Hey guys I know this isn't a report but a friend of mine had ALL of his tackle stolen plus all his power tools out of his garage on Tuesday. Can you please keep an eye out for someone selling a RED CABELAS bag with about 6 3700 trays of bass gear. A Black or green just open bag with about 6-3700 trays filled with walleye gear and last a abu garcia/fenwick bag filled with crappie stuff. I greatly appreciate it! Have a good weekend everyone!

1 hour ago, DodgeRamWax said:

Hey guys I know this isn't a report but a friend of mine had ALL of his tackle stolen plus all his power tools out of his garage on Tuesday. Can you please keep an eye out for someone selling a RED CABELAS bag with about 6 3700 trays of bass gear. A Black or green just open bag with about 6-3700 trays filled with walleye gear and last a abu garcia/fenwick bag filled with crappie stuff. I greatly appreciate it! Have a good weekend everyone!

Was that Bobby? 

35 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Was that Bobby? 

Yes sir!

9 minutes ago, DodgeRamWax said:

Yes sir!

Dang that sucks. I'll do some checking on Craigslist while I'm at work. If he has a list or something have him send it to me so I have an idea what to look for.

It's finally out!

http://store.do-itmolds.com/Midwest-Finesse-JigbrSz-116-332-18-532-316-14brHk-Owner-5313brCollar-Wire-Holder_p_1255.html

Pretty disappointed with the sizes. I don't ever use anything over 3/32 for Nedding, for sure no bigger than 1/8. I was hoping to get multiple cavities for the good sizes so I could stop pouring one at a time  

Not that any of that stopped me from ordering one. 

Clayton, can you pour 1/32 Ned heads? I'm digging the 1/16 you pour quite a bit. I'll be in touch for more this winter. 

17 minutes ago, Drew03cmc said:

Clayton, can you pour 1/32 Ned heads? I'm digging the 1/16 you pour quite a bit. I'll be in touch for more this winter. 

No unfortunately. There isn't a mold that small. I'd hoped the new Midwest Finesse mold would have actual Midwest Finesse sizes, but they just jumped on the craze without doing any research apparently. 

Poured some using the lil nasty 500 hooks from eagle claw as suggested.   What is a good price for a thousand of the these, or a good place to purchase them.     I should have the new midwest mold this week, and also hope to get the poison wobble head as well.

I ended up doing a long day trip down to Stockton yesterday.

I started out going up way up some of the longer arms throwing a spinnerbait only catching one short. I switched gears and started catching fish (mostly shorts) on windblown secondary points in about 8 fow mostly on a ned. Some of the most productive locations were mudlines on points adjacent to schools of bait. I ran this pattern throughout the day catching two dozen or so cookie cutter 12-15" largemouth with few short spots, smallies, and a drum mixed in.

In the evening I decided to take another shot at running up the backs of creeks. About 30 minutes to sunset the bite just clicked and the fish turned on. I was throwing a plopper and a cavitron with a followup swim jig/swing impact combo. Large fish was 17" on the cavitron. I tried a few casts waking a BBZ1 shad looking for better fish but they never materialized. Ended up with another 12 in a quick 45 minutes and missed a bunch of fish. Fun bite - extremely shallow water, almost all were in less than 2 feet. WT 66-71.

-Jared 

1 hour ago, Molay1292 said:

Poured some using the lil nasty 500 hooks from eagle claw as suggested.   What is a good price for a thousand of the these, or a good place to purchase them.     I should have the new midwest mold this week, and also hope to get the poison wobble head as well.

I get mine from Captain Hook's Warehouse. I think they're around $45 shipped for 1,000, not sure on the 500s. I liked the looks of the poison head, just not sure what I'd use it for instead of the football heads. I wish I would have ordered my Ned mold a couple days ago so I could have some for Table Rock. 

I fished Wolf Creek yesterday.  Of course, I regretted going there after the first hour when the "10 mph north wind" turned the lake into white caps on the south end, and starting to think I need new TM batteries.  I caught a few fish early on the plopper, then caught small fish pretty good on a Worden's rooster tail in pink and chartreuse along the wing dams.  It's a perfect bait for finesse fishing when it's windy as hell and you can't feel the ned.  Also caught a few fish on a jerkbait, spinnerbait, craw, and a custom beaver that had a tube-like tail.  Started throwing the plopper again at noon because why not.  I had two huge blow ups, but they both failed to hook up..such is #plopperlife.  Didn't get any big fish, but still caught ~20 bass, so I didn't feel too terrible about it. 

On another note, anybody tried these batteries for the TM? - https://www.amazon.com/Sealed-Lead-Acid-Cycle-Battery/dp/B005CLPOQM

1 hour ago, SuperFluke said:

I fished Wolf Creek yesterday.  Of course, I regretted going there after the first hour when the "10 mph north wind" turned the lake into white caps on the south end, and starting to think I need new TM batteries.  I caught a few fish early on the plopper, then caught small fish pretty good on a Worden's rooster tail in pink and chartreuse along the wing dams.  It's a perfect bait for finesse fishing when it's windy as hell and you can't feel the ned.  Also caught a few fish on a jerkbait, spinnerbait, craw, and a custom beaver that had a tube-like tail.  Started throwing the plopper again at noon because why not.  I had two huge blow ups, but they both failed to hook up..such is #plopperlife.  Didn't get any big fish, but still caught ~20 bass, so I didn't feel too terrible about it. 

