joshholmes

it could be several things. it could be what airborne_angler said or it could have had something broken inside the lure. this is just a guess, but if the weights inside get banged around enough they could get stuck off center. try contacting strike king and if they don't reply you might be able to send them in and get a new one. good luck and i hope you find a solution.

i have 2 low confidence baits, jigs and anything on a dropshot. jig fishing and dropshotting dont feel natural to me like a lipless crank or any soft plastic feels. i have a medium amount of confidence in deep diving cranks but their not and probably wont ever be a go to bait for me.

IMO i think its both but i dont have any real evidence behind that so its anyones guess

just pinch them down with a needle nose pliers

now that i think about it i might qualify for a yearly NY angler award. but my fish was a catch annd release so it probably would be in a different category

im guessing anyone who has heard of the bnjo minnow thought of it as a gimmick. after the bite died at my lake and i had triedeverything i found some old banjo 006 minnows in the bottom of my tackle bag. i nose hooked it with a gammie octopus hook. there was a huge spawning bass in the 7lb range 15 feet in front of he end of my dock and would never eat anything. i threw my banjo minnow behind it, let it sink, twitched it and BAMM!!! this thing attacked it. i swear i was gonna have a heart attack because my line was 8 lb. test and i forgot to set my drag earlier. after a great fight i caught her snapped a pic, measured her and let her go. this thing hurt my wrist to hold up for the camera for so long. she was peaking barely over 7 lbs. my point is i now love banjo minnows and i can make them do a perfect upright swim now. please give them a try , anyone who disregarded it as a gimmick. it caught me the biggest bass of my life.

just something i noticed but apparrently BR is very close to reaching its ome millionth forums post. heres the count so far: 988,951 total posts

well i understand that you may have heARD A LOT ABOUT FLUOROCARBON being bad but in reality it just takes a bit more time to figure out at first. fluorocarbon is great for clear lakes. you usually only have to deal with problems with it for the first fish. after the first fight many of the problems seem to fix themselves. as for braid with a leader, it does work very well but (IMO) if you make the leader so that its so long the knot goes into your guides when you cast it it will cut down on casting distance. i also don't think you should call mono, old fashioned because there are so many new improved forms of it. it really comes down to your own personal preference. if your willing to take the time to learn how to handle fluoro it will pay off in the long run. if you have several baitcasters spool one up with fluoro, on with mono and one with a braid and fluoro leader. it allows you to be more diverse. very few pro fisherman use just one type. braid works great for heavy cover while mono works good for spinnerbaits and fluoro works great for crankbaits. take the time to choose your own preferences.

well i had a landing net with me but i mainly use that if i accidentally catch a pike or pickerel. i'll definitly start using it more often. growing up i was always taught to lip bass because it makes it less likely for a fish to flop around and hurt itself in a net, but i guess a gripper fixes that problem and makes it safer for me

what type of guides are on your rods? a lot of the times ceramic guides get chipped very easily and cut into your line. also, how often do you change line? i change mono once every 2-4 weeks, fluoro once every month and braid once a year

you dont neccesarily need to switch to braid. you could just up the fluoro or mono to 12-14 lb but that might be pretty heavy for a spinning reel. if your gonna switch to braid for a spinning reel use 20-40 lb.

well ive never come across a rapala from ireland. usually it will say "the original finnish minnow" on the side of the package. according to rapala there has been no major changes in the design for their original floater in the decades its been around. if their was a change my guess is it would be the lip. although i might not have been around long enough to ever use the older ones.

i was fishing last week since the spawn was in full swing at my lake. bass were everywhere. i was fishing a rat-l-trap with a sunfish pattern to match the nest robbers i was seeing everywhere. after catching my first largemouth i went to lip it. then the fish had a second wind and started to swim off again. the rat-l-trap hooks ended up grabbing my finger and the bass pulled them in past the barb. sadly my nana was standing right by me and made a huge fit about having 2 treble hooks on a lipless crank. even after i explained you needed them for the heavy compact bait she made me promise to only use barbless hooks from now on. i had to use my pliers to get the hooks out and i had to sit out for 20 minutes while my nana made sure to clean and disinfect it. what i later realized was that i was actually getting more hookups on barbless hooks and havent had any lost fish on them yet. i suggest if you fish a lot of lipless cranks give barbless hooks a try. it'll be better for the fish and your hand when you have to remove a hook. it's also good for baits like flukes to use barbless hooks.

for braid, powerpro. if your using nylon monofilament, X2 for trilene XL

sad to say ive only caught a few bass on cranks this year. most of my fish have been on spinnerbaits. but i did manage to pull a 10 lb. pike out of my lake on a rat-l-trap.

i was thinking the same thing

I was sent a link to this bait in an old north american fisherman email. its a creature bait called the flying squirrel, only instead of having c-tails it has a double tail shaped like the back of a zoom trick worm. i would really like to buy it but i was hoping someone else had so i could get an oppinon before i buy it. here's the link http://www.bigbitebaits.com/FlyingSquirrel.htm

1-11 feet. the reason? because there is a thermocline that forms in our lake in spring around the 12 foot mark, making it nearly impossible for bass to go deeper. (according to my grandpa there is vary little oxygen deeper than that).

from the way it was acting isn't that similar to a spoon?

for some reason i never seem to have luck with ribbontails on my lake. they've worked for me on other lakes but it seems like the fish at my lake are to used to the common ribbontail. they'll hit spinnerbaits, swimbaits, crankbaits, finesse worms, stickbaits and just about everything else you can think of. ive asked other fisherman and they have had similar experiences to me with ribbontails on the lake.

nice job. i was just curious, what is the bait in the first fishes mouth. i couldn't tell what it was

wow!!!WTG!!! its always the days that you think you wont catch anything that you seem to have the most luck (atleast for me)

i did the same thing when i visited lake toho on my vacation from new york. i was fishing a spook when a 4 footer came up and started chomping on it. i would have unhooked it but i was fishing like 7 feet above the water on a concrete wall and i didn't think my rod would take it. i didn't have my braid scissors (im an idiot) so i was forced to muscle the bait out of its mouth. luckily it spit it out. it then spent over two hours watching me, feeling cheated.

I came across this bait at TW and it is probably the most lifelike painted frog i have ever seen, but heres the catch. ITS $61.00!!!!!! i wouldn't even pay that much for a swimbait. Any oppinions on this and would you be crazy enough to try it? heres the link: http://www.***.com/Moreau_Baits_3_Topwater_Frog/descpage-MB3TF.html?from=bfishin

brown tubes work great. you can crawl them on the bottom and they look exactly like bullgeads, which in my lake are the main nest robbers