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I use to throw the red Jelly worms some but they didnt seem to catch as many fish as Blueberry or black grape. I did like them on Lake of the Ozark bluffs for spotted bass.

Neds and tubes. I'm using tubes a lot lately. They are the best things I have found for riprap banks. They dont get wedged as much. Been experimenting pitching them in cover with good success. I can rig them with a normal offset worm hook. Not have them slide down the hook and get a high hookup ratio. Its still a work in progress.

Depends on the cover. If its a simple laydown with just a few limbs I will fish it well then head out. The more complex , like a brush-pile of fresher laydown , I'll spend some time on it.

I think my favorite part is when I'm right about where the bass are and what bait or technique they will bite. Last week I fished this iron structure "dam equipment" with a worm and no takers. Later that day I was thinking about that beam and it struck me to go back and hit it with a tube. Returned and caught four including the largest of the day.

I have not fished chatterbaits much until recently. A new lake I have been fishing has a lot of moss, little wood and chatterbaits have been getting smashed. Toss it to the edge or in any open spots. Before ,on other waters when I was fishing a lot of wood I opted for a spinnerbait.

2 out of 20, I thought that was par.

Yesterday while beating the bank with a chatterbait , something busted shad a cast away , which is rare for me. They are almost always too far away. I fired my chatterbait at it , let it sink a few feet then started the retrieve . Immediately it was slammed by a five lb channel cat. I thought I had hooked a new pb bass.

Dinger Gitzit Whatever floats my boat.

I've been using the Ozark Trail 3.0 offset worm hooks . They have performed great. I did bend one trying to remove it from the tough lips of a channel catfish.

The 1/8 terminators I had, ran on their sides. The Strike Kings Mini King ran good.

I like the gold foil Rapala Fat Raps. They are no longer available but they still sell the perch pattern with the gold foil belly.

It might be a floating RES.

100 percent of the time but barely . If the worm is damaged to where the knot is visible then I clip the damaged part off.

I'm almost out of those. They catch all species everywhere. I like to run a chartreuse marker down the back. It turns a dark green with the dark brown belly. Yum Dinger. I think they all work but am partial to Junebug and Bamabug.

Thats a "Thingamajig"

Wish there was a tackle swap meet close by to trade some stuff. I need to get rid of a bunch before I expire and make it a burden on my wife. As far as lures I havent bought any for over a year except for soft plastics that I use up. Did order some tungsten weights this winter.

Thats been my experience .

Thats crazy. I have 15 of them and not one has done that.

Texas rigged senkos, Dingers... are big time bass catchers. I use pitch them in cover and out on structure. They flat out get bit.

I may have caught the Missouri state record white sucker and released it. If not it was close. I didnt know it until I looked it up.

Evidently crappie are not scared of noise because most of the crappie anglers around here make no attempt whatsoever in trying to be quiet.

I have a light that clips onto my hat with red or white lights. I use the red light mostly . only use the white light when needed. Flats, points and riprap are good places where casting accuracy is not important. Beaver houses , culverts and other great cover cant be passed up.

I dont use Senkos because of the price, use Yum Dingers instead. I depleted most of my supply the past two weeks so visited my local farm store to replenish . The shelves were bare of Dingers. Evidently Dingers are getting popular here.

Champlain lineup is C, Huff Palainuk Schmitt Smith Cifuentes

Im a NEMO resident. What part were you in ?