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holy crap! that smallie is just 3/4 inches shy of my PB largemouth! i couldnt believe catching a smallie that big. must have been amazing!

polish up the blades on that spinnerbait and fish that fish that bill dance series bomber to the left (if your water is deep enough) fish those jerkbaits in the middle fish the BIG blue worms you have on the bottom

this is so true.... except for the fact that YOU BOUGHT THEM ALL LAST NIGHT! i just checked and they are out of stock :'(

sucks you lost a nice fish! thats awesome that you have a pond so close. just try not to pressure it too much

wow that thing is a football! did you weigh it?

hmm it really is a shame that a lot of people are fishing these new ragetails (anaconda, space monkey, lobster) with great success but they are not for sale to the general public yet... > anyway, good reviews!

i fish a farm pond with terrible visibility, and i do very well with shad colored rapala DT 3's and 4's. the way i see it, i am matching the hatch. there are shad (or some kind of silver minnow) in the pond, so why not use some kind of silver bait? the fish still have to eat whats there regardless of water visivility, so i just try to go with colors that match the forage. one thing i will say is that i feel that a high pitched rattle (like the DT rattles) does help the fish locate the bait. a wide wobble helps too. DT FAT 03 is a great bait for shallow muddy water! its got the wide wobble, and the high pitched rattles.

the rapala DT series is my favorite way to cover water of all depths and they catch fish!

i've got one of those deep plano boxes made for spinnerbaits. it holds them well, but i dont like how i can't fit it in my tacklebag, because i often forget to bring them when i'm packing all my gear to go fishing.

that is a great picture! grin ear to ear! is that his biggest bass?

sweet fish evan! why is it that we almost always find it necessary to take pictures of dead fish? ;D

paul you make me want to fish some swimbaits!!!! i will have to get out there with the swimbaits i made and see if i can get some big ones (my swimbait PB is almost 2lbs). great fish, i really like the 3rd photo!

D**N THESE PICKEREL!!! hahaha that was my favorite part. i'm like you Russ, i love catching pickerel. they fight harder than a bass any day. i cant see why people dont like them. that was an enjoyable episode, nice job boys!

trial and error buddy

Disposable Heroes

as long as you do the research and know how to do all that you are about to do, it is not that hard to produce a working bait. the bait might not be pretty, but it will work. most of the stuff in bait building comes with experience. he will get better the more he does it. but you could set your boy up with a block of basswood and just let him carve away, and then when it comes time to use tools and make precise cuts and stuff, just help him out. he might enjoy it, he might not.

lol i could see where the bug was in the pic the ones i saw werent quite as black as this one. they were more like charcoal colored.

what does tumnus mean? i know it is sun mut backwards but i dont know sun mut means either :-/ ;D

muddy i am actually VERY glad you posted this. it answered one of my unanswered questions! a while ago i was on solomons island on the patuxent river and all of these silverey grey bugs were crawling around on the rocks and pilings and the boardwalk itself. i tried catching some to see what they were. i couldnt identify them you just did thanks!

vibrax minnow spin is definitley in my top 10 lures, possibly even in my top 5. i cast it on an ultralight spinning combo and it will catch any predator in the lake!!!!!!!!!

i'm sweating it because i want to make a swimbait imitating a pickerel (looks like a fun design to make) but i wanna make sure i'm not wasting my time making one

thanks :

Peasey made me do it! :-X really, i had the avatar that peasey has now (little kid dancing) but then he took it and i got a new one. ROFLCOPTER!!!!

oh, i go to the calvert cliffs to get my teeth by the way

i think all of you except Avid are fossilized turds (although avid may be fossilized too :-? ;D) i find my avatar to be utterly hilarious, and i have SPRAY PAINT on my nails because i was painting some swimbaits that morning