.dsaavedra.

st. croix avid AC66MM.

well i been playing around with the line a little bit (cutting it, tying knots, burning it lol ;D) and i noticed that this 20lb is very stiff and its hard to tie a good knot with it because its so stiff. anybody have any suggestions as to what i can do?

dont want to steal the thread but what is PC-7 and who makes it and where can i get it (my boat leaks down the seam.)

well it says its a medium power and it doesnt say what action. but its a stiff rod. its stiffer than my M power avids. i suppose i could buy one to try it out, but at $10 each thats not a bait i want to buy only to find out i cant cast it.

lol that was funny. i like how in the first 3 min or so when hes around the other boats he does that funny 2-syllable laugh "hah-HAH!" ;D

http://www.rapala.com/products/luresdetail.cfm?modelName=super_shad_rap&freshorsalt=Fresh anybody ever use one for bass before? i was thinking of getting one in shiner color. they are heavy though, 1 5/8oz. i dont have any rods that capacitate lures that heavy. i could probably get away with lobbing it on my lightning rod. but yeah, how do these fare with bass?

are you serious!!! thats hilarious

what i do is i put some mono on for about 1/4 of the spool, then i tie on my powerpro and just fill the rest of the spool with it. it serves as a backing and it cuts down on how much poewrpro i go thru (although braided line lasts a very very long time).

is that second one a peacock bass?

it was just the hybrid. they did have some stren superior i think it was. and there was some other kind of line i dont remember what it was. all of em were on sale for a very good price. the highest price was like $4.50 i think and that was for the stren.

last time i used topozone to look at lakes it just showed them as a flat purple or blue area that is shaped like the lake. no contors. have they changed it?

my favorite technique for prespawn/spawning bass is definitley crankbaits/jerkbaits. i love to run a shallow crank or jerkbait over bass beds. my favorites to use are rapala DT in sizes 3 and 4 (6 if the waters deep enough), xraps are also very productive; my favorite size of xrap is size10. if the spawning beds are very shallow (a few spawning flats around here are in only 6-8" of water) then you should also try a bandit footloose or rapala original floater in size 11. with the xrap i jerk it alot and then pause it when its close to a bed. with the cranks what i do is i will just reel em straight back, but make sure the crank dives deep enough to dig into the bottom or close to it. i will run it over and around the beds. good luck! prespawn/spawn is a fun time to fish for bass!

bandits are awesome crankbaits. they are my runner up crank (after rapala). my favorite bandit crank is the footloose. i like this because it has something rapala cant offer to me, a waking crankbait. i also have the bandit 100's and 200's and they are great cranks, but i would use a rapala DT 3 or 4 before i'd use a bandit.

dont know if its going on at your walmarts, but i just got back and they had an entire shelf piled high with 600 yard spools of 20lb Yo-Zuri Hybrid line in smoke and green for $3.50 a spool!!!. i got a spool of smoke. they also had some other lines for sale. its 20lb so its pretty thick line. not really sure what im gonna use it for but i figure it's good to have just in case and i couldnt pass it up for 3.50 a spool.

just came back from walmart. i ended up with the most expensive pair they had, a 18.87 dollar pair of poly carbonate renegades. says its 1.1mm thick polycarbonate lenses w/ scratch resistance stuff and 100% UV and UBA protection, and theyre polarized and the lenses are grey.

never seen anything like those before. do they float?

go with rapalas. they are the best crankbait short of lucky crafts. not sure if lucky crafts are much better either. they are more expensive tahts for sure. there are no $2 cranks that are worth buying. (unless its a good bait in a bargain bin somewhere)

sorry guys, i forgot all about this thread! there are many responses. ther is no way i would ever get kayak. definitley not one to sit will my legs streched all day. noooo way. i have to stand. which is why i like the casting deck pontoon. but that is alot of money and if im gonna pay that much i wanna assess my options. i do have one of those little dollies for my current P.O.S. jonboat. the dolly also happens to be a P.O.S. we got it from a yardsale or something. there are 4 places that i fish that have a boat ramp. and two of those places i wont be able to go to by myself, i'd need my dad with me, because they are on a navy base, and he works ther so he has a pass that can get me in. i couldnt go there by my self. my favorite lake doesnt have a boat ramp. not sure how hammering the rivets will work because there is alot of old caulking alllll over the bottom of the boat. im not even sure if its the rivets leaking. i think its the seam down the middle of the hull. my dad and i have found a few spots on the hull that are leaking. and everything we have tried hasnt worked. my name is jus my first initial "d" and then my last name "saavedra". the two periods before and after are because i was trying to edit my info and it wouldnt let me because my display name was the same as my login name, so i just slapped two periods on it and said "take that". lol.

oh and welcome!!!!!!!

secret??? these are the hottest baits around the country right now. no secret there. anyway, lots of people texas rig them with a weighted hook (weight on the hoook shank, so it falls horizontal). ive never used em but thats what alot of people here seem to do.

oh ok. that sounds like something that Betts might make. have you searched there products?

heres an article i found on the reel http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_123/Ambassador.html it looks like a pretty sweet reel. has some really good features and its not expensive at all. is this reel new or old? baitcast reels can not be switched from left to right. if you dont like switching hands then you need to get yourself a left handed reel.

clear floats you can buy pretty much anywhere. the foam spiders you can buy in any fly shop. i also make them...i could make some for you if you want.

paul thats a pretty nice 'gill.....but lets see some bass that would consider that brunch!!!!

thats a great fish dude!!! the release picture is very cool. 8-)