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Lipless and Fluke A Senko thrown into the chaos works too. I like to think they think it's injured or dead from the slaughter and fluttering down into the depths.

I can always tie on a lipless crankbait and catch a couple when all else fails, in almost any situation and condition. I've even had countless days where not even a Ned Rig would work, but throwing and burning a lipless anywhere and everywhere has saved the day.

6'6" will always feel best to me even though I don't use many rods under 6'9" and most of mine are 7'-7'3".

My fiance is from rural Georgia. Coming up here to Indiana she thought it was strange that everyone has a driveway. I explained snow and plowing to her and now she gets it.

All at once everyone: "Hi bassnleo!"

A top 10 list without the Senko is wrong.

This thread was created ONE DAY before my son was born. He just got home from 8th grade school.

Man defecates, urinates, and dumps pollutants in the water he drinks. Our species isn't as smart as we think it is.

Not until the last tree is cut down and the last fish is caught will man realize that he cannot eat money.

I can't trust anyone with my local holes because you'll find 30 guys on buckets keeping everything and leaving trash. It's a virus; one infected guy spreads it.

Bass can and do change color based on water temp, water clarity, depth, and whatever they're using as cover. For example, clear, deep, cold water bass are often white and gray for me, and dirty, warm, shallow water bass hiding in thick veggies can be almost black.

I won't argue with you because pictures are deceiving and I wasn't there, but that's not the head or mouth of an 18" fish unless you have hands fit for an NFL QB. I catch a lot of stream SMB across Illinois and Indiana and that's a typical decent stream SMB. NDYakAnglr in YouTube fishes for stream SMB in Minnesota and North Dakota. His 18" SMB make yours look like a dwarf.

That looks like an ordinary decent small stream SMB. I have definitely never cared about this and never will.

Your post doesn't indicate plurality, but ok.

Opposite experience for me as well.

A Dobyns Sierra 734c is exactly what you're looking for. It's rated H/F, but it's more of a MH+/MF; meaning a strong medium heavy with a softer tip. It's rated to 1oz, but you'll find that a 3/8oz bladed jig with something like a Zako as a trailer feels wonderful on it. It is "the" bladed jig rod to have in the Dobyns lineup if you don't want to go the glass route (I personally don't use glass). You can't always go by the print on a rod.

A Dobyns 3 power casting rod, while stating that it's a MH on the rod, behaves and performs like almost every other company's M. It's definitely on the weak side of MH. With that said, a Dobyns 3 power casting rod is my favorite type of rod due to my power finesse style of fishing. I love it for 1/4oz lipless crankbaits, 3/16-1/4oz jigs, Senkos, weightless plastics and small Texas rigs, shaky heads, poppers, Flukes, etc. I literally could not imagine frogging with a 3 power, but I won't tell someone what won't work for them if it's working for them.

Hopefully the boycotts go even further. That disaster state needs a reality check.

6' ML/F spinning rod with a size 1000 spinning reel. 8lb monofilament line. 4" Senkos Wacky Rigged on a #1 or 1/0 Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Hook and the Ned Rig (Finesse TRD on a 1/15oz or 1/20oz ShroomZ head). Virtually impossible to not catch bass and nobody can fish them "wrong."

I think it was Fish the Moment who presented data showing finesse won a little more than half of the professional tournaments the last several years.

There will always be fish willing to bite moving baits in any water temps. It becomes about how you're fishing them, and in extreme conditions that becomes slow and finessey. Take lipless crankbaits for example. In spring and fall I burn them and they get crushed. In summer I yo-yo them on a medium retrieve. In winter or otherwise cold water conditions (so long as the water is open) I yo-yo or basically hop them very slowly and keep them close to the bottom, almost like fishing a spoon. Similar methods with chatterbaits (or even the abominable [to me] spinnerbaits) are effective the same way. So in short, yes, a moving bait can always be fished and get bit, but perhaps not the way you would like. By the way, power finesse is also a tactic, which is my style of fishing and what I'm best at.

$4-$5 for Gammy every time, don't even flinch. Don't stop for food on the way, or that pop you didn't really need, or snacks or coffee or whatever, it's all at home waiting for you already bought and paid for... And you've essentially bought the hooks you must have. Hooks and line, don't skimp on them.

Yep, and the dead heat of the summer is best for me too, not spring or fall.

Me, myself and I. It started with getting the itch to try to catch a fish when I was a teenager, and that quickly turned into wanting to catch bass, and then getting good at it.

Reminds me of a story my dad told me. 50~ years ago he got chaffing really bad. My great grandpa slapped some gasoline on it and told him to go tell his mom (my grandma) to start the bath NOW. My dad stood there dumb and confused and my great grandpa said RUN. By the time he got inside he said his legs felt like they were on fire. But after the bath he was fine. He said it took the chaffing right out and he doesn't get it to this day. I would not recommend this, I don't think it was smart or safe. Just a crazy memory. Old timers were a different breed.