On 1/5/2025 at 3:58 PM, Pat Brown said:

 

That looks killer on there and I bet with no salt - looks incredible on the bottom - thank you!

Correction...the pig claws seem to have light amount of fine salt.  There is no evidence of salt in the bags or on the baits surface so it threw me off.   Nothing like the LFT craw tubes which have heavy salt.

I got lucky on Ebay and snagged three of my favorite discontinued Megabass lures, the Live-X Leviathan. Two of them are from 1999 and one from 2003.  All three colors are good ones but Megabass's painting has come a long way.

 

 

I forgot the bait monkey had me on speed dial. 

 

Berkeley/SK - Walmart clearance. I think I paid $16

13 Fishing - Ollies, $5/ea

Nomad Designs - full price at BLS. $13/ea. I just bought them because I’d never seen them. They are a soft covered body lipless with a tail. 

10 hours ago, Smirak said:

I forgot the bait monkey had me on speed dial. 

 

Berkeley/SK - Walmart clearance. I think I paid $16

13 Fishing - Ollies, $5/ea

Nomad Designs - full price at BLS. $13/ea. I just bought them because I’d never seen them. They are a soft covered body lipless with a tail. 

Those Nomads have my interest as well. Seen a few ads & watched couple videos. Let me know how they perform. 
 

Btw, think I have same exact kitchen countertops in my house. 😁

1 hour ago, wdp said:

Those Nomads have my interest as well. Seen a few ads & watched couple videos. Let me know how they perform. 
 

Btw, think I have same exact kitchen countertops in my house. 😁

Hail State - sucks to have lost Sat.

 

I’ll keep you posted on the vertrex. Seen a few videos as well. Will be interesting to see how they work. 

On 1/4/2025 at 12:45 PM, KP Duty said:

Ebay LC's.  I was after the MS colors (MS= Magic Scale).  Jerkbaits are Slender Pointer 97's, with the top 2 being MS Wakasagi.  2 MS KJ flat 1.5's as well 

 

Picked up 26 various Black Label balsa baits while they were discounted.

 

Grabbed 24 packs of missle crawfathers, a few of 'the 48' worms, Ned bomb worms, Gambler 7" Fat Ace and burner craws, BBB limit makers, and a couple picasso carbon chatters

 

30pks of Lake Fork Tackle chunks...

The scheels in Tulsa has some 97 slender pointers for like 6.99 in the discount bin right now. Kicking myself for not buying them.

On 1/7/2025 at 9:37 PM, FishTank said:

I got lucky on Ebay and snagged three of my favorite discontinued Megabass lures, the Live-X Leviathan. Two of them are from 1999 and one from 2003.  All three colors are good ones but Megabass's painting has come a long way.

 

 

 

Those are going for crazy money on Ebay! What is so special about them?

 

2 hours ago, BlakeMolone said:

The scheels in Tulsa has some 97 slender pointers for like 6.99 in the discount bin right now. Kicking myself for not buying them.

 

Looked at their website and didn't see any Slender Pointers

 

Allen

@Munkin The Live-X Leviathan use to be a pretty versatile bait for me.  I could troll with it,  use it like a jerkbait,  fish it like a shad rap, or just burn it back in.

 

Different from the Trick Darter, it has this sort of wide pitch and roll action in deeper water and it suspends, which is probably why it getting such a high price attached to it. Also, it supposedly makes a good FFS bait.  All I know is that it still catches fish and I'm going to hate opening a new in package bait that is 26 years old.

On 12/31/2024 at 1:55 PM, Smirak said:

As promised, here’s what the baboon did to me this year…

 

1st pic - Mrs Smirak ordered the gift cards from TW. Got the physical card so I’d have something to actually open. As discussed previously, the gift card equipment went down on like the 22nd. So, in order for me to have something to open, she painted these “gift cards” for me. She said the pelvic fins act like rudders (notice all but one is facing the wrong way 😂😂). Honestly, as much as I love the tackle, this was my favorite gift.

 

2nd pic - total haul. All either 1/2 oz or above. For some odd reason, I just don’t like throwing under 1/2 oz moving baits…I have them, I use them, but find that most of my new purchases are all 1/2oz+ and are usually the ones that get tied on first.

6th Sense Congo Craw (can’t get them locally anywhere) (5)

Damiki Vault (3)

Dr Slick split ring pliers. Initial impressions are they will be good.

A few Crush 75x flat side squarebill

A few Quake 70 lipless

Spro crawler

MB SV-3 spinner bait (2)

Keitech tungsten jig (1)

J Braid Grande x 8, 50lb

MB Orochi XX Diablo Spec-R

Tatula 103H

Some A rig wranglers

Free TShirt!

Very nice! Have you had a chance to fish the sv-3 spinnerbaits? I’m very interested in trying some. They seem like they have a smaller profile then a lot of other spinnerbaits.

