Bluebasser86

I have that exact rod and it's a great multipurpose rod. It fishes a shakyhead, weightless senko, soft jerkbait, small T-rig, or even a small jig very well. I also have a 6' 10" ML/F, it would be a good choice if you like smaller shakyheads and wacky rigged senkos. I had the 6' 8" M/F and it is a very good all around rod like WW2 said, even used it to throw jerkbaits at brown trout this last winter.

I'm also confused how you're fishing the hook down? Something is wrong if your hook is dragging bottom point down.

When I'm on the water I'll always have either a jig or shakyhead tied on, usually both.

I like a brush jig for a majority of my fishing but I also use a round finesse head and football head a lot too.

Do you play with the dogs like that? I like to tie stuffed dog toys or knotted socks on and get our dog chasing it across the yard or inside the house. It really helps my close quarters accuracy casting in the house.

If I'm fishing a C-rig I've pretty much given up on catching fish that day I hate fishing them but they do work well in the right situations and it's great for covering water, I'd just much rather fish a heavy T-rig in the same situations.

They're in there for sure. Wyco will eventually become primarily a smallmouth lake, it's just set up better for them with the deep, clear, rocky environment. I still haven't seen a picture of the new lake record caught this summer that was 5.62lbs during one of the Wednesday nighters. Good to see he released her, need fish like that to keep producing future generations of smallmouth. Too bad for him it wasn't at Melvern or Milford, that fish would have been pushing the state record at 23.5 inches at one of those lakes.

All the compliments and heartfelt "Thank yous" I hear throughout the day

Saw a picture of a couple studly walleye caught from Hillsdale yesterday. I've made it almost all year without fishing Hillsdale but the thought of maybe catching a walleye over 5lbs may be too much for me to resist

The Veritas feel nice but I won't buy one until they get their breakage issues fixed. I know some guys that work at BPS and Cabela's and they all say that other than store brand rods the Veritas is one of the most returned rods for breakage issues. I have a few Mojos and have no complaints about them. If I was looking for a rod in the $100 range I'd look really hard at the BPS Carbonlites. They're very light and comfortable to hold and if anything happens to it BPS should take care of it for you.

I've practiced casting left handed when I'm away from cover and gotten fairly decent at it. Practice is the only way to get good at it just like with your strong arm. It wasn't as hard as I expected though since there's a bit of a learning curve because you already know how to cast. I'm better at pitching left handed than I am actually casting but it doesn't hurt to know how to do both.

Offseason??? I never stop fishing, that's how I keep my casting up to par.

Mo-Kan craw

How does that man walk with kahones that big? Moose aren't known for their calm tempers and even tired that one was plenty big to put a hurting on both of them. I liked how the camera man hid behind him once he knew the moose was about to be free from the swing.

Not me but most certainly a pucker moment for those of you that haven't seen it.

Even if my wildcats win out the rest of the year I'm confident in the BCS screwing them out of the title game because they aren't SEC and aren't one of the flashier teams out there. A&M looked amazing tonight though, they looked almost unstoppable on offense and I thank them for their hard work

You need a bigger trolling motor. I've got a 16' Lowe Roughneck with a 70lb Maxxum and a 20mph wind is no problem on a small lake

I hang on to a lot of that stuff and loan it out to friends. I have way more gear than it looks like I have because my friends have a bunch of my combos on long term loans. In my experience if I sell them next time I go fishing I'll wish I had them.

I'm constantly checking my line and giving my knots the pull test. I hate losing a big fish, especially to something I could have easily prevented. No chance I'd put a bait in the water with a knot that I thought might not be good.

I fish them slowly along the bottom by pumping the rod like slow rolling a spinnerbait or rattle trap, works great around the last weeds of the year.

Zoom trick worm or finesse worm, Netbait T-mac.

I like the pumpkinseed color in the KVD 1.5 too, they crush that thing. I've got a couple of the LC RC 1.5's in a bluegill color that works really well also.

Don't fish regular worms very often but when I do it's YUM ribbontail or Rage Andaconda.

Our state record for both are smaller than those weights but I've caught a DD largemouth so I'd have to go with the smallie!

If there's lots of targets available I'll work quickly looking for aggressive fish. If there's limited cover I'll work slowly and try to get every fish I can to bite off each piece of cover.