LrgmouthShad

I catch em pretty good on a single colorado! I sometimes need certain conditions for them and we already talked about that, but often I don't need conditions to be "perfect". I started fishing those little single colorados because of Bill Murphy's section on spinnerbaits. The beetle spin is a single colorado! I didn't hear nothing helpful about single colorados on Youtube! Anyways, like I've said before, you've got the experience more than I do and I will continue to listen to you for advice but I am nonetheless convinced nobody fishes a single colorado enough.

Colorado blades? Cmon man, you know this! Baitfish emit low-frequency vibrations. Bass can only hear frequencies below a threshold. At high enough frequencies, sounds are effectively silent. A single colorado blade vibrating softly and slowly is a dinner bell.

I'm very fond of this song in the wee hours of the morning. Rammstein puts out some of the most energizing music I've heard. Kill it

iRod Stone Cold Swim and Vibrating Jig Rod paired with a REVO winch reel. The left handed ones are harder to find now but not too bad. I bought another before they started going out of stock and out of inventories. I will say... my only gripe with the rod is I feel it is a little long for spinnerbaits. It is an amazing rod, my favorite that I have, not even close. I use it for things other than spinnerbaits as well and it has proven to be an incredibly versatile rod. If I could do it over again, I would pick the same rod, but if I want a dedicated rod for spinnerbaits, I might go for one of the moderate fast <7' Falcons that come in either medium heavy or even heavy since I hear they fish a little lighter than other rods. A 6'10" MH MF falcon expert and the Cara Head Turner both have my eye in the future. The Cara Head Turner is Jason Christie's spinnerbait rod. However, I don't know if it is the length of the rod I have or the fact that it is a moderate fast or perhaps the fact that I've fished with it so dang much that my bite to land ratio with spinnerbaits is darn near perfect. If one bites me on a spinnerbait, it's almost always mine. So... I might even be reluctant to try another rod. That was a long winded way of answering your question but I hope it gives you some ideas. I encourage a slow reel for spinnerbaits. Something in the 5 range. I think part of my preference for that might come from the fact that I like single colorado spinnerbaits a bunch and they seem to work better with a slow retrieve. There are speeds I reach on the REVO winch that I feel someone using a 7 speed reel cannot reach or would have a very hard time reaching. Okay I'll shut my mouth. Hope this helps

I’ll take anything if it’s free I’m back, by the way, and on my way I saw a guy throwing a lacrosse ball at a wall with his lacrosse stick by himself and that had to have been the saddest thing I’ve seen all year.

I'm about to go bank fishing and I'll be reeling with my left hand the whole time ?

You gotta be kidding me. Left handed baitcasters are the most common sense thing to happen for right handed anglers.

I'm just saying, the most I ever spent on a purchase was my spinnerbait rod and reel along with a good bit of tackle. But it was the best researched purchase I've made and I regret nothing. Wonderful equipment

My baitcasters sure look nice in new rod covers though just arrived today from tackle warehouse. Bait monkey tells me so. He likes the colors

Uh, I have no idea

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That does not make any sense by the way

And that is without working the worm and not giving a slack line fall. One of those casts like that takes 5 minutes to bring back. The only thing that keep me fishing that technique ocassionally is its indisputable success rate. I caught a nice 5lber on that technique last year.

One of my best techniques that will seemingly always produce during calm conditions... but is very difficult and painstakingly slow to fish... is fishing a weightless t rigged senko up to depths of 20ft. Yes, I have caught fish sitting on bottom in about 20ft of water on a weightless senko. It takes like 30-45 seconds for the senko to reach bottom. But once it's on bottom... look out. Bass hardly ever see weightless senkos that deep and it is like stitching a worm in its stealthy presentation. If it is a calm day, this technique is deadly on a spinning outfit.

I’ve read there is already much less grass than there used to be and that it has affected the fishing. Still strongly considering trying my luck out there this summer.

Been there recently? What's been happening?

HAHA! Now that, I did notice. I don't think he ever thought the hook was stuck good enough. Rumor has it he's still setting the hook on that last fish to this day

Didn’t catch that

I actually have some of these on the way

You've definitely channeled your inner greg hackney.

Harris is insanely pressured and on weekends in the warmer months, it is, like you say, a zoo. But I have hooked into nice bass there before and you always have that feeling in the back of your head like... I could catch a 7lber on the next cast

Me tryna figure out where they were fishing like

Just found this video on Youtube. Couple catching a 46.89lb bag on Shearon Harris Lake, NC in January. I've never seen anything like that, other than Paul Elias's 15 bass record on YouTube. Just wow. Makin me want to fish Shearon Harris this summer.

Some good advice, thank you ?

I watched some YouTube videos to refresh myself. A lot of people seem to swim them while maintaining bottom contact and recommend em for summer fishing. Seems like this would be real real good across rocky points especially. I can think of some places back in NC this would be work. Pretty cool