Bluebasser86

I have really good success with a 127 MR Slender Pointer, almost as big as the 128 pointer.

I was actually having a pretty good morning of catching this morning. Just took the UL with a 1/16oz jighead and micro TRD. Had a half dozen crappie, 3 bass, and a bluegill, before this guy decided he had to fish the tiny cut I was in. I'm standing on the bank, it's about 20' to the other side (an easy cast with a 1/16oz jighead and micro TRD anyways). He went all the way to the back (another 20-30 feet maybe), banged his TM into the bottom, turned around and trolled past me again, never looked at me once. Pulled his TM and started his gas motor to make a short move right after he got back past me. Had a lot of things I wanted to say, but none of them would have fixed his condition.

That looks good, but I'm talking about freshwater drum (Kansas Redfish). Relatives, but oddly, one is a popular table fish while the other is shunned.

No dog in the fight, but I'm rooting for Geno. He seems like a good guy and he's stuck it out as a backup waiting for his chance this long. Obviously his teammates really seem to like him. He may never be a Super Bowl winning QB or even a playoff winning QB, but if he can be a solid bridge for Seattle, he'll probably earn himself some money in the process when they draft a new QB because someone will pay him if he keeps playing like he is.

I eat oatmeal every morning. Nothing fancy, about 2/3 cup of oats in milk warmed up in the microwave. Little bit of brown sugar sprinkled in and I'm good. On fishing trips, it's cold milk with brown sugar oatmeal packets. Gives me gas but that's the people in the back of my patrol cars problem.

They make great cutbait for catfish or livebait if small enough. They're pretty popular table fare around here also. Larger ones are almost solely fish/crustacean eaters, just like their saltwater cousins, so I suppose they may be decent eating.

There's no bass in Kansas, please move along.

A trophy class bull Kansas Redfish that ate my ned rig and took me on a fun 5 minute ride before coming to the net. Never really rolled like they typically do, thought it might be a little flathead instead.

Keitech swimbaits always seem to be working for me at Bull. It's a very underappreciated lake with Table Rock being right next to it.

Mono or Copoly for me with cranks. The St. Croix Legend Glass are the sweetest cranking rods I've ever fished. The 6' 10" MH/M has been a good do-all cranking rod, and the only glass rod I've fished that I feel like I might want to try fishing bladed jigs on it also.

In my experience, travel rods just seem to break more often, just something about the way they're constructed I suppose. I really don't think they're having breakage issues, but when someone breaks one, regardless if it's they're fault or not, it seems more likely for people to leave negative reviews for a company than good reviews. I guess if someone is happy with a product, they got what they wanted and just go on with their lives, but if they're dissatisfied, everyone needs to hear about it. I have SC rods that are 20 years old and still in service, and those aren't even high end models.

I use an Okuma EVX for heavier spinnerbaits. You can practically steal a 7' MH off their website right now. https://okumafishingusa.com/products/evx-b-series-bass-rods

So similar to a LiveTarget Baitball then? https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/LIVETARGET_Baitball_Spinner_Rig/descpage-LTBBSR.html

Congrats on your purchase! I have an Old Town Sportsman 120PDL and love fishing out of it. I put mine in the bed of my Tundra. I would not want to cartop it. Not that it's extremely heavy, but there aren't many handholds and it's very awkward to try to do much other than set it in the bed of my truck.

The slider head is still a bass catching machine and nobody seems to talk about it, which is just fine by me.

Seems like the wire would get bent up really fast if they were eating the swimbait "arm", instead of the main bait.

Looking to buy a new set, in the mid-weight range so I could wear it in the summer but still layer up in the winter and be okay. Not set on any brand, main thing is staying dry which my current set doesn't do well.

Who uses them? It's unfortunately getting to be that time of year when layering is going to become a thing soon and I'm thinking about purchasing some after a big raise at work made them more attainable. I know nothing about them though, other than they're supposed to be very warm, even when wet.

I went several years after they first came out thinking they were a gimmick. Once day they just clicked for me and became one of my favorite baits now.

I hate the cold, but I love the part where the casual anglers and the recreational boats pack it in for the winter.

I like catching fish, any fish, and any fish over 10lbs on a ML spinning rod is a fun fight.

Got to be the boat captain for a high school tournament this past weekend. Running the boat for @HaydenS and Gavin. Had lots of battery issues Saturday that cost them over 2 hours of fishing and left them stuck to fishing a small area close to the ramp, but they fished hard and put 3 keepers in the boat and had a chance to fill out a limit if a couple other bites would have converted. Fishing was tough and they got 6th out of 45 teams. Sunday was bluebird skies and very little wind. It was even tougher with Gavin catching one very skinny keeper largemouth early on a Super Spook Jr and having a big smallmouth miss it shortly after. That was pretty much it for the day. Ran around and just never could make them bite. Had a good time and it was a fun experience getting to do the boat captain thing for the first time. I even got to fish a little bit at the lake we were staying by with Gavin's dad and showed off my drum fishing skills. I think I caught 6 of them in the hour we had to fish Saturday night after dinner. The crew.

Welcome!

Fishing a kayak tournament this summer, I was throwing a large flutter spoon at a big, concrete water intake. I'd caught several large bass off it already, but needed to cull a 17.75" fish out of my bag. Made a perfect cast to the front, bait flutter a couple feet and a fish completely smashed it. Set the hook into a really heavy fish, pulled me down into the mess and popped my 20lb test so fast that I thought the fish had just come off at first. I ended up in 3rd and I'm still very convinced that fish was the one I needed to get the win since I was less than 2" from first.

I started tournament fishing in an adult club when I was 16. Finished in 2nd my first tournament, along with the 28 other guys that blanked. There was no boater and co-angler separation in that club, we all fished against each other. I won twice that season, back-to-back wins, and ended up with Rookie of the Year, Backseater of the Year, and 3rd place in the AOY standings.