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Check your local laws. Many states are banning felt soled wading boots as they can transfer invasive species between streams.

Texas rig it with a pegged or unpegged weight depending on what you're doing. Proven fish catcher as old as the soft plastic.

The bait monkey can be a hard thing to fight off. I recently went through a tackle and rod expansion because I wanted to try a bunch of new techniques. Tackle I more just bought everything I thought I would need. Rods, being more expensive, I bought two or three that would do most jobs well enough rather than specialty set ups for everything. I suspect as I find what works for me, Ill start retiring some of the soft plastics I bought

If you’re me, pray.

Wind and waves were pretty bad yesterday on Monona. Spent all day on the water and only got one 4 pounder on a swim jig. Holding on some deep cover around 15 feet. Water temps in the low fifties.

Charlie Brewer’s makes some really quality grubs in some interesting colors. For a twin tail I like the rage menace. Very versatile design with nice action

More fishing pressure than ever on most bodies of water that are easily accessible.

Cinch knot is probably the culprit. When I first tried braid I attempted to use the cinch knot like I do with fluoro. When I went to cinch it down the whole knot pulled out. I could repeat this easily. Braid is too slick, use a different knot. Palomar will be good to go.

Something to consider, a lot of BC set ups have very small guides. Both my baitcasters are St. Croix Mojos. They're excellent rods, but like I said, small guides. Even the thinnest leader to main line knots like the Alberto can and will hang up a bit in guides. For this reason I went straight fluoro on my baitcasting set ups and I love it. I save the braid to Fluoro leader for my spinning rods. The FG knot may work but I can't tie that to save my life and don't care to learn. I can do an Alberto with my eyes closed. Another bit of advice, avoid the mistake I made and maybe don't buy high end lines for your first spooling on your new bait caster. You'll probably have to cut a few birds' nests out.

Funny story, when I heard "Ned Rig" for the first time and looked up what it was, I had to l laugh. I had been buying "Ned head" jigs for years and using them on single tail grubs to swim them. In so far that this is one of my confidence baits. Swimming a grub with a ned head on it will almost always net me a catch. Guess I had been a Ned Head all along

I thought the whole point of the Ned rig was to be hopping it off the bottom. For the situation you described OP, yes the drop shot would be easier and more suitable to keep suspended off the bottom at a fixed depth.

On a weightless wacky rigged senko I toss it out, let it hit the bottom. Wait and then pop it two or three times and repeat. Sometimes I get impatient and I will twitch it, give it a two or three count, and then twitch again repeating until it’s back to the shore or boat.

Title says it all. Leaving for a week long trip to Lake Norfork next Friday. Any tips on the bite or colors that typically produce well? We're going for a multi-species trip but Im going to dedicate at least one or two days just to our green and brown bass friends.

Hi there friend! Little south of you. Ive been going out for bass 2-3x a week pretty consistently since March. The small largemouth are juuuuust starting to warm up this last week and start biting. Heading out to Gov. Dodge on Saturday for opening day and Ill post an update with how we do. With the nice snap of 70ies I think they're pretty close to turning on

Yep, it will work just fine.

Generally I’ll start with a known producer I’m confident with. From there depending on the bite I will branch out. I’m newer to a lot of techniques so I welcome the practice to try new stuff and see which ones suit me. the tackle monkey has had me bad the last six months so I’m geared up to throw most things under the sun. Cant learn if you don’t try!

That’s a new one for me. The “wings” look like they were designed to be a bait keeper of some sort.

My first was a blue Plano single accordion shelf deal that my father got me in the late nineties when I was maybe six or seven years old. That lasted until maybe age 9 or 10 when I upgraded to a Blue shimano tackle bag that held 5 or 6 3500 or 3600 style boxes that I stuffed with all matter of random lures. @Bluebasser86, I think we had the same bag. God bless that bag, it lasted me all the way up to Christmas 2020 when my dad got me a Lews Mach Hatchpack tackle backpack which I carry 6 thin 3700’s in at full capacity. Much better organized now ?Very well designed bag, I really like the upgrade. I’m a sucker for nostalgia though and I still have my original tackle box from all those years ago, now repurposed to hold small specialty tools under my work bench.

Their standard 50 dollar free shipping leaves you at their mercy (who spends less than $50 at TW anyway?) as far as ship date. Springing for the two day gets it out the door the next day in my experience.

haha ya got me there!

That is them! Wonder why the big ones are so uncommon now.

As a kid I remembered having a lure that was a chartreuse jig with an orange body that resembled a Cubby Mini-Mite, but oversized for bass. I looked and looked but could never find one so I wrote it off as something I made up. Lo and behold, in the dusty corner of some local tackle shop I find one in the exact configuration as the one I remember having as a child. It was also the last one in the all too familiar Cubby variety box thats in most small tackle stores. Talk about lucky. Turns out I wasn’t crazy. Are these big guys no longer made? My Google fu has turned up nothing and I can’t even find them on eBay. I put the one I did find on my shelf as a keep sake because of the memory attached to it.

Could just snip the head off straight or in a contour to match the jig if you think the fish don’t want to eat ole’ Blinky.

Probably the owner 5/0 is what you’re looking for.

With that sort of depth I’d say a regular ole 3/8th would be suitable. I’d just count it down and use either a slow retrieve or a yo-yo retrieve.