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I was pleasantly surprised to see my favorite Ultimate Jerk Shad (110 clone) with some new eyes and at a decent price like I'm used to. I was worried when they all went on closeout. Picked up a jointed gill and and a Crappie too. Oh. And the old logo stuff is all still on closeout. I got 3700 boxes for under $3 earlier this week. I just wish I could find an Academy with a surplus of old tac40s....

Managed to grab this lil guy on the second cast today. Lasted about an hour in 25mph wind gusting to 35. Backlashed hard and decided to call it a day. Not bad. I'll take it

I get lucky with a jerkbait once in a while. I like the action of the sixth sense 106x a lot, but I've caught the most LMB on Academy brand jerkbaits. My PB was on a vision 110 in bone. A caught a 15ish-lb gar on a kvd300. Jerkbaits are tons of fun once you figure out how to get a bass to take one. My best days are still on lipless and chatterbait, but we skipped moving bait season so I figure I'm gonna be throwing a ton of jerkbait until water gets to 55+ again (probably march)

Thanks man, it was a rush for sure!! Now go catch us a double digit for Christmas, we know you can ??

It's been a real struggle this year down south with the early winter, 100%. They're shallow here from about 7:30am to about 8:30am, and the rest of the day right now they're all in 20-30 feet of water trying to have a little stability in their lives. We did best with jerkbaits just above deeply submerged timbers and riprap. Couldn't find em anywhere else. Loooong pauses on the 110. I spent most of this month wondering how I'm gonna make it work till late March, too lol it'd better be a darn good jerkbait winter or ... else It worked! Thanks!! ? my eyes remain safe from my own projectiles for yet another Christmas

A 4lb 15oz spot would be a lake record where I was at today, and is about double my PB - great catch!!

Today the last two weeks of the year improved. My buddy and I went on a guided trip of Ray Roberts that was postponed from a couple weeks ago. It was 29 degrees at the boat ramp this morning and all the fish came early. I caught a new PB, 7lbs 10oz. She was a little skinny and pretty beat up, but to me that's still as pretty a bass as I've caught. Thing fought like a tree branch lol I wasn't convinced it was a fish until a large bass head came up out of the water for a shake and everyone on the boat shouted ? I was using a megabass vision 110 in bone on 12lb siege mono. Bait has a slight rise to its pause. Light tac40 rod/lews tournament xp reel. Absolutely worth the last month of pain. I'm particularly relieved considering we have a high of ... 20 degrees ... on Friday. I will hopefully be on South Padre Island by then ? and when I get back we should be in full blown jerkbait season.

I'll take the drum lol I'd shoot my eye out ?

Out and about Houston this week for work, hit Fairfield Lake on the way down for this nice bass. Went to Livingston this morning and came up empty, left a chatterbait minimax and a red eye shad behind. Just wrapped up at a pond in Woodlands after snapping off the heaviest fish I've hooked in probably 3 months. Whatever that was it had to have been well over 5lbs to rip drag that hard. I haven't caught anything decent since probably October and that was an absolute gut punch. This year is ending badly, hopefully the last two weeks get a little better.

Still piddling around with these little guys at my usual spot. My birthday trip yesterday got canceled for storms that didn't materialize, but I'm going to be in Houston all next week so I'm hoping to go check out Lake Livingston and see if there's much to have down there. The reschedule of yesterday's trip will be the day after I get home, so hopefully next week turns into a good one

Very few that don't have significant fishing pressure, and they're on currently very muddy public hunting land lol

Thanks for the info yall, gives me some optimism

December is here and it's not been kind water is 53-55 in most places and the bigger bass are 20-30 feet deep. Maybe they'll come back up shallow soon. I dunno. I'm lost for now lol

The only place I feel generally confident that I will always catch is the spot nearest to my house, which makes it very defeating when I drive 2 hours to some other bath tub and get skunked. I still do, but mostly to fish other species like Striper or for the opportunity at clearer water and different topography. Most of the time though, I could just stay home and actually catch fish rather than exploring. Probably what I should have done today, would have kept a vision 110 from snapping off. It does get old casting over the same structures and stuff all the time, but catching fish does not.

