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this is my biggest fish caught on a senko 18" 3lbs caught in the lily pads:

glad im on par. i was thinkin like johnnydel, i thought i was way small...guess not. around here my scale is: less than 12: small 10-14: average 14-18: common 18-20: big 20+: huge!

happens to me all the time. in shallow water i can see the bubbles rising out of the bottom. its gasses that have formed under the bottom and are rising. if you pay close enough attention, the bubbles will come out of the same spot several times.

ive got one from walmart by brinkman. i love that thingl its got very bright white lites, then an red one in the middle. the red one is so it protects your nightvision. (turn that white one on in the dark and you wount be able to see well for like 30 min afterwards) also red doesnt bring bugs to you.

lets see, cover this from top to bottom: bandit footloose rapala floater bandit 100 bandit 200 rapala shad rap rapala DT10 (or whatever the deepest you plan on going is)

ive never used them but looking at them in the stores they look like crap. they look like that hook would snag up alot. but apparently they work good .

i got a pack. i pull up big ole bluegills (and lil ones too) and crappie and bass....its like a mystery bait!

more from lake jameson (last night)

yeah mines about the same in th 12-14" range and weighing about a pound.

"Pond 3": another view: "lake jameson" "dorchester"

haha thanks val. yeah once i fish this i will give you guys the scoop. im always thinkin of different stuff to use. im not sure i think its just cuz im bored alot and have nothin better to do. alot of times i try to think of something that would work naturally (shad, crawfish, other stuff...) and then try my best to recreate that thing so that it will be to the most realistic extent and have the best acheivable action. i think this ones gonna have great action, but bunny stips flow and the fur is so thick and fluffy that it really breathes well in the water. maybe the added turbulence from the spinning blade will cause the fur to have a constant kicking action.

wow when i first read cliff's post two things came to mind. lipless crank and spinnerbait. im suprised only one person said lipless crank and nobody said spinnerbait!!!! anyway, yeah they are prlly lookin for a bluegill snack, so throw a bluegill imitator. if you cant afford the mattlures swimbaits, then an inexpensive and not too shabby bluegill swimbait is available from Storm for about 2.50. its called the kickin slab. i have one in bluegill color and its very durable and real lookin. the action isnt the greatest but it does ok.

hey everyone, i just made this spinnerbait. i had the head laying around so i sanded all the black paint off it to make it shiny, and then i just tied on a strip of bunny fur for a trailer and then wrapped it for a body. im hoping for a pulsating, flowing, shad profile in the water. what do you all think?

good job. well put.

i think i might have seen in a post around here that you can use a zip tie instead of an oring for wacky rigging senkos....does this work?

i guess cuz a spiner bait is more of a reaction bait, a trailer isnt nesescary, if a bass decides to take the spinner, hes gonna take is trailer or not! but somethin with alot of tail action would be good for a trailer, like a grub or horney toad or something.

if theyre in your house they'll be fine. but if theyre outside or in a garage that doesnt have any heating and it gets very cold in there, then i dont know what will happen lol...sorry.

hahaha thats a good one! nice fish kid. that thing is easily 7lbs! i have a 23.5" bass that weighed 7lbs

yeh my guess is that some jackass hooked that bass right thru the jaw bone, and since it dificult to remove hooks from bone, they just decided to grab and pull instead of working the hook out, resulting in -1 lip. alot of the juvie bluegills at the local park here are like that.

thanks guys. i read a little bit about it at the fishing articles thing at the top of this page, and then went out and tried it in my yard. its not as hard as i thought it would be. i think my problem before was that i had my spool tension set for a normal cast. i practically took spool tension off, and turned on all of my weights (as i get better i might keep on less weights) and i did fine! i think it will be eaiser with a longer 7' rod.

im not sure if this is the right place but it seemed like it was. move it it you must. anyway, i really wanna start going exclusivley jigs, and i'll get getting a new rod that will suit jig fishing very well. a 7' MH team all star IM10. anyway, i thought it would be a good thing to know how to flip/pitch. first off: what is flipping/pitching and what is the difference(s) between the two? second: how do i do each? whenver i tried to make a short, under hand or forearm cast i'd get a backlash for no apparent reason. it seems nothing went wrong to cause it. please try to help me out! thanks for any advice!!!!

i wuv my citica:) its good for what ever i decide to use it for, cranks, plastics, jigs, spinners, what ever!!!

i'd say use somethin in the 4-8" range. you could get a hard swimbait like the strike king king kong, or you could get a soft swimbait like one of mattlures. you could also check out huddleston swimbaits. just do a search online for swimbaits, there are a ton.

wacky rig a fluke...works great and has just the action you're looking for as for the new bait, well i say make a creature bait. thats pretty much the only category that you can be "creative" in and make something that isnt already out there. make something with lots of appendages. i mean this thing should have appendages coming off of appendages. something very "crawly" that you could well...crawl...on the bottom and its just so ***** looking that a bass would just have to hit it to find out what it is.

april 27, 2007: i was at a new lake. never been there. i went there cuz ive seen pics of big fish pulled from there. my dad didnt want to take me cuz it was a little far away, he said i wasnt gonna get a big one anyway. well i got there and started thrown a really shallow crank of some very shallow beds. i think they were bluegill beds. anyway, i caught a tiny bass that way. then we went across the lake. i could see lots of turbulence in one shallow spot. it wasnt like multiple fish chasing, it was just one huge swirl. it happened about every minute or so. so i knew there was something big there. i casted my original floating rapala over that same spot for about 5min straight. then i gave up. i told my dad who was fishing a powerworm at the time to fish that spot (thinking that if it wouldnt take my fast lure, maybe it would take his.) he only tried a few casts. i went back there to give it another shot. a few casts later i hooked up with a major hawg!!! that fish just kinda rolled around on the bed for a bit, then came cruising in towards me (scared me big time) then made a big ole u turn straight out to them middle of the lake. it was a tough battle. finally it got wore out and reluctlantly came towards me. i reached down and hauled up this monster. after a few quick measurements and snapshots, i released this 7lb beauty