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Original floating rapala, gold/black back; trick worm t-rig weightless; 1/4 oz spinnerbait, 3 colors, white, chartreuse white and firetiger.; and a super fluke starting with white and then color to match the forage.

I've had one day when the shad were boiling on top and the bass were hitting them so hard, both the shad and bass were jumping out of the water. I threw a half ounce SK Redeye Shad in Sexy Shad color right in the middle of the mess. Let it sink and do it's sexy shad shimmy and a bass would grab it right away. When the bass weren't blowing the shad out of the water, I threw a chrome/blue back lipless crankbait and yo-yo'd it. That worked good, too.

I use small, black, plastic cable ties. Dirt cheap. Easy to use. Don't need any special tools, just something to cut the long end off.

My doctor just told me I am normal. Therefore, I am afraid to understand that, nor will I try.

The first, and probably most important thing, is, these people LOVE to fish. I've never heard of one that didn't absolutely love to fish above and beyond anything else. All of the other listed attributes are just to support that passion.

I plan on and try to catch my personal best, every time I go out. I am happy to catch anything, though.

This is too good!!!!!!!

Know your local fishing regulations before you try this. There are places that specifically say you can not catch fish by hand. Some say that you can catch fish only by approved methods and then there is a table of approved methods. By the way, the next time I want to go a long distance to visit someone, I will not get in an airplane, I will merely get out on the runway and flap my arms really, really hard and run until I take off and fly there on my own power.

NO!

From me; a 12 hp outboard off my boat, in my yard, while I was home. Sherriff deputy said they thought they knew who took it and that they had probably already smoked everything they got for it. Never did get the motor back. Later, at a public landing, someone took my trailer license plate. From someone else; I met a guy, at a boat landing that had a houseboat. He and his wife wanted to spend a romantic night, on the water. They put the houseboat in and anchored, within sight of the landing. In the morning they came back to the landing to find their trailer with all four wheels missing.

Firetiger; spinner baits, crank baits, soft jerk baits FIRETIGER.

Let us know how it works.

Bitters Skip Shad in Firetiger

To make tying off on a branch easier, I took a steel rod and made a large hook and small eye, for the rope. I tied that to a cleat on the boat and I would just drop it over a limb. Quicker than tying and untying. Now, my trolling motor will hold me in place. But, to answer you question; I'd keep trying. If you can tie off just upstream from an eddy and let a worm drift into that quiet water, that is really productive. Good luck.

Depends on how dense the rice/grass is. Try a weedless silver minnow.

I like the $1.00 Wal-Mart and the $1.49 Academy spinnerbaits. I've thrown the blade right off of a Roland Martin spinnerbait. I have some fine stainless steel wire. The first thing I do with a new spinnerbait is make a double wrap around the skirt, just next to the rubber band, and twist it good and tight. The rubber band can rot off but I still have the skirt. It doesn't slip down, either.

Bitters Skip Shad, Firetiger

2012 Jeep Wrangler pulling my old Stumpknocker.

Small towns don't support, very well, a store of non essentials. To Grandma, a tackle shop is not essential. To have a successful business you have to have constant foot traffic. You can't make a profit on the half a dozen customers that are stopping for one lure or bobber or pack of hooks. There was a small tackle shop, here that didn't make it. The guy that owned it was a tournament fisherman and he ran/sponsored local tournaments. The store was 15 minutes from a body of water that Elite Series tournaments were held in, but the pros did not have to go past his store to get to the launch site. In fact, it was more convenient to stop at the local Wal-Mart, who can sell tackle cheaper than a small shop owner can buy tackle. Neither did almost anybody else that was going to any of about a dozen good fishing locations, around here. There's another location that has had tackle/bait shops off and on for several years. They have all gone under. There just was not the customer base that's needed to support the stores. It's good to have a dream and I hope it works out for you. But, be prepared for some very lean times.

Any one of the four different models of red square bill crankbaits, that are in my tacklebox.

No, I haven't. I have an open boat with no locked storage, so, I just don't stop between the house and the boat ramp. I have had the trailer license plate stolen, at the boat ramp.

What the heck size hook do you use on an airplane? Sometimes the devil gets the best of me.

Not far south of you, here in Florida, we had several years of drought. The old time residents told me about the bass fishing in all the lakes around here. The lakes that did not have big springs feeding into them, dried up and people were mowing the lake bottoms. We've had quite a bit of rain and some of the lakes have some small amount of water, but there's no fish in them. Some of the lakes that did not dry up, but just got very low, had unbelievable amounts of weeds growing in that bare lake bottom muck. Now that there is more water, the weeds are going crazy. Some of the weeds that are really taking over is Alligator weed and Pike weed and some kind of really nasty grass mixed in. You can not fish in it. Punching rigs are a joke. You need dynamite to put holes in that stuff. I don't know if fish came swim in it or not. So, to answer your question, yes, a drought can severely damage the bass population.

Try a Producto Buzz Tail Shad, T-rig, weightless. Reel it just fast enough to bring it to the surface and it will buzz like a small buzz bait. Let it sink and lay on top of the weeds and repeat or just cast and retrieve. Color will depend on what the fish are feeding on. They have a large color selection.

Instead of O-rings, use small black cable ties.