Jig Man

Have you tried to Google it looking for one near you?

The rod may make more difference than the reel.

Bank fishing three spare baits in my shirt pocket and one setup. Extra stuff in the truck.

First what kind of trip; my boat, someone else’s boat, or bank fishing?

My partner caught one today down on Beaver lake in N AR.

The water won’t change much unless you have several warm days and wind.

Easiest to maintain are agms.

I have heard of red fish but never see one. We have white drum but most people don’t eat them.

Bulldog what kind of fish are those?

I have 3 8# and I have no clue about the rods but I remember the baits; 1 salt and pepper tandem spinner bait, 2 chartreuse spinner bait, 3 1/2 brown living rubber football jig with a double tail trailer.

I don’t take food in the boat so I eat a big breakfast. Mine consists of a sandwich with a fried egg, fried summer sausage slices, a slice of cheddar cheese, and a slice of tomato on a lightly toasted wheat hamburger bun along with several tater tots and some black coffee. I’m good until mid to late afternoon.

All things being equal I would take the Champion. They were very well built boats.

I have drilled holes in jigs. In order to be consistent I built a 2 sided wood holder that I could clamp in a vice and use my drill press. It was a tedious process. I have also modified several molds to accept weed guards. I prefer to use Surflon instead on fiber weed guards. I use it in 45, 60, and 90#.

Power Pro is what I use. What do you use for backing? Do you use a leader?

Thanks for your expertise.

I have caught them in Table Rock and Stockton here in MO but not in Beaver in Northern Arkansas.

My braid is 0.13 0.15 and 0.19 mm are they too small to work on a Curado 70 XG. It’s on a Gloomis 6’9” Gloomis Bronzeback rod. I’d like to be one and done and use it Monday with swim baits for smallmouth. If one works would you use 10# or 6# backing?

I just put 6# line on my Ned bait caster and decided to to use it for small swim baits. I wasn’t really satisfied with it. I’m thinking about using some braid instead but I have never used less than 30# braid on one. I have 8, 10, and 15# braid. Do any of you have any experience with bc reels and light braid?

Do It makes a mold with a screw lock like that. I could probably be modified to take a weedguard.

Call MK customer service they are very good with helping customers.

I keep mine in separate 3600 and 3700 boxes. Like these, Pee Wee jigs and heads for Ned, Shaky, and swim baits.

I find all of these comments interesting. I only have 2 Curado 150 DCs but I wouldn’t mind having 10 more. I have them on Gloomis 843c rods with 12# fluorocarbon line. I haven’t noticed any decrease in casting distance, in fact after Cadman cleaned them they throw like rockets.

I tried keeping them in the clam shells but I have 3 sizes of 8 colors and sorting for what I wanted was driving me nuts. I fish two different arms of Table Rock and the water color is vastly different and Beaver Lake in Northern Arkansas where sometimes visibility is 15 feet or more. Colors that are good in one of those locations rarely get bit in the others.

I have used most knots and had break offs at the knot. I carry spare spools for my braid to fluorocarbon setups, however, since going to the FG I have never had to use one. I fish on Table Rock and there are lots of rocks, ledges, deadfalls, and brush piles. Yesterday I had a 12’ 10# leader on my light Ned setup. By the end of the trip I had a 4’ leader but no knot failure.

I don’t have a favorite size. I go by what is working. Right now it is the 2.8 on a 1/8 to 1/4 head depending on how deep they are. After the spawn hopefully they will be on the larger ones. However yesterday we couldn’t get a bite on the swim bait. It was Ned or Shaky or go home.