Here's the scenario: You're going to fish a lake that you've fished a handful of times; just enough that you're not fishing totally blind. You are going to fish this lake for two days total, and are limited on the tackle you can take. You've got to make everything fit in a single "binder" type tackle bag. You can take four rods. Temps are in the mid 50's and the water is lightly stained to clear. What do you take in your bag?

Rods: Cumara 7-2 MH, Cumara 7-2MHXF, Shimano Cumara 7-2 Dropshot, MBR783C GLX

Tackle

Vision 110 in GG Gill

Pointer 100 in Sunfish

3/4 oz Willow/willow in bluegill

1/2 oz black/blue jig

1/2 oz Green Pumpkin jig

Rage Craw Blk Blue/Green Pumpkin

SK Finesse worm in Green Pumpkin 7"

5" Senko Green Pumpkin

4" Senko Smoke blk/purple

Fat Ika GP

Clackin Rap

If I can't catch on those, I shouldn't be fishing.

Yeah that sums it up for me. I would take a lot of jigs and plastics.

White Zoom Flukes

3.5" cofee tubes

No trick worms?

-gk

No trick worms?

-gk

I have never caught a fish on a Trickworm. Ever. Finesse worm, yes. Trick Worm, no.

dont rule out suspending hard plastic jerkbaits. they allow to keep a bait in the strike zone longer than a fluke and work incredibly well this time of year

dont rule out suspending hard plastic jerkbaits. they allow to keep a bait in the strike zone longer than a fluke and work incredibly well this time of year

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Vision 110 in GG Gill

Pointer 100 in Sunfish

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sorry i didnt realize they were suspending baits

You better add reels to that or all your other stuff is useless

You better add reels to that or all your other stuff is useless

That's one of the implied things.

I might add a red 1/2 trap of some type to that list, other than that I'd say it looks right to me.

one frog,one buzzbait, one spinnerbait, one lipless crank, one square bill, one jig, and two packs of bama bug game hawgs.

All good info... might add 4 or 5/0 weighted screwlock hooks like (Moaner Weighted Stroker) for adding a horizontal fall to your Craws and/or other high action soft plastics. When a shallow T rig bite is tough, this will often improve it. And when it's good, this can sometime make it even better Fish'em slow, just like a normal T rig!

Big O

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Just give me my ulralight and I'll likely get bit by something. Downsized cranks and jigs to start, then some tubes and grubs.

mepps #'s 1-5 black fury's and comet mino's. shaky heads, yum dingers, and culprit firetails. spro aruku shad, and flukes

Wacky rigged trick worms in two sizes in case the fish are picky

If it was me I would add:

lighter spinnerbait

lighter jig

add indianna and colo blades

sweetbeaver for a different fall

paddletail worm for pitching and swimming (or jig trailer for swimming) also works well for dropshot

cranks