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You can do everything you want with a ballhead jig, skirted or otherwise, weedguard or otherwise. But that doesn't mean that a ballhead is ideal for all the different things one might wish to do. Honestly I think that it gets a little silly with how specialized some of the head designs get, but I'll admit that many of the ones I think that about are geared towards presentations I don't use. I mainly use: Siebert Outdoors Dock Rocker Dredge Jig which is my do-it-all jig, usually in junebug, usually 3/8oz. Siebert Outdoors, Dirty Jigs, or 6th Sense swim jigs, usually in 1/4 oz in a bluegill, crappie, or shad pattern, with some skirt trimming. I... really like swim jigs, but only if they have a vertical line tie. I feel like it collects less gunk. Siebert Outdoors Sniper and Lil Man finesse jigs, in These cover just about any situation in which I'd wish to use a skirted jig.

On your image page, you wanna look for a button across the top that reads "Share". Click that, and the page will expand to show you different options for sharing the image. The option you want is "Direct Link." It's highlighted in the screenshot below. Click the clipboard icon to the right of the link text, then press ctrl+v (or right click, then click "paste") to paste it into the post field here.

From my experience, it has to be a link to the image itself, instead of to a page containing the image: The image page you posted: https://postimg.cc/dZR6XQB8/a355657e The image itself (obtained by clicking on the "share" link above the image on that page, copying the "Direct Link" text, and then pasting it into the post field here on this site) :

That's it. If the cotton looks good, it's just about got to be a knot issue as discussed upthread.

This is the look I got when I told them they should have more self-respect than to beg like street urchins. Plus there's a bonus mermaid titty in the background for y'all.

Don't sweat it. I hadn't checked the thread in a while, and was worried that my joke hadn't landed. We're good bro.

Eh. I think she can sew, but I wouldn't ask her because this isn't little house on the prairie. And before I get added to the he-man woman haters club, I wanna point out that the only reason I told that story at all is because I'm self-aware enough to recognize how funny it is that I had to be browbeaten into buying some shirts and stuff.

I don't have a 3DB, but I do have a Crystal Minnow that I've yet to get bit, and it has #6 trebles.

Yup. The most innovative department in any fishing tackle company is the marketing department.

I started using Mule Jigs mushroom heads over the winter, and I can usually get them bent out and back to me rather than just break it off completely, but it depends on whether the hook point itself is snagged, or the whole lure's wrapped around something down there.

Yeah, nothing to worry about.

I mean, if you're 6 inches off the bottom in certain parts of Fort Loudoun, you're three feet into the brush pile and wrapped around the body shell of a 73 Gremlin full of diapers and old Pennzoil bottles.

Not necessarily, though it works really well presented like that. As with all things, it kind of depends on what kind of mood the fish are in. I've had days where I did really well swimming them in current.

I skipped a red eye shad the other day. It was kinda on accident but I was legit surprised that a) it did so well, and b) I wasn't wearing the contents of my spool because of it.

And that's how they get you.

6th Sense has about a dozen different bluegill colorways. Go crazy.

You can buy packs of his version of the chatterbait, but not the z-man chatterbaits themselves.

Probably so. Probably the same garbage-tier Bose stereo, too.

I love bikes, but I won't ride one after growing up looking at my dad's leg. There are a lot of activities in which you can do everything right and still get killed, but motorcycles have to be the worst for that by far. Of course, this is all academic. There's no way I could ride now with my legs as useless as they are anyway.

There's a catch, though. Once you get that experience and confidence, you still have to stick to your procedures, and not get lazy about the things that allowed you to safely grow that experience and confidence. I'm sure lots of people die every day and their friends say "That's so sad and surprising, [they] were so good at [the thing that killed them]." It just takes a second.

And how

We went to Old Navy, so it wasn't too terribly bad. It's still more expensive than the perfectly good Dickies work pants I have, the three two pairs of basketball shorts, a choice between free handout t-shirts (Tackle Warehouse or dev conference swag) or band shirts, and a choice between yard work shoes that the puppy's chewed up or hunting boots. I'm being frugal, dangit! Besides, I work at home and don't heave the house for days on end. What am I dressing up for?

She Who Must Be Obeyed made me go and buy some clothes a little while ago. And a pair of shoes.

You can have that even when you and your neighbor are casting to the same hump using just about the same lure off the same rod and reel. I cannot overstate how fickle and bloody-minded fish are.

I work on one all the time. I'm glad they allocated the budget where they did, but I only being a little hyperbolic when I say I'd just as soon sit on a milk crate as the seats that come in a C5.