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Hey y'all, I really enjoyed the "Share Your Favorite Spinnerbaits" thread I recently made This is the "Share Your Favorite Jigs" thread Let's see if @Catt is willing to share this time, or not ? I elected to share my own favorites this time Let's begin on the farthest left column. These are all Oldham jigs. They have been recent favorites of mine because of the head, hook, and weedguard design. They work very well in grass and wood and fair good in rock. The Trailer Hitch jigs are priced at $3.75 and the Eye-Max jigs are priced at $4.75. Both jigs have excellent hooks and feature a screw lock keeper, but the Trailer Hitch jig has simply the best jig hook I've seen. It's fantastic. There's a reason I am starting with these jigs first. Let's move on Next column to the right are Coda Lures Apex All-Purpose Jigs. These are priced at a hefty $6.95. The hook is only second to Oldham's Trailer Hitch jigs. It is an Owner Jungle hook. The skirts are hand tied and flare out a lot. The head features a recessed line tie and a do-it-all pitching head design. These work very well in wood and rock and fair good in grass too. Good jigs if you are willing to spend the coin Next over are the Strike King Bitsy Flip jigs. $2.39 and mean as heck. I love these little jigs. The keeper is hot garbage and good luck keeping the skirts together, but the hook, head, and weedguard design is fantastic and these little jigs crush bass, and big ones Up next are the E-Factor Pitching Jigs. I found these in Missouri and they both have aftermarket skirts on them. Online they are priced at $3.69 but I don't recall getting them that cheap. Weird. These are great jigs. Very similar hook to the Trailer Hitch jigs and the head is probably the most universal I have found and they will stand up on the bottom Then we have Siebert's. These are 1/4oz living rubber, arkie style, wire-tied. Uh I don't really want to talk more about these so let's move on. It's Siebert's. It's gonna be good. $4.75 Then on the bottom are four 1/4oz dock-rocker jigs from Siebert's. I cut the skirts in a puffball fashion. These were very good for skipping docks on Badin lake in NC in clear water in the summer. Sneaky little jigs. $4.50 Okay y'all that's my write-up. What is yours? Again, we like pictures

Turn self…. Into…. Puffball Good luck with the heated vests though. I have a love hate relationship with cold weather fishing

Whatever you do Do not say the words Trilene Big Game

You’ve been clickbaited ? I’m thinking I should start a YT channel ?

New worm. If you are using the “Bow Noodle” worm, isn’t it appropriate to say you are “Noodling”?

I have to leave Texas for a bit and won't be doing any fishing. I'm happy to have gotten a couple decent fish before leaving. I wanted to take a break from fishing at some point anyway to give my body rest. I've found that I don't even need the rest at the moment. Body is holding up great. I'll look at the positive and say that's fantastic. Just keeping y'all updated!

@Glenn Invisx is also good line. I do like it. It comes the closest to Sniper in my rating. I do agree with you that folks that try one should try the other. They both are quality lines and offer different attributes. For me, for most applications that I use fluoro for, Sniper is the deal. There are, however, some uses that I could see myself using Invisx for over Sniper. I just haven’t fine tuned my equipment enough for that yet. P.S. I got my PB on 10lb invisx

I mean, I don’t even know. It’s just all around good. It casts better than most fluoros I’ve tried, it holds up well to abrasion, it’s strong, really sensitive. The stuff is the bomb.

I prefer a jig and especially one with a steep line tie angle, but yes, I do still like a Texas rig in rocks

By now @thediscochef and @TnRiver46 can probably attest that I go back and forth and back and forth between liking mono and fluoro. I really like both and I will always use both. Here’s what I will say. Out of fluorocarbon that I have tried, this is hands down my favorite. Hence why I purchased a bulk spool.

I like it!

One fish again. Again, it was a good one. Shy of 6lbs.

*checks calendar to make sure it isn’t December* Anyways, one of the best fishermen on this site is @Bluebasser86

I have been bass fishing for a little over 7 years now. I rate myself according to the scheme OP provided a 5) “not bad”

If better than Navionics, I will give it a shot Map study and Google earth are always great first steps for looking at a body of water. I’ve also found that it is helpful to revisit these sites often. Especially when the water level is changing. As more and more anglers are familiarizing themself with structure fishing, I’ve found that finding the little nuggets of structure that are either hard to find or overlooked can be productive. Sometimes anglers don’t even know that something that is structure…. Is structure

Yes. I use Lodge cast iron pans quite a bit

My pedal drive on my Hobie has started to squeak and squeal and I hate it. I hate it a lot. Think it's got something with me trying to pedal through copious amounts of hydrilla

I did not "hate" shaky heads, just kinda didn't understand the technique and never tried it. Once I did, I realized it is so unbelievably essential that I wondered why I ever did without it. Make no mistake, small worms on shaky heads can catch quality and some giants

If you look at the temperatures here, not too too different from summer. It is a good bit cooler, but that's only cuz low 90s are not low 100s. Night temps have fallen about the same amount. Weather is very stable at the moment but we did have some storms come through. What does all this mean? I think a good portion fish have started to move up some, with a good portion remaining deep. Sort of a pick your poison. I absolutely think there are resident deep fish that will remain in 30ft +/- through the fall. Most noticeable change to the fish though is probably the shorter daylight hours. I can pick whatever I want to do. I can fish dirt shallow all the way out to 30ft or more, night or day. Such is the nature of this clear water beast.

Gotta rest it sometime. When I had shoulder issues, I forced myself to stop fishing for quite some time…. Multiple months. Then focused on strengthening the shoulders through physical therapy. Today, as long as I live an active life, keep good posture, and work to keep the shoulders strong, I have little to no issues and can fish pain free for 9 hours or more

Yup. I don’t think 7 is unrealistic

Yup. It’s rather often that I will dunk the bass I am trying to get a weight on back in the water 2-3 times while I am getting situated. It is almost cute how they will just sit there in the water sucking on your thumb getting a breath. I’m trying to get better about making sure I don’t scrape off their slime coat too. Edit: @21” the bass is a little limited on how much it can weigh but regardless that is a dang football. Really nice fish

I’m gonna think about the weather and how it’s affecting things but mostly I’m just gonna pay attention to what I’m seeing on the water and on my sonar when I get there. Based on experience, I know that on my local lake, if there is not at least a little breeze, I can expect it to be a tough day. And typically fishing is better when the wind is coming from the South since that is prevailing wind direction. I will focus a little more on structure if the wind is directly coming into or going away from a piece of structure. Thats about it

Oh this is easy. You can use the following year round: 1. Spinnerbait 2. Spinnerbait 3. T-rig 4. Spinnerbait 5. Jig 6. Spinnerbait In all seriousness I’m watching the video now @Glenn