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I'm about to get started myself. A good tip I found in an article is scuba diving weights. I think the lead is fairly clean and can be found for around $2.50 a pound.

Yep, that should work great. How do you modify the mold? I don't actually have any yet but I was thinking I could close the mold and then just drill a hole where I want to add the wire for the spinner, is that basically correct?

Thanks for that link Munkin. I had already looked at the Fish Head jig mold Do-It offers and was actually thinking of the same modification you mentioned in the other thread, adding a wire out the bottom to put the spinner on. Check out the pics of the Buckeye SuSpin and the Reaction Innovations bait on this link, they are both done that way, looks like a no brainer http://www.tackleexperts.com/spoons-amp-spinners-fish-head-spins-c-1691_2049.html

I just thought of another one I'd like to find, something close to a Sworming Hornet Fish Head Spin. I know Do It has the Roadrunner style molds but I'd like to find some of the Fish Head style.

I just looked up that Zoom Meathead, never heard of it until now but it looks awesome!!! http://www.***.com/Zoom_Meathead_4_20pk/descpage-ZMH.html

Thanks Munkin, I like the looks of the Do-It brush jig and plan on ordering a mold for it but that one looks a little more on the Arkie end of the spectrum than the football end, lol. In reality that recessed line tie will probably save you more hangups on a brush/flipping jig than it will on an FB style anyway just because of where you're throwing it but I stilll want to try and find that style in an FB head also. I just know there are several of the recessed FB heads on the retail market right now, there's gotta be a mold out there somewhere for it

Anyone know where to find FB jig molds with the recessed ties (Like the Picasso Fantasy FB Jigs)? I'm about to get started with home pouring and everything I've seen online (Do-It, etc.) has the conventional style, any help appreciated. Also, any other mold recommendations or general advice would help me out, I plan on ordering most of my startup equipment from Do-It in a few weeks. Thanks!

Grand Harbor is at the mouth of Yellow Creek (actually in Yellow Creek), that whole area b/w Grand Harbor and Tom Bigbee is Yellow Creek

Fall fishing is in full swing for sure, not a lot of boats out either since muzzleloader came in last w/end. Don't forget those shallow cranks and spinnerbaits either!

I don't think the color is as important as the action these baits give. 2 of my favs are the Senko and the Zoom Trick Worm,the senko looks best if you can get it falling vertically as often as possible with little or no weight added and the trick worm is tough to beat on a shaky head.

A live shad, I Just tried that for the first time in my life last w/end and it won't be the last

I use EWG's skin hooked, personally I feel like my hookup percentage is the best with that setup compared to burying the hook.

I had a front row seat for RW's 7 lbr, that fish almost swallowed about a 3" plug, you literally had to look inside the fish's mouth to see it, lol.

Someone mentioned the bass getting hooked deep with the Ikas, I fish a lot of finesse plastics on light or no weight and this can be a problem. The best solution I've found is to mash the barb, it really doesn't seem to hurt the catch ratio and releasing the fish is a lot easier. I don't do that on jigs or pegged t-rigs though because with the weight right at the hook I think they can throw it pretty easily

I've seen a few tank demos at Bass Pro where they do a seminar and throw about 8-10 different baits through the tank and the only 2 baits I've seen that get a hit from every bass in the tank and multiple hits by most of them after the bait is pulled out of their mouth are 1-weightless Senkos and 2 - Tubes, something about that erratic action on the fall just makes them react.

