Consider this the villager thrown into the volcano to appease the great and powerful Bait Monkey for now

 

3 hours ago, JohnFromLisbon said:

Consider this the villager thrown into the volcano to appease the great and powerful Bait Monkey for now

 

I like to do small pick ups like that over the winter. Load up the grandson and just take the ride to bass pro to get out of the house. We walk around the store. He throws stuff in the cart, I put some back. Lol. We grab a few things and talk fishing all the way home. It’s a fun afternoon, and it’s cool to see him get excited over something fishing related.

On 3/6/2021 at 2:56 PM, walleyecrazy said:

I decided I want to try some soft plastics from some of the smaller bait makers this year to see what they may be able to come up with. I saw these flat worms from Next level baits, and couldn’t help but order some to try them out. I got a single pack of the red shad, and a bunch of packs of the perch color. I think this perch color may be a winner for my drop shot fishing in my local lake. 

Never heard of them.  Thanks

The bait monkey got my 10 year old! He’s been selling off his toys (the wife has been emotional about that one) and been buying football cards and now fishing lures. Here’s his haul he received yesterday. 
 

 

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

The bait monkey got my 10 year old! He’s been selling off his toys (the wife has been emotional about that one) and been buying football cards and now fishing lures. Here’s his haul he received yesterday. 
 

 

Nice variety of baits. Good luck. 

Super excited about what arrived in the mail today ?

13 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

The bait monkey got my 10 year old! He’s been selling off his toys (the wife has been emotional about that one) and been buying football cards and now fishing lures. Here’s his haul he received yesterday. 
 

 

Where did you go wrong in raising him!  SMH!  haha  just messing around!

3 minutes ago, FishinBuck07 said:

Where did you go wrong in raising him!  SMH!  haha  just messing around!

Haha he found them on his own. He’s learned a lot from the fishing videos. He’s phasing out of the Googan videos and watching Jacob Wheeler, Dustin Connell, and Mark Daniels videos more so I’m encouraging that move. ?

3 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Haha he found them on his own. He’s learned a lot from the fishing videos. He’s phasing out of the Googan videos and watching Jacob Wheeler, Dustin Connell, and Mark Daniels videos more so I’m encouraging that move. ?

Those three are definitely not bad ones to follow to learn a thing or two!  

Grandpa, dad, and I took a ride up to the gigantic North Woods outdoors  in Pinconing  Mi today.  Mainly headed up there to buy some walleye gear as grandpa and dad will fish with me than.  Any how dropped about $350 up there and still couldn’t resist some bass gear.

Picked up 10 packs of gamagatsu 4/0 off set shank worm hooks for $1.00 a piece, 1 pack of #2  gama finesse wacky hooks, Berkley power swimmers 3.3 inch Ayu color( on sale $2.99 ) Berkley HD true color the champ swimmer in yellow perch, 2 Berkley fritt side 9’s in rubber tail and brown craw, 2 packs of mustard KVD #6 hooks, kvd size #1, hurricane swivels ( Carolina rigging), a klaxon horn for those oh crap moments on the big lake and finally 2 Plano hydro flint hanging lure boxes.  I bought those for storing cranks hopefully they won’t get as eat up in these boxes rather than laying on their sides.  Fish can beat my cranks up and I’m fine but, I don’t like when I do it.   Could do a lot more but, it’s all walleye stuff. 

Nice score man. 

I’ve come to realize that most of my posts are in here ... with spring coming I’ve definetly seen y’alls purchases and they have inspired me for my own 

Beyond excited! Talk about a score. I was able to use a 20% off coupon that I found online  at Dicks Sporting Goods. Saved over $900. Plus they have $400 in rebates right now too. Insane! ?????? Can’t wait to get on the water! 

Now that the boats done it’s time to get ready for the up coming season. I’m hoping next week end is my first trip.  So it’s time to duckies on buying tackle and getting new line spooked up 

 

made a swim jig/ chatter bait trailer order 

3 bags of 4.2 inch big bite baits kamikaze in black blue flake, Pearl, and green pumpkin chartreuse swirl ( summer craw).  Also, 2 packs of razor Shad which, I’ve been wanting to try for a while. 1 pack in black and blue flake and another in Houdini.  I’ve only had so so luck with paddle tails as trailers 

 

put all of my cranks and square bills in my new Plano boxes.  All of the square bills for plus room for 4 lipless cranks.  I had to leave 4-5 of my summer cranks out of the crank so I could make room for stuff that I’d use in cold water.  Shad raps are still in a flat Plano box

 

 

 

 

 

Back when I was looking for Ned heads I was told to check out eBay. Found Jade’s Jigs and was impressed enough with the Christmas haul to check out their website. Got these for 28 shipped and the kicker is they are lead free. If these work as good as I think they will, may try a bulk order later this year and see if will get a better price. Even if I don’t the price is good enough for me. 

