AlabamaSpothunter

A Smallmouth certainly is a harder fighting species. That said, both the LGM and Smallmouth are playing for second place as long as the Alabama Bass exist. Spots and Smallmouths fight alot alike, but where the Spot separates itself is the speed of it's runs. It's a more sleek and streamlined fish compared to the football shaping of the Smallmouth.

Just awful, I feel so sorry for his family. He was perhaps the only HC I liked and thought wasn't a scumbag. He was super funny too, I loved his Mascot press conference. RIP Pirate, you were a real one.

I thinking more the Downfall meme ?

You made me check my email......POOF, you've got shipping notification ?

Dude this is the CRAZIEST thing ever.......I was slammed with work last week listening to podcasts, and I watched the Shawn Ryan Show podcast with Nick Kefalides and he said he was Bass fishing for a living now, being busy I didn't have time to go down that google rabbit hole but assumed Tourney stuff. To hear he's a guide, and within nice driving distance......I'd love to fish with him for a cpl. days. Do you have his contact info.....I googled Warrior2Bass, but's it's defunct. I'd equally love to fish with Live Scope. Thanks for posting, maybe I can go fishing with a true legend in the SOF community. EDIT: NVM found his new page

My new 110jr I bought today didn't have the outbarb design but they might be the most delicate hooks I've seen on a Bass bait. A single hook from a Treble has already snapped clean off, and I was constantly having to bend hooks back on 1-3lb fish. Granted there was many Spots in the mix. I mean $20 it caught about 25 Bass this afternoon, on that end I'm tickled. On the other hand, now I have to buy a set of replacement hooks after one outing. Why can't they put stronger hooks on these? Stronger doesn't always have to mean heavier. I will say the hooks are beyond sharp, you cant even tie the bait on without bleeding. I get it though now after only owning Shimano Flashboost, and various Jackall jerkbaits in terms of $15-20 baits.......those are close, but this bait has a magic that few baits in general have. They charge these prices because the consumer will no doubt pay it. I mean exactly, I thought this up until today for sure. The other high dollar stuff suspends well, sticky JDM type hooks, great finishes, designs to increase casting distance, but man they don't have the magic in them like 110s or at least the 110jr I own. I'll be buying a 110 along with hooks for the one I found for sure. They are worth the price oddly enough I found out.

Anybody mention the Zillion SVTW JDM?? There are maybe a handful of reels better than those reels, and they cost easily twice as much.

Well it took since Friday, and the luck of weather holding together.....but atlas a raw thumb day, and a puzzle as perfectly put together as I can do. Figured out lots of stuff today. Turns out some homeowners dredged a channel 10ft by 100yds at the very back of this creek I've been talking about for days. Now I know why the fish are there, what they are doing, and finally found the right baits after going to the local tackle monkey store. The magic bait wasn't a soft Jerkbait per say while it produced a few fish, but a MegaBass 110jr in Sexy Shad just blew the top off finally. I caught somewhere around 30 Bass in about 3.5hrs, sizes ranged from 6" in length, to a solid 3lb fish. Numerous 2lb fish, and I'd say 60% of them were in that 1-1.5lb range. These are schoolie Bass, I highly doubt a fish bigger than 4 maybe 5lbs was involved in any of this activity. Long video at 14mins so many might not have the time, but I try to talk a little bit about what is going on and show the unique conditions and contour that is creating these feeding events.

I've seen this happen on two occasions with other companies, and it didn't end how the company thought I'd imagine. Major blowback, and numerous lost customers. It would be way smarter for them from a financial standpoint to just honor the orders they accepted. Honestly I buy very few PF products, so if my order gets cancelled no skin off my back. What amounted to 60-70% off retail prices is what got me try some of their newer products like a Stunna, Slobberknockers, Jigs, and the Power Stingers. Got a new scale coming but it will be replacing a Berkeley one that is 20yrs+ old, and still calibrates perfectly.

They are great salesman, but ultimately, they are better teachers imho. I watched like 5 hours they did on big Swimbait fishing, I would have paid to attend a course to learn the stuff that I did and have already put into effect.

I'll share anything and everything I know on here as that's what I'm hoping to receive from others who are members. I'm learning far more than I'm sharing. That's why I started a whole thread about a lure that I thought was "Secret", or not well known. These forums are only as good as the members who are willing to share their expertise and experience. On the other hand, I'm a huge sand bagger on my homelake to anybody but a few fellow anglers I know are good honest people and would happily share info with me. "How many you catching?"........"slow day barely catching anything" ? I'm not even telling my momma the places that hold big fish on my home lake ?