Nice fish DW, WTG! I agree with you, RW is a ton of fun to fish with. We met by chance this morning at a pond in Collierville and spent a couple of hours fishing together, no bigguns got their picture taken but a couple of 5-6'ers were hooked and that's all I'm sayin' RW gave me a couple of Megastrike e2 Shakey Jigs to try out and the biggest Bass of the day stole one of them away from me a little later. Those jigheads are unreal if ya'll haven't tried them, they are the most weedless I've seen and they never roll over. Kent, if you read this thanks again - I've already placed an order for a few packs of those jigs

I had an issue w/ some Redeyes a while back, the first couple of batches they made had issues with the internal weights getting stuck together and making the bait run on its side. I was hearing nothing but good things about the Redeye and wondered why I couldn't get it to run correctly and then I heard a KVD interview that described the exact problem I was having. I contacted Chris Brown and he replaced the baits for me no questions asked, I've had great luck using them since then also:)

The shellbeds are Mussle shells. You can find them along the main lake channel on the humps, points & ledges with your sonar or a C-rig / FB jig. Look on the upcurrent side, Mussles are filter feeders so they need a clean spot with some current hitting it. Hope that helps, I'm just getting started on TN river bass fishing myself. Those ledges are a lot of fun to fish but there is usually a crowd around the good ones!

I used hemostats (to remove hooks )for years but I recently bought the type Bill Dance always uses on the show and it is amazing, here's a link. http://www.lurenet.com/productdetail.aspx?id=N501

Try to find some water with a little stain to it and lots of visible cover like laydowns or flooded brush and just ease around and concentrate on dropping it in there quietly and accurately and always try to pay out a little line so it will fall straight down to the bottom. You ought to be able to start catching some fish doing that and before long you will learn what bites feel like and get a lot of casting practice in the process. I started like that a couple of years ago and now I always have a flipping rod rigged. Just last w/end I was idling back to the boat dock and decided to fish a rip rap wall before taking out, about halfway down there were a couple of laydowns so I picked up the flipping rod and caught my 2 best bass of the w/end and got broke off by another within a 2-3 minute span, I hadn't even picked up that rod the whole w/end until then, lol. Once you get started with it you'll like it

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I don't have a pic but you will know it when you see it. If you are on the edge of a grass bed you will see a hard return indicating the bottom and then growing out of that there will be some stringy looking stuff on the screen as well, there will be some daylight b/w the surface and the top of the grass at this point also. The further out you get the shorter and more sparse the grass will be on your screen until you reach the depth where the screen is just showing a clean bottom where the grass ends.

I think it's complacency. I know that if I tie on a T-rig worm and start hitting visible cover I can go out and catch fish on it pretty much any day of the year, that won't always be the best pattern going but it will get bites and a lot of people never want to expand on that. If you are willing to leave your comfort zone once in a while and try some other techniques like using new presentations or idling around and finding/fishing structure, you might fall on your face a few times but you might start learning some new ways to catch them too. I think leaving that comfort zone is really tough for most people, they would rather stick with the guarrantee of a few small bites than take a chance on striking out while looking for a better pattern. I've gotten to where I really relish the days I get to fish alone and break out of that mold, most of my buddies start to get the hives if they are more than a cast length from the bank, lol.

When you're looking for the outer grass edge you just need to idle around points and watch your sonar. The visible mat usually disapears at a uniform depth all the way around, basically giving away a depth change at that edge. The same is true of the outer edge, when you idle out from the visible edge you will be seeing stalks of grass on your sonar until you reach the depth where it goes to a clean bottom, this is basically the point that light penetration becomes too weak to grow grass. Whatever depth that is should form the edge of the grass pretty much everywhere else on the lake assuming water clarity is similar so you can start targeting points, humps, structure in that depth. That's what works for me, on the outer edge you can't see the grass so it seems easier to lock onto a depth contour and follow that.

I've fished Glenn a couple of times in the last week, topwater is pretty good early and picking up a few on spinnerbaits and traps if the wind blows a little. I fished Herb Parsons one day last week and caught a lot of small bass on jigs, hung a 35-40 lb grass carp on a Redeye over there but he broke off after a couple of minutes. That joker jumped straight up, like daylight b/w his tail and the water 2 times before breaking off, I never could tell where the plug was though, don't know if he was hooked in the mouth or snagged, funnest fight I've had this year either way