1 hour ago, Functional said:

I went pumpkin picking with my wife/ daughter and this time they had a handful of vendors. Of course the Monkey likes pumpkin picking too apparently. Custom painted swim bait for $40. He had a bunch but not in shad pattern other than this style but if it works well I'll be getting some more. He also had a boat load of hand painted crankbaits and does replica taxidermy. Asked him why he was so cheap and he said "if you have a $40 swim bait and a $150 swimbait and they work the same which one will you throw more?  I'd rather you use mine all the time and get more than never use it". 

 

 

 

 

 

Love it.  NC fella too.  Gonna have to add that to my note to Santa along with the Daiwa Tatula 7'1 MHXF.  I want to get some nicer glide baits for the late winter early spring transition this year for sure.

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

Love it.  NC fella too.  Gonna have to add that to my note to Santa along with the Daiwa Tatula 7'1 MHXF.  I want to get some nicer glide baits for the late winter early spring transition this year for sure.

He had glide baits, s weavers and he called this one the deep belly or something like that. Says it's surprisingly slow sink. Well see. Nice guy. 

Academy has some fishing clearance that started today.

 

Stealth Blade Jackhammers, Thunder Crickets (including the tungsten ones), and 3/8oz CrossEyez chatterbaits for 9 bucks each.

 

Gold label Seaguar for 9 bucks, ~6 bucks for those Savage Gear 5" swimbaits (not the 4" ones though sadly).

Had to pop down to Fleet Farm for a couple things...just for S&G went over to the fishing section and they had the round-handle Mojos on clearance...and SCORE...last one I was wanting, but didn't have the money till now.

I only got one fishing item when I went to Cabelas this past week. I have a friend that likes to go shooting once a week. Well we went so much I went through all my ammo so I had to get a little bit so we can go shooting together again. He sometimes gives me ammo to clean his guns. He hates doing it. But he hasn't needed any done lately.

 

Anyways. After spending over 2 hours looking at stuff to get and changing my mind a million times. It is hard when you have limited funds and you want to take the whole store home with you. LOL I found they had a Chatterbait Elite for $5.99. So I bought one. I should have gotten both. Duh. It is a color I have never seen. Redbone. I looked around for trailers for it for a long time. Decided to just use what I have at home. The green pumpkin pearl looks pretty good. 

 

I went to Wal-Mart to get some groceries. And of course I had to go down the fishing aisle. I saw they had a War Eagle Finesse spinnerbait. I have one in Purple Shad and the fish can't seem to resist it a lot of the times. Normally within 5 cast I will catch one. So when I saw they had a different color, Mouse, I figured I would pick one up. We will see if it is as good as the Purple Shad.

 

A friend brought this down to me today.  Leaving tomorrow for Magdalena Bay for two weeks.  I hope to be able to give good review after I get back from the trip.  I am afraid that the Monkey will be convincing me to buy some swimbaits now that I have reel made for larger baits.

He got me guys............The bait monkey got me. I've got multiple orders coming in. The first from Woo Tungsten. I got almost every size of non chip punching weight they have. I bought a few of their weights a while back and have really been pleased with this company's tungsten. The next order is from Hook Up tackle. I'm not gonna say what I got from here because they are already hard enough to find. To make it short I got a ton of swimbaits that are discontinued or not found in the United States. The third and final order comes from Shane's baits. I ended up buying an Upper Blades of Glory and a Lower. I got a few other things from there as well. The bait monkey hit me hard this week putting me out $500.😭

Birthday loot's starting to trickle in.

 

 

These look dope. I can't wait to lose them.

28 minutes ago, galyonj said:

Birthday loot's starting to trickle in.

 

 

These look dope. I can't wait to lose them.

I love the fire tipped cranks....have a couple in the badger and frittside.

For sure. It's getting to be that season.

@galyonj Did you have a Freudian slip when you said lose them 🤔as I noticed I’m the only one who laughed 😬

Nope. They're gonna get lost. Just a question of when.

6 hours ago, galyonj said:

Birthday loot's starting to trickle in.

 

 

These look dope. I can't wait to lose them.

That’s how I feel every time I buy a crank-bait. Just a matter of time!

The JDM Exchange Rate Monkey delivered today. 

 

I can't believe how small this thing is. It's about the same size as the BFS version.  

 

 

This has to be one the most over the top and maybe overpriced baits I have bought.  US price is $30. I paid about $15.  No big deal if it catches some fish but no way I'm paying $30 for one.

 

On 10/16/2023 at 2:10 PM, Aaron_H said:

Academy has some fishing clearance that started today.

 

Stealth Blade Jackhammers, Thunder Crickets (including the tungsten ones), and 3/8oz CrossEyez chatterbaits for 9 bucks each.

 

Gold label Seaguar for 9 bucks, ~6 bucks for those Savage Gear 5" swimbaits (not the 4" ones though sadly).

Where did you get the $9 gold label, what test is it?

Decided to give the + size floating jerkbait thing more of a try this Fall/Winter. Already had a few on hand, but the bait monkey told me I needed more for good measure 🤣

On 11/3/2023 at 7:29 PM, Bandersnatch said:

Where did you get the $9 gold label, what test is it?

 

Sorry, was out of town for work. I bought all of that at my local Academy, all of the gold label was on clearance for 9.97 I believe. The spool I picked up is 20lb since that's what I generally use for inshore leaders.

On 7/6/2023 at 8:54 PM, Greeneye8181 said:

Can’t wait to try this out

How do you like this reel?? Been looking into them recently

We have a section dedicated to rods, reels and line...

I hope I’m not double downing on this thread but I couldn’t resist the JDM market at these prices, just a tick under $115.00 dollars to my door from Japan Lure Shop.

5 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

I hope I’m not double downing on this thread but I couldn’t resist the JDM market at these prices, just a tick under $115.00 dollars to my door from Japan Lure Shop.

Nice, our grandkids will be talking about the great JDM deal days in 50 years 🤣

 

Japan said it's Black Friday sales all year long.   This time last year I was saying the same thing, JDM pricing was better than the best Black Friday USDM deals.  

@AlabamaSpothunter I couldn’t agree more and if I was bit more serious about my fishing I would have jumped all over the Daiwa zillion tw that you and others have praised. 

Zillion is a good reel, don’t get me wrong, but there is no way I would pay the normal price for it. For the discounted price that I got it for a while back due to JDM/USD exchange, I agree it is a good reel.

On 11/10/2023 at 11:35 PM, JNorman said:

How do you like this reel?? Been looking into them recently

For weightless plastics it’s the best reel I’ve ever used