I ordered some *** Baby Brush Bugs in green pumpkin/Chartail and fished them all day yesterday. I did have a *** rigged up on another rod but didnt feel the urge to use it at all. I ended up catching 14 Bass on the Bush Bugs and 1 on a spinnerbait. Unfortunately the Bass were all in the 12-14 inch range. Now I just need to work on gettin after the bigger fish!!   Im cured!!!! (I think)

I spent the previous two summers throwing mostly senkos.  This spring I decided to vary my tactics.  I am loving swimbaits, crankbaits, and more tubes.  Now one of these day I will actually catch a fish on a drop shot rig.  oh well

Worked on a Dropshot rig all last summer and caught alot of dinks,Bluegill and Trout. Wouldnt ya know it... Over the winter I stocked up on D/S baits(a bunch!!) and havent caught a single fish this year on that technique :-/

Last time I purchased a senkos ( yamasenko, flash, Stick-o, whatever you want to call it ) : Jul 27 2005, from that batch ( purchased 1 pack of each 5 colors ) I still have 7-8 baits left of each pack, if we account all the senkos I 've used during the last 5 years I 'd probably say that I 've spent about 100 baits in all the colors & sizes I 've got in stock, in other words, I rarely fish with a senko.

Well, I have been fishing a lot of different stuff this year, too. Most of it has worked out pretty well, but I think I'll still keep a few soft plastics around. Every now and then I get the bug to quit playing around a have a big day. Surprisingly, those ole 6" Senkos and Fat Ika still work!

I'm not addicted to stick baits but I am a huge plastic man.

Really don't get into the cranks that much with the type of water that I'm fishing.

Either troutworms, crawlers, or plastics for me.

Should force myself to get out there and use other things. You know work on some other fishing skills. But I just love plastics and I'm good at fishing them in all different situations so why stop right?

I went to Senkos anonymous and was also cured.(i think) The guys at the meeting put me on some brush hogs, and I've absolutely been slamming 15-18 inchers 5-15 feet off shore in the medium heavy slop. I've been texas rigging the watermellon/black flake hogs with weight and letting them go to the bottom fast and stay there. I use little twitches and short pauses and the action i get is truely sweet.

I was fishing a shoreline yesterday, and there was an angler to my left and and another to my right . Both guys were about 50 yards away from me. There was also a handful of other guys fishing the 25 acre pond as well. There were also a few floaters out there fishing.

NONE of them was catching anything. But I knocked off 5 very nice bass in about 90 minutes fishing those hogs through the weeds near shore. I fished senkos and yum dingers the hour prior and had zero luck. I have to admit, catching bass where no one else at the pond is throwing their line because either they dont know how, or don't have a bait like a weighted texas rigged brush hog, is really fun.

Every time I caught a fish, people from all over the pond could hear it. No one else was catcing a thing and there I was for about 90 minutes, just hammering them. Everyone on the pond would kinda look my way and try to see what I caught. Then they'd tirelessly cast with no results. Until, WHAM! *** Backwards crushes another bucket mouth in the slop, where everyone on the pond can hear it splash as I reel her in. You could almost HEAR them thinking, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT GUY CATCING THEM ON! BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........ FISH ON BROTHER!!!!!

TODD