Jigfishn10

Well done

Thank you @Catt. Hoping 2025 has both my parents up on the beach this summer like they have since 1989 ... ... father time and dementia has hit them hard these past couple of years but whatever they need I'll be there. And @Glenn, hoping your dad will be healthy his year Happy New Year all ...

Not to add more to the color confusion:

Exactly...Perfection loop would be my preference

WOW! What a year. Congrats. Hoping you make that century mark in ‘25. I really need to keep a better log and take more pics of my trips with my son. Sounds like a resolution huh? Nice job bud John

You still have that? All time best lipless crankbait I own Years ago I got this from Janns Netcraft....Almost positive I have a #2 treble on the belly and #4 at the rear

I think a lipped crankbait is a totally different bait than their non-lipped cousins. I find each has it's own place in different waters. I can fish a lipless crank year round but around here by mid to late June when the weeds grow in, the lipped version gets put away. For me anyway. Both are great lures.

Work smarter not harder Guilty!

I can send my son down to make a believer out of you with strict instructions not to embarrass you like he did with me Wish ya luck man

Color is tricky not only because of what bass see but you factor in what happens to color in water. Red, for example, gets lost after 5’ in clear water, add in a stain and it gets lost faster. I fish between 30 & 60’ of water in the ocean and a good producer is maroon bucktail. It must look like a dark gray down there. In the case of of chartreuse, bass are probably seeing a shade of white that looks like “something” in their environment

Some of those you showed in the vid look like centipedes on steroids! Nice vid @Glenn, love the idea

Hahaha ...Those 2 guys are from the way back machine ...

I would think that even if you don't flip, you'd be taking in water at the transom

Chartreuse was never a good color for me...One day my son wanted to use one after I told him that the color was a totally useless and unproductive color. He went on to absolutely obliterate me using one even after I switched ... can't tell these kids anything nowadays

Hahaha If the air leak is at the top of the windshield then water could roll off the roof, into the roof/windshield intersection and could wick back into the headliner. It then builds up and drips as the case with my son’s car. But it sounds like you’ve may have ruled that out and I don’t have a visual of the location of water on the on the floor board. Sorry I wasn’t a help here

No, but I am interested. I do like round reels for some reason and Daiwa reels. Maybe it’s because I learned in a round reels. I’ll be keeping an eye out on this one. My season won’t start for a few months

@ReggieT, you can’t go wrong with chrome blue back or chrome black back. White with red eye was my favorite

Ahh, I totally misread that then. So I did try, many years ago, trying to put 2 blade on swivels like you did and there was too much torque. I have done double clevis with great success. It was such a great lure that I ended up rebuilding it multiple times because it got chewed up. Instead of stacking the clevis, I interlocked them. Blades are placed cup out and perfectly opposed to each other. That’s a titanium worm sinker on top of a plastic bead. I believe those are #3 colorados and the whole thing comes in just shy of 1/2 OC. Easy start up, less thump but more whir. Meaning you won’t hear; chop chop chop in the water. More like whiiiirrrrr in the water. This started off as kind of a fun let your mind go wild kind of project. I used chenille and a zonker strip. The treble hook is stripped of 1 hook so the hooks ride upright. My mind was running amok that day. Crazy huh? Boy does it work

Along @A-Jay’s diagnosis and the fact that it’s fogging up on the wind shield, do you hear whistling while driving?

I wasn’t fan of the deep cup Colorado blades which amazed me, I had a completely different understanding of what they would do. Seems like I really had to jerk the spinnerbait at start up. “4) I switched to a leading inline with trailing willow. It didn’t work. The inline blade interfered with the willow.” @BASS302, regarding the quote above, did you put the Colorado on the blade arm and willow on the rear attached to the swivel?

Southern Maine

Nothing wrong with Christmas

Ehh…All good in the hood

I would think that for question #1 for someone to answer would be subjective at best, it really depends on your personal ability. For question #2, I banked fished for years and walking the dog was a personal favorite technique, for me most definitely, for you, please see question #1 Not being a wise guy here, but subjectively, yes, it's doable.

I feel like this is a winter thing. How about a 3 month winter forum limited time special and then hide it? I know, stop asking ...