CrashVector

Next week looks to warm up to the 70's. That will most likely have bass pushing up.

For a reason too. They work.

It's been just over a week since I hooked anything, and I've thrown the kitchen sink. Worms, Ned rigs, crankbaits, jerkbaits, swimbaits, spinner baits, etc. Nothing is working I KNOW the fish are there, I just can NOT get them to bite.

People who tell me "_____ doesn't work" when I have dozens of videos of it working.

Same issues here. No bluegills...I can see fish, but none bite. We get cormorants, but lots of anhingas too. I accidentally hooked one under water on video while using a pit boss lol! I thought I layed into a HUGE bass lol!

Likewise. It rained here literally all night and all day today.

Cold fronts. Back to back to back. Really ruining my fishing mojo. It gives the fish here lockjaw with 20F temp drops/rebounds every two days. Haven't gotten a single strike from ANY fish in six days, which is really odd for me. Why are we having the start of winter NOW when I'd normally be catching the BBW big girls coming up for pre-spawn?!?!

Come down here. We catch fish 12 months a year

You should watch videos on yt by a guy called "Louisiana Blackwater fly fishing" He does lots of vids on tying flies, etc.

https://www.abugarcia.com/collections/spinning-combos/products/max-x-spinning-combo-1523056 Pick your rod length, reel size, and rod power..all the same price. They're DECENT, but nothing special. The Max-X line is a budget line, and it shows. However....for $90, I can highly recommend this: https://www.abugarcia.com/collections/spinning-combos/products/max-pro-spinning-combo-1523046 $15 more and you get a true high quality combo. The max pro spinning reels are definitely worth the $. I have a 20 size I use for ned rigs. It's a great reel at a very fair price.

Anyone order from him before? The amount of customization looks awesome, but for anyone who has ordered, he offers soft, medium, and medium hard plastic for lures. I was debating on ordering some medium hard scuppernong/gold flake creature baits to practice my super heavy grass punching, and some mediums for Texas rigging. Any opinions are welcome, because if he makes quality stuff, the ability to really customize my lures down to the size of the glitter flakes is right up my persnickety alley.

I never change my stock hooks unless they rust or get super dull.

The H2O express rattling saltwater jig heads...the greenish ones. This site won't let me post the link

I use clear mono. Still...experimentation is half the fun of fishing imo....

Keitech easy shiner or a chatterbait.

Yes. Go anyway...even if you catch nothing, it's better than sitting on the sofa.

I bought a pack of the 6" ding dong worms. They look and feel like "premium" lures. I got the watermelon/red glitter ones. Anyone use them that can speak about their durability? The plastic seems a tad "harder" than most senkos I use.

I use 8lb braid on my 20-size ultra-finesse setup.

Correct, but to say it stretches less than mono..is false.

From Berkley: " Did You Know? Many anglers believe that fluorocarbon is a low-stretch line, and credit its sensitivity to this factor. But it actually stretches more than nylon mono. The difference is, it takes a greater force to get fluoro stretching in the first place." But by all means, keep repeating false info bc you want it to be true despite being given the actual facts. I work in the medical field. Nothing is true unless you can prove it with actual data.

I dont say anything unless I have testing data to back me up, not opinions. The sensitivity isn't the same...to you. Data says otherwise. Stretch most certainly isn't the same...except testing by MANY labs says otherwise. Stretch and elasticity has been tested hundreds of times. I'm correct. You are not.

I use a lot of big game. The "premium mono" that I use is Trilene Sensation. On my panfish spinning setups, I use Trilene XL. False on both. Fluoro stretches just like mono... The difference is that it is not elastic so once it stretches, it stays stretched and weakened.

My biggest fish have been caught on a version of this.

It's refractive index is closer to water has NOTHING to do with how visible or invisible something is in water. https://www.slideserve.com/lesley/mathematical-theory-of-fishing-line-visibility That's a slide show version for ease. TL:DR version: since fishing line is essentially a cylinder, the refractive index has very little to do with its visibility. Glass has a MUCH higher refractive index than water. Sheets of glass are all but invisible under water except at the edges. A substrates SHAPE matters more than its refractive index once submerged. Fluorocarbon lines are NOT invisible OR less visible than monofilament. It's flat out false info and marketing b.s. Also this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/activeanglingnz.com/2016/01/04/the-fluorocarbon-myth/amp/

I just got a MH/f Abu Garcia veritas tournament edition spinning rod. I'm currently using it pretty much every day to get more on the water time for a comprehensive review, but so far, I'm impressed.