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less but bigger fish this year. so its kinda a compromise.

I would laugh my butt off watching somebody try to reel above water with head underwater watching the bait, with goggles on. Why not just watch it from above? ;D lol hey dude, laugh all you want but its COOL watching em from underwater. you get to see how the lure swims without the distortion from ripples and waves on the water's surface. and you dont even have to stick the rod out of the water. most of the time i just had the rod and reel underwater with me. oh and use a snorkel too so you can watch it longer

Good points Dave, but I have to disagree to some extent. I haven't tried the rig, so I really don't have room to argue, but I believe the advantage the Tubo Rig would have on just a slip sinker with a floating plastic is that the bait can actually "hide" from the bass and prevent it from removing it off the bed, therefore agitating the fish even more. I would think it would get more aggresive bites rather than the usual bite and blow it out in a blink of an eye that often happens with bedding fish. Like I said, I have no experience with it, this is just a guess from looking at it. you also make some good points. my opinion would be VERY different if this lure didnt look like a toddler's toy. if it was much less bulky and more realistic looking (and not $20) then i would say it is worth a good shot. it needs some improvement but the concept could work.

thats awesome. hope they got bit by the fishing bug really good and they will fish a lot in their futures!

you should be fine. im sure the chlorine would wash off your line in a few casts of fishing in a real pond anyway. if it still worries you, you could do what i did, get a cheapo UL combo from walmart (i got a zebco combo for 10 bucks) and have that as a "dedicated swimming pool rig". i took mine and i'd put goggles on, go underwater, stick the rod above water and retrieve so i could see what the lures looked like underwater.

i laughed out loud when i read "...add another $5 for the bitchin custom flames ..." they do look nice. it all looks nice. nice job.

absolutley gross....

thats what im talkin about!!!! great fish. that 4.5lb is beautiful!

yeah, im thinking about buying this guys CD. you can visit his official website at www.pianotarium.com i think it says that in the youtube video too.

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is the 750 size spinning reel pretty much an ultralight? i havent seen it in comparison with other reels. my friend was looking for a nice ultralight reel to go with a st. croix ultralight rod, and i might show this to him. thanks.

thanks for the heads up!

that was a cool story. i really hope next time you can get her again and TAKE PICTURES!

you could also try using a hook with a keel weight which will help to keep it upright.

you only need 3 baits to catch a bunch of fish in a small pond: 1: rapala dt-4 sureset (pearl grey shiner) fish this lure around cover or in open water adjacent to cover. or you could even just fish it in open water where you cant see any cover. this is a great search bait for small ponds. 2: berkley power worm 7" (blue fleck) rigged weightless texas. crawl and jiggle this lure along the bottom in some very nasty cover. its weedless, so you dont have to worry much about hanging up. this is a great fish catcher. 3: *** *** (shimmer shad) rigged weightless texas or wacky. cast this out by some cover and let it sink, giving it small twitches when it sinks. bass ALWAYS kill these baits. good luck!

that is awesome! what a huge fish!!!! great story, and those series of photos are great!

absolute toad! nice job that sounds like an awesome evening.

hyrdilla and millfoil are what i would call "structured vegetation". if your lure is rigged properly, it will come thru them with no problem. my t-rigged worms never catch any hydrilla/millfoil. what they do catch is that unstructured slimy snot grass. i dont even know what its called but i despise it with a passion. its very slimy and its a pale green color and no matter how weedless you rig your lure it will always stick to it and when you go to pull it off your lure its just a slimy glob and it sticks to everything. anyone know that stuff im talking about?

i've never used them, but from looking at them, it kinda seems like it would defeat the purpose of a jig head. i mean, if you have all that slack and free movement between your weight and worm, and you tried to slightly wiggle the worm, it seems like just the weight would wiggle, and your worm would be flat on the bottom. hope i didnt make that too confusing. anyone get what im sayin?

i know exactly what you're talking about because i have done just that when i fished 10" worms before. i would thread the hook thru almost half of the worm (instead of the normal 1/4" of the worm). i kinda dont like doing this for two reasons: 1: it kills the action because you have your line running thru the middle of the worm, making it less flexible. 2: its a pain in the but to rig it straight when you are doing this method.

i've got a snag proof tournament frog that i would get a few blow ups on, but the fish would ALWAYS miss. they were always like six inches away from the bait. there were very few times when they actually had the bait in their mouth. and on these times, i waited till i could feel the fish, and went to set the hook, but i could not hook the fish for the life of me. it was the crappy hooks on snag proof frogs. recently, i removed the double hook from the frog and added a large single gamakatsu hook. im hoping this will increase some hookups for me. i would like to try some spro's. i might pick one up next time im out if i see them.

i got the chatterbait kit as a gag gift last christmas. i never fished chatterbaits much. it had a few chatter frogs in the kit though. the only difference is the shape of the head right? its suposed to be wider to look like a frog? they dont float do they?

he THREATENED you because you didnt like what he liked? sounds like we have a little hitler on our hands. lol! ;D but seriously, that is rediculous, that forum should get some better admin. bass resource is the best forum i have been on by far!

i have never used the revo, but i can tell you the citica is the bomb diggity. it casts very well, very powerful, comfortable, the brakes are very effective and dont need to be adjusted very often, its a great reel at a great price. it is a big large and heavy though.