Kdizzle

Try their Leech. Its d**n near the best dropshot bait Ive ever used.

I've got to say, I've gotten just as good results using Yum Dingers and Senko's when fishing a Ned. It all depends on if the fish want a presentation that sticking up or laying down, and believe me they can be that fickle. As for people not having success with it no matter how many times they've tried, well just like a lot of other finesse techniques, stop fishing it like you would a jig or any other bottom bait. You are putting the bare minimum action on it you can get away with. Not popping it and constantly yanking it off the bottom, you're better off dragging it slowly or deadsticking actually. You are trying to replicate the movements of a baitfish feeding off the bottom.

This thread should just be renamed "Most Expensive Flouro" . Same thing really.

Play the hits. Drop Shot, Tube, Ned, Jerkbaits. Smallies are easier to figure out than you sometimes hear.

I find that the guys that break hooks a lot on ned rigs are the guys that have no idea about how to use the drag on a spinning reel. Usually big jig fisherman that are used to face ripping hook sets using heavy rods with the drag tightened all the way down. Gotta know how to the use the equipment.

I use the classic spiders with the bronze hook, and the spider pros with the bulkier hooks and love them both. The hookup ratios are so great that I'm surprised they aren't more popular among more finesse guys today.

If you want to buy in bulk, and tubes are the type of lure that lend themselves to doing so, then Getbit baits tubes are great.

Indeed, but I also have the 6'6" model for close quarter fishing in rivers and creeks. You may have found out by now though that they are hard to come by due to Covid-19.

I use a Medium for Ned Rigs. Part of it is that I use ned rig heads with a bit stouter hook, plus if the fish aren't biting a upright bait profile, I'll switch to a laydown type like a Slider Pro. The best 100 dollar rods I have for those two techniques are my Fenwick HMG's and St. Croix Bass X. The Fenwicks feel like 150 or 200 dollar rods when it comes to sensitivity.

Rods for me, just for the sensitivity factor. I really don't like gut hooking a bass that can take a decade to get to the 3 pound mark. A 50 dollar reel can do just fine, but I'll pay for the better carbon in a nice rod.

There are plenty of guys on Ebay that pour their own Ned heads and sell them for cheap. They have to sell them in bulk to make any amount of money from their hobby, so at least if you are willing to buy 20 or 30 jigheads at a time you can get them very cheap. Or you can just buy a **** ton of unpainted lead heads, use a file to grind the top of the jig head down flat, which would take a 1/8th oz head down to a 1/10th or thereabouts, then paint them yourself. Which is very cheap to do by the way. There are plenty of ways to avoid the modern scam of overpriced products based on nothing more than brand recognition.

I think this is what the kids call "getting triggered"

I've been buying Fenwick and St. Croix rods almost exclusively for the past couple years(except for one ARK rod that was on sale for 70 bucks but that was marked down from 140, of course it just sits in my rod rack now) and I love both brands. Fenwick makes rods that feel like they should be double the price and St. Croix is just St. Croix, they make great rods.

probably a 4 inch senko.

Hi guys, I was out fishing today and notice that the drag clicker on my reel wasn’t making any audible noise when playing a fish. I unscrewed the spool assembly from the reel and noticed that the clicker had actually broken off. I have a replacement for it, but here’s the deal, for some reason on this model Pflueger decided to use a pin instead of a simple screw to hold the clicker down. Are there any fellow owners of this model of reel in here that know how to pull the pin out?

I have the 6'10" ML Spinning model that I use for drop shotting, split shotting, and darter heads. Very sensitive and a very light rod as well for the money. Definitely recommend.

Sir you have insulted me to the core. I metaphorically use my glove to thrash you across the face and demand satisfaction for the inappropriate spelling of my homeland and the insult to the people of said land by said spelling. I give you the choice of method of satisfaction of course seeing that I am a man of nobility and honor. Pistols at dawn or rapiers at some other time of day. Your choice good sir. I will be becamped at the corner of jefferson and highway 5 tomorrow morning breakfasting upon my customary starbucks caramel macchiato and blueberry scone if you wish to accept the challenge and prove you are a gentleman. Good day sir.

As a native of LebAnon, MO, I sir am insulted by your haphazard spelling of the name of this beautiful city. May god have mercy on your poor soul. And to add to the conversation, I don't river fish out of anything but a fishing kayak or a jon. Canoes are too unstable for a simple float trip for me, where a simple butt repositioning can feel like hitting a white cap on Lake Michigan.

Here in the Ozarks you get the rare sighting of a black bear in its old native range by some farmer or country yokel every six months or so. Id have to be honest here. If I were in full grandpa fishing gear out on the river wade fishing, and I saw a bear hunting for breakfast in the morning, I'd probably **** myself. Then after cleanup I'd take a picture for posterity and something to tell my grandchildren, if I ever had any.

My most used combo is a Fenwick HMG which is in a 6'6" Medium, with a Pflueger President XT in the size 30 version. Fenwick makes the best mid priced rods on the market if you ask me. The line comes in every power and length you need from a 5 foot ultra light to a 7 foot medium heavy. The combo will run you anywhere from 150 to 170 dollars depending on who you buy it from. I have casting gear but I really don't use it much unless Im throwing a spook, whopper popper or a frog. An Abu Garcia Pro Max and 13 Fishing Omen rod in a 6'7" medium and 7'4" Heavy take care of that for me. Thats a combo that will probably run you about 170 to 190 dollars.

Trash takes what it wants, when it wants and doesn't really care for a normal humans sense of decency and ethic or moral code. During the winter when I take my kayak out on the river, I usually stumble upon at least once per season a pile of filleted Smallmouth bass ranging from 1 to 3 pounds per fish. You can tell that they've been gigged "accidentally" by a piece of white trash that went out gigging for suckers. I report it to DNR, but due to the budget cuts to the office over the last decade or so, no agents ever show up to investigate and it goes unpunished. They don't care about the amount of time it takes for Smallmouth to grow to a certain length and weight, or that this kind of poaching can kill a 5 or 6 mile stretch of river for an entire year. Its very hard to continue giving a ****, when so many people don't, and then be disparaged as an environmentalist, as if that's a bad thing, when you do complain. Add to that that some of this trash tends to resort to violence when confronted by it, will quickly leave you hoping for an asteroid to hit the planet and wipe every thing clean, if you aren't careful.

A baby Rage Bug on an old fashion Slider Head with a light as a feather bronze hook, fished with a medium light rod, with 8 pound braid to 6 pound flouro leader, is the bee knees when the bite gets tough. It works whether you are fishing the river or the lake.

In-line spinners catch everything small.

A good 70 to 100 dollar reel is just fine for a spinning set up. Unless you are a high end tournament angler who can't have a single drag slippage then its kind of silly to splurge. The rod is a way to go. Sensitivity is where the money is with finesse set up, and the difference between a 50 dollar rod and a 200 dollar rod is night and day. A President XT on a G Loomis will put just as many fish in the boat as a Stradic on a Loomis.

I only use flourocarbon for leaders on my spinning gear. My casting gear is either going to have a heavy braid for top water, and a flouro- coated mono for jigs. I don't get too fancy with what I buy. Yo Zuri top knot is my go to, but I just bought a spool of Seaguar Red Label and I'm gonna give it a role.