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Just baught the rage tail: shad,craw,chunk,frog and space monkey. ive heard alot of good things. im going to use the chunk on my strike king kvd swim jigs. have yall had good luck with the others and haow was it rigged and color?

Logan, There will always be haters. I feel your pain. Try having a youtube channel with a little bit of traffic. There are people who will pick you to death because they expect everything and everyone to be perfect and professional and nothing will ever please them. Just ingnore them. They aren't worth your time. Focus on making yourself better at whatever you do and pay attention to those who really want to help you.

No, they are good cranks and many will stand behind them. They don't reach the quality of lucky crafts but they work better in a lot of situations. I catch more fish on my SK cranks than my LC cranks.

Nice i just want a 12 ft aluminum jon with just this trolling motor, i think i can get away with no registration if i just put it in my truck and go out to the everglades.If i ever see a cop, ill just pull out my paddles and get rowing.

What happened to you is what I call short striking and there are ways to get them to hit for real. First thing you need to know is you are on the right presentation, it has the fish excited and ready to commit but something is off. Usually the something that is off is either the color or the size, sometimes it is both so when that happens using a 1/4oz bait I would have changed colors first, nothing big just maybe a silver blade instead of gold or vic versa. That kind of strike is why I like to used banded skirts, most prefer a skirt be tied on with thread or wire but I like the band simply because when you get short strikers you can bring the bait in and pull the skirt off and put a new color on and it is like a different bait without retying. If you change colors and you still get short strikes then you need to change size, most of the time it means going smaller but if I'm using a 1/4oz bait I'll go up to a 3/8oz and try that out. Finally, the last trick that will help is the retrieve speed, you can sometimes make them commit by speeding up the bait like you are trying to take it away from them, this approach will often draw violent hits as a result and because of all the different factors involved with fishing spinnerbaits, it remains as my favorite bait of all of them

I am with Sam, any fish tugging on my line is a real thrill. Any bass willing to come and wack my buzzbait or jitterbug is a fish I love. I also like the ones that do not shake once I thumb them. I am the guy who lays the 1lbers in the water the same way I lay in a 5lber. They are all fun to catch and I want them all back in there easily so they can all get much bigger.

Check the break strength of 4# Yo-Zuri.......By the way...all that spf and sun clothes does work...I just got a "Cancer Free" from my skin Doc...for the first time in 5 years.....whew... Grampa

I've had luck making minor changes in color such as changing from a perch Rapala white belly to a version with an orange belly. I've also seen days when a complete change from a baby bass Pop_R that did nothing to a can't keep them off bubblgum colored one. That's about the most radical change I could think of, but it did the trick. As far as cadence goes, I almost always change up retrieve speeds every third or fourth cast until I find the pace that works. But sometimes it isn't the rate the lure is moving.

On a funny note. When i started training at my job 4 years ago, my buddy had already been there a while so we got stuck together. He is a lifelong dipper since 14. We went through a drive thru to get some lunch and he was eating and driving. My buddy drinks one kind of drink. Coke a cola in a bottle. He also spit sin only one kind of caintainer. An empty coca cola bottle. As you have probably already figured out, he got 2 big gulps of spit in before he realized what it was. He pulled over and threw up for ide say a GOOD 10 minutes. I will never dip because i am scarred by this experience LOL.

I have thrown the falcon lake craw on a jig head while bed fishing. Makes the claws stand up in the defensive position. Although i didnt do very well with it, i cant say if it was the craws fault. I threw everything at the few bedding bass i saw this year and couldnt hardly hookup with any of them. Try a keel weighted hook or swimbait hook with a screw lock. Its called " the rage rig". It gives it a a different fall and allows the claws to flappy a bit differently than a traditional T rig. Glenn actually made a video of it. You can find it in the fishing videos section i believe.

This is not always the case. Some of my buddies swear on clear topwater lures so that it is not that visible and causes the fish to give a reaction strike. I guess both are valid techniques, just depends on the situation and setting.

About 20 minutes north of Sawgrass you will find the Holeylands at the Broward/Palm Beach line. I bet you can't walk all the shore access there in an entire weekend. And, there are very big fish out there.

Space Monkey: Rage Rigged, Texas Rigged, Carolina Rigged and on a Swim Jig Head. Black/Blue, Grubs: Deadly on a Jig head, Swim Jig Trailer Craws: Flat out ridiculous as a jig trailer, Rage Rigged

Lately I've been C-rigging the Baby craws on a 1/0 EWG hook and doing well with them. They're surprsingly durable when fished that way for a relatively small bait. The bass eat them well and stay hooked. I'm starting to really like that bait.

The new mini Reeses are awesome. Also the Hershey drops. Back in the day it was mallo cups and whatchamacallits.

A-Jay, Janns Netcraft has the Mag Willows in stock. They have the Oklahoma blades in stock, but start at a size #6. The Oklahoma blades are sweet blades, no doubt, but the mag willows are a pretty close cousin. Check them out @ jannsnetcraft.com.

I often say that a jig is the easiest lure to fish yet the hardest to learn. A big problem is confidence, you know they catch fish but until you get one the cofidence is a little shaky and when it gets like that you tend to only use it for a few casts and then put it aside. This is a lure that will also show you the difference between a waqlmart special rod and a good graphite stick. If you truly want to learn the jig and catch fish on it then you need to get some small jigs like Booyah baby boo jigs or strike king bitsy bug jigs along with normal 1/4oz, 3/8oz and 1/2oz jigs as you will have a jig for just about every situation. The best part about fishing a jig isn't shown on T.V. or even in magazines, what we see is anglers flipping and picthing and moving along at a fast pace but the jig is great in that you can keep it in the strike zone right next to a piece of cover and do very little and it is still appealing to the fish. The next time you are out I suggest a 1/4oz jig with a rage chunk trailer and target laydowns or the edge of a lilypad field or holes in weedbeds but somewhere you can feel the jig without having to decipher what is grass and what is a bite. Once you catch a fish make note of the cover and how deep the fish was and by hitting different spots with similar cover and depth you should be able to pattern the fish. After a day of that it will give you a basic understanding of how to use the jig and where it will work, and another thing you will learn is that a jig for the most part isn't a numbers bait but a big fish bait, in a days time you may find you catch less fish but you'll notice an uptick in the average size of the fish you catch. Good luck and don't give up, you will see why so many fish a jig.