LrgmouthShad

I do have other stuff scattered through my other boxes. So maybe this is just the “summertime edition” with a heavy focus on Texas rigs. If I was still in MO, where I’d be fishing for both smallies and largies regularly, it’d look way different. There are smallmouth near me, and big ones, but I do not care to fish for them here

So I think @Catt when I went out Saturday and got three… I think they wanted a 1/2oz over the 3/16oz. I actually went with two rods with t-rigs. One with 3/16 and lighter wire gammy hook, the other 1/2oz super line gammy hook. All three fish were on the 1/2oz. I did fish the 1/2oz somewhat more, but at the very least, I don’t think the big weight hurt me any. It was my first trip where a main goal was trying to pay attention to whether the bass wanted a fast or slow fall

I have two of these in that color. It’s a gorgeous jig. If you just want a similar skirt, OP, I believe All Terrain Tackle makes a camouflage skirt that looks a lot like the one used on the Oldham jig

I believe you. Thanks for sharing that little tip with us. Much appreciated ? Edit: my response isn’t sarcastic but if you’re into humor, read the above in Randy B’s voice

Yeah, you would do that ?. That’s clever. You think it helps?

Maybe it’s just me, but so many people say to throw a black buzzbait that I don’t want to throw a black buzzbait. Kinda the same reason I don’t use green pumpkin for plastics. Well, other than the fact that it’s bland and ugly

I will go with that. I actually tried to put an old zoom split tail trailer on the ones I’m using, and the hook is so long it doesn’t fit. Lol. They are Picasso Hog Snatchers. I do have some Nichols around but the Hog Snatchers I burned the rivets down by driving with them and they are good squeakers

Yeah but scorpion is supposed to be JDM Curado and then that goes by JDM prices. So if we convert everything over to JDM, he’d still be saving considerable money going for the Curado equivalent. I have no idea if the metanium is worth it though. Good luck

Do you have any suggestions on trailers to use with the skirt still on? I have trouble getting em to run straight up and down when it’s a skirt and trailer. Im very encouraged by your response, by the way ? 2022 was a such a great year because the first fish I caught that year was on a buzzbait and it went over 4lbs. I miss buzzbait bites

Hey y’all, So fall is a way off but I just like thinking about it. I have a hypothetical. Let’s say someone wanted to throw buzzbaits and similar topwaters for the entire duration of fall, never tossing another lure. Assuming reasonably stable lake conditions, is this a good idea, or…. Nah LrgmouthShad I dunno what you’ve been smoking but that’s ripe darn dumb right there.

You mean… it gets even crazier?? ??

I have a rental Tacoma right now and like it about twice as much as my current truck, a Ford Ranger. But the Ranger came at a good deal so…. I’ll take it

Revenge. Not sure if still being sold

That’s a good distance I don’t have live scope but try to place myself about that far away from something that I have marked

Been a long time since I posted here but seeing as I posted some chess stuff in the past, I am very proud to say that I’ve reached a rating about 1400 for rapid. I’ve improved quite a lot over the past several months.

So if at some point I were to get this Lake Master, would it work with my Garmin, and is it possible to move my waypoints over to the new chip?

So is that a separate chip you have?

Hey y’all, Our friendly neighbor moderator @roadwarrior has posted a thread in the past called Guaranteed to Catch Bass. In it, he tells you to find a well defined cove and work a couple baits parallel to the bank. Now, I have noticed, that this pattern - that is, paralleling cove banks - is definitely a thing that works on multiple large lakes that I’ve been on. I really want to know the logic behind this method. Why are bass likely to be found there? Why does it work?

Oof

Hey y’all, Do you tend to trust Navionics or the mapping that is on your fish finder more? I may find something on Navionics, think it is cool, go out to check it out on my fish finder mapping, and turns out it looks totally different there. I may not be able to find what I was looking for. Additionally, an off-topic question, can somebody tell me how to delete the “trails” your boat leaves on the mapping on your sonar unit? My fish finder is a Garmin Echomap UHD 73sv

Hey y’all, Ive been throwing a Texas rig a lot. Mostly because I now fish a mixture of hydrilla and timber, and a Texas rig is good to fish through both, and it also allows me to use one of my summertime mainstays, the ribbontail worm. But Catt and Cbump and probably a couple others I’m forgetting have preached the importance of paying attention to rate of fall. Combine that with my desire to have a little heavier gauge hooks and weights in thick grass, and my terminal tackle has exploded. Here’s a look inside two boxes that I keep in the little bottom compartment of my Hobie.

Punching? Still a Texas rig. Swimming a plastic worm with a bullet weight? Still a Texas rig. Skipping under docks with or without the weight pegged? Still a Texas rig. This is why it is so difficult to make generalizations

Yeah, Invisx did get a bit unruly like I said, but still very manageable. Also, you should use KVD L&L. Don’t look at it as a necessity. Look at it as a bonus. I promise you, it helps, and you will cast farther and smoother.

A Texas rig is so diverse in its applications and form that it’s difficult to say “this is the right way to work it”

So are you saying that heat acclimation doesn’t exist?