bartnc37

What size fish are you guys catching that bending hooks is suck a concern? I fish mainly VMC because that is what is available locally and I’ve never had issues including on 36”+ northern pike 2 mph river current.

More so just trying to talk like the cool kids , but yes it is worth the money. I would say the max scent holds up better than a senkos and the fish just hammer them

At the store I was at, they had a separate clearance section tucked off the side of the fishing area on a end cap. There's two stores in my city, one side of town has a good fishing section and good clearance, the other one usually doesn't have squat so I'm sure it's pretty store dependant.

Dicks had buy 5 get 5 on their clearance today. I am not proud of what I did to their keitech supply, but it had to be done . 10 packs of swing impacts for $30 is hard to beat

River smallies and a few creek largies for me -green pumpkin goby TRD on 1/8 swinging ewg ned head -amazon cheapy -Yamamoto 4" GP hula grub t rigged on 3/0 vmc -flicker shad 7 in electric blue -red craw money badger 2.75 -wacky rigged GP max scent generals on weedless wacky hooks Those 5 rigs/lures probably caught 95% of my fish this year but I did catch quite a few on a trigged xzone 2.75" adrenacraw in summer craw in the creek, especially later in the year

I've had pretty good luck with a buck growl grunt tube and those primos can "bleat" calls . I bleat a.few times, then wait a bit, give a big loud snort wheeze and a couple drawn out deep grunts. I've pulled deer off the top of ridges from 200 yards away. Doesn't work every time but it works enough to be worth it. Make sure you're brushed in good because they pinpoint on the noise immediately

I always feel like, with smallies at least, you just need to get that first one to go and then alot of times the school will fire. If I'm on a good spot I'll spend more time than I probably should on it, but I've just had too many times when on cast 25, the first fish hits and then I catch 5-6 more in a row. But I will definitely switch up lures in those casts

I love fishing in the fog, what I don't love is digging myself off of the sandbars that unexpectedly shifted from my last trip, while driving in the fog. Nothing like that grinding noise on the hull as you stare at your GPS track that you are following perfectly and was 4 feet deep a week ago, now it is 4 inches. Dang rivers

Another day saved by ned rigs and wacky worms today after battling the fog this morning. Seems to be a theme this year, half hearted swipes at topwaters, nipping swim jig trailers, bumping cranks but not getting them in their mouth. They just seemed half hearted till you get a hook in them, then it's a raging tornado if smallmouth fury At this point I'm just searching with moving baits till I get any response or see them busting on bait and then I pick em apart with the old wacky/ned 1,2 combo. Caught 17 this morning, basically off of two spots/schools. Good size , all but 2 were over 16, and the shorts were at least close to legal. Best landed was 18.5 but I broke off a solid 20 at the boat, tried to keep him out from under the boat in the current, on the upside I saw the wacky jig fly out of his mouth when the line snapped, so at least he isn't swimming around with jewelry

Grate height is fine, I have the Yamaha impeller, but I do a fair amount of reversing off of sandbars and the launches are just gravel down into the river, so I’m sure I get it there. Plus the river is all sand so I’m always sucking up the loose sand in the water. I was gonna go stainless impeller with an aluminum sleeve so I have a little give in the system, but still hold up to the sandblasting.

Who do you get your parts from?

Is that aluminum or stainless? My aluminum impeller gets chewed to pieces in about 2 trips without even noticably hitting anything, thinking about changing it up

The max scent general in baby bass or the Green pumpkin party is $ as well.

Wisco river between portage and the dells

Was getting blanked on the river this morning throwing underspins, neds, deep cranks, spinners, could not get a bite to save my life. Then I picked a baby bass general on a 1/8 weedless wacky head.and started firing right into the cover, skipping it into the wood on every shade line. I landed 20+ nice smallies in an hour, probably missed at least that many, literally every spot I thought there should be a fish , I caught 3 out of the same hole multiple times I had moved away from wacky rigs, just didn't seem "fishy" enough compared to all the new super rigs, but man I forgot how it hammers fish. Also it cracks me up everytime I reel up a walleye with that wacky rig sticking out of its mouth