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Best: "Avoid the clap, Jimmy Duggan"

If you want a 2 piece to become a 1 piece, dip the male end in some simple syrup or Southern style iced tea, and push together as far as it will go, make sure the guides are aligned. If you just want your 2 piece not to come apart while fishing, rub a crayon or birthday candle on the male end, and again push in as far as it will go. It will hold tight, and will come apart without much drama.

Not the Sojourn, the guy holding it. What you are experiencing is not uncommon when braid digs in. Thinner, rounder, newer braid makes it worse, which is why you'll hear "use heavier braid" as a solution a lot, and while this will certainly help, it is just covering up for a lack of casting ability, combined with too loose brakes. One of the reasons I favor 4 carrier braid, is that when broken in, it is less prone to digging in than 8 carrier ones.

Clay soil with a high water table with some coffee grounds mixed with the soil, and a few local flora seeds sprinkled in... They will trample it with the dogs and never figure it out.... (hypothetically of course)

That's what she said...

I can mod a spinnerbait and fish it so that it comes through the water at a head up, head down, or level. The fish don't care, so it's basically just an exercise in doing it cause I can. Most stock spinnerbaits, and the one in the video in particular are going to run that way out of the pkg.

What he said, 3/0.

Chipotles

Neutrogena. Someone catch the mic.

Like an epi pen for the whole pattern and technique thing. I can get behind 3 out of 5.

Linda Blair style? Spinnerbaits can run to one side or the other, even spin on it's axis in extreme cases, but what you are describing is physically impossible. Spinnerbaits run off because the wire is bent to one side, the skirt (or trailer if present) is off center, the head is damaged, or loose from the wire, or it's blades are too large for it's weight.

That looks a lot like some of my older Yozuris.

Yes, it was one of the "it" frogs after the Spro was all the rage. two of my least favorite.

You could actually go up to BG 130 lb. I find with longer lures, pike usually don't get their mouths around the front of the lure, but you want to have something fairly stout. I use 30-60 lb mono depending on the lure, and the size of the fish around. I have landed quite a few pike with 15-20 lb mono and the whole lure inside the mouth, the trick is to pull steady, and not apply too much sudden pressure. While heavy braid would be better than light braid, I've had way too much even 50 and 65 lb braid bit off to trust it.

Besides the Pad Crasher? No.

I want some of that bottom "mistake" color.

You don't, but you do know which way that blade will spin, much like you know which way your boat will go when you turn the wheel. A very slight twist in each blade in opposite directions will make them spin in opposite directions. I like my blades spinning in the same direction though.

I would go with copoly over braid or fluoro, but I'd also go with mono over copoly.

Zoom swimming chunks are a good choice when one wants a smaller less aggressive trailer. Not my first choice for a swim jig, but they will work. Jig design (as well as any other tackle choice) can be as simple or complicated as one wishes to make it. I usually fish a jig that can do more than one thing well unless I'm exclusively fishing tight around cover that requires a more specific approach. Something like a brush jig, or an arkie combined with the appropriate trailer can do a lot. Of course the only way that one can make an intelligent decision on what works and what doesn't is through trial and error on the water. Get a couple and have at it.

When a guy says "don't come here" That's the first place I want to check out.

So maybe they should be the next live well additive sponsor? ... It was probably more accidental, one bass was probably venting to his bud via email and accidentally hit reply all... "Don't tell steve, that MFer dropped a ton of work on my desk this morning, knowing that I have plans this weekend, and besides, that project isn't a priority and isn't due until after the post spawn. (by the way, did you see that fatty sitting by the log on your way in? What a MILT!) Anyway, I'm not sure I can work for that slime much longer, hope he gets what he's got coming. Oh, I almost forgot, don't go near any bait in the late afternoons, trust me."

Yeah, I'd be curious to peruse the raw data and methodology, I'm thinking there may be some confirmation bias, and or some misinterpretation of the results as it got passed down. It's hard to square "catch all sizes at the same rate" with "fish are individuals doing their own thing". Not saying that is the case, just that it makes me wonder a tad.

I fish the single as a swim jig trailer or a bare jighead, the double as a jig trailer when pitching or fishing the bottom. Two different baits for me. The single is a more subtle smaller profile, the double presents a larger, wider, louder one. Also, single grubs vary in their action. I fish a few different ones, and most will do the job, but I usually turn to the fat albert in both, or the old reliable Mr Twister double.

The Lews

Maybe someone dropped a lake pamphlet and an english Rossetta stone overboard...