LrgmouthShad

From the time I bought my first baitcaster, I bought them with the handle on the left side since I am right hand dominant. Just made sense to me.

Younger angler here. So 2016 when I started fishing, I was using hard baits. One of the first lures that I bought was actually a shad rap. I saw it on some shelf and thought it looked really fishy. It looked like it had some history behind it, too. I actually crushed fish on shad raps in a weedy lake. I would work it erratically and snatch it free of grass. But the man who kinda helped me get started into fishing noticed that I was wanting to start targeting bass because that’s all I saw on YouTube. So he gifted me with a small box of plastics and told me that if I wanted to catch bass, it was going to be hard to beat plastics. I loved my shad raps and other crankbaits but I finally did try the plastics one day after learning to Texas rig and I was amazed. Now I could really target bass in those thick weeds. To answer your question, yes, it was pretty easy to learn to fish a worm. And that’s all she wrote. I think the first worm I tried was a yum ribbontail.

@MN Fisher well… those’ll do. Awfully good looking peanuts to pack and send that spoonplug back into the stone age

@MN Fisher wait do you have some of those peanuts I’m kind of hungry now

@MN Fisher but council member, he hath used a spoonplug, no less

Council, I submit my own request to be nominated as the Trendy Lures Police Chief for the Latest Catch Pics Thread My duties would include but would not be limited to: 1. Ensuring bassresource members select lures for their fishing that are currently fashionable and used by today's professional anglers. 2. Promoting the use of whatever lures the quintessential 16 year old bass fishing YouTuber currently recommends. My powers would include but would not be limited to: 1. Scolding bassresource anglers that do not use trendy lures. NOTE: As a rule this includes swiftly deploying a GIF to supplement the scolding. What say you, council?

@NorthernBasser well, tough to say what water clarity I fish. What I would call my "home" lake Stillhouse is absurdly clear and chock full of timber in some regions. Oh, and dominated by hydrilla. I will broaden to more lakes in TX soon. I have been doing some pretty extensive virtual recon of Lake Brownwood to the West of me. Just based on my past two seasons, I fished all kinds of water clarity and all kinds of cover. For all I know, that might continue to be the case. Appreciate your tips on working a chatterbait regardless

@NorthernBasser 😂 hey man I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it. I certainly may consider at some point working them again like a jig as @A-Jay suggests. I have before. There is certainly an argument to be made for them being a good night bait too. But other than that... on a straight retrieve if I hit some timber I'm donezo with a chatterbait but still a-okay with a spinnerbait. And I can trick out a spinnerbait to do a whole lot more than a chatterbait can 🤷‍♂️

My rig is a Hobie Outback. I have an anchor trolley installed on the left flank of the kayak. I anchor quite a bit - even in the hydrilla. I find that a constant stable platform is often essential to dissecting an area. The greatest trouble with utilizing an anchor trolley with a kayak is precision. I will always be away from my anchor a certain distance and I will always sway back and forth in the wind while anchored. I may line up a cast towards the same object on two consecutive casts, but because of the swaying, my retrieve angle will be different each time and often will change during the retrieve. This is why it is easiest to cover regions or large objects offshore rather than small objects in a kayak. I can still target offshore brushpiles with relative efficiency. It just might take me a few to several casts for me to locate the pile after marking it and start lining up casts to it.

Couple options I would try are shaky head on a light head and a small Texas rigged bait with a heavy weight. Let it rocket down to the brush. Clear water sometimes I like a heavy weight If it is bluebird with light winds and clear water, moving baits aren’t usually in the discussion for me unless we are talking topwater

@Bluebasser86 is not lying. I watched his jig box video. I question my own mental stability for watching the whole thing

@TnRiver46 I’m in it for the challenge

Thank you all for your suggestions! I should have clarified up front what I was planning on using this for. Since I have small spinnerbaits in mind, I’m not willing to drop below 10lb test. For that reason and because of the concern some of you expressed over using 10lb on spinning, my current plan is to load my zillion with 10-12lb fluoro and do the work on baitcasting equipment. My primary spinnerbait outfit remains 15lb big game on a REVO Winch, Falcon Head Turner Im looking to fill a niche, is all

@Jweller just buy a Head Turner and thank us later

Heck I was thinking about trying to night fish in the winter…. Just to say that I caught a fish at night in winter and to really poke those deep North anglers

Some of my most effective baits on the drop are jigs, speed worms, and speed craws. The speed worm in particular is so great on the fall that my standard way of working it is letting it fall initially and then reeling it back to the boat. I’ll vary speed. Of course everyone knows that it can be used as a topwater bait as well

@ChrisD46 it’s alright. Folks cycle in and out of BR. New information and new baits come out. New threads just update the existing library.

Spinnerbaits I like zoom split tails, trick worms, or yum pulse swimbaits. I do not always use trailers I don’t throw chatterbaits

Two fold. 1. It’s what I have 2. I want to categorize some jigs really specifically, and a deep box allows me to pack a lot of jigs into one “category.” For instance, I have a compartment that is 5/8oz Oldham jigs.

@jimanchower I have used it for pretty much everything. After accumulating a massive amount of jigs, 2/3 of my deep boxes are dedicated jig boxes. The third has some assorted stuff that I will refine once I find more time. You can put almost anything in there, other than wire baits.

Okay guys, you heard @ol'crickety. Southern kinsfolk in this here God's Country, this is our moment. You all remember those Northern guys and gals catching fish after fish all summer while we sit scratching our heads right? It's time for us to flip the script! We must start landing bucketmouth after bucketmouth while those yankees accumulate bucket after bucket of snow. It's game time P.S. I'll be your faithful benchwarmer since I probably am not fishing till January and I don't really know how to catch Texan bass yet anyways

Spinnerbait and 3700 deep

Okay let me pose some alternate ideas I have. What about 10lb Sunline Defier Armillo, same reel? And then what about (some) 10lb fluoro, this time on a Daiwa JDM Zillion (baitcasting)? I am not used to using this kind of line combination I have a reason for preferring FC in this case but if mono handles better on spinning at 10lb, then could be a reason for me to consider mono instead I like both mono and fluoro and I use both Edit: I guess it would help if I explain what I am primarily using this for, but y’all will probably call me insane and question my preference of fluoro. I want to use this for small spinnerbaits

Yeah, okay. Can't wait for the report of your (next) final trip next week Nice report though 😀