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heres a pretty dumb one i found on a piece of constrution equipment:

i would use braid! its got no memory (so it handles well), its super sensitive (for those light bites), it doesnt float (not sure the advantage of this...), and its got zero stretch (for those rock solid hook sets)! braid is the only line i go with when im fishing soft plastics.

anything with the name "RAPALA" on it also, a 4 or 5 inch soft stick bait (ususally YUM dingers, but this year im gonna test out my new order of ***).

i sure as hell wouldnt use bleach! bleach is strong stuff and there is a good chance it will just dissolve the fins right away. if you gotta dye the fins then i'd look into a white bait dye, does Spike-It! have a white dye?

my thoughts exactly :

dude its totally up to you. without any kind of explanation of your fishing style or lakes or anything we really cant help. but i voted cranks cuz i love me some rapalas

dont need to man! if you are serious, a dink is a small bass, ususally below the minimum size limit to keep it. if you are kidding then:

RAPALA DT FAT 03!!!!! it weighs 1/2oz and dives to 3 feet. square bill makes it great for cover. this is one of my go to shallow cranks. they are very castable too; i can cast it a good 80+ feet on a 6'6" medium power medium action rod.

hey guys thanks for the help and the links. i will read them later.

hey, i didnt want to hijack the recent thread, but it made me wonder... how can you tell the difference between northern and florida strain bass? me being in maryland im pretty sure all of my bass are northern, but i'd still like to know how to tell the difference. thanks

ok guys. thanks for the tip. next time out i will turn off Fish ID. i have a cheapie eagle 68, and i didnt find the manual very helpful at all. it mainly went over how to operate it (buttons, menus, etc). didnt go into much detail on how to read it, besides that harder objects will have that grayline thing on them. really hope someone else can answer these questions because they are just boggling me

hey guys, i really need your help on this one. i recently started using a fish finder, and i think i like it, but i think im not getting the most out of it. first question: this one time, when i had the fish ID symbol turned on, there were lots of fish, but when i turned off the fish ID symbol (to switch it to fish arcs) there was nothing. whats the deal with this? another thing i dont quite understand is how the dang thing works. lets say i am sitting perfectly still, not drifting one bit, and im over a sunken tree or a log or a fish or soemthing. what will this look like on the screen? earlier today we were drifting but not very fast at all, and there would be a stump on the ground and it would show up and then be gone, but we hadnt moved. whats up with that? how come the stationary stuff (trees, stumps, rocks) disappears when neither the cover or me is moving? thanks for your help guys...im a total noob at fish finders.

OMFG! holy freaking crap dude! what an amazing series of trips! i would be on cloud nine if i had a week like that! ;D (and what ever you do, DONT enter that 10-10 in the state vs state, i like being in second place )

i love wake baits. whenever the bass are up shallow and around cover i will just throw these and crank em right into the cover. deadly!

thats great man! new PB's are the BEST!

got out again today with my dad in the boat. it was such a sloooooooow day. the fish finder wasnt showing us any fish at all. after a few hours of no bites we finally found a few. my dad got this one on a red rat-l-trap: then i got this one on a bleeding olive flash rapala DT Fat-03: then i got this one on a silver rapala DT-06: it was cool but it also sucked that all three of those fish were caught within 10 minutes. it was neat cuz it was alot of action, but it was bad because then we went thru another hour of no bites. so i guess it was an ok day. lots of hours of no action though :-[ RAPALAS ARE THE BEST!!!!

nah my shades are so much cooler than avids and yes, i am sooooo addicted to DT's. they are my absolute favorite crankbait. i have gotten to the point where i feel uncomfortable throwing anything that rapala didnt produce! :-[

bass resource definitley has the BEST smilies i have ever seen on any website.

ok i somehow got windows media player to play the video and OMG that is one enormous bass!!!!!!!! i think i would crap myself if i caught one like that, especially considering not even a second after it was in the net the swimbait went flying out of its mouth!!!

i cant play the video i saved it but it says unkown file type and windows cant play it!

what!?!? did i read correctly....Raul actually ran out of lures???? what is this world coming to

i just caught a 4lber on the subwalk on sunday! good bait.

you have the most beautiful pictures and waters! i selected t-rigged worm, but in reality i would be fishing a t-rig and a wacky rig. but i'd be more likely to fish a t-rig to avoid hang-ups. whatever im fishing, i would spend forever, dropping it into each and every little hole! what a nice piece of cover to fish!

i love the centrifugal brakes on my citicas. i can cast a crankbait 100 feet with the flick of the wrist and not even have to touch the spool with my thumb.