Todd2

Short of actually being on the water experiencing it, this explains it about as well as can be.

I agree on both of these. One little thing I started doing is as soon as my line goes slack, I drop my rod and "weigh" the jig by lifting my rod up to about a 45, if I feel any different sensation I reel and swing. If not, I keep my rod up until it goes slack (presumably on bottom, hopefully in a Bass mouth) and then repeat. So the "weighing" of the jig is my main retrieve. When you swing on any different sensation...two things will happen, 1.) Like your notes say, increase of hooked fish. 2.) Increase of lost jigs, but jigs/plastics are fairly cheap. Now that swing and miss just became the second part of my retrieve, like stroking a jig..then repeat... Good thread.

I normally am in my boat, but until this year, I had access to some private property that had several nice ponds that I'd hit when I only had a little time. My deal was through a friend of the owner. But I started noticing more people and more trash. It was to the point where I'd pick others trash because I figured it was going to get closed down for all. I guess I couldn't pick it all up because the owner has posted it now with a closed gate. I heard from my friend it was because of trash and people acting like they owned it by camping overnight.

Give me a Texas rigged Zoom Mag 2 - Black Sapphire on 14 lb Clear Blue Mono and all is right with the World for a few hours...lol

My lake level is down to pool, bicep has healed up, I'll be out this weekend. You guys hang in there..its close!

Budget wise, you will hard pressed to find a better line than Big Game. I pay a little more and get Original Stren because it's my favorite. I've used Mccoy and XL, both really good limp lines. But Stren seems to be a good balance of limp yet really tough abrasion wise and knot strength.

If I had to spray stuff on my line to make it manageable, I'd switch lines....lol Seriously though, I bought one bottle of the stuff years ago but seems like another solution looking for a problem..IMO

If it does nothing else, it will at least make your bag of worms last twice as long..?

Very cool video, thanks.

Welcome..thanks for the tip.

I do pretty much everything with an Arky, great for wood and rock.

Right handed but reel left handed. Switched over a decade ago and haven't looked back.

Yup...milk, eggs, and Bluegill Arkies are often on my list....lol It's really the only jig I throw outside of Ned type heads or tube jigs.....and Crappie

Excellent choice, I do really good with that worm just pitchin around wood.

Picking your brain a little here...if you had to pick one retrieve with a T-Rig?

I remember when I was a kid in the 80's, I'd just dig up some worms and bobber fish and catch em.. I don't remember the first one but my first memory was one day when I ran out of worms from catching Shellcrackers and all I had was a shiny bare hook. I casted it over in a corner of a farm pond and watched the hook fall a few feet below the bobber. A keeper size bass came up and just nosed the hook. I waited a few seconds and twitched the bobber (and hook) and he nailed it. It was hooked, so was I.

Somebody around here is, many times when I go to grab a bag of bubblegum/pink they are gone...lol

I had that problem until I switched to Stupid Tube rigging a few years back, there are some videos out there..makes them as weedless as a T-Rig with some crazy action.

Geographically I don't belong on this thread, but my lake is 25 feet over Winter pool, cold and muddy....AND I pulled a bicep so fishing seems like some far off future goal. I feel the pain, literally.?

I agree with your buddy.

Lol..wow.. No love for old purple..There is a reason it gets 4.8 out of 5 stars at BPS and has been one of the best selling lines since 1958.

Well, I'll double down (from the other line thread) and go with 10lb Original Stren if I had to pick one line to do everything.

I don't think you'll notice too much difference between Stren and BG in terms of sensitivity. At least I can't and I have both on several different rods. Neither will be as sensitive as fluoro but when you factor in price and knot strength, mono still has a place in my boat. I do have braid on a couple and have used fluoro in the past some too.

Both are pretty good lines. But I give the edge to Stren. Handles better (less memory) and matches BG in abrasion resistance (if not a little better). Plus comes in my favorite clear blue fluorescent. Think of Stren as being somewhere between XT and XL, if you are familiar with those lines.

Sometime back in the late 80's I was shown the Texas rig. Other than Rooster Tails, that's all I knew. Now lures come and go with me but the Texas rig is always tied up and ready to go.