Can never resist an exclusive TW GP/blue color. Nice to see hog farmer adding a sunfish color. Bucca nacho's size is more appealing to me. Dense plastics are an addiction. Reups on a favorite dropshot plastic.

New DG tactical mini underspin. I prefer this style keeper, bite gap, and underspin arm length vs the coolbaits underspin.  Hopefully they add a 2/0 or 3/0 hook to the mini lineup and come out with a non-mini version for 3.8 plus paddletails. 

 

On 4/8/2023 at 8:10 PM, MN Fisher said:

I thought they developed a vaccine for that?

It doesn't work.

 

I have been expanding my horizons into fly fishing got my first set up last week. Just to save time I have been stopping on the way home from work to do a little stream fishing. In the past I have always hated when I lose a trout lure so over the winter I stocked up on Rooster Tails. Got more than I can count now. So snags or not I'm just going to fish.

On 4/7/2023 at 8:35 PM, Jrob78 said:

Pretty anxious to try out the Yamatanukis and Sleeper Craws. I had to buy the Bantam to get free shipping on the JH’s ??‍♂️

 

9 hours ago, Fat Ika said:

Can never resist an exclusive TW GP/blue color. Nice to see hog farmer adding a sunfish color. Bucca nacho's size is more appealing to me. Dense plastics are an addiction. Reups on a favorite dropshot plastic.

New DG tactical mini underspin. I prefer this style keeper, bite gap, and underspin arm length vs the coolbaits underspin.  Hopefully they add a 2/0 or 3/0 hook to the mini lineup and come out with a non-mini version for 3.8 plus paddletails. 

 

thEez PUrchaSes haVE Ben appRoved BY mEe!

 

Anyone ever get bored at 9 at night and even though you know Walmart doesn’t have selection for anything, you go there anyway to look because it’s the only store open with tackle? Probably just me. Lol

On 4/9/2023 at 7:42 PM, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Matt Allen has easily cost me the most money out of any single entity, and the ATV is on my buy list after his recent videos lol.

 

I've had some of the most amazing days on the water because of baits he recommended.   I never would have tried something like the Axe Blade or perhaps even a Vault or similar blade bait.    I like Tim, but I watch TB because of Matt.  

Matt is the real bait monkey, rumor has it he has to spend double the time editing the videos he shoots for TB just to edit out the bananas. 

On 4/9/2023 at 7:26 PM, NorthernBasser said:

That dang Matt Allen suckered me into trying the new Bill Lewis ATV 1.5. Out of the package they seem nice. Triple Grips for hooks. I think the Zoom Uni Toad is gonna be a winner. It's actually bigger than I was expecting. Nice that they come in a clam shell. Wasn't expecting that from Zoom.

 

 

 

 

 

I dig that purple back gill colored Lewis squarebill.  I seriously can't buy anymore squarebills though....I'm already at the 'ridiculous' amount.

The 3.8, 4.2, and 4.8 Fat Impact has been comically good this spring for dirt shallow fish so I thought I'd try some new things. 

 

Geecrack Jack Master Swimbait in 4.8". Thickness looks like Swing Impact < Fat Swing Impact < Jack Master. Haven't fished this one yet, I think it's going to do best on a 6/0 flashy swimmer vs a 5/0.

 

Geecrack Bellows Gill Swimmer 4.2" - can rig it correctly IE not from the side. Great gill profile, definitely catches fish. Doesn't need an owner beast hook, just a 5/0 weighted. Probably runs fine with no weight.

Geecrack stuff is expensive but... dang it's good. 

 

I have some big regular bellows gills but they stink so bad I haven’t used them lol

 

Also I couldn’t help It. Just placed an order for a couple p-line spools, hayabusa pitching hooks, Owner twistlock flipping hooks, owner rig-n-worm hooks, and a culling tag holder to mount in my livewell. 

20 hours ago, TheBaitMonkey said:

Matt is the real bait monkey, rumor has it he has to spend double the time editing the videos he shoots for TB just to edit out the bananas. 