I've started trolling some. It's been a revelation. There are fish that live smack dab in the middle of the lake in 35ft of water relating to nothing more than ever moving Shad balls. Trolling seems to be taboo in general simply because of tourney rules. If you aren't fishing for money, why not incorporate another new way of catching them I say. I used to believe the 90% of fish live in the 10% of the lake deal, certainly not anymore. There is no doubt in my mind that fish will eat anything you can get close enough to them when they are in those rare "frenzy" mode.

LOLOL....got two Vaults as well. I normally don't buy stuff based on YT videos, but I've learned so much from those two guys, and they have a very good approach to throwing out multiple options of a bait to buy.....I think all they care about is you buy it from TW.

Do you want me to just mail my wallet to you, you are the tackle monkey in human form ? Would the 7'2 one be a cranking rod, or more of a bladed jig rod?

Yeah this has been a theme since starting back fishing my homelake. I cracked the code during the summer after a week or two with a Scrounger head and Live Magic Shad, I threw 15-20 baits before that point. I literally drove away with an hour left of light, and fish blowing up in the background......the level of frustration is up there. I think the big problem I keep having is that I'm way off usually on the size bait they are throwing up in the air. Really little bait in this current scenario, not those bigger sized 2"+ threadfins and gizzards I posted. They are so thick I catch them on those sticky Shimano jerkbait hooks. Sub 1" sized fish. The Bass must be like whales, just sucking in numerous Shad in at a time. It's all just so fascinating, always has been. There is a wonderment to this process that never seems to age. If I could do over again in terms of school/career......I'd have studied fish biology. Gotten a job working for Southeastern Pond Management or something. It's still fun being an idiot and guessing ?

Caught a quality LGM on a finesse jig and a new rod I'm trying out, but I still can't stop thinking about that scene from a few days ago so I made the long run to see what was going on. Sure enough I found hundreds on active fish, saw a dozen 2-3lb fish go aerial at least, tried 8-10 baits.....ZERO FISH, ZERO BITES ? For the level of epic activity, I saw last Friday, I still only managed to catch 6-7 fish. They were so thick they could have been snagged seemingly. I'm pretty sure a soft weightless jerkbait is going to be the trick tom. if conditions can hold on just one more day for me. I think if I can find the magic bait, I'll have the most epic raw thumb day. Don't lie ?

Lol. This has happened with other deals I've been part of. Surefire did a ALLTHELUMEN discount code of 50% off for very select few people......code got out for about half a day, the Surefire noticed and shut it down. They honored the orders, but you'll never see Surefire even 20% off, let alone 50%. Sales always make me realize how much I'm ripping myself off when paying fulling price for anything these days.

Haha, they sent my Deracoup in Dera Shad the day after my primary order shipped. Never fished them, but Tactical Bassin said I should buy one ?

I love how witnessing nature's cruelty and beauty put my own existence into better context, how easy I have it in many ways, but in some other ways how much more complicated my existence is than those I love to watch in nature. I love how merit determines outcomes in nature, how it must have been with early humans. If you are faster, smarter, sneakier, etc. you survive, if you aren't your DNA gets culled. Fairness is a human construct, and one that usually ends up in mediocrity. Mother Nature doesn't have to play by those rules. LOLOLOL.....pay no attention to the supreme predator that is TNRiver46. Dude is all the way at the top the chain, the world is his dinner plate ?

So does Glenn reimburse me, or do all you heathens? This site continues to be a black hole for my wallet. Pure Fishing got me for $80. That's like $170-180 worth of stuff. Incredible deal. Bought all stuff I've wanted to try from Berkeley, and even got a new scale for $20.

Bass fishing is a puzzle where you start out each day with the puzzle pieces in the box, and regardless if you finish the puzzle or not during the day, some jerk comes and takes the puzzle and throws the pieces all over the room for you to only start picking them back up in the morning.

Did any come off at the boat......those count as .73 fish ? Glad to see you back to fishing and catching some beauties!

You know that's a good idea, I might jerry rig a piece of wood up front and test the stability on the current boat. Thanks!

I love your conversion, and appreciate the first hand account. You are a wealth of info as usual! This was my exact thinking, but I'm not sure we can work that out. I actually wanted a glass boat for the weight but haven't found the right one. Appreciate the info!

So what would call that type of boat then? Unlike that high IQ superstar, I'm just a lowly Auburn alum. I will attest that the average Bama fan looks exactly as handsome and sophisticated as that gentleman.