Bluebasser86

Forgot about my Carrot stix, must be my brain trying to block it out of my memory. Never seen a MH rod break that easily. My buddy bought one right after I broke mine and I tried to warn him. It made it through a couple trips before blowing up on him.

fishingskirts.com for me as well. That is a dangerous site when I've got money and jigs to tie.

Round, football, and brush for me. I could go the rest of my fishing life with those 3 without a problem.

They're killers for smallmouth in the fall in the few lakes around here that have smallmouth. The smaller shads that just hatched during the summer school up and get in the backs of cuts and pockets or up on flats and the smallmouth get in wolf packs and send shad flying everywhere! They hit them so hard it'll make your wrist sore by the end of the day sometimes. I like the Excalibers XR50 in Ghost, silver blue, or silver black.

I have a group with a couple of friends for fantasy fishing. If anyone wants in our group you can PM me your email address and I'll send an invite or if you have one you don't mind me joining PM me name of the group or PM me and I'll get you me email address for the invite.

Is this a bass tournament or a catch anything tournament? I've assisted with kids fishing derbies before and seen 50 kids on 2 acre ponds and everyone catching fish but most of those were catfish or bluegill. If it's a bass tournament 20 anglers would be a lot of people on a body of water that size for 6 hours even if it has a lot of fishable water.

Diawa Capricorn spinning reel. Felt nice in the store and then the bail spring broke the first trip out. Had the bail spring replaced and the reel became noticeably rougher after just a few trips. I retired to to a catfish reel after that. Had pretty bad luck with Cabela's Fish Eagle II rods also. I had a 6' light action spinning rod I used for crappie that broke 3 times in a month.

X2, black shore minnow, bone, and clear to be exact.

4 or 5 pounds, would have been a keeper for sure! I've walked a lot of the bank the last couple weeks out there looking for baits and that's the first dead fish other than a drum or shad I've seen. I've got 16 cranks sitting on my lure building table waiting on new split rings and trebles that I've found out there though. If I could find a market for bobbers, empty shotgun shells, or rusty crappie jigs I'd be sitting pretty!

very cool. Looks like a lot of our craws are golden craws.

Sapphire blue is a great jig color. Never tried with any white but I wouldn't be surprised if you could catch some fish on them. Most of the craws I've seen in the lakes I fish are either dark brown all over or alternating dark and light browns, usually both will have red or orange tipped claws. There's tons of different kinds of craws but I'd rather just know about the colors of the ones in the lakes I fish. I'll often take the time to flip a few rocks my first time at a new lake and pay attention to not only the colors but the size and numbers of craws I can find.

I believe it's because the craws have been hidden most of the winter and they're full of proteins needed to help eggs develop. I do well on red cranks all year long really though. Maybe it has something to do with few people fishing red baits the rest of the year so it's a color they don't see a lot of the year.

RIP the biggest bass I've seen at Hillsdale Lake, probably one of the only ones in there

I caught my first fish from a non warm water lake a few days ago, just a dink largemouth on a 78 pointer. The last two weeks we've gone to a power plant lake and had 110 fish one day and 94 the next with a big mix of largemouth, smallmouth, white bass, wipers, catfish, and crappie.

Nope, a heavy weight is just fine. The bait can't go far in less than a foot of water and that big weight slamming into the mud and silt is going to kick up little clouds like a baitfish or crawdad messing around on the bottom and help get their attention.

Frank's Marine in Lansing, Ks is where I take mine. They do good work and are very reasonably priced. Cabela's takes you behind the woodshed in hourly labor rates, don't know about Bass Pro's rates but I'm sure they're high just because they can be. Turn around at Cabela's is terrible too. I took my old Ranger there once during the summer and it took nearly 2 months to get it back, just to get the steering bled. I've heard good things about US boats from friends and it's where my dad takes his boat but never dealt with them personally. Denny, the guy at the boat house at Wyandotte is a wizard with older, smaller hp motors. He got my old 15hp Johnson to where it fires up the first pull every time after it wouldn't even turnover when I bought it. Not the friendliest guy around but he knows older motors as good as anyone I've ever seen. He gets those 30 year old motors that fools leave locked in ice at the boat docks all winter to start every year anyways.

I've caught them in less than a foot of water in the right conditions.

I've heard that if they're eating lots of craws they get a slight orange tint to their fins but don't know if there's any truth to that. Odds are, if it lives in or gets into the water where there's bass and it's small enough to fit in their mouth at least a few bass are eating it.

The smaller sized Zell Pop is magic for me.

Hands down my favorite lipless bait. Rayburn Red and Ghost are my favorite colors. I really like the one knocker version of them also. I do change the hooks out with short shank #3's on the front and back, the stock hooks are sharp but kind of flimsy.

Welcome to the board! We've got quite a few guys that post regularly from the KC area in the Central Forum, check it out!

It was 63 when I left work at 8am this morning and got up to 72 the day before. When I woke up at 6pm tonight it was 37 and dropping and supposed to snow tonight just in time for my days off of course

Hope you get better man. Always seems like bad things always happen all at once like that. I'm sure they'll get you fixed up. I'm just 26 myself (I believe we discussed the odd coincidence of us having the same first name and being the same age before) and I had to spend most of the night in the hospital one night this summer. I had an agonizing pain in my head that wouldn't go away and threw up until had nothing left to do and just started dry heaving so hard I was choking and making my head hurt even worse. Thank God for whatever they started running into me through that IV. Spent the next week disoriented and confused. Had a hard time putting sentences together and understanding what people were talking about even discussing the simplest things. I got lost driving to my friends house and if it hadn't been for my wife being in the truck with me I would have had to call to ask for directions to a place I've been hundreds of times. Doctors said it was a combined Aura migraine and rapid firing cluster migraines on top of each other that caused it. I take medication for the Aura migraines and I get them a couple times a week without them but never had anything like that. It's not a good feeling to go from never even getting sick to being that sick and not knowing why.

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Half a senko or trick worm works well also. Small swimbaits add a different kind of vibration also.