4 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Yer preachin to the choir sister. I just dropped about a hundred on stuff to make my own A-rigs, and I'm not even 100% sure the design in my head is gonna work!!! Lol. I'm pretty sure it will though, and if so, I'll have quality rigs for a few bucks each. Those muskie wreck em in a hurry.

Tim do you use a lighter version of A-rigs compared to the commercially produces versions? I'm asking because the ones I have tried are so heavy that it takes away from the enjoyment of fishing. Seems like work cranking them back. I'd like to try again because you have seemed to really have a lot of confidence in them so obviously they work. 

2 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Tim do you use a lighter version of A-rigs compared to the commercially produces versions? I'm asking because the ones I have tried are so heavy that it takes away from the enjoyment of fishing. Seems like work cranking them back. I'd like to try again because you have seemed to really have a lot of confidence in them so obviously they work. 

I like the Yum ultralite for bass and eyes. I've gone to the full size Yumbrella in lakes with muskie. Muskie wreck the fullsize pretty fast too, but they hold up better than the ultralite. 

A slow retrieve works best most of the time and doesn't take much effort. 

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

1 hour ago, ScottW said:

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

This is the stuff of nightmares for me.  I would be eaten alive in those type of elements.   That type of cold makes you tough as nails.  

1 hour ago, ScottW said:

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

All kidding aside....your friend did a fantastic job with this! Everything is perfectly symmetrical. Very pleasing to the eyes! Why isn't your nephew paddling? He has his arms raised like they're fixin' to crash!

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

This is the stuff of nightmares for me.  I would be eaten alive in those type of elements.   That type of cold makes you tough as nails.  

You know there are tens of millions of people that live there just like you?? Hahah

15 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

You know there are tens of millions of people that live there just like you?? Hahah

It's not that bad really . . .

A-Jay

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

It's not that bad really . . .

A-Jay

I remember mornings like that....

 

Oh wait - that was just last winter.

1 hour ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

All kidding aside....your friend did a fantastic job with this! Everything is perfectly symmetrical. Very pleasing to the eyes! Why isn't your nephew paddling? He has his arms raised like they're fixin' to crash!

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

38 minutes ago, ScottW said:

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

Nice, last night's rain was incredible.   My lake rose several feet, and changed the water color bigly.  

 

Excited now that I have all these new areas to fish with submerged stuff I remember.

Just another day catching those giant Florida jerkbait bass:

 

Did catch my 100th tilapia of 2022, though.

 

 

Threw the chatterbait around some, too, only managed to get a few Zako tails bitten off by tilapia. I hate them

19 hours ago, ScottW said:

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

Too bad about that "Honey-do Alarm". There's got to be a way you can silence yours. I just use ear plugs. Works great....for a while. Looks like buzz-bait time on the pond!

It was a haptic alarm. Felt it more than heard it. ?

First time using the Tatula CT this morning. I just spooled it up with some 12lb Big Game I had laying around. 27° air temp; water around 40°.

 

I got this 1.5lber on the first cast and another a few minutes later. Both on 1/2 oz chart/sexy shad KVD spinnerbait. I didn't used to fish in the Winter so I think these are the coldest bass I've caught.

22 hours ago, Jmontgomery87 said:

First time using the Tatula CT this morning. I just spooled it up with some 12lb Big Game I had laying around. 27° air temp; water around 40°.

 

I got this 1.5lber on the first cast and another a few minutes later. Both on 1/2 oz chart/sexy shad KVD spinnerbait. I didn't used to fish in the Winter so I think these are the coldest bass I've caught.

I absolutely love my CT. Least problematic reel I own for the price. Gets used exclusively with 14lb sufix elite for 1/2oz red eye shad. I like it almost as much as my Curado DC. The DC squeaks by it with smaller lures. 

 

Went out to the LBJ grasslands with my buddy and my jon boat. Spent about 3.5 hours on the water, caught this one dink and then proceeded to break my St. Croix Mojo Yak at the tip while casting a 6th sense jerkbait. Tip and bait were not recovered. I'm really not sure how it happened; the only thing that makes any sense is that I had line around the tip when I casted. But I usually feel that in my thumb when I bounce the lure. Baffling. If anyone has experience with St. Croix customer support, pointers are appreciated.

Bout to get the curado DC off the busted mojo and go to my honey hole to see if the honeys have returned. This 'cold water in November' thing is really birddoggin my quail right now

Fished this morning from 7a - 1:30p. Threw big swimbaits and Jerkbaits. Caught one Spot on a MB 110 +1. Air 35  Water 58

7 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Fished this morning from 7a - 1:30p. Threw big swimbaits and Jerkbaits. Caught one Spot on a MB 110 +1. Air 35  Water 58

One?? What gives? 

51 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

One?? What gives? 

Severe lack of skill at locating fish. They've been zigging while I'm zagging here lately. 

12 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Severe lack of skill at locating fish. They've been zigging while I'm zagging here lately. 

That don’t sound like you! 
 
you could always just catch a 9 lber in your beaver swamp 

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

One?? What gives? 

1 Spot = 5 LGM/SMB ?

31 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That don’t sound like you! 
 
you could always just catch a 9 lber in your beaver swamp 

The lure of the beaver pond is getting hard to resist. But it's kinda like cheating. I'm not above it though. 

Possibly the best trip of the whole year today!! ...but not for any of the obvious reasons. A slight warm front pushed us over the 50 degree mark, but brought steady 20-25 mph winds with gusts to 35+ along with clouds and some scattered sprinkles. Fished a small lake that just a week or so ago was frozen over solid. Pulled out a special lure just for this trip that I had recently obtained, hoping to catch just a single bass on it. As it turns out, I did that on the very first cast! That alone made the trip a success, but I continued to throw it to see its potential, and ended up catching 12 bass total, missing a few others on it before retiring it back to its display case (before I ruined it or lost it). Managed 4 others on a suspending jerkbait before calling it a day. This nearly 4 pound 'chunk' was the last one I caught on it.

 

Any guesses on what the 'secret' lure is/was (see pic below)?

 

 

18 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Possibly the best trip of the whole year today!! 

 

Any guesses on what the 'secret' lure is/was (see pic below)?

 

 

 

Congrats on the killer day ~

And I hate to admit it but I am totally stumped.

Looking forward the the 'reveal'.

A-Jay

26 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Congrats on the killer day ~

And I hate to admit it but I am totally stumped.

Looking forward the the 'reveal'.

A-Jay

What he said x 2?

1 hour ago, Eric 26 said:

What he said x 2?

 

What Eric said x3.

 

Is it an in-line spinner with a mirror blade?