Here's the bait that I call skunkbuster.

 

When nothing else produces, you tie it on, find some shallow weedbeds or brush, and go from fishing to catching, within a few casts. No guarantee you're going to catch a fish of any impressive size, heck, no guarantee you'll even catch a bass; but you'll catch something. Good times.

 

 

 

 

Number 100, fifteenth week since I got the bait.

 

Ya, I'd say you have a sure thing there!

Man that thing has some serious battle scars. What bait and color?

Also, is that a striper in the second to last pic?

that's a largemouth.

 

OP, if you have any sort of normal size hands, that's a giant blue gill!

Looks like a LC Flash Minnow 110? 

Looks like a LC Flash Minnow 110? 

That's what I was thinking too.

Yes, that's what it is.

 

CP, it's dark blue on top, and the rest is chartreuse.

 

IAbass, that bluegill was a hair under 12". Not the biggest bluegill I've caught though; I once caught a 13" bluegill on a - believe it or not- half oz jig.

do you find something special with the lure ?? like it rattles louder than other of the same or wobbles or things like that?

_{Looks like it used to be chartreause  on the bottom....}

Nice. I know you were nailing the trout on it. 

Looks like the citrus shad color.

If this isn't a testament to the value of a good quality hard bait, I'm not sure what is.

 

This could potentially cost you 100 senko's, and thats about 60-70 dollars. (If you haven't heard of Mend-It!)

 

17.99 doesn't seem to bad if you think about it that way.

do you find something special with the lure ?? like it rattles louder than other of the same or wobbles or things like that?

 

Sorry man, that's the only bait of this model I've ever owned.

You found my secret weapon!!! I use the flash minnow in the early summer/late spring but right now it is the ARB series Rattlin' Rogue in clown, the Rapala Flat Rap, and the Bagleys Bang-O-Lure that I just started using this year and it has been impressive, in fact it is producing bigger fish than the rogue. Congrats on the 100th fish, what you are doing has sort of gone away in favor of deep cranking, crawling football jigs, and flipping and pitching but the shallow diving floating minnow is killer during the summer months. I only use the flash minnow as a sub surface jerkbait but the others I'll often fish ontop when conditions allow for it or the fish want it that way but floating minnows over gravel flats or weed beds can be deadly.

The 95 size is excellent too.

If this isn't a testament to the value of a good quality hard bait, I'm not sure what is.

 

This could potentially cost you 100 senko's, and thats about 60-70 dollars. (If you haven't heard of Mend-It!)

 

17.99 doesn't seem to bad if you think about it that way.

 

I agree with your take on the value of a good hardbait,

how do you fish it? how do you jerk it?