On 1/6/2025 at 9:20 AM, FishTank said:

I just received an order of 11 custom jigs from Johnny C's California Reservoir Lures. Great jigs. I really like their attention to detail with matching painted heads and weed guards.  

 

 

 

 

What color is the middle one? The football jig? It looks like a great bluegill match.

22 hours ago, FishTank said:

@Munkin The Live-X Leviathan use to be a pretty versatile bait for me.  I could troll with it,  use it like a jerkbait,  fish it like a shad rap, or just burn it back in.

 

Different from the Trick Darter, it has this sort of wide pitch and roll action in deeper water and it suspends, which is probably why it getting such a high price attached to it. Also, it supposedly makes a good FFS bait.  All I know is that it still catches fish and I'm going to hate opening a new in package bait that is 26 years old.

 

If I have any I will trade it to you for something then. Went through a JDM jerkbait addiction phase for about 5 years. Bought one or two of every jerkbait I could find.

 

Allen

22 hours ago, woolleyfooley said:

Very nice! Have you had a chance to fish the sv-3 spinnerbaits? I’m very interested in trying some. They seem like they have a smaller profile then a lot of other spinnerbaits.

What color is the middle one? The football jig? It looks like a great bluegill match.

I’ve fished the SV-3 a few times. Nothing more than just to throw it a bit and tune up my reel for it. It swims tru, compact size, and even tactical bassin refers to it as a finesse spinnerbait…

45 minutes ago, Munkin said:

 

If I have any I will trade it to you for something then. Went through a JDM jerkbait addiction phase for about 5 years. Bought one or two of every jerkbait I could find.

 

Allen

Sounds good. Let me know what you find.

Found a couple Deps 250s laying in the snow at my garage today.

TW sale stuff. If I can't catch a fish in January I'm at least going to feed the monkey

3 hours ago, Peacedivision said:

TW sale stuff. If I can't catch a fish in January I'm at least going to feed the monkey

Big fan of those Bass Patrol jigs. 

11 minutes ago, NorthernBasser said:

Big fan of those Bass Patrol jigs. 

This is my first time trying them. TW doesn't sell the dobyns jigs anymore and these are a very similar build just a different hook so figured I would test them as an alternative. ~$3.50 sale price is pretty nice too.

On my re-up for the tw sale I decided to get a quick qube for my fishing bag. So far so good and keeps all my plastics in one place. Can't wait to put it to the test once the weather warms up

9 minutes ago, MinDoFmejiA said:

On my re-up for the tw sale I decided to get a quick qube for my fishing bag. So far so good and keeps all my plastics in one place. Can't wait to put it to the test once the weather warms up

I have one of the non mesh cubes and its been solid so far.

1 minute ago, Peacedivision said:

I have one of the non mesh cubes and its been solid so far.

I got the mesh cause it was a bit cheaper. I got tired of having to dig threw pouches and pulling out all my boxes to get that one bag that slid under them. Hopefully this solves my issues.

I really do not need much for this coming season, but just took advantage of the TW sale just to stock a few more odds and ends at a discount.  Replenished some hooks and jig heads, got one more color of jerkbait I have been wanting to try, and also going to give a megabass vatalion a try is it was one of the last baits on my list for larger baits I wanted to experiment with.

14 minutes ago, MinDoFmejiA said:

I got the mesh cause it was a bit cheaper. I got tired of having to dig threw pouches and pulling out all my boxes to get that one bag that slid under them. Hopefully this solves my issues.

I load it up with all the random odds and ends that don't really fit in a backpack or tackle flat when I'm out.

 

Ok I’ll play 

 

 

This is the year I decided to set up an entirely separate tackle system for my kayak so I don’t have to rifle through my boat tackle to get what I want for each kayaking trip. In the last three weeks I’ve spent about $375 including the Bass Pro order I just placed but haven’t yet received. So this is only part of what I’ve bought. But about half of those spinnerbaits you see there are for the boat, and then I took a bunch from the boat to add to the kayak, as well as some more crankbaits, and a whole lotta plastics. I don’t fish jigs much so I only have a couple just to represent that area. Usually I bottom fish with a T-rig.

 

 

This was from black Friday sale from a local tackle shop.. 50% off Keitech... I normally do a bulk buy each memorial day sale at tackle warehouse for my 4.8 swing fat impacts but with the current state of the Canadian dollar, won't be saving as much as previous years after shipping and customs charges.. 

21 hours ago, MRQturbo said:

This was from black Friday sale from a local tackle shop.. 50% off Keitech... I normally do a bulk buy each memorial day sale at tackle warehouse for my 4.8 swing fat impacts but with the current state of the Canadian dollar, won't be saving as much as previous years after shipping and customs charges.. 

Sweet, I wish same deal near me, I use them a lot(I mean ALOT :))