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@thediscochef yessir!

I really like @WRB’s list

Falcon Expert Head Turner sounds great for this

Somebody’s gotta keep people honest

I take up to 10 hours. I usually like to do 9. In extreme heat I usually tap out in 8 hours.

Lots of love for Junebug here. It’s a great color and I don’t use it enough

I really like plum apple because it matches my colorful personality

They’ve all worked for me. I have a war against green pumpkin though. It’s simply too bland and ugly. I’m fine with a trailer being green pumpkin as long as the jig or whatever has got some color to it. Plain ol green pumpkin though? No way. Needs some Spike-It or needs to be Green Pumpkin Red, Green Pumpkin Blue, Green Pumpkin Purple. Anything but Green Pumpkin.

Staying fit and healthy is worth it. Some people are aware I had a shoulder injury that made fishing difficult for many months. I could still physically fish, but I would be doing more harm than good. I took the time to rehab and came back stronger. I fish today with no pain and just bench pressed more than I ever have.

@Mike L what do you normally use for your magnum speed worms?

@bowhunter63 I definitely need to spend more time with that. I don’t own any keel weighted hooks that fit this bait and won’t buy any just for this trip, but I’ll surely get some soon.

For the straight shank, would y’all use snell knot with fluorocarbon?

Y’all, For whatever reason I have a bit of paranoia about selecting the proper hook for my 7” burner worms. I honestly can’t remember what I used to use for these thick worms. I laid out two of these worms on top of my frog box to help give readers a visual of how two different hooks would fit. On top is the VMC redline flipping hook 5/0. On the bottom is the Mustad Grip Pin 6/0 EWG. The hook diameters are about equal. I am fishing this bait with a Falcon Expert Amistad 7’3” Heavy and 20lb Sunline Sniper. Which hook do you believe offers me a better hook up ratio? I normally don’t like EWGs but this is a very thick bait.

Little 'flips' into that water willow... messy fishing. I don't enjoy working a t-rig through that stuff. It's definitely not my favorite grass to fish but dadgum some nice ones live in the thick stuff you can't get a moving bait through. That skip under the overhanging tree for the fish @ 15:42 was beautiful. I thought to myself, "oh no he didn't!!"

I had to replace a popmax through a freak accident. That definitely hurt. I took the opportunity to add the Black Orochi color to get me closer to free shipping, of course. It's really an exotic looking bait. The golden underbelly with speckled black is unexpected.

It takes real skill to catch one of these juniors. You may not know they are attached to your bait, trouble hooking them, hard to find, etc. Catching one of these gemstones is the mark of a true professional

Good gracious that is just awesome. Points + channel swings up against them + feeding flat + draw leading up into it

Only thing I have to add is that there is often a sweet spot on the point. It might be a brushpile. Might be a rock pile. If the whole thing is covered in grass, then it might be a hole in the grass or a grass line. Might be just a stretch of harder bottom. Might be a shell bed. There is usually something that the resident fish want to relate to, and it’s our job as fisherman to find it. Once we find it, it might take a few different casting angles to get the bass to bite. Structure fishing is detail-oriented and intensive but can be incredibly rewarding. Everybody fishes points for a reason. They are really good homes and stopping places for traveling fish. Channel swings are less fished and usually if I find fish on a channel swing, they cooperate a whole lot easier than point fish. Point fish just get hammered, especially if it’s a good point everybody and their mother knows about

Zoom mag 2 Zoom ol monster Gambler burner worm Gambler burner craw Zoom finesse worm Zoom trick worm Rage Tail Lobster Rage Tail Menace Zoom super chunk Zoom split tail trailer Megabass Popmax 5/8oz Scum Frog Trophy Series 1/2oz Nichols Impulse Buzzer 1/2 oz Nichols single colorado spinner 3/4oz Oldham jig 3/16 shaky head DT-6 DT-10 1/4oz red eye shad 3/4oz 2-tap red eye shad Tough!

TX has been cooler this year so I’m currently happy with where we’re at. August could be a good month of fishing this year. I don’t like early fall and mid fall for fishing but late fall is fantastic. In Missouri, fall can be stunningly gorgeous.

Thank god!

@Pat Brown yeah Jake casts just fine, lol

@gimruis I ran track and cross country in high school and was running for a while before that. I have run a fast half-marathon at 6:30ish pace. Nothing, and I mean nothing, gets me quite as excited as a relay. A 400m relay was usually the last event at my high school meets and they were by far the most fun to watch and just exhilarating to run.

@PhishLI @MediumMouthBass will you two quit arguing about why Michigan is the best football team? @PhishLI is such a peach, anyways 😍

Take a single colorado and replace the Colorado with a willow??