I broke my Mojo Yak last week and I'm probably going to file a warranty on it since it wasn't an obvious 'my fault' kind of thing. Plus the rod is less than 90 days old. I'd just tied on a jerkbait, let it off in the water, and pulled in the slack to cast. As the jerk of the cast started to unload the rod and send the lure flying, the tip snapped and cut my line sending my bait and the rod tip into about 25' of water. I can't understand why this happened, the lure was well under the rod's load rating, the line was not wrapped around the eyes, and I was not trying to bomb the cast 50 yards or something insane like that. No part of this makes sense to me. I'm honestly still very upset about it, that was my favorite rod for all things under 1/2oz and I am absolutely missing it. On the St Croix website, the warranty form makes it clear I will have to pay to ship the rod back. I don't have a box for this, if anyone can give me some advice or some thoughts on this whole process I would appreciate the input very much. Thanks!

Finally hit a few numbers at my normal spot, 7 of these little fun size dudes and a couple hours. Water is about 55 degrees right now, it's been stable for a handful of days now so I feel like some better fishing will return with that. They liked the pearl minimax today.

I absolutely love my CT. Least problematic reel I own for the price. Gets used exclusively with 14lb sufix elite for 1/2oz red eye shad. I like it almost as much as my Curado DC. The DC squeaks by it with smaller lures. Went out to the LBJ grasslands with my buddy and my jon boat. Spent about 3.5 hours on the water, caught this one dink and then proceeded to break my St. Croix Mojo Yak at the tip while casting a 6th sense jerkbait. Tip and bait were not recovered. I'm really not sure how it happened; the only thing that makes any sense is that I had line around the tip when I casted. But I usually feel that in my thumb when I bounce the lure. Baffling. If anyone has experience with St. Croix customer support, pointers are appreciated. Bout to get the curado DC off the busted mojo and go to my honey hole to see if the honeys have returned. This 'cold water in November' thing is really birddoggin my quail right now

Numbers wise it was probably the ned on a few different spinning combos. No idea what the numbers are but they have to be over 100. Mostly on the orange pumpkin/green/black flake senko. Next is probably either chatterbait or lipless followed by the same color senko. Big fish though, was no-contest the 1/2oz red eye shad in various shad colors, thrown on a 7'5" medium heavy Academy brand Tac40V rod/Daiwa tatula CT spooled with sufix elite 14lb mono. My biggest of the year so far is 5-13 which I've hit twice, one on the above and one on a c-rigged brush Hog. Including those two, 8 of 9 bass between 5lb and 6lb have been caught on some variant of a sexy shad colored red eye shad. Lucky me, my friend/guitar player/fishing buddy booked a trip on my home lake on my birthday with the guide who helped land the lake record. My birthday wish is to catch my best of the year if not a PB. Fingers crossed lol

You can't hear it but they're all crowing "SINK-O, SINK-O!"

All y'all and your beautiful eagles...best I got is the murder of crows that takes the shape of Roland Martin and follows me from my house to the lake

100%. I'm headed to San Antonio for Thanksgiving, hoping to get some time in at some warmer water on the way down and back. I'm annoyed because I love fall fishing and we kinda just ripped right through that into winter. Boo hiss.

Ray Bob water temp has dropped a degree per night over the last 12 days - we went from about 67 to 55 in that span. Fishing has fallen off a cliff at my usual bank spots, I'm back to catching dinks and maybe 1 per hour if I'm lucky. Time to figure it out on the jerkbait or just wait for the patterns to adjust I guess. I haven't seen a decent blowup in probably a week. I get the feeling the big bass are just somewhere else for now.

Man's over here casually catching bigger bass than I have all year LOL

Thanks! With a shad that size, it'd be likely a Flathead or Blue Catfish, a decent size Black Bass, or a Gar - at this lake probably a longnose or shortnose, alligator gar are very sparse in Ray Roberts. Very few recorded catches. My money is on a blue catfish though, I've caught them on lures there. Hey NICE! I'm still lookin for this week's fiver...she's out there somewhere. I'm gonna get her

Went out for some catching this morning, I tried yesterday but the combo of cold, clouds, and wind kept me inside. Just too much for my hands. Today was great though, partly cloudy with the occasional 10mph NW wind. Had 6 LMB and a shad. Foul hooked it right under the pectoral fin. If I'd had some other gear it'd've become bait.