More TW stuff from the 40% off sale. 

 

Never fished the Okuma stuff before, so figured what the hey. They also had a promo where you get free cork knobs with a purchase of the X-Series reel. If I don't care for the round knobs of the Hakai, I may replace them with these (if they fit).

 

The Castaic squarebills are solid baits. And at $2.50 each, even better. I have one lake in particular where bone colored cranks do great. 

 

The Keitech Cameron is a great crawfish imitator. You rig it backwards (you can go weightless or nail weight) like the Fat Ika, and it does a nice job gliding away from you. Popping it off the bottom then letting it fall really does look like a swimming crawfish. Of course being Keitech, it's very soft and not too durable.

 

Decided to give the new Z-Man Chattershad trailer a try. Got the smaller 3.5 to rig on the Mini Max. I'm guessing I'll trim the skirt a tad. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The LV500's I accidentally ordered came in today.  Zebra MS Ghost Minnow.

 

1 hour ago, KP Duty said:

accidentally ordered came in today

I have accidentally ordered tackle from time to time, I am lucky I have never accidentally returned any tackle.

22 hours ago, king fisher said:

I have accidentally ordered tackle from time to time, I am lucky I have never accidentally returned any tackle.

How do you have such restraint to accidentally order? All mine are purposeful! 😂😂

1 hour ago, Smirak said:

How do you have such restraint to accidentally order? All mine are purposeful! 😂😂

All I'm going to say is the lures arrive at my house by accident, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

3 hours ago, king fisher said:

All I'm going to say is the lures arrive at my house by accident, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

This your UPS driver?

 

All the Monkey got me for this time was just enough for free shipping.

2- Zoom magnum Ole Monster 

2- Zoom Ole Monster

2- Magnum Rage bug

1- Rapala Crush City Mayor

 

 

My Daiwa Procyon went south on me this summer (bummer!) so I had a hole in my spinning reel arsenal.  American Fishing Legacy was blowing out the original Shimano Vanfords since a newer version was released this year.  That's my favorite time to swoop in and get a great reel at a big discount!

 

Shimano Vanford 3000 $181 with free shipping and no taxes.  Plus I used $14 in customer loyalty points so the price was $167.  That's a tidy bit of shopping IMO!

My wife is leaving later today on her girls trip.  I could not have gotten these at a better time. Not shown is one swim jig.

Picked up two 13 fishing Envy Black 3 crankbait rods and a couple ebay finds.  Rods are 7'4" MH rated 1/4-1.5oz.  Weighed 132g on my new scale.  Stole them @ $109/each.  13 totally copied the BLX limber line on these with 5A cork and similar blanks.

 

*Edit- I took a pic of the '46T' logo because I believe it was meant for the standard Envy 3.  The crankbait series is supposed to be a 30T Toray T glass blank.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BDS4's in Tenn Shad and skeet MR in red river craw.

 

Well, I couldn't fish the Bassmaster Caddo Lake event this week because as usual, work got in the way. The smart thing to do would have been to just bank the money I would have spent.

 

I'm not that smart.

 

The only spinning gear I have is a ML drop shot rig, so I purchased a Cashion ICON FFS MF spinning rod and a 2500 Daiwa Procyon AL LT reel. I also added some Giant TRD worms, 5" Damiki Armor Shad, and I bunch of jig heads because I go through them like crazy. And I added another free TW t-shirt and sticker to my collection because, hey, they're free.

 

I've got a big trip coming up in the next few weeks but I'm not sure if it's going to be Caddo/Lake Fork/Toledo Bend/Sam Rayburn or hitting a trail of Florida lakes. I'm playing it by ear. A lot will depend upon the weather forecast and if the Florida lakes are in decent shape (and ramps open) after the hurricanes.

 

I really wanted to add OH Ivie if I headed to Texas, but it's too far out of the way from the other lakes. Florida would be the easier trip because I could be fishing in 5 hours whereas it will take a full day of driving just to get to the first stop in Texas.

 

On 10/18/2024 at 10:21 AM, Bankbeater said:

My wife is leaving later today on her girls trip.  I could not have gotten these at a better time. Not shown is one swim jig.

I really gotta get me one of those…

 

 

 

not the reel, but the wife that takes girls’ trips!

If you haven’t tried Siebert Outdoors stuff, you’re missing out. Mike’s products are top notch. 

^ Truth....

Handful of odds and ends from TW I didn't really need, but why not:

Got some Spro frogs with the 20% off tackle warehouse sale.  Got way more than these 4 - but this is the idea 😎

 

 

Got some pop 70 to try - more pop 60s and some bronzeye 65 and jr to try.  Got mostly transparent colors because that's a big hole in my frog box but I really liked the Amazon color in the pop 70 so I got that to try.

 

The frog bite has been insane this week so hopefully catch something this weekend with my new toys!

 

Bait Monkey saw me on the couch bored last night and decided to put a bug in my ear.

16 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Got some Spro frogs

 

Bass only see the underside.  Flip em over lol

40 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Bass only see the underside.  Flip em over lol

 

 

They're transparent all the way through. I'm not that much of a sucker! I fish a lot of clear water so I'm interested to see how they perform.

 

Also slightly different profile And action can be a pretty big deal around here And they definitely do their own kind of thing just like all products on the market or whatever. 

 

Etc etc 

 

The Amazon color is pretty nuts actually. It's like yellow with the big red stripe and a bunch of black stuff. Definitely like a dirty water reaction bait kind of color. I like it!  Definitely don't have anything quite like it in my arsenal and it's the '70 size so it's a huge profile which is also neat! 

 

But I appreciate your criticism 😂😂😂😉😉😉

 

 

I know you're smarter the average bear on this sort of thing.  I know people who buy frogs because of what they look like on the outside of the packaging.  "That is a wild color, I'm buying that one."  Then I ask them "what side of the frog does the bass see again?"  (awkward pause as the wheels start to turn)

 

Its pure marketing and a lot of people get sucked into it.

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I know you're smarter the average bear on this sort of thing.  I know people who buy frogs because of what they look like on the outside of the packaging.  "That is a wild color, I'm buying that one."  Then I ask them "what side of the frog does the bass see again?"  (awkward pause as the wheels start to turn)

 

Its pure marketing and a lot of people get sucked into it.

 

 

Agree with what you're saying 100%.

 

You don't need 13 of the same size and model frog with a white belly and a slightly different back 😂😂😂

 

I DO need toys to take the sting of traversing this mortal plane away slightly for just one more day *occasionally* though 😉😉😉

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

I know you're smarter the average bear on this sort of thing.  I know people who buy frogs because of what they look like on the outside of the packaging.  "That is a wild color, I'm buying that one."  Then I ask them "what side of the frog does the bass see again?"  (awkward pause as the wheels start to turn)

 

Its pure marketing and a lot of people get sucked into it.

**** Reading in angry monkey noises 

4 hours ago, gimruis said:

 

Bass only see the underside.  Flip em over lol

 

True. Unlesssss you're fishing gin clear water and it's dead calm out. Sometimes a bass with trail a frog and closely inspect it before committing to it. And if they're swimming alongside it, they can see the markings/paint scheme on the side of the frog. Not to mention some frogs sit butt-down in the water.

 

It is nuts how many colors the Bronzeye come in, though. Over 50! SPRO is definitely trying to catch the fishermen as well, that's for sure. 

4 minutes ago, NorthernBasser said:

SPRO is definitely trying to catch the fishermen as well, that's for sure. 

 

As is nearly every other tackle company on this planet.  Don't get sucked in.  Your shed has enough.