NateFollmer

- What weights do you use? which do you throw most often? 3/8 and 1/2 oz. I go lighter when it's cold so I can reel slower and use the 1/2 oz the rest of the time. - What colors? which do you throw most often Blues and blacks seem to always be working. I really like whites with some red or chartreuse for clear water and when the shad are the main forage. - What brand? StrikeWorks makes a good swim jig and I also like "The Blade" which is basically a swim jig with a metal lip. Really makes some great vibrations and flash. Strike King also makes perfect swim jigs to use with shadalicious swim baits.

Did you have to keep her tied in the basement to stay that long?! Congratulations!

To me a 2- or 3-dollar fly is a cheap one. ;D That's nuts I hate paying a $1.50 for flies, let alone $3... Whatever you're buying better last a lifetime Dwain - that fly looks like a cat toy... I'm going to take a few of my cats fake mice and see if they catch anything ha

To me a 2- or 3-dollar fly is a cheap one. ;D That's nuts I hate paying a $1.50 for flies, let alone $3... Whatever you're buying better last a lifetime Dwain - that fly looks like a cat toy... I'm going to take a few of my cats fake mice and see if they catch anything ha

To me a 2- or 3-dollar fly is a cheap one. ;D That's nuts I hate paying a $1.50 for flies, let alone $3... Whatever you're buying better last a lifetime Dwain - that fly looks like a cat toy... I'm going to take a few of my cats fake mice and see if they catch anything ha

What sizes do you have? I'd be willing to offload them for you I have only used the smaller sizes (1 and 1/0) are you using a larger size? Maybe they are only good in small sizes?

Yeah Big Y makes great flies too. I don't think price will always dictate quality. I have bought some $2 and $3 flies that absolutely sucked.

Yeah Big Y makes great flies too. I don't think price will always dictate quality. I have bought some $2 and $3 flies that absolutely sucked.

Yeah Big Y makes great flies too. I don't think price will always dictate quality. I have bought some $2 and $3 flies that absolutely sucked.

It's a Lightning McQueen rod, get it right! I could haul in a steelie on it... I'd be hand lining for most of the fight though

I'll take 50 $60 Bill Dance Select combos over 4 combos any day. You're a fool if you spend that much on 4 set ups... heck, even if you don't have them, you're a fool for wanting us to think your foolish enough to spend that much on that amount of gear... FOOL! You bring your bazillion dollar combo up here and I'll show you how to skip on a walmart special

I was only nose hooking senkos that were cut in half, but I could see where they would excel in dropshots and wacky rigs. I ordered some size 1 and 3/0, we will see how well the bigger ones do

Watching it right now... At work though so I don't have the sound on, still a good watch! I'll have to review it once I get home, looks like he is talking about a lot of good stuff.

I just used sickle hooks for the first time a few weeks ago and I finally decided to look into buying some. They worked great for smallmouth (especially in finesse techniques). I was constantly gut hooking fish when throwing finesse baits (like 3" worms) but didn't gut hook a single fish with the sickles. Anyone else use these hooks? I never realized you could get them in so many sizes and even on jigs!

I don't why all the comments on Dolphin say it's slow, works fine for me. I love the tabs and bookmark menu/handling. Gestures are awesome too, you can customize them. I have it set so I just draw a straight line upward to bookmark a page But I digress... Edit: I just set dolphin to render the page like an iphone (change the user agent) and it works ok. Don't know how accurate that is though...

Orvis.com check their clearance and they usually have alot of flies under a dollar. I get alot of flies from http://www.anglersdream.net/ check out their Blue Sky leaders, they are awesome.

Orvis.com check their clearance and they usually have alot of flies under a dollar. I get alot of flies from http://www.anglersdream.net/ check out their Blue Sky leaders, they are awesome.

Orvis.com check their clearance and they usually have alot of flies under a dollar. I get alot of flies from http://www.anglersdream.net/ check out their Blue Sky leaders, they are awesome.

I should have done that and given it a chance, but I spend too much time on here and don't need another distraction

Thanks! That's what I'm worried about. I tore an old lipless crank apart and I'm going to try and get the weight, hooks and line tie all in the exact same areas. I have a feeling I will have the most trouble with this lipless crank, but it will be worth it in the end I think as long as I keep the front wide and flat and the back thin, it should be ok... I hope It looks like the weight is always close to the front, on the bottom, but between the eye and the belly hook (so it will go right where the gill starts on the bottom).

Maybe if the Pats could learn to play nice then I wouldn't have that problem

I did for about 10 minutes, then it got really annoying. I kept getting emails and FB messages from the thing. Looked like it would have been fun though.

Sounds like a date! Heap is more my type though

I played football for 1 year... heck not even 1 year, maybe 1/4 of the season. we were taught that way too, BUT I always aimed my face for the area between the arm and chest (a little below the armpit). I felt like if I put my face mask in their chest, it would snap my neck back... I was a sissy when I played football, I was like 10

Can't you switch your Iphone to Desktop/PC mode in the browser? I keep my browser (Android) on Desktop mode and I can browse just fine. When I tap on the Fishing Forums, it's like a hover over and I get the menu, then I can click from there.