Jig Man

I clear my cache daily. I installed the latest google chrome and it is still there.

You are going to have to dumb that down so I know what cache you mean.

That question was answered a long time ago.

I use Keitech fat swing impact and Tackle Max Fugitive swim baits plus the ones I pour. Jig heads are Dirty Jigs guppy and a minnow head that I pour. Several sizes of swim baits and several colors as well as several sizes of heads.

I see it. I thought it was just me. Glad it isn’t.

If you very much motoring and don’t have a bunch of electronics pulling on it your alternator will probably do the job.

Not any more.

I’m looking forward to seeing just how you want the extension to fit.

Good deal. If you ever do it at night they usually come out of the holes and head up stream. We would get on a shoal above a good hole and fish until they all had passed. Then move up a couple of holes and get on a shoal to get more as they came by. Rinse and repeat until we had to head home to catch a couple of hours sleep before work. I did that 13 nights in a row once before the sssss hit the fan at home.

Sorry that was 3 boats ago.

Clayton I wish you had shown that link earlier. I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out how to do it but was not even close to what you want.

They aren’t the only slow ones. I belong to a delivery service that offers 2 day delivery. I had an order earlier this month that took 3 weeks.

I have found the migration patterns to vary depending on what part of the lake that I am fishing. In large impoundments like 50,000 acre Bull Shoals I have mostly found them in the old river holes below shoals. Buck tail jigs have been my best producers. The holes vary from 5-25’ deep. In smaller flatter lakes I head for the windiest areas that I can find and throw a slider grub or Arig.

When I think ditches I am looking for erosion channels typically in the back of pockets with steep banks that get a lot of runoff during a hard rain and the sides of submerged road beds that were covered when the lake filled. Some are great and some don’t seem to hold fish. A good mapping program on your sonar unit along with good topographical maps can help you a lot. You can use your trolling motor and go back and forth over it marking waypoints to delineate each side. I do that a lot with humps and ledges also. Then drive 50 to 75’ outside it using side scan to look for structure or cover along it. If your unit records then record the side scan so you can study it and mark good stuff. I like to set my recording unit to 4 screens (2d, side, down, and mapping). That way I can pull out to a quiet area and study the recording. Once you get it set up and saved to your unit you will always have it. I have a couple that I have fished for many years and by using my saved data I know just where to position the boat.

I had a Lowe 180 and wanted a bigger deck so I planned what I wanted and drew a picture of it. I took that to an aluminum shop and had them make me one folding the back edge down 1” for strength. I carpeted it to match the boat then bolted it to the deck and rod locker. If your objective is to just lengthen it on the port side there are lots of possibilities. You could just have an extension where the rods lay.

This time of year a jig or two, 3 Ned rigs, shaky head, and swim bait and lately an Arig.

I’ve never tried it with mono. I do similar to Reel. I use a light wire like floral and fasten it to the shank with thread then fix it with superglue.

T rigged…Gene Larue 5” black unpegged salt craw ewg hook 3/16 sinker

How do you guys care for your reels? I have close to 30 Shimano reels both spinning and casting. I have never encountered what you are reporting.

They must be because a guy who I used to fish with has one. If he can operate it anybody should.

Being a Humminbird guy I recommend the Helix. It is their no frills work horse.

I have a couple of them that I bought for stripers. I haven’t been able to get any bites on them.

It seems like every day there is discussion about a rod for Ned rigs, a rod for jerk baits, a rod for crank baits, etc. Do you guys actually have rods for each technique that you use? Personally I don’t own a rod that only has one use. For example, the rods that I had built for shaky work well for jigs up to 1/4 oz and do extra duty as crank bait rods.

I would not sell my favorite rods or reels unless I were quitting fishing.

We’ve been up and down with last week lows in the teens. Yesterday it got to 86°. The ups and downs haven’t had much effect on the lake water temp. As for the fish a week ago we had a good trip right after a cold front and yesterday it was better. The fish were still in the same areas on shallow gravel/ rocky banks in 3-6 feet of water.