BrianMDTX

Mmmm…with Saranac Root Beer and Breyer’s Natural Vanilla ice cream. Can’t beat it with a stick bait!

Nice bass!

Stopped by the pond for five minutes just for the heck of it. Only had a ML/XF set up with a weightless Senko TR with me, and it was breezy so I knew wind knots would likely be a factor. But five minutes of fishing beats no fishing lol. First cast got a nibble. Second cast was dink on but he let go (think he only had the tail). Two more casts were empty. The next cast I had the bait about two feet from shore and something hit it, rolled over through the algae and let go. I thought it was a catfish. I casted back to the same spot and it got nailed immediately. It wasn’t a cat. Not bad for five minutes!

Perfect. As I have the perfect rig spooled with 10 lb. Big Game.

That may be the ticket for shallow ponds. I’ll have to pick one or two up!

Do you work it more with rod action, or by reeling it in?

Welcome to BR. If you want to up your game, you came to the right place!

All my spinning rigs are braid-to-leader. Why is pretty simple. First, it completely eliminates coiled line, so having to respool is basically eliminated as well. Second, braid is much more difficult to break off on snags, so I’d rather lose 6’-8’ of leader than 20’-30’ of braid. Third, I tie much better (and easier) knots on terminal tackle with leaders than with braid. I use the Lefty Kreh leader knot, so retying a leader while on the water is a snap. 99% of my spinning rig fishing is finesse, so casting distance is not really an issue, as I normally don’t cast finesse baits over 50’-60’.

Sounds like a law firm!

I caught some decent bass Friday evening and Saturday morning. But the dinks were prowling yesterday lol. I will say what they lack in size they more than make up in fight.

lol. Dipsey sinkers. When we were “dropshotting” half a century ago before someone “invented” the dropshot!

Yes. All the time. Slides right into the bed of my pickup.

Caught 9. #10 was halfway to the boat when it let go. Reeled in 1/2 a Senko. It was never hooked and that Senko was beat half to death. Four on a #297 and four on a #905 (black/blue laminate-seems like they like that color). The other was on a purple Zoom Mag 2 worm. Nothing else got a bite. Zara Spook and a PopMax up top, spinnerbait, squarebill and a jerkbait all struck out.

My Sea Eagle Packfish7 is, well, 7’. This is from the factory. Inflatable seat and the optional plywood floor. I modded it with a 7” pedestal and a folding seat. It comes with oars but I use a yak paddle. I also made a rod holder behind the seat. It has two rod holders in front of the seat, which are fine while paddling from A to Z, but worthless when fishing as the rods are in the way. With one rod in hand, I can stow two rods in the holders and one on each side (sticking out the back) for a total of five rigs. Usually 3 baitcasters and two spinning.

Kinda slow this morning. Nothing on top, nothing on a spinnerbait lol. Except algae. Well, had a dink take a swipe at the spinnerbait. Nothing on a swimbait, Ned or Neko rig, either. Caught 7. One on a Roboworm, two on a Neko Macho TR and the rest on a 5” Senko TR. Only two of any size. First was a #956 Neko Macho and the second on #297 Senko.

Saw it! Nice bass! ??

Congrats on the PB musky! It beats mine, which is no musky lol!

That’s a nice Maryland bass right there, buddy! Congrats on the new PB! Roboworms ready for tomorrow!

Ok. I’m starting to hear Mickey Dolenz in my head singing “I’m a Believer”! I was getting my gear ready for tomorrow morning’s trip to the pond and I saw that spinnerbait tied on the Falcon and thought “what the heck, let’s go for an hour”. So I did. First few casts were snagging on mossy algae while slow rolling so I started to pick up the pace. Didn’t matter, as a few casts later the bait got inhaled about 0.5 seconds after it hit the water. Not as big as yesterday’s, but it fought a lot more. Casted a few more times and while working it back to shore, it got crushed. But it did not feel “bassy” to me. It wasn’t. I caught my first catfish on a crankbait a few weeks ago. Now I can add spinnerbaits to that!

Haven’t posted in this thread in a while. Mea culpa, BM! Got a Booyah 3/8 oz. spinnerbait, an H2O Express 3” Red Ear Sunfish swimbait, a pack of VMC 1/0 weedless Neko hooks, a pack of #904 5” Senkos (black/blue laminate as black was not in stock) and a pack of 6” straight tail Roboworms in Aaron’s Morning Dawn (tres’ fancy way of sayin’ purple!). Anxious to try the Roboworms as I hear so much about them.

Might be wrong, but I think it was WRB that posted that.

If I’m tying braid-to-leaders at home, I use a single-edge razor blade. I haven’t found anything that lets me trim braid as close and precise as that.

5” Senko weightless TR. If I cant get one bite on that, I’m doomed.

THAT is truth! Bows and storage in hot conditions are not good. Can delaminate limbs and stretch strings.

LMAO. I sympathize with you. It’s only my third ever bass on a spinnerbait, and the first one hit it as soon as it hit the water, and the second was less than 10” from the bank as I was lifting it out of the water. So I consider this my first “true” spinnerbait bass.