Bluebasser86

Does this help? Can't find the chatterbait pictures...

Lucky Craft Slender Pointer 97MR in Gunmetal Shad or American Shad.

Lots of squarebills have rattles Lucky craft makes rattling, silent, and one knocker type squarebills. Spro Little Johns and Fat Johns have rattles. H20 baits have rattles, SK KVD baits come in silent and rattling. Sometimes one works better than the other, sometimes it makes no difference.

I have the pink Xrap you speak of and yes, it catches fish. I also have a hot pink chatterbait I tied for my wife last year. Had one day last year I forgot the rest of my chatterbaits at home but I had that one in my box. Not only did it catch fish but I started catching bigger fish than I had on normal colors.

Got ours out on the water today for her first full speed boat ride. She seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, climbed up into my lap with her head hanging over the side of the boat and ears flapping in the wind. Water was only 40 degrees and I only had an hour to fish but still managed to get one well colored little guy to play and she posed nicely for a picture of the fish she helped me catch. Still lots of snow around the lake that will soon be helping it fill back up a little bit.

I really like that purple one, something different than they normally see and I'll bet it would be a great stained water/low light bait.

Other than around snot grass there is not really a bad place to fish a jig.

I use EWG superline hooks for most everything but I do have some regular EWG hooks in smaller sizes for finesse baits. I've got some standout hooks for DS, some wide gap finesse hooks for wacky rigs. I did just get some straight shank VMC "Ike approved" HD flipping hooks that I'm going to try this year. I really got them specifically for fishing the new Zman Palmetto bugs but I'll be trying them with my Rage Craws and Pit Bosses also and if I like them I'm sure I'll have more.

I actually fished it while I was out there and other than the 7 3/4 pound fish that ate my Fat John, I caught all my crankbait fish on it

I love a spinnerbait in shallow, weedy ponds right around spawning time. I hate fishing them but a Senko is a great bait for big bass around that time too. Pitch it around the edges of the weeds and into any holes in the weeds.

It's always a great feeling to take something you read or see at home and apply it on the water and make it work, congrats.

shakyhead, finesse tube with a very light internal weight, weightless wacky rig, split shot rig. Which one is most effective will depend on the conditions/location/fishes mood.

Looks like you got it with the Cabela's guess. Didn't know they made any cranks like this thing. Good looking little bait. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fishing/Hard-Baits/Crankbaits%7C/pc/104793480/c/104732280/sc/104284080/Cabelas-Fisherman-Series-Dig-It8482/738601.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ffishing-hard-baits-crankbaits%2Fcabelas%2F_%2FN-1100320%2B1000002949%2FNe-1000002949%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104284080%3FWTz_l%3DUnknown%253Bcat104793480%253Bcat104732280%26WTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNU&WTz_l=Unknown%3Bcat104793480%3Bcat104732280%3Bcat104284080

Spinnerbait blades or get a 3 arm one with spinnerbait blades on the arms.

Guess you're right

Found this little guy on the water yesterday. Not sure what brand it is but it's a nice looking little bait. Shown with a 1/2oz RES for scale. No writing anywhere on the bait to give me any kind of idea what brand it may be.

I put the whole thing on swim jigs or spinnerbaits. It is big but it gets bigger bites.

Took Cassidee out in the boat today at Douglas State Lake because it was way too nice to stay at home. Water was still really cold, colder than I'd hoped. It was 39.5 at the dam, 42.7 in the shallow water at the far north end. Fished a jerkbait and jigging spoon a little but the wind made it pretty hard to fish slowly enough. Got one little guy to play right off the big point in the main lake on a deep running Yo-Zuri jerkbait. Got to go for her first full speed boat ride today too, seemed to enjoy that quite a bit.

I would but tomorrow is the start of the work week for me. I'll have to wait until Wednesday or Friday. Hopefully the weather will be better by then.

Looks like a green sunfish with that big mouth and outlined pectoral fins. They're good aquarium fish but make sure you keep the entire top of the tank covered or it will jump out, even through holes you'd never think they could jump out. I use them for bait for flatheads and keep a few dozen of them in a 200 gallon tank and if I leave any kind of space for them to jump out at least a dozen of them will get it done every time.

I use either 7' 3" or 7' 6" MH LTB with a 7.1 reel to help pick up line quickly on a long cast. I've used those fishing them 50-60 feet deep at Table Rock with no issues.

I have a couple I throw in clear water or lakes where they see lots of trap baits. Also if I'm catching lots on a trap off a certain spot and they start to slow down I'll switch to one of them and often get a few more with it.

My parents have a picture of me in diapers sitting on the bank holding a fishing pole the week before I turned 1. We mainly fished for catfish and crappie because money was really short so catching fish we could eat helped my parents stretch money a little further. Started fishing for bass when we moved to KC when I was 13 and got much more serious when I bought my first 2 man when I was 14.

Good luck! What are you fishing for?

No doubt about it, I was snagged at first. This lake is one of 2 or 3 lakes in the state that produces DD bass with any kind of regularity, so when I swing on something I keep pulling for at least a couple seconds to make sure even if I'm sure it's a snag. So when my bait stopped I swung on it and it didn't move for a couple seconds and hadn't moved by the first time I tried to pop it loose. My guess is that when I dropped the rod tip from the first pop it probably floated off the rock and she had been right there watching it wiggle and bang against the rock and then ate it as soon as it floated loose and next time I tried to pop the line it set the hook on her. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good