NavyVet1204

Deep down I want them to work, but I am always reminded of why they don’t at least for me anyway. Maybe one day it’ll just click.

Oh how I loathe these things.(well, the hooks anyway). I’ve tried a self diagnosis of me buying the wrong depth on these things, but I’m convinced it’s purely witchcraft altogether. If the treble’s aren’t catching on everything IN the water then they are catching on everything outside it. The hooks wrap around everything as if the entirety of every possible thing in the world is magnetic to them. I’ve said in the past that if you put me on a crankbait in the Mariana’s trench with a seven mile trip to the bottom….I would still find a way to snag a stump or tree limb. It truly never fails. With all that said, I can probably count on one hand how many crank baits I own vs a couple hundred pounds of soft plastics of all varieties. I know cranks catch fish, but why is it such a pain to use them? Please tell me that someone else here has the same trouble so that I feel better please ?

I noticed this too the very first time I tried them. I actually threaded them on sideways as if trying to imitate a fish/tail. Worked well for me.

I just placed my order just now. I got 17 bags of soft plastics coming mostly Berkley worms because there wasn’t much left of anything soft plastic related.

I keep telling myself that less is more. Then I realize that I basically am offering a treasure trove of a buffet of lures I just need to find the right one that works lol

I feel that quite often. Especially if my confidence lures/techniques that always produce….stop or won’t produce. I don’t even realize it in the moment, but subconsciously I will think that a shakey head will catch a fish anywhere and anytime regardless of any other circumstances so naturally I start and end with that tied on my main rig. This exact circumstance you are speaking of is why I ALMOST want to start buying crank baits in the event that I may use one and start catching fish with them when getting skunked is afoot. edit: Generally a chatterbait or a T-Rig of some sort will produce if my shakey heads don’t. If I still get skunked, the lord had a plan that day.

I pretty much have equal luck with them both as they both are great producers! Literally get a pack of both and see if you catch more on one than the other. I doubt you will have a big difference.

My local shop just closed up last month as well. They were the only brick and mortar around that carried Reaction Innovations plastics within a 30 mile drive. I don’t know what happened because every time I went in that store year around it was pretty steady business with me having to wait at least 15 minutes to be checked out.

I love that color pattern the whole way through!

Thanks guys I appreciate it a lot.

I was watching a video on YouTube about shakey head and jigs and how using a finesse jig would compliment a good shakey head. The only thing he said in relation to the example of the jig he had for show was that it had a rounded head on it and it was a great shape of head for finesse jigging. I have wanted to get more into the hop and tug of finesse jigs for awhile. I log on to TW and there seems to be 10,000 different kinds of finesse jigs. Can y’all direct me to some good finesse jigs please? It will help a lot with such a wide selection.

Yes they are all still tied through the eyes with Lures on the end. I will definitely cut off the last town feeder so as suggested and Retie.

That’s what I’m worried about is a coiling effect from setting up for months and months. If it were a spinning set up I wouldn’t doubt it so much though. Spooling up fresh line can get costly sometimes lol

Backstory: My son was born on August 18th last year and months prior I knew ahead of time that my fishing was about to slow completely down to a stop until sometime this year so I went ahead and cleaned and oiled up the reels and stowed them with the current “last years” line still tied on. My question is should I leave the line on and fish when I can or go ahead and tie on new line since it’s last years stuff? The line had about four months of use on it prior to being stowed. Seaguar Red Label 12-15lb test across six baitcasters all spooled new last spring.

I bought this one last year from TW in early spring and it has been awesome. It’s not quite as big as I would’ve liked, but it keeps me humbled in terms of how much I can take without overdoing it. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/catpage-RRCYAMA.html?from=basres Also it was $100 cheaper when I bought it. I guess inflation is a thing. I personally would t pay the price that’s advertised on TW for it now. How much did you have to pay for that setup?

I’ll call a spade a spade I guess and I’ll share my opinion because it’s just that. My opinion. I’m not a fan boy or poster child for them or anyone else.

Yeah I had a decent amount of luck on the mondo’s as well. Couple of 2#’s here and there.

As much as I can’t stand to watch these yahoos on YouTube, I can’t deny that their lures do produce. Well, the soft plastics do anyway as I have only tried one of their cranks and it was garbage from the word go ,but that’s another story. Anyway the wife and I took the baby to bass pro yesterday to see the fish in the aquarium and I had some bday gift cards/funds to play with so I picked up some Sufix Braid and Sufix Siege mono for leaders and noticed the Googan Dart baits on an end cap. I have a dedicated setup for weightless stuff so I picked up a couple packs of the darts to try out in the spring. Have y’all tried these? pics are the two colors I got.

That was pretty much my budget for fishing rigs prior to 2019. I still have several Walmart “specials” in spinning setups that I bought well over 10 years ago that are still humming right along. I used to ask myself why anyone in their right mind would ever pay the money they do for fishing($50+) for a setup…..then I spent $175 on a baitcaster and immediately found out the answer to that question. As with anything else in life you get what you pay for and the difference is night and day between what I was used to paying versus what I spent that day at bass pro on the baitcasting combo.

I’m at the point where I’m beginning to see that I don’t need a dozen different setups when I got fishing because I’ve noticed that I’m reaching for/grabbing the same setups time after time after time. I can make up reasons why I need the next rod/reel all day long, but I only carry the same ones. If I’m not carrying the same ones then I’m at least tying on or fishing the same techniques every time. I’ve got six baitcaster setups and I initially had six different plans to dedicate a technique to each and fish that way, but shakey head and chatterbaits and t rigged plastics just keep killing it where I am. So I reckon I’ve got three back ups lol

Couldn’t agree more on the whopper plopper. I’ve got four of them and have only caught a single fish on one of them.

I didn’t know about these. Now it’s on my radar. Thanks a lot friend.

13 Fishing at first seemed to be a fly by night type of brand, but I myself have been pretty impressed with there baits as well. My wife bought me a 3 pack of purplish colored craws that I just swore on sight alone wouldn’t catch even a tree limb…boy was I wrong. To answer the original question I have had really good luck on the bass pro clearance bin flat siders. $1.99 each at the time and I got four one day and they all produced fairly well until I lost them like I do with everything with a treble hook.

Same here. That has worked for me since I learned to use them last year. I still have an occasional “user induced” backlash though.

That’s what I got. I got enough to pick up my new penn Conflict II reel for my catfish setup. Birthday is two weeks from today and I’ve asked for more bass pro gift cards lol gotta get a rod and terminal tackle to finish out the setup.