TheBaitMonkey

Right! I feel like I’d have to take the under but… I’m also not very confident after what happened there last year

Over/under 5.5 century belts at fork this time around? What are you taking? Locked in the picks - good luck! -

Good luck!

I try to use the lightest weight I can get away with, on days where it’s windy I’ll go heavier. I use 1/8 and 3/16 most of the time but will go up to 1/4 (or slightly heavier than that) on windier days. I use the cylinders ones all of the time, lead or tungsten. Usually the ones where the line can be pulled into but sometimes I’ll tie it on or use a Great Lakes finesse quick shot clip if I think I’m going to be tinkering with the weight all day. Im a big fan of the owner cover shot hooks in a 1/0 and with a 4.5” fat roboworm (Aaron’s Magic and Morning dawn)

Man, that thing would fight like hell!

Get ‘em and good luck @Bluebasser86!

I’m most confident in the dropshot (Have one with on most trips) in all water conditions. Mainly using a 4.5” fat Roboworm t-rigged or a 3” Hazedong Shad nose hooked. I’ve been using the split shot rig a lot more over the last few years though based on WRB talking about it in threads like this. It’s great!

I've been switching to a lot of 2-piece rods over the last 5 years or so because I'm always afraid my kids will break my 1-piece rods when we travel on longer trips in the car. I honestly don't notice too much of a difference between them and my 1-piece rods. I have 2-piece rods from Shimano, Megabass, and Daiwa and they have all been great.

I’ll ditto the fish on a first cast is bad luck so I always start with a tiny pitch, about 10 ft, then reel in like hell to not catch anything. My other superstition is getting the net wet immediately upon leaving the ramp. Gotta do it. I feel like superstitions in fishing came natural from playing baseball all my life, where touching the chalk line between innings was a mortal sin

Hoping for a slug fest-

Anyone else gonna be trying to fish tomorrow with the wind? Im gonna try from shore, may end up using a cinder block as a dropshot weight

It’s a good bait, really versatile! Can shake it, swim it, Ned it. Like the others have said, it has a nice tight tail wiggle when used like a swimbait. They last until you get broken off or get bored with it, especially when you put it on a jighead with a little dab of super glue. I like the Freeloaders by Crush City a lot, too

Was out today and tested it vs the 110 jr - the SR was usually in the 2-2.5ft zone and the jr would get to the 3-3.5ft zone with my setup. Was using 14lb Samurai fluro with a small Nishine snap (size #0), with the front split ring line ties removed from the baits, in 47 degree water temps. With some lead wire on the front hook the SR was basically hitting the 2.5-3ft zone consistently. I would say the actions are similar but the SR is slightly more erratic, by that I mean it goes slightly further side to side and I noticed on scope it seemed the bait would jump up in the column from time to time even using the same jerk cadence. Not sure if the cupped lip causes that but I didn’t notice it with the jr. (I didn’t fish the jr as much, though) Is it worth getting if you have a bunch of jr’s? Hard to say, but it has caught fish for me and casts better than the jr due to its weight. The hooks are also an upgrade too IMO vs the small jr hooks

I hope they end up selling these hooks! They definitely had me nervous taking a few dinks off the hooks when I forgot pliers the other day. They seem *knocks on wood* really durable, should hold up to those tank smallies you get in your neck of the woods 🍻

you’re right, I confused myself since I mainly use Tatsu. I use this on my JB rod, 14lb but a different brand -

😂 I use heavier than most on my jerkbaits, I’ve been using 14lb Tatsu (edit: actually Daiwa Samurai Fluro)

I’ll test it against it to see! Getting out tomorrow in the kayak and will be able to see them both on scope to compare

The in-laws just moved to a house on the SE part of lake Winnebago can’t wait to find the bass there! For OP - Little Sturgeon Bay could be fun to fish too, but a little bit of a hike across the state. I’ve fished it in a kayak a lot; some of the best smallie fishing in the country and your boat should be good.

I’ve been able to get out 4 times now to toss these and threw a regular 110 alongside to compare over the past couple of days. They have more side to side darting action than the 110; maybe the cup in the lip causes that? There were times where it nearly turned around it looked like, going past 180 degrees when enough slack line was tossed back at it. They are definitely slow float, I’d say a foot every 4 seconds or so. The regular 110 was suspending nearly perfectly in the same water and a much slower float. It’s right after ice out here so I’m guessing the water temp was in the 40ish degree range at the surface on the north side of the lake I was fishing. I ended up putting a little bit of lead wire on the front hook of the SR to make the float rate a little slower. As the water warms will definitely need to add more to it. I wasn’t out using it with the scope (just from shore) so I wasn’t sure of the depth it was truly getting down to, but it was definitely shallower than the regular 110 as that one kept coming back with snot grass on it, where the SR was mainly clean. TLDR - overall, I dig it and it should do well over the grass in the summer months and continue to produce going into the spring. It will have its place. It also out fished a jighead mooch minnow I had with me, but in fairness I tossed the SR more

I used one of the new Megabass Vision 110 SRs in the HT Ito Wagasaki color

With ice out officially here it was good to get out today - hit a local pond and got 4 of them on a shallow running jerkbait Good luck this season, guys!

A few looks at the bill differences between the regular 110 vs SR. The hooks are also a little heftier (still katsuages); I’m interested to see if these hooks would be good replacement 110 hooks in the summer to help it get closer to suspending in the warmer water

A few more 110 SRs. Really need ice out to get here so I can stop looking at baits on the internet and start actually using them. I feel like this is the time where us northern guys are busier in this thread as we patiently wait lol -

Yea, he crushed ‘em throwing the kitchen sink at them!

Oh it was!