GetFishorDieTryin

Oh ok, by both, I thought that's what you meant.

I hardly ever drag the bottom with SBs or cranks for that matter, the bottom of the lakes around here will just bog them down. I do really well with them late winter/early spring fishing them in them in stump flats and lilly fields while the stems are still submergent. If you fish them timid, they're more likely to snag, the more aggressive I fish them the less hangups I get. The right SB makes a difference too. Some seem to bounce through anything while others not so much.

That outkast head and picassos smart mouth heads are great, outstanding quality and components, but for whatever reason those particular heads are a full smaller in gap, for whatever reason all of Picasso tend to run a little smaller gap wise once theyre over #1, but the shanks are generally long. As for what weight to throw its varies on a few factors. Depth, the speed you want to fish and displacement of the bait are the top 3. Lighter head force you to slow down if youre trying to reach a certain depth where heavier heads can force you to speed up to avoid constant bottom contact. The size and action of the bait with create lift in the water. A bait with heavy tail kick, lots of roll and displacement, like a keitech fat, will require a little more weight than a fluke or straight tail, so long as the target depth and speed desired are the same.

In dirty water I like a copper Colorado blade. I've had success with painted blades, but it's a situational thing for me.

Is it's a zuri, it's older, but it's definitely modeled after the shape and profile of a pin minnow. They have real distinct ghost mirror patterns on most of their baits. One thing about yo zuri is they go through more designs than most bait companies.

Never owned one, or used 1, but years ago I picked one up in Cabela's and was really impressed. It was a 100$ rod and next a premier it was felt way better as far weight balance and the fit/finish were as good as SC.

Discontinued I would rather fish a SH too. The advantage to the Neko is bottom composition. If its snaggy or scummy it comes through cleaner and the knot doesn't take the beating. I use an EWG or straight shank when it gets thick, I guess technically its a chicken rig at that point, but the difference is slight IMO. The tails float on them?

If Im shaking a swim jig on the retrieve, I want a 7'1 or max 7'2 with a really fast tip and short but. For just a straight retrieve, letting the trailer do all the work, I like a 7'3 or 7'4 F and the length of the handle doesn't matter as much.

The only SV spool that I have enough experience with to comment on are the Tat 103s. With lighter (under 3/8) baits that have little wind resistance, the SV performs as good or better in some cases. With heavier baits total 1/2, especially baits with lots of resistance, chatterbaits with a big trailer, Colorado SBs and buzz baits the DC outcasts handily, particularly in wind. To me a DC excels with outfits that are designed for heavier search baits, particularly in the spring when the wind doesnt seem to stop blowing. I have no experience with the newer MGL spooled DCs, they should help with short range, but the Curado/SLX 150s require specific conditions to get the max benefit from the DC system. In reality theres only a couple days a year where I would take a DC over anything else, but those are generally my most productive days, late winter, fish pushing shallow and I'm casting in a cross wind. Other than that I think MGLs are more versatile, and the reels tend to be smaller and lighter, which makes a difference to me.

The majority of lakes around have no large population of baitfish other than bluegill. With that being said shad or white based skirts outfish bluegill colors considerably and as for the blade it depends on water color. I fish chatterbaits more than SBs and always done better coloring the blade with a black sharpie if it wasn't black already.

That's true, been tightlining for everything for a long time because its unbeatable in terms of numbers and covering water. The jig head options before the ned became popular was limited, now there tons of options but the $ is crazy due to popularity.

I think they canned the entire pro senko line, which is a shame. I wish they still made the 5.75 kut, that was a do it all size. The plastic isn't the same, but the profile of the zoom mag Shakey head is really close to the pro long. It's really only the heavily salted baits like the zinker and fatty that have fall rate issues after a long day or lots of fish. The limited and salt less baits, like the trd/ned baits and derivatives of them are consistent in comparison.

Wow, hard enough with just the jig but to limit to one color is tough. That said Greenfish Tackle Chibi, 5/16 Black and Blue. It's unique jig in most aspects and made with high quality components. It's compact, but very stout. Excellent short shank hook, which makes it very strong, and paired the heavy guard it's extremely snag resistant.

GB airtails are tough to beat for consistency. Zmans work great and you don't have to use a o ring, but the salted baits from zman change in sink rate as the salt dissolves.

Swimjig and T/free rig

I always keep brand new hooks in original packaging, unless its crazy oversized like VMCs.

As long as you aren't color blind pink shows up well, but the reality is the vast majority of PE lines will fade, fairly fast with heavy use.

Honestly uneducated fish will get caught on just about anything, but some baits are a little more efficient at times as well as producing better fish on average. Work on gaining confidence in new baits and or baits that produce big fish.

Love the Biffle O lizard, but they discontinued them. I have a few bags left but am hesitant to use them.

Yeah its a real shame they stopped making them. They came in every size from 1/32-1/8 in #2, #1 and #1/0. The shank is fairly short on all of them, which makes them ideal for jig worming. The hook may seem small, but theyre plenty big for thinner 4" worms. The smaller hook and short shank helps with snags and gives the bait a real natural look compared to a shakey head. In the reality the guards are more of a novelty. They help with light cover like weeds, but depending on them to keep the hook form sinking into a laydown isn't going to end well. Hayabusa also took the Shooting Ball off the market which is my absolute favorite lead 5" yamamoto spider grub head.

This is what I mean by single latch Originally you had quoted me when I referred the spro and Rapala boxes. I should have specified my point further..Sry for any confusion.

I was talking about the Spro and Rapala boxes being made by Plano. WHen isay hinges, i mean the hinges on the back of the box, not the latches. If there's too much tolerance on the hinges the lid wants to separate from the box.

Surprised not to see this on every list.

Wouldnt be surprised if plano molding produces them, but theyre not like the basic plano box. They have 1 big single latch and have a little different layout. Ive got a bunch of the BPS ones that came with bags and I've got 3 or 4 that are rejects. If you open them all the way the hinges want to pop and the lid separates, not the end of the world but not ideal.

Not as easy to get anymore, but the Hayabusa brush easy would work really well. I jig worm with 1/0 on a 4" bubbling shaker. The hooks tend to break instead of bend that and availability are the only drawbacks to the BR head IMO.