AboveAverageAngler

Bill Dance’s dancing eel still outfishes just about everything else, that’s about it.

I use the smallest ones, and remove the front hook for trout fishing. Brown Trout can’t resist! Same with the frog.

Bill Dance’s dancing eel.

Yes! Fishing is a tremendous waste of time! Catching, however, is the most productive way of spending time!

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#2 mepps used to be the only lure I would ever use! These days I only use them a fraction of the time. Powergrubs and shad raps are my go to baits now.

If I’m on the water, the bite window is ALWAYS open!

Teriyaki meat sticks, ritz bitz cheese crackers, cheese sticks, little debbie brownies. Occasionally a PB&J sandwich.

I almost never troll, and when I do, it’s never for bass. Yet, bass account for at least 3/4 of the fish I end up catching.

Declaring my last cast is known as “2 to 3 hour warning”

1 lure catches about 90% of all the smallmouth bass I catch…3 inch power grub with beetlespin overhead spinner.

Wading in rocky rivers. And also surviving the savage attacks on my leg hairs by schools of emerald shiners!

Pretty much any all tackle I’ve bought in the past 3 or 4 years. Haven’t used hardly any of it yet.

Not the least bit technique specific with any of my rods. Whatever techniques I use on a spinning rod, is used on all my spinning rods. Same with my baitcasting rods.

I do just fine with the cheapest no name spinnerbaits on the rack! But I couldn’t pass up on the bluegill colored spinnerbait that Berkley made. Didn’t fish much this year, but it did look cool in the water at least.

Bought a bigger boat this fall. Plan to fish some bigger bodies of water, that I never was able to take my small boat on. Vermilion, Mille Lacs, and Leech to name a few.

Bill Dance dancin’ eel. Bass and pike absolutely inhaled that thing! And of all things, my biggest brook trout was caught on it!

All 3 baitcasters I’ve bought in the past year are quantum. And 5 of the 6 casting rods are quantum graphex. They are very inexpensive, and I love them! I will always buy the cheapest, yet quality enough rods/reels. I’m sure the expensive stuff is great! Just can’t justify spending that kind of money, when my cheaper equipment has treated me so well over the years.

Has anyone used this? Cabela’s had it on sale for dirt cheap! I know you get what you pay for sometimes, but it was so cheap, I couldn’t pass it up!

If I’m not fishing for Smallmouth Bass, I’m typically targeting brook and brown trout. In the winter: crappie, tullibee, lake trout, sturgeon.