8 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

Now that the boats done it’s time to get ready for the up coming season. I’m hoping next week end is my first trip.  So it’s time to duckies on buying tackle and getting new line spooked up 

 

made a swim jig/ chatter bait trailer order 

3 bags of 4.2 inch big bite baits kamikaze in black blue flake, Pearl, and green pumpkin chartreuse swirl ( summer craw).  Also, 2 packs of razor Shad which, I’ve been wanting to try for a while. 1 pack in black and blue flake and another in Houdini.  I’ve only had so so luck with paddle tails as trailers 

 

put all of my cranks and square bills in my new Plano boxes.  All of the square bills for plus room for 4 lipless cranks.  I had to leave 4-5 of my summer cranks out of the crank so I could make room for stuff that I’d use in cold water.  Shad raps are still in a flat Plano box

 

 

 

 

 

I love your idea of using a ventilated spinnerbait style box to hang those crankbaits. May have to steal your idea and try it with one. I’ve been drilling holes in the 3600 and 3700 boxes for a long time. I don’t have rusting problems and don’t ever remember having them. I drilled my holes on the sides around the perimeter of the box. If it starts to rain while I’m out and don’t put it back in the storage compartment the 3700 lid will shed the rain. But this doesn’t happen very often. Your carry handle is nice and the look perfect for jerkbaits. Good luck. 

1 hour ago, Spankey said:

I love your idea of using a ventilated spinnerbait style box to hang those crankbaits. May have to steal your idea and try it with one. I’ve been drilling holes in the 3600 and 3700 boxes for a long time. I don’t have rusting problems and don’t ever remember having them. I drilled my holes on the sides around the perimeter of the box. If it starts to rain while I’m out and don’t put it back in the storage compartment the 3700 lid will shed the rain. But this doesn’t happen very often. Your carry handle is nice and the look perfect for jerkbaits. Good luck. 

Primarily I wanted those boxes just so I didn’t have cranks lying on top of each other getting beat up.  The holes for rust prevention is a bonus.  I think I paid $7.50 for each box. 

3 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

Primarily I wanted those boxes just so I didn’t have cranks lying on top of each other getting beat up.  The holes for rust prevention is a bonus.  I think I paid $7.50 for each box. 

Not only that, but any time you have plugs or any treble-hook-lures sharing a tackle box slot, they want to birds-nest all the hooks together.  

25 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

Not only that, but any time you have plugs or any treble-hook-lures sharing a tackle box slot, they want to birds-nest all the hooks together.  

Unless you work to prevent that. Safety caps are a god-send to me.

10 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

put all of my cranks and square bills in my new Plano boxes

How come you don't hang any on the open side in the top portion of the photo?  Not enough room?

 

I used to dislike trebles getting tangled up too so I started using treble covers.  In addition to prevent tangling, they also help keep the hooks sharper too.  @MN Fisher turned me on to this.

On 3/9/2021 at 9:58 AM, A-Jay said:

I have clips but RARELY use them.  

Prefer instead to retie; which after a few fish, I often do - just because. 

Allows me to have 'knot confidence'.

 

Exactly why I use clips.  So much easier and faster to retie to a clip than a bait.  Stops me from forcing the wrong depth, color or action too long as well.  

 

I guess the bait monkey could say I have a rod shortage.  If there were 5 jerkbait rods & 8 crankbait rods on my boat I might not have to change the bait as often.

 

34 minutes ago, gimruis said:

How come you don't hang any on the open side in the top portion of the photo?  Not enough room?

 

I@MN Fisher

Actually I hadn’t thought of that for some reason.  Probably fit my last 5 cranks 

Made a few smaller orders over the weekend, two of them arrived today

 

I’ve heard a lot of good about the Duo Realis jerkbaits, so I decided this year I’d give them a try to see how they compare to my current favorites the Vision 110 and Provoke 106. Also grabbed some other baits to try and some stuff I needed to restock as well as a bunch of terminal tackle. I’m a sucker for glide baits so I also picked up a new 8” model that Golden Belt Customs just released. In summary the bait monkey is very pleased right now ?