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I use mine as jig trailers. When the plastic worms get too small for trailers I use them for t-rigged Ned rigs.

I try to fish with a new technique each year so I can learn it, but most of the time I’m going back to my confidence baits of a jig, crankbait, and plastic worm.

Yep. I've cleared the cache and ran the security software, but it's not helping.

When I go with my wife to Walmart I head to the fishing section as soon as I get into the store. We meet up later in the grocery section.

The 2" Sassy Shad will catch anything that swims. It works great in winter for sunfish and crappie.

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Take a look at the end of the plant. If it looks like a raccoon's tail then you have coontail. Bass love that stuff.

Fishing vegetation in clear water I would try and stick to natural color baits. Greens, browns, and shad colors. Black or blue/black depending on the light levels.

At 60 I'm still good to go for a one-day local trip. I notice it when we go down to the big lakes for a 3 or 4 day trip. I can still stay out on the water for 6 or 7 hours at a time, but I need to pace myself.

I fish with a 1/8 or 1/4 jig dragged along the bottom with the smallest craw trailer I can find. Usually on warmer days around where the rip rap meets the mud bottom.

Good job! I think you found the hawg bog.

I've got 2 m/f procaster-s spinning rods. I got them used around 2006 and retired them about 3 years ago. My guess is that they are from sometime in the 90s. I used one for small moving baits and the other for weightless plastics. They are good rods, nothing spectacular, but they will get the job done.

Some of my best catches came when I was using a plastic worm as a jig trailer.

When a front comes through in October the bass go deep and they stay near cover. Most of the time the bass will ignore topwater and larger moving baits. Jig and craw Small crankbaits T-rigged craws Finesse plastic worms Small Senko type baits

A 35-acre lake I fish pretty often is getting drawn down. Right now it is about 4 feet low. My guess is that they are either trying to kill some of the vegetation that has overrun it, or they will be working on the dam. I went out there yesterday and checked out some laydowns that are now exposed. Besides the baits shown, I found three spinnerbaits that were beyond saving.

That's wild.

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I fish some ponds that look like that. I've found that darker colors work better. Black/blue, grape, black, and junebug. If there is a lot of sunlight, and I'm fishing less than 3' deep I will go with green pumpkin.

3/8 oz swimjig, or a spinnerbait.

Congrats on the catches. That is a beautiful fish.

I've had days where I've lost a bunch of baits. Makes me glad to get home and do some chores.

I fish a lot of small ponds that are between 5 and 10 acres. These waters see daily anglers that fish for whatever they can catch, and bass in these ponds have become extremely wary of baits over the years. I try to fish with bait that other anglers aren't using. I usually use 1/8 jigs and crankbaits but not over 1/4 ounce, 4" and 6" plastic worms, 4" and 3" Senko style baits. I fish the plastics weightless if I can get away with it.

Since the body of water is clear of vegetation, the bass can see farther. Because the topwater bite is over I would try a mid depth crankbait, or shallow running crankbait. If that didn't work I would try a lipless crankbait, spinnerbait, or bladed jig. I'd let them sink to the bottom and then work them back slowly.

I use 15# Big Game on all of my BC reels except the punch rig. If the info on the website is accurate the diameter is about .015". I've tried the 20# Big Game, but I felt that the number of bites went down, so I switched back to 15#.

I have a 5500c3, 5600c3, and a 5600c4 from back in the mid-90s and early 2000s. They get rotated in and out of the lineup. I use them for punching and fishing for cats. Those reels are built to last and will probably be used long after I'm gone.