Bass_Fanatic

well, I got my prop wrapped in some bouey cable and tore up my stainless steel prop last Sat. I had a 27 pitch four blade on my Yamaha 200 V-Max HPDI, I was wondering what new prop yall would recommend and if anyone knows the top end difference from a 4 blade 27" to a three blade 25"?

Triton or Express

Gene Larew makes floating plastics. I bought a pack of craws used for trailers and the claws float up while the jig lies on bottom. I like it, but NetBait also makes some stuff that floats, not to much to say about them tho, I have never caught a fish on NetBait.

I am no jig master either, but I have found it useful to trim about half the strands in order to keep the bigger look, but get more action out of both the trailer and the skirt!! Just my opinion!

Apparently I'm already behind... I gotta get some of this and try it out! If I like it, it will be the first attractant that I found useful.

This is probably a stupid question, but I haven't seen these things, are they out in store? I gotta get some!!

Yes, the Pop-R is a different brand, its made by Rebel. Awesome bait!! And yes I do fish these under bright sun sometimes, its not my go to bait under these condition or anything, but when they wont hit plastics, spinners, and cranks, what else is really left. Top water. For instance, last year a buddy of mine and I went up to Toledo Bend. He lives on the lake, so he was kind of my guide for the day. We caught fish early, but by 10 o'clock, they just shut off. We fished in deep water with plastics, cranks, and even slow-rolled a spinnerbait. Nothing. I insisted that we move up a little and try something DIFFERENT! I told him to move up and I was going to thro a Pop-R. He said if I caught a fish at 1'oclock with blue bird skies, he would never fish agian. After all the fuss he moved a little shallower and I began to throw my Pop-R. In less than 5 cast I hooked up. I laughed while he sat there in amazment. He then tied one on and in two hours we were culling fish. I don't think this would always be the case, but whwen nothing else is working, give it a try, you might be suprised. Oh, and by the way, my buddy still fishes and he always has a Pop-R tied on, even at 1 oclock! ;D

my fiance's grandpaw bought me some of these off of an ad on t.v. and they are just flat out cheaply built. I have fouyr of the kicken swimbait things and they tear up just by lookin at them. My advise, stay far far away from gimmicks like these!!

Here lately I have questioned why I buy different attrantants due to the less than satisfactory success. I have purchased YUM and Bang crawfish and shad spray and neither has really made a noticable difference. I was just wondering what you guys thought of this, is it worth the money or not? Have yall had success with this type stuff?

Yeah the 5.5 is the only one I really use, I bought a pack of the smaller ones one time, but they just dont have teh action the 5.5 have. For hooks tho, I will use Owner® TwistLOCK Open Gap Hooks - Model 5132 6/0. Anything bigger takes away from the action of the bait, but anything smaller makes it hard to get a decent hookset.

Man these things are awesome!! Absolutely the best swim bait ever. I have used many soft plastic swim baits and this is by far the best. In my opinion, these baits have the most realistic swimming action that really intices big fish to come and get it! Like I said, a great bait. ANyone else ever used this or have any opinions?

Although I have never used a jitterbug, I have had much of the same success with PoP-R's. I've had days when I couldn't do anything wrong with it. I could cast and chug it steadily and seemingly catch every fish in the lake, but when you really learn about a bait such as the jitterbug or pop-r is when you must work for the bite. I have found that on most days when fish are inactive, even at high noon, with the right retrieve, you can call up some big fish with these type baits. It just takes practice and patience!! And I've also noticed that most big bites come when the bait is sitting still.

I am convinced that for cranking you can't beat a 7 ft. M St. Croix Premiere Cranking rod teamed up with a Shimano Curado D with 5:1 gear ratio. A 6.3:1 will wera you out quick.

I've been fishing weightless lizards on top for years with very good sucess. Production has dropped noticably since the ribbit though. Everyone in Louisiana throws a Ribbit sooner or later so fish become wary to things they see often. I have found that techniques that you engineer yourself seem to work when nothing else does because fish rarely see it. A slab spoon skipped on top in open water can also produce so explosive strikes.

Watermelon/red is almost always my first choice, but white is also fun to fish because you can actually see the bait disappear when a fish hits.

I LOVE these things too... I went to Lake Fork earlier this year and fished for three days. Day one consist of spinnerbaits, crankbaits and tx rigged brush hogs and caught four fish. Day two we tried a weightless trick worm and ended up with over 40 and 6 5+lbs... A great bait!!