EMpoStur!!!! Eye Wuz HeAr 16 YeeRS b4 U!

 

19 hours ago, txchaser said:

Geecrack stuff is expensive but... dang it's good. 

 

The smell though ?

3 hours ago, Dangerfield said:

The smell though ?

Remind yourself it smells like Cap'n Crunch

Just ordered a ALX Toadface.

 

12 hours ago, txchaser said:

Remind yourself it smells like Cap'n Crunch

I always thought they smelled like Fritos. It's weird whatever it is lol

Should have taken a picture but my local high end shop just got the Tactical Bassin Tactical Wake baits in, man they are killer looking!   They come in this sweet big wooden box with the hardware separate.   They were about $80.    So close to buying it like an idiot lol.   Had Daiwa days going on, and had a few Tat 300s left for $170, I'll regret not buying one, but I just wasn't quite ready to buy another reel.   They had Zillion SV TW Gs for $300, wanted to tell the dude that I could get them for $250 from Japan and if they'd price match haha.  

 

The Burrito saved me as I had been wanting one for some time and decided a $40 bait was enough. 

 

Haven't bought Tungsten in close to 20 years, man it sucks to spend good money on bullet weights while hard baits are screaming pick me.  

 

Lastly, I never thought somebody could make prettier colors with soft plastics than Roboworm, then I found Missile Baits.   The colors they create are so unique and cool.   Inflation truly sucks, these things were 3.99 a pack a week or two ago, now the most recent batch they got in a 4.69.    My local store usually has similar pricing as TW.   

 

 

Well my local shop has there local sale going on so stocked up on a budget lol. I reworked a spinner bait that I didn’t like years ago. I finally know what I am buying and not just buying gimmicks lol, I don’t know what I was thinking a quad willow spinner bait face palm. I took it apart on Sunday and decided what I wanted to do. I wanted a single bronze blade but all they had were willows, didn’t want that. I settled on a 4.5 hildebrant Indiana blade in gold, next was my skirt choice beast coast pro pumpkin. I think it looks ok, your thoughts ? I bought some mustard triple grips and got a free pair of split ring pliers so I could live with it. 

 

next stuff I bought was a royal pain in the butt. I took my daughter to dsg to get new shin guards for soccer. I saw a few sixth sense lipless cranks that I liked, I then saw a sign that said buy 3 get 3 free so I picked out 6 baits that I liked. Got to the register and they tried to charge me for all of them. I told them about the sign they called a manager and they looked, took 10 minutes and then they tried to tell me that it was only googan and rapala buy one get one and I told them it’s on the end cap and says 6th sense hard baits and soft baits buy three get three free. 10 minutes later they come back and take the 3 off so I get 6 cranks for $30 but they were rude and didn’t want to help. I don’t see me really going there much anymore.

6 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Should have taken a picture but my local high end shop just got the Tactical Bassin Tactical Wake baits in, man they are killer looking!   They come in this sweet big wooden box with the hardware separate.   They were about $80.    So close to buying it like an idiot lol.   Had Daiwa days going on, and had a few Tat 300s left for $170, I'll regret not buying one, but I just wasn't quite ready to buy another reel.   They had Zillion SV TW Gs for $300, wanted to tell the dude that I could get them for $250 from Japan and if they'd price match haha.  

 

The Burrito saved me as I had been wanting one for some time and decided a $40 bait was enough. 

 

Haven't bought Tungsten in close to 20 years, man it sucks to spend good money on bullet weights while hard baits are screaming pick me.  

 

Lastly, I never thought somebody could make prettier colors with soft plastics than Roboworm, then I found Missile Baits.   The colors they create are so unique and cool.   Inflation truly sucks, these things were 3.99 a pack a week or two ago, now the most recent batch they got in a 4.69.    My local store usually has similar pricing as TW.   