On another note, anybody tried these batteries for the TM? - https://www.amazon.com/Sealed-Lead-Acid-Cycle-Battery/dp/B005CLPOQM

I've had good luck with group 27 Wally World Batteries 

I put new Interstate batteries in my boat when I got it and already had one go bad so I changed them out to my beloved Walmart's 

@SuperFluke, that battery looks pretty small. I'd shy away from it. Napa used to sell sto-way batteries that worked great!

I go to Standard Battery down in the west bottoms.  Not name brand but made but Johnson Controls same as Wally World batteries and they are cheaper, and have good warranty.  sometime can get a blemished one at a savings  well.

19 hours ago, Hi Salenity said:

I've had good luck with group 27 Wally World Batteries 

I put new Interstate batteries in my boat when I got it and already had one go bad so I changed them out to my beloved Walmart's 

I've been running two group 29s from WalMart in my new boat and I dig them. I've used WalMart deep cycles forever. 

9 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

I've been running two group 29s from WalMart in my new boat and I dig them. I've used WalMart deep cycles forever. 

I can easily take my boat out twice with the 27s without recharging so I'd imagine you could probably go on at least 3 trips with 29s? 

3 hours ago, Hi Salenity said:

I can easily take my boat out twice with the 27s without recharging so I'd imagine you could probably go on at least 3 trips with 29s? 

Probably but good practice to plug in after every trip. Keeps battery life at max. 

On October 16, 2016 at 6:17 PM, KCFinesse said:

I ended up doing a long day trip down to Stockton yesterday.

I started out going up way up some of the longer arms throwing a spinnerbait only catching one short. I switched gears and started catching fish (mostly shorts) on windblown secondary points in about 8 fow mostly on a ned. Some of the most productive locations were mudlines on points adjacent to schools of bait. I ran this pattern throughout the day catching two dozen or so cookie cutter 12-15" largemouth with few short spots, smallies, and a drum mixed in.

In the evening I decided to take another shot at running up the backs of creeks. About 30 minutes to sunset the bite just clicked and the fish turned on. I was throwing a plopper and a cavitron with a followup swim jig/swing impact combo. Large fish was 17" on the cavitron. I tried a few casts waking a BBZ1 shad looking for better fish but they never materialized. Ended up with another 12 in a quick 45 minutes and missed a bunch of fish. Fun bite - extremely shallow water, almost all were in less than 2 feet. WT 66-71.

-Jared 

Fished Stockton Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday.  Caught the up the Little Sac Friday.  Wind keep me near the State Park area on Saturday finally found them like you in long points.  Lost a lot of fish Saturday morning frustrating then got on a jig bite later in the day caught 12 good one quick before quitting to watch the game.   Went back to the long cuts on Sunday morning tore them up on spinnerbait.  

Jig I was catching them on at Stockton this weekend 

23 hours ago, Hi Salenity said:

I can easily take my boat out twice with the 27s without recharging so I'd imagine you could probably go on at least 3 trips with 29s? 

I can run probably 5-6 six hour guide trips before plugging in my 29s. Depends on the wind

19 hours ago, gardnerjigman said:

Probably but good practice to plug in after every trip. Keeps battery life at max. 

Nah man, deep cycles are designed to be regularly deeply discharged using most of its capacity. I always run mine down until my MinnKota indicator is at 1 bar.

2 hours ago, Ondrejka said:

I can run probably 5-6 six hour guide trips before plugging in my 29s. Depends on the wind

Nah man, deep cycles are designed to be regularly deeply discharged using most of its capacity. I always run mine down until my MinnKota indicator is at 1 bar.

I prefer a full battery at all times, if mine isn't on the water it's on the charger. 

1 hour ago, gardnerjigman said:

I prefer a full battery at all times, if mine isn't on the water it's on the charger. 

Well if you have a 12v TM then that's understandable. Takes a lot longer and lot more heavy use to run my 24v system down, which in the long run is better for the batteries themselves.

1 hour ago, gardnerjigman said:

I prefer a full battery at all times, if mine isn't on the water it's on the charger. 

Me too.  Except I still don't have a 2 bank charger/24V.  Hoping to break down and get one this winter.

2 minutes ago, micahthorlawson said:

Me too.  Except I still don't have a 2 bank charger/24V.  Hoping to break down and get one this winter.

You won't regret it.

18 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

Well if you have a 12v TM then that's understandable. Takes a lot longer and lot more heavy use to run my 24v system down, which in the long run is better for the batteries themselves.

If I am out for a full, windy day my batteries are usually down to 40-50% (according to my cheap charger).  And I bought the biggest ones (31?)  at Cabelas/ BPS....

Just now, micahthorlawson said:

If I am out for a full, windy day my batteries are usually down to 40-50% (according to my cheap charger).  And I bought the biggest ones (31?)  at Cabelas/ BPS....

Last weekend when I was running guide trips in 30 mph wind, I drained my deep cycles in about 6 hours from continuous use on 10.