Bluebasser86

Had me all excited until I found out they removed the anti-reverse switch ?‍♂️

I use a Tatula 100 for frogging with the drag tightened down it does just fine.

Tried to target some winter blue cats in the kayak but the wind had other ideas. Only managed 1 fat little guy before the wind was too much for me, I found them though.

Wind wouldn't cooperate for the fishing I wanted to do today, so I did some walking. Most pretty mediocre finds until the last one of the day, made the walking worthwhile. 3rd MB I've ever found.

It's an old Renegade Honeycomb series popper. I use to buy them from Walmart as a kid and caught a lot of fish on them.

First few finds of the new year. Pretty pumped about the Duo jerkbait, it's in really nice condition still despite the hooks being rusted off.

I think with catfish you have to get them out of cold water and clean them good and fast, then chunk them up and soak them in ice cold water to firm it up before cooking. I did a half dozen for the guys at work a few years back and they swore it was the best fish they'd ever eaten.

That's a lot of good catfish bait you ate ?

Those are a very different bait than the Sleeper Gill. I have the RTF with the paddletail and have done pretty well with it also, but it's more a straight cast and slow retrieve bait. The Sleeper Gill you fish almost like a jig, hopping it along the bottom.

I've done well with the Yo-Zuri. I've caught fish with the Warpig but I wouldn't consider it a slow falling bait at all.

I was curious after this thread so had to check. I have 34 bags left, exactly half of which are Lime-Purple Passion (2 left rows). Second from right is all sapphire blue, right is all black and blue. Top is 2 bags of blue shiner and a bag of perfection blue. Of course this doesn't include what is left in my bags in the boat and kayak.

Not many, at least not anymore. My first 3 years when I worked in the jail in KCK it was every night, sometimes multiple times. Now, it's a couple times a year usually. I'm really good at talking people down and I'm such a calm person that it just seems to keep other people calm. Of course, I run into those people who just have to get into it and can't be convinced otherwise.

One of the best juvi bluegill colors I've ever seen along with Strike King's Moon Juice color. I dip the tip of the tails in a bit of chartreuse JJ's and pitch it into grass and cover. They're usually really violent strikes when they hit it, not pressure bites like other colors.

I always try to. I took a bad picture, one time, but it was of my good friends first ever brown trout. It was the only picture he had of it, and the only one he caught the whole trip that we took specifically to try to catch brown trout. I still feel bad about it.

Sapphire Blue and Lime-Purple Passion. I bought a bunch of bags of both colors when I found out they were DC'd. Not sure how many I have left, probably a couple dozen or so but it'll be a sad day when they run out.

Haven't thrown many punches, but been in more than my share of fights. I've learned through the years to talk my way out of a fight unless it's just unavoidable. I'm not the guy that enjoys fighting, but it kind of comes with the territory and I can handle my own when needed. Last time I almost got in a fight outside of work was more than 10 years ago in a bar when a guy about chest high on me started poking me in the shoulder and yelling at me. Thankfully, a bouncer noticed him and escorted him outside before it went any further.

My dad taught me. First it was just helping him cut the ribcage out of the fillets, then I moved up to actually filleting fish. I got pretty good at it. The lake I fished all the time had a bunch of hand sized bluegills and one of the regulars would pay me $.25 a fish to fillet them for him. Not sure how many big bluegills I filleted for him, but it was a bunch. Rarely keep fish anymore other than a walleye or two. Last time I kept a 20 fish limit of crappie for my parents reminded me why I use to have an electric knife for those things. If it had been for anyone else, I'd have stopped and turned half of them loose.

They killed off my 2 favorite colors when they cut the Havoc lineup. There was so many great plastics in that line of baits that they didn't remake in the Powerbait lineup, such a shame.

Assuming you're talking about the Savage Gear Structure Gill that is similar to the Sleeper Gill. I have one that has been doing well for me this winter anytime I can find them around shallow grass. I've also done very well on their Pulse Tail LB gills but those are very different from the Sleeper Gills.

Savage Gear Shine Glide has a good Golden Shiner color https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Savage_Gear_3D_Shine_Glide_Bait/descpage-SG3DG.html

Owner Covershot. I use some for light T rigs also.

Strike King Ocho Berkley General Really wish that I could still get the Havoc Flat Dawg, those things were almost unfair how good they were, so of course they're gone now.

Went out for awhile Sunday until the wind got too strong for us to deal with in the kayaks. It was tough for me, couldn't get them to eat anything but a Ned really. Stony was getting them on a Frittside 5 and 7 and did pretty well including the big one of the day. All mine were babies. Water temps were 39-42*

Welcome!

I've done very well with copper colored jerkbaits. The orange and black have both had their moments. I'm not sure why MB calls it "PM Twilight Chart Back", but I call it "The Big Banana". It's a black head, yellow back and sides, white belly and lower sides, it's been very good for me. My biggest smallmouth of the year several years ago was on a pink and white 110+1.