 

 

Tournament Tackle carries some exclusive colors for the D Bomb (as well as the Reaction Innovations Sweet/Smallie Beaver). The Wicked Craw and Wicked Gill are awesome. Pics don't do them justice. They aren't always in stock because a lot of tourney guys buy them up (looking at you, Kyle Welcher). I buy them in the 25 count bulk.

1 minute ago, NorthernBasser said:

Tournament Tackle carries some exclusive colors for the D Bomb (as well as the Reaction Innovations Sweet/Smallie Beaver). The Wicked Craw and Wicked Gill are awesome. Pics don't do them justice. They aren't always in stock because a lot of tourney guys buy them up (looking at you, Kyle Welcher). I buy them in the 25 count bulk.

Drool, throw those in the bait porn thread.    The Roboworm FX series from back in the day, something I should get some pics of for the bait porn thread are my favorites still, but outside of those, these colors are the next mind-blowing stuff I've seen. 

 

It's really beautiful stuff.  

 

Not tackle, but still bass-related. New hoodie. 

 

11 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Well my local shop has there local sale going on so stocked up on a budget lol. I reworked a spinner bait that I didn’t like years ago. I finally know what I am buying and not just buying gimmicks lol, I don’t know what I was thinking a quad willow spinner bait face palm. I took it apart on Sunday and decided what I wanted to do. I wanted a single bronze blade but all they had were willows, didn’t want that. I settled on a 4.5 hildebrant Indiana blade in gold, next was my skirt choice beast coast pro pumpkin. I think it looks ok, your thoughts ? I bought some mustard triple grips and got a free pair of split ring pliers so I could live with it. 

 

next stuff I bought was a royal pain in the butt. I took my daughter to dsg to get new shin guards for soccer. I saw a few sixth sense lipless cranks that I liked, I then saw a sign that said buy 3 get 3 free so I picked out 6 baits that I liked. Got to the register and they tried to charge me for all of them. I told them about the sign they called a manager and they looked, took 10 minutes and then they tried to tell me that it was only googan and rapala buy one get one and I told them it’s on the end cap and says 6th sense hard baits and soft baits buy three get three free. 10 minutes later they come back and take the 3 off so I get 6 cranks for $30 but they were rude and didn’t want to help. I don’t see me really going there much anymore.

I've had similar signage issues at my local DSG but they're always happy to offer whatever the sign says.  Sorry yours wasn't the same.  Anyways, off to DSG... lol

Restocked on my main Fluke colors but decided to throw a few new colors into the mix. The Rocky Top color should produce. I had really good luck last spring with the 6th Sense Flush in the Baby Gill color, which is orange with some green pumpkin/watermelon color. The Bone color should be great, because, well...it's Bone. And the 3rd color is Pink Champagne. Never seen that color in Fluke before so figured I'd play around with it on my smallie lakes/rivers. Of the three I'm really liking the bone.

 

 

 

Grabbed a few of the new YUM Hellgrammites. Planning on mostly ned rigging them. They're a little bigger than I anticipated, which I actually like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

17 minutes ago, NorthernBasser said:

. The Rocky Top color 

 

 

 

 

Go vols ! 

24 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Go vols ! 

Did you see that Vols-themed Camas they had at the Classic?

6 hours ago, hokiehunter373 said:

I've had similar signage issues at my local DSG but they're always happy to offer whatever the sign says.  Sorry yours wasn't the same.  Anyways, off to DSG... lol

Yeah it basically comes down to who is working there. They weren’t the friendliest but I will probably still go there. In the end I am a consumer of fishing stuff and I like to buy locally and not over the internet. So I am left with options but not many oh well. Thank you for your input on your local stores. It’s definitely the people who make a store though, in reality they could have not offered to do it. My hats off to them for following through though.

Hit the local shop today.

21 hours ago, NorthernBasser said:

Not tackle, but still bass-related. New hoodie. 

 

I saw  that dude last summer on a small local lake. He had an enclosed trailer that carried kayaks and stuff that had that logo plastered all over it.