Bluebasser86

Catfish are predators, just like bass are. I catch them on anything a bass will eat. Had one eat a 7" glide bait off my rod tip Sunday. Nothing quite like a topwater catfish strike either.

Combos intended for bass, yes. All of my rod/reel combos, no. It'd look pretty silly fishing for bass with a 12' surf rod though.

I have the flexibility of a short piece of rebar. I have to grab onto something to help myself stand.

Welcome!

Welcome!

The biggest bass I've caught in my home state was in the middle of a hot July day. The bite may not be best then, but I think it makes fish more predictable and easier to determine where they'll be.

I use #4 with my glide baits and yes, remove the split ring.

The Menace would be one of my top 5 plastics of all time like if I had to chose 5 plastics to fish for the rest of my life, a Menace would be on that list. Great as a trailer, on a T-rig, shakyhead, swinghead, can even fish it like a small paddletail.

I like the Flush. Good density and durability, plus the packaging keeps them straight so I don't have a bunch of kinked up baits like I do in every pack of Flukes I've ever bought.

It makes a pretty big difference at times. Sunday, I was getting a few bites on a jig with a green pumpkin Craw Papi trailer, but not as many as I thought I should be. Switched to a 4" watermelon red flake Menace with the tail dipped in chartreuse JJ's, bite went up noticeably. When I hear that saying, I think more like major changes though. A couple weeks ago while I was at Table Rock and the threadfin shad were spawning, 2-3 inch shad were everywhere. Most guys were tossing small 2.8 fat impacts to catch their fish. I caught a few doing that but when I went to a 7" Chad Shad glide bait, they acted like they were starving and my bait was possibly their last chance for a meal.

Are you sure they're bass? LOZ has a huge rough fish population as well as tons of giant gizzard shad that like to be active on the surface and make a pretty sizeable splash when they flip around.

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Welcome!

A lot of smaller lakes in Kansas and Missouri are high density but low numbers of big fish. I fish a lot of the lakes where Ned tries for his 101 bass in 4 hours and occasionally reaches that goal. Of those 101 bass though, less than 10 will go 15" and rarely does one reach past 20". Only got out Sunday this past weekend, and got rained and stormed on in the morning like they didn't say anything about. Fishing was good right away once the lightning stopped. My blue bladed jig and a Trashmaster Jig did most of the damage. Biggest fish was a couple drops of water shy of 5lbs.

Depends on the state and technique. I watched KVD plop a bass hooked in the back into the livewell once that was caught on a crankbait. Then I also watch Steve Kennedy realease a giant bass caught just outside the mouth on a big swimbait in California even though he wasn't sight fishing. All depends on the situation.

I used some large, brown millipedes for bait for bluegill once when I was a kid and they worked really well. They were probably 2-3 inches long and 1/4" thick.

Don't know anything about it but the Arborgast Buzz Plug might be a reasonable substitute without having to worry about losing a vintage bait. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Arbogast_Buzz_Plug_Buzzbaits/descpage-ABP.html

5-6 feet of visibility is excellent visibility for our lakes here. It would be in the top 10 clearest lakes in our entire state ? I'd try a swimbait or bladed jig along the edges of the weeds, flipping the thicker stuff, or frog over the top of the thick stuff.

Had an hour before work this morning, decided to get out and toss a big crawler around a bit. I was just hoping for 1 bite, but ended up catching 3. Nothing big but they're always vicious strikes, which is fun.

Yeah, the arc is the shape made into the paint from hook rash. I've got dozens of baits with that pattern on them. It doesn't hurt the bait, just happens with use. There are guys in the big swimbait world that install little bumpers on their baits to keep their hundred dollar baits from getting rashed but a majority of those guys are all about the rashed up baits also.

Never considered hook rash a deformity? Most all my baits have that from normal use ?‍♂️

This is a pretty solid evaluation of the 2 imo. Both very good lines, but Smackdown is quieter and softer.

The Vision 110 Jr KO's have 2 or 3 hooks, that would be my guess.

Beat up baits catch more fish.

Yes it does. I caught a dozen in short order with it at a local lake the first time out. I'd forgot I even had a couple of them until you asked about them ?