Kevin22

Hop up to a 6'6-6'9. I used to fish with 4.5-5' ul and thought they were great, until i tried a longer rod. Much easier to cast, and way easier to control the bait and fish. I suggest the st. Croix panfish 6'9ULF. Its the last UL you will ever buy. Ill never go panfishing without it.

Mojo bass

You dont need anything special for SB cranks. Just a med or medhvy, probably mh for 1/2oz, graphite rod with some bend to it. You dont want a broomstick. If you are throwing deep divers then that is different. I bet you have a rod that will work just fine. Use 14-17# mono/fluoro anf youll be fine.

1000 (20) or 2500 (25/30) both work well. Since you wont be casting a mile, the 1000 will save weight. But the drag preasure wont be as high as with a 2500, if that matters to you.

Once you are past your break in period, you can run WOT without issue as long as the RPM is below the maximum safe zone stated in the manual. I run at WOT when I need to, often times I open her up to WOT and trim it out, then back down a tad on the throttle to save some fuel. Be courteous to other boaters when not running WOT though, you will throw out a bigger wake when not on pad at WOT. With my boat I can leave it trimmed out for WOT and back down, then when I get near another boat I hit it up to WOT again without having to mess with the trim. That allows me to send him/her the smallest wake possible, then when I get past them I back it back down again.

You'll want a medium for that. The MH is built like a heavy flippin stick. You'll want the fast action, not the moderate, so pay attention to that.

Id guess. #1- knot slipping. Try double palomar #2- shock breakage. I wouldnt use #15 braid on anything more than a medium spinning rod with the drag set about medium. Treat it as 6# mono. If you are using casting gear, try 30-40#. Braid does not transfer over from mono equally. By this I mean if you ise 10# mono then dont expect to use 10# braid. My rule on mono to braid. Mono-braid 6# mono = 10-15# braid 8 = 20 10 = 20-30 12 = 30 14-15 = 40 17 = 50 20 = 65

Lighter, just be sure to not hit the plastic keeper if it is not metal. Only takes a half second of heat, will not effect the hook.

I dont know about you guys, but a squarebill is a reaction bait for me. Bounce in shallow riprap, throw into laydowns, bounce into docks, etc. I use a 7.*:1 with 15# fluoro. I want to be able to pull them out of the cover fast.

I have the 15 on a squarebill rod, it is not unmanageable at all. It is about the same as 100% or XT in terms of stiffness and memory. 15 yo-zuri would match up very well to your 20# 100%.

A lot of times fish don't actually hit the spook but just swat at it or roll on it. Often times when bass are in a negative mood or very pressured they will try and kill the food before they eat it, sort of testing it out to see if its real or not. Chances are you are just catching the skin of the mouth when he "tastes" it, and he is coming unbuttoned because of the poor hook location. Only thing you can do is use super sharp lightwire hooks and take it easy until you can see where the fish is hooked. Stretchy mono will help also, gives some shock absorption when the fish shakes his head or turns direction. Sufix elite is good for this, the stuff is like fishing with a bungee cord.

Are you sure they are whites and not shad or buffalo up in there spawing? 3-4# is absolutely massive. Ive never seen a picky white, theyll at least chase almost anything. If not id say they arent white bass.

Be careful where you buy them, and if possible look at them prior to buying. A lot of companies (including zoom and berkley) will package their factory seconds in bulk packs and offer to their retailers or outlet stores for pennies on the dollar. Then they turn around and sell them for cheap, at least that is how it is supposed to work... some people take advantage of the cheap cost and sell for near retail. Don't buy on ebay unless it is from a hand pourer who is legit and knows what he is doing, there's a lot of youngsters out there putting out a terrible product for cheap just to make some pennies on supplies Dad buys. FFO tackle usually has some bulk packs of berkley stuff. Unless it says FACTORY SECONDS then they are the real deal baits just in bulk packs. I believe big bite baits also does bulk packaging, but its not a huge cost savings.

Females that you can see near beds are tricky to catch. If they are with a male by a bed, it is very very difficult. I know its not as sporting to some, but I also fish an area heavily pressured and I do catch the bigger ones on beds that others can't get to bite. Some don't like me for it, but hey I toss them back so what does it matter what I caught it on? Anyhow, a whole LIVELY nightcrawler with a #6 hook buried in the head and 4# fluoro line (if open water, otherwise usually 8#). Let it fall in the bed or a place she is consistently swimming past, and don't move it. Just let it sit there and wiggle around on the bottom. Sometimes it takes as much as 5-10 minutes of watching for the fish to finally pick it up. When she does, get ready! That worm will go in a little, then get sucked in all the way. You have about a second to set the hook before that worm shoots back out... if she does that, then you have to do it all over again. I've tried the same technique with every plastic worm I've ever owned and they won't touch it. Now, fishing for females off the beds when they are just staged up and not looking to do "the business" yet is a totally different situation.. those will absolutely hit traditional baits.

Fish seem to be following traditional patterns here, which doesn't always happen every year! Right at ice out they were hitting jerkbaits, just like they should. Then the water started to warm a little and they pre-spawn feeding. Shakey heads, spinner baits, cranks, jerkbaits, just about anything that looked like food Now they are on the beds, just moved up 3 days ago. Males are sitting on the beds and have not seen a female yet. The usual for me, a 4" drop shot worm on a weightless #2 octopus hook, twitched in the bed seems to be working. Having some trouble locating the females, I suspect this week they should move closer to the beds and will be a little easier to catch. Jig or lipless crank ticking bottom will be the first baits tried. Water temp is 64 main lake, back water bays and shallow areas are in the 70's during the warm days.

It happens, its part of fishing. Gut hooked and gill hooked fish will happen. If they are keepers, keep em. When cut into small nuggets, even the most funky bass is edible. If you think you don't like bass at all, then go to the grocery store and buy a few cans of clam chowder (or any kind of chowder) and toss the diced up fish fillets in it. Do not bring to a boil, but simmer for 15-20 minutes and you'll never even know it was in there. Beats throwing it back and hoping it survives. Can't tell you how many legal keepers I've plucked off the surface half alive and bleeding from the throat/gills. I caught a 21.5" while ice fishing this year, the fight on 2lb line (total accidental catch) just wore her out. Was nothing I could do about it, wasn't going to break off and leave a jigging spoon in a big fish like that as I had no idea where it was hooked. So I fought and fought until we landed her. She was pooped after that! I held her under the ice until my hands went numb and she never moved a gill. I laid her on the ice in front of me