is to cut a sycamore tree, pull it to the place you want it and let it fall. Sycamore sinks without any added weight.

baitcasters-- 10#mono and 30# Power Pro spinning-- 8# and 10 # mono and 8/1 Power Pro

Look for a good unit with lots of pixels. Get at least 480x480. I don't know your price range so I just name a couple of Lowrance units, black/white X135 color X510c. That will give you a start. You can go to Bass Pro's or Cabela's site and look at the different units available and pick what suits you.

I like to take a 10 minute break and just sit down and eat. When I is warm weather I eat a sandwich and some fruit. When it is cold, I take a small thermos of vegetable soup or chili with some crackers. A quick hot meal really hits the spot on a cold day. To keep the food hot I boil water and put in the thermos and seal it up for 30 minutes. I then boil the soup or chili and put it in the thermos. 5 or 6 hours later it is still nice and hot.

The more V shaped the bottom, the better it will cut through waves and ride smooth and dry. The flatter the bottom, the rougher the ride will be. The wider the bottom the more stable it will be in the water.

Mono--- I take the line off the top of the spool for both baitcasters and spinning reels. Braid--- I walk across the empty lot from my driveway to my neighbor's driveway, cut the braid and go back to my house and spool it on. Fluro--- I only use 2-3' at a time (leader) Line tensioner--- My WIFE ;D Line conditioner--- I only use it during the day if the line seems to need some help on mono and on braid to make it quieter

My recommendation is to not set the hook until you feel the fish. If you can't feel it then it didn't take the bait. When you feel it set the hook one time and one time only. That way you minimize the chance of giving it slack line. Any slack is disasterous. A bass's reaction time is 25 X faster than a person's.

I have used 2, 6, 10, and 20 amp chargers. I like the 10 best. A note on your battery, get reserve amps as many as you can. They are what make a battery last all day.

POWER PRO I switched from fireline 6 years ago and haven't looked back. I have it on at least a dozen reels.

Now we are talking. Getting a new noncurrent is perhaps the best way to buy a boat. Dealerships typically have a "floor plan" and pay a butt load of interest on the boats on the lot. Some of them will sell the boat at or below cost just to make them go away. I'd pick out the non current I wanted and start making moves to buy it. There is a lot more room to deal on the noncurrents. Keep an upgrade deal breaker as you haggle. I sold a lot of noncurrents for as much as $1500 less than I paid for them just to stop the interest.

I traded rods with a guy in California. I shipped him a 7' rod for less than $10. However, when his rod got to my house the cardboard tube looked like a dog's hind leg. So be sure to buy insurance for the rods.

Even if it had a 300 on it that rig would be over priced. There is a reason that it has been sitting around for a year and a half. You better not offer anywhere near $35,000 or you may wind up owning it.

I like bucktail jigs on rivers in cold water.

Chunk or beaver.

Me too. I haven't bought a bass jig in over 10 years.

LIB learn sumpin ever day. ;D

Good man.

Trailers on What?? On a jig almost always On a spinnerbait 25% of the time On a buzzbait never

Making a bondo mold isn't hard. All you need is a non stick pan some baits some glue and some bondo.

I have a spinnerbait and a spinnerbait/buzzbait box, best I have ever used for that purpose.

I have both the Avid 6'6" M and the Gloomis IMX 738. They are both great rods. The Avid will comfortably handle a bit more weight than the Gloomis. I like them both and keep them on the deck when I am fishing spinning gear. I personally wouldn't recommend the 782. It is way too limber for me. If I had to choose one over the other, it would be hard but I'd probably choose the Gloomis. My wife on the other hand wouldn't part with her Avid. She uses it over her Gloomis. She has it matched up with a Shimano Stradic 2500. In fact she rarely gets her Loomis out of the rod locker.

Yes it is. I have been pouring lead and plastic longer than most of you have been alive. I do it to enjoy the hobby as well as never going after a hung up bait. I can break off a dozen $.25- $.50 baits and think nothing about it, but to have a $3 jig with a $1 trailer hung up would be a whole other issue. :'(

When I tournament fished, I always prefished when I could. The thing I think that helped me is I didn't take more than one fish in a spot. A lot of times I would fish a jig or a trig and when I got a bite I wouln't set the hook. Just let the fish drop the bait then reel in and look for another spot.

They pitch pretty well trigged/pegged.