Raul

That one, some of Matt 's great soft plastic swimbaits and those really kool looking new Mattlures SB rods add water and some bass and you 'll have a full course bass dinner.

Yup, I still do, got nuff lead weights to poison planet earth 2 or 3 times over and I 'm not going to change until I 'm out of them. Doesn 't mean that for certain applications I don 't use other sinker material like tungsten, brass or stainless steel but my main sinker material is lead.

Didn 't have trikies back then, don 't like veggie eaters, I prefered raptors, no need for leash to walk them, tie a chunk of meat to your pelt thong and they follow, only problem was that T rexes also liked the chunk of meat and we didn 't want to mess with those.

Innovative ? A copy of a design that 's over 20 years old which BTW you don 't see no more cuz it never took grip with the anglers, never became popular and therefore it became discontinued in a very short period of time, anybody heard of the Shimano BushMaster ?

Note how neatly organized his stuff is, I wish I could have mine like that but I don 't want y 'all know who to know how much I have, she only knows about how much I have at home ..... but she don 't know how much I 've got at the clinic , and nope, it ain 't neatly organized either, it 's in boxes just in case I know she dropping by I can easily move them to nother location.

BIG BaitMonkey problem:

I don 't use trailer hooks, don 't find them necesary, when I detect the fish are striking short I slow down a little bit or change for a shorter armed shorter skirt spinnerbait; also, I don 't set the hook until I feel the fish weight pulling the line just as a precautionary measure when in very thick cover, in my experience it 's not necessary to set the hook most times, normally when the fish strike a spinnerbait they impale themselves on the hook, but of course, my hooks are always razor sharp.

Forage base matters little, what you need is to have the assortment of lures: 1.- Soft plastic baits 2.- Jigs 3.- Spinnerbaits 4.- Crankbaits The main bass forage in Mexico are in this order: Tilapia, Carp, Bluegills, minnows, shiners, crawfish, frogs, insects, mud dogs. So, in theory I should pick lures that mimic tilapia or carp, but bass don 't read no bass fishing books nor watch DVDs and videos, bass don 't know that they should only strike tilapia or carp imitating lures. I don 't believe in "match the hatch" theory, why ? cuz spinnerbaits don 't look like anything a bass could eat in nature and they catch fish, cuz I catch fish with trout imitating lures ( most bass here have never seen a trout ); I know bass are bass here and all around the world, I know that as long as the bait looks and moves like if it 's alive ( not that it looks to what the fish have as forage base ) and an easy prey bass will strike it.

Hey, what happened to the beard ?

Gee weez, the mookmania master is back. WB Muddy !

I certainly approve , great deal !

A #1 hook is too small, you need at least a 2/0 hook.

Do not overthink it, line color and it 's visibilty matters not in 99% of the times and places, it matters more to you ( being able to watch the line ) than it matters to the fish.

I 'll :-?........be .......danged ! ......... BaitMonkey HERE I COME !!!!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

I will assume you don 't have the extra $20 to purchase a Symetre, from those two the Sahara without a doubt.

Very nice, they look like JDM rods.

THE BEAST can only be controled but it can never be tamed, it 's always there waiting patiently for you to do something stupid and jump all over you; keep thinking that way and pretty soon you 'll find what all the fuss is about. Even the most well seasoned and skilled thumb BC veterans get backlashes, I 've been doing it for over two decades and mine are phenomenal when they happen.

Don 't over think it, ok, bass posses a reflective coating behind the retina called tapetum lucidum which enhances the available light thus allowing them to see in the dark, but the ability to see in low light conditions isn 't that much that includes the ability to see colors, so it doesn 't matter what color the ba it is the fish is not going to see the color. Dark colors or bright/colors matter only to the point they stand out against the background not because of what color they are. A black surface lure can bee seen by the fish because to them it stands out against the sky, moonlit or not, a white surface lure will also be seen by the fish because it 's lighter than the background not because it 's black or white, because it stands out against the background. Burley mentions black/chartreuse, it 's not because the fish are going to see it as chartruese, it 's because it 's lighter and creates constrast against the black.

Don 't overthink it about colors, any color is fine as long as the lure emits strog vibration and/or sound.

To the butt, nope, there ain 't no butt flaoters, however there are rod floating devices but you install them on the blank right in front of the fore handle. Check the BPS site.

A 5" senko is anything but "light", with hook it weights around 3/8 oz, thus, you need a heavier rod without sacrificing the ability to cast 1/8 oz baits.

Don 't expect simpathy from us, we ain 't gonna stop you from jumping off the cliff, we only tell you from which place is the better place to jump. For a "budget" good quality setup I suggest a Chronarch Mg paired to an IMX.

12 ft is nice for two persons and that would be it, very nice if powered by a 9.9 HP even though something smaller like a 6.5 does the trick, but if you are planning for 3 people a 14 ft barely cuts it.

Dude, you don 't know me that good do ya ? Be careful with what you post, with me and some other guys I know around making suggestions you 'll be in debt for the next 3 or 4 ice ages when we 're through with you.

Try a 100 size reel, after that you 'll be in a rush to get rid of anything bigger.