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Take an egg fly and a brown shaprie... winner winner chicken dinner!

If you ever want to get together I'll show you the joy of Yo-Zuri Pin's and Ika's (and sweet VT'er arm tanlines) 4.5lbs 20"

2" Silver and Blue (or Black) Rapalas. Silver spinners. White or Yellow Jigs work as well. That's not a big (but it is DEEP) pond. With all of the other species that you list I'd tend to think that there probably aren't many of them. They are easier for Largemouths and Crappie to eat than young sunnies & bullhead so their population probably gets kept in check pretty well. My "backyard" pond is 54 acres (only 12' deep) and has the same species. And there really aren't many Perch for that very reason.

Ribbit's, and Rage Shad. I do have a soft spot for Crazy Crawlers and Jitterbugs.

I've been tossing 5" Magic Swimmer Soft since mid April up here. I had a few hits, but never landed anything. I really got kinda bummed out about them, $15 wasted I thought. I relegated them to by 2nd rod/"why the heck not" time. Today I had 3 hours to kill before we had guests and I went up to my local pond. I've already pulled a 7, 6.6, 6 and a few 5's out of there so I know it's got some good fish, but it's usually one good fish a couple smaller ones and about 2.4million G.D. Pickerel... Today nothing was working (Ika, Senko, Subwalk, Rage Shad, Ribbit) so I tied on the Sebile and for the first time gave it a good rubbing with Mega Strike. First cast 5lbs... hmmm 2 casts later, 6lbs, I went on like this for the next hour, 5 Largemouth over 5lbs, a few 2's, a huge Pickerel (5lbs.) and even a Perch that was only 2 inches bigger than Sebile! It was a great 3 hours, just an epic afternoon. Now the problem... The Sebiles are torn up as all get out. Still have most of the print and all the sections are fine but the nose and the hole in the back where you push the hook through are all bored out and torn. What is the best way to repair plastics? mend-it? Lighter and a paper-clip? something else?

I'd throw: 2"-4" silver minnow-type baits (Yo-Zuri Pin's Minnow) 1/8 oz. jighead with a smoke/silver flake curly tail 3" Senko with green or brownish (Hegimite colored) or... Bust out a flyrod and toss Bead-head Wooly Buggers or a Meat Whistle

Western Filament Tuffline.

Go up there around July 4th for the Hex hatch (Gigantic Mayflies). Topwater at night is amazing on the nights of the hatch.

Yes... yes it is... (I want one of those frogs).

My PB Largemouth caught a couple weeks ago (6lbs 6 oz.) Caught out of my a pond a few minutes from my house. This pond is full of Beautiful clean fish (this is the "ugliest" of all the bass I've ever taken out of there). Point of reference my foot is a size 14 and that's a Shimano 2500 sized reel. Any other Vermonter's out here?

My "backyard" pond is 58 acres and in the summer it has MAYBE 18 acres that are not covered/choked in weeds/pads. Nevertheless Largemouth up to 8lbs, BIG Crappie, even a 40"+ Northern, have been taken in the last year. We had great luck with 5 & 6" Senkos, 4" Fat Ikas, Stanley Ribbits (any with a pearl belly), and Nemire Red Rippers. I'm thinking the Yum Money Hound with its mass will kick butt too.

I've got a friend that works for VT F&W and they've used cameras while doing Walleye research on Champlain and found HUGE smallies sharing humps/reefs at 50 feet with Lake Trout... IE they can be pretty much anywhere.

smallish creek/river... unpainted jighead with a smoke grub w/silver flake = perfection... (or tiny BRIGHT colored shallow crankbaits) This is what I kill VT smallies with.

Where in VT are you? Couple weeks until the rivers are full of those!

Who makes the bass magic swimbaits? Lucky Strike, you can sometime score them real cheap at Wally World or Dick's.

Tiny Torpedos, Zara Puppies, Road Runners with Marabou or 2" & 3" curly tails. 3" Yo-Zuri Pin's Minnows (my all time favorite) I've been using a 5' and 5.5" UL rod with a Shimano 500 sized reel for more than a decade to catch Smallmouths up to 5.25lbs and Largemouths to 6lbs. I prefer to use my UL gear when the Smallmouths run out of Lake Champlain up the smaller rivers to spawn. (Lewis Creek, LaPlatte river)

I was about 13 years old and was fishing a Jig with a curly tail. Snagged... Well I started to pull it and snap it released from the weeds out of the water and comes sailing straight at me. I had long enough to think "huh, would you look at that." before the it smacked me right between the eyes and dropped me on my butt.