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I knew they were made in Finland, Ireland, and Eastern Europe, now Colombia?...

You hit the powerball, buy out your neighbor, and get the double wide you always wanted...

Maybe it's not the audience.....

Hard JB is just a better bait than a fluke, it just is. I think we do beginners a disfavor somewhat equating these two baits, they are different. Could you get bites with soft plastic in really cold water, yeah, but a tiny swimbait doing something like what LMB guys are calling tight lining (I think) is a better approach. If you want to experiment, making something that barely sinks, let it go to a level, then barely turn the handle, like a swimbait might be a thing to do. As far as using different things at different times, yeah, bass don't read articles or watch videos, so situationally, they can be caught with all sort of things at different times. Experiment, and what works works.

I start short, 12"-18" and increase if needed. I usually want to use the length and diameter of the line, in combination with the hook and bait to work together to control the ROF after I lift or drag the sinker. I seldom go over 2', but there are instances when something longer may get bit better, but then it gets cumbersome.

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I've always wanted to get my slippers, pipe, and scotch handed to me as soon as I walk in the door, the jacket with the patches on the elbows, not so much...

We were drifting, fishing for fluke (flounder) in a 26 ft cc within sight of the Montauk light house a few years back. I was sitting on the gunnel, and as I picked up my line, I looked down and see something straight down about 15 to 20 feet down under the boat. I wasn't wearing sun glasses, and I squinted to try to make it out, and to me it looked like 2 sunfish (mola mola, not bluegill) side by side, each maybe 6 feet long, about 4 feet apart. Try as I might I couldn't get a really good look. So I say to the 3 other guys in the boat "hey look, molas" Well they lean over and look down all with Costas on. I forget who exclaimed the expletives and who reared back suddenly, but they did both. Mind you these were a commercial fisherman, and two charter captains. Well, it turns out what I thought were the 2 molas, was actually either side of the head of a white shark, I don't think it was as long as the boat, but it was close.

Most of the things you describe above will work. A Ned and a tiny T-rig are not all that different. Soft JBs are not as good as hard ones because in the real cold water, bass will often just bump or slash at a bait, and you will get some or most of those with a JB, and nearly none with a fluke. Once I find fish in really cold water, I'm either barely lifting a blade bait, or dead sticking a marabou jig if they are near the bottom, and working a JB if they are higher and more active.

Nope, no spreadsheets in fishing for me.

Those stupid clips are a pain in the butt to get to, you almost need an extra joint in your wrist and ET fingers.

It's really easy but explaining it will make it sound harder. -Google or watch some YT videos on the "dropper loop knot". That knot uses only one line to create a loop, doesn't join 2 lines. -Once you have that down, get the 2 lines you want to join, tie them together with any knot and clip the tags. -Now tie the dropper loop with the joint of the "sacrificial" knot centered on the dropper loop and trim flush.

It really depends on when and where, as well as how the season develops. I don't throw a flat square bill in the middle of winter, though I'm sure I could catch a few if I did. I find once we have mid 40s water with an upward swing, that's when I start relying more on them. It's funny some days they want the square bills, and sometimes the chatter does better, haven't figured out why.

Wow, ya'll do cell check at lights out too?...

I googled pegging once, and to my surprise there was nothing about sinkers or bobber stoppers...

What decade am I in? Now I gotta go binge the Honeymooners, "Bang! Zoom!"

I put a couple of each in a sandwich zip lock bag and stick it in my pocket.

What are you wearing?....

Only on the back cast or when fishing on the bottom...

It brings out your eyes...

A Zoom swimming chunk, UV Speed craw, creepy crawler and a pair of scissors. I don't think it makes a difference, when you get it in front of them, they bite it. I have a bunch of different small plastics, and they all catch.

Not exactly sure what you are experiencing or describing. https://www.mikesreelrepair.com/content/schematics/Shimano_Baitrunner_BTR4000D_Schematic.pdf

LOL. One hit us in the windshield down in the Keys a few years back, no damage, unlike the coconut that got us.

Nice. I was also going to say menudo, but Ricky Martin is more difficult to corner in the coop than one might think...

You would think that would apply more to a Ned than a DS...