jhoffman

That was my thought J. I have some BPS cranks that I got as a gift that wont tune very well. I might try it just to see exactly what does happen.

A brands loyalty from me personally has always been built on performance and customer service. I might absolutely love a product but if it fails and you wont help me remedy it then I will not be back. Two companies over the years have really stood out to me, both are not in the bass industry. 1: Elite Archery - 100% transferable warranty. I bought this bow in my lineup used. When the limbs splintered I sent it back and had a bow with new limbs sitting at my door a week later...no charge 2: Orvis - I lost a $700 rod/reel combo when I fell in over my shoulders in water on easter sunday two years ago in a raging trout stream. Dropped the rod to save my life. A week later when the water came down a young man caught it and returned it to me. The blank, all that was left was about 6" after the cork on a 9ft rod. I contacted them, told them the story, sent it back and they actually upgraded it to their newest version... no charge. Its experiences like those that keep me coming back for life. Im a relatively new father, had I lost that rod and reel without someone backing me up there is no way I wouldve replaced it. I simply wouldnt have been able to afford to at that point in time.

What is the main effect, does it change the wobble say from tight to wide? Does it cause it to run more shallow? If you boil lets say a 1.5 would it run like a wakebait?

Lots of open tournaments up there, you should be able to fish as a co-angler. Just start signing up to fish tournaments, youll run into someone you click with eventually. Honestly, start talking to people at work. I met my best fishing buddy at an old job.

Most baits on ebay arent there because they are good baits, I see I ruffled some of you guys feathers though wow. Calm down people, we are talking about baits that are produced in mass. When anything is produced in mass there will be tollerence issues, assembly issues, issues with mixtures of plastic. When you glue baits together with rattles, rattles inside can get glued to the sides... things do go wrong, we dont live in a perfect world where the entire rack in the store everyone of them will be the way they are supposed to be. Its just like rods, reels, everything else. One might work awesome for someone, the next guy thinks its junk. I own LC baits, yes they usually are top notch but as I stated before not every situation calls for one. Lets take for instance that I am fishing jerks in fallen timber. If I can bring three baits out of dozen. I paid $3 each for that are prestine with 3 more being half decent. I paid $36 for 6 baits to which you bought two or three LCs. I can fish the three that arent working great in open water and if I lose them I still have my 3 that are awesome. You lose 3 lcs in that brush and you have zero. Yep... your money, my money... you do what you want and I do what I want. I actually enjoy playing with tackle and changing things to see if I can make something that not everyone has. If thats not for you thats fine as well.

Ive seen this mentioned and talked about but no one has ever really shared what exactly happens when you do so. Can anyone weigh in on this topic please and give me some insight? Ive adjusted lips on cranks with a lighter or candle but havent tried boiling.... yet!

I personally would divide the money in half and get one rod for each. A rod doesnt have to cost $100 to perform well. If you favor one technique over the other dedicate more money to that rod and less to the other.

Looks excellent. I tie something similar when fly fishing. I use a pheasant breast feather for the tail, the claws are made out of feathers with the center tip clipped out, the feelers I use moose mane or porucpine guard hairs(hard to find) and then I make the eyes by tying burned ends of mono heavy line. Again... that bait should kill em. I really need to tie some more myself.

So let me understand this, you all have boxes upon boxes of lucky craft cranks, jerkbaits, topwaters and you never need to tune anything? There are plenty of other worthy baits out there, yeah I might have to spend $30 or $40 to find that perfect one but when I do my buddy standing right next to me can throw the same bait the same cadence and Ill outfish him and its not cause im back boating him. Even LC's get modified by most people. Ill bet over half the people on this thread when they open the box the hooks go strait to the garbage in favor of another.

Thats why its $16, the other ones at $4/$5 need attention. Its just too hard for most of us, me include to buy a bait, try to tune it, it doesnt catch fish and then buy the exact same bait again. That however is the key though, not all baits are created equal.

Dont ever turn your passion into your job. I did it with fly fishing and it ruined fly fishing for me. Unless youre out there slingn baits for YOU to win money(like tour) let someone who doesnt love fishing sell fishing.

If I could only have one color the rest of my life it would be black. I fish shad and it does well even in lakes and rivers without shad present. I like black back chartreuse. Perch color really has never been good to me in hard baits however if I can find one to match a black/white crappie its on. Reds in spring... Black is the ticket though. If youre fishing a heavy pressured lake and you want to see a 20lb bag it might have to be at night. Perch isnt going to matter at night. Many guys approach night fishing thinking about topwater and miss the boat.

Im not talkn about buying 10 LC Pointers at one shot. But, the LC pointer isnt the only jerkbait in the world either.

If I knew where half you guys kept your lobster pots on tournament day I would be IN THE MONEY

Buy 10, open all ten head to a pool. Find out half are junk, ebay them or give them away. Take the other 5, find the 2 that run perfect, change their hooks, fish them like gold. Take the other three, attempt to adjust them via hooks, feathers, bending keepers/ties or lips... keep them for backups. Just like crankbaits, 1/4 of them will be worth the box they came in and the rest are junk

Does anyone have one on their boat? What do you think of it if you do? Im not talking about an aquarium pump with a bubble stone, Im talking medical grade oxygen injection into the livewell.

I live right on the creek so if you wanna know what it looks like before making a trip drop me a line. When the smallie action really fires up its almost certain youre going to have to go topwater with exception of a few pools. Most of it will be ankle deep at best.

I thought you couldnt buy jungle "c" anymore, it had to be imitation or it was EXTREMELY expensive.

Note: I do not run trailer bearing greese on my drags

I myself run the same grease in my reels that I run in my trailer bearings. I figure I have plenty of it, doesnt go IN my bearings and im not slopping it in there. Seems to work well, on my bearings I use quantum hot sauce.

Print this off, lay the stock bearings on top and youll know what size they are http://www.bocabearings.com/pdfs/Fishing-Bearing-Size-Chart.pdf You can buy a new cheap bearing for that reel on ebay for under $5. You would then have a functioning reel thats not total scrap.

Quantum/Zebco are the same company. If you would choose a company that will put a .99 cent bearing in a reel and pack it full of greese over a shimano something is wrong. I dont even own a shimano but I wouldnt trade a single shimano for a whole skid of quantums.

Im looking more for the club opens than anything. Im coming up with more and more but if no one is going to contribute to the thread I am not doing all the legwork. Ill just fish the events I want and let everyone else do their own thing. Thought maybe this would be beneficial to clubs and or events who want to up their boat fields for maximum payouts.

Gentalmen, the thing to remember is that you have to find that magical acceptable number. It might be $50 it might be $5000 depending on your wife. What you purchase shall never exceed said price. Honey... that ranger boat looks awefully expensive. "it just looks that way, I only paid five g for it"

See my problem is I not only like this expensive sport but I am heavy into archery, owning multiple bows, treestands and camo patterns, shotguns.... fly fishing I hope she never sells this stuff for what she was told it cost.