Bass pro haul, they had red eye shad on sale 😎

I will be tossing this on our opener which is Saturday. It’s Pumpkinseed.

 

 

Oh, I likey.

On 5/5/2024 at 10:57 AM, Pat Brown said:

 

 

I got Northern Craw and Mud Craw which are absolutely incredible sunfish colors if you've got Sunny's with muted oranges and purples with blue or orange hues.

 

 

 

 

 

Yessir. I love Siebert's Northern Craw color as well for imitating gills.

 

19 hours ago, NorthernBasser said:

Oh, I likey.

If I get snipped off by a pike, you may not ever hear from me again because I’ll have a cardiac on the water.

Not even in the same realm, but I lost two 6th Sense Flat Finesse cranks and a DT-6 today to those pesky buggers! 

I've had to replace 3 Rattlin Raps the past two seasons cause of pike stealing them.

Losing lures to pike is only funny when it happens to someone else.

 

Once it happens to you, there isn’t much laughing going on. It’s mostly just profanity followed by sadness.

I don’t want to derail this thread since it’s a tackle monkey purchase thread. I’ll PM you on some pike advice.

18 minutes ago, MediumMouthBass said:

And here i am over here trying to catch pike in the one lake near me that has them and have only gotten 1 small pike in the past 3 years...

Maybe i should just tie on a Jackhammer and think about catching bass, do you think that would work? Or do i have to use something more expensive? You guys in MN seem to have the experience im looking for about pike.

Try an A rig made with two Mega bass vision 110's and 3 jack hammers.  

Has anybody used these new TRD Fattyz.  They are a tackle warehouse exclusive.  These are 3.25" not like the other 5" fattyz so designed to be ned rigged.

Well I resisted a week to the monkey 

 

3 vision 110

2 packs smello gill

1 pack stink o sticks

1 pack grubs 

1 pack 3.5 yamatanuki 

1 pack of odd mustad alpha point hooks that I wanted to try.

 

 I am a sucker for jerk baits and colors that I don’t have lol.

I like the Ark Tharp series so much, I decided to give the new Invoker Tour a look. I still love my Expride's, Orochi's etc, but there are some real gems to be had nowadays in the less expensive group. The Tharp is definitely one of them, and I'm willing to bet the Invoker Tour won't disappoint, either.

 

It's a 7' MH/XF. It comes in at a very impressive 4.05 oz. That's lighter than my 7'1 MH Kistler Helium (NFC blank) which weighs 4.10 oz. Another thing I love about these rods is the hook keeper. Probably my favorite style. 

 

 

 

Totally agree on the hook keeper style!

On 5/6/2024 at 1:06 PM, ATA said:

I just got it, Use it few times at home and it was ok, The Glow in the dark is not really glowing but it cuts the braided lines and other lines very well. Also what I like about it is the clamp that you can clamp to the hat or pocket or etc... Overall I am happy with it and it is a keeper. Remember I was boomerang line cutter user for long and they are really good cutters as well and that's why I bought the second one.

I tried many braid cutters, Pitbull Tackle is the best I've found.

'Tis the season

 

I finally got my hands on one of the new slx mgl hg reels, I wanted to compare them to the older ones that were great reels. I spooled it up with fresh 12lb sniper. I was going to try the new r-18 line but I couldn’t justify the price of it.

On 5/10/2024 at 3:39 PM, NorthernBasser said:

I like the Ark Tharp series so much, I decided to give the new Invoker Tour a look. I still love my Expride's, Orochi's etc, but there are some real gems to be had nowadays in the less expensive group. The Tharp is definitely one of them, and I'm willing to bet the Invoker Tour won't disappoint, either.

 

It's a 7' MH/XF. It comes in at a very impressive 4.05 oz. That's lighter than my 7'1 MH Kistler Helium (NFC blank) which weighs 4.10 oz. Another thing I love about these rods is the hook keeper. Probably my favorite style. 

 

 

 

That thing looks pretty dang nice.  Weight is right up there with sensitivity for me.  TW has $1k Evergreen Synergy rods I wouldn't even sniff at the JDM price because of high weight (7'M 1/4-1oz = 6oz!)

Academy Rapala BOGO sale DT16/Tiny 4/ Tiny 7

 

 

Maverick 110's

 

 

Ali-X order: Tatula LT 2500S XH + '24 Tatula 100XHL (sold).  

 

 

2 KKR Tat 100 spools, 2 AMO tat 100 spools.  (34mm)

 

 

4 carbon handles w/ EVA knobs (2-85mm 2-95mm)

 

 

1/4oz hybrid Marabou/silicone jigs...

 

 

SLP knobs

 

 

pradco order fire lurenet came today.  6 inch walter melon pearl laminate 6 inch dinger, ultimate craw( summer craw)  tubes. fat boy evo, olive blue deep little N, holly speed N olive blue speed N. 

6 hours ago, KP Duty said:

Weight is right up there with sensitivity for me.  TW has $1k Evergreen Synergy rods I wouldn't even sniff at the JDM price because of high weight (7'M 1/4-1oz = 6oz!)

Agree. If I'm paying $300+/rod, it better be light. So to see these lesser expensive rods weighing so little, that's impressive. 

On 5/10/2024 at 4:39 PM, NorthernBasser said:

I like the Ark Tharp series so much, I decided to give the new Invoker Tour a look. I still love my Expride's, Orochi's etc, but there are some real gems to be had nowadays in the less expensive group. The Tharp is definitely one of them, and I'm willing to bet the Invoker Tour won't disappoint, either.

 

It's a 7' MH/XF. It comes in at a very impressive 4.05 oz. That's lighter than my 7'1 MH Kistler Helium (NFC blank) which weighs 4.10 oz. Another thing I love about these rods is the hook keeper. Probably my favorite style. 

 

 

 

Are those new reel seats on the Invoker tour's the same as the Tharp series? They look the same to me on the website. I was disappointed to see them changed from the Invoker pro series. I found those seats VERY comfortable.

6 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Are those new reel seats on the Invoker tour's the same as the Tharp series? They look the same to me on the website. I was disappointed to see them changed from the Invoker pro series. I found those seats VERY comfortable.

I believe so. Same as the new Tharps. Have you held these new ones yet? I also loved the old reel seat on the previous model, so I was worried when I saw they changed them. But I find these just as, if not more,  comfortable. They're also lighter. 

I haven't had a chance to check out the new models yet @NorthernBasser. I'm really liking the old model Invoker 7'11" XH Flippin stick though. I got two during the BOGO sale. It's the Invoker version of the Okeechobee Special.

 

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

I haven't had a chance to check out the new models yet @NorthernBasser. I'm really liking the old model Invoker 7'11" XH Flippin stick though. I got two during the BOGO sale. It's the Invoker version of the Okeechobee Special.

 

Nice! Yeah, if you liked the old Tharps/Invokers, I think you'll be quite pleased with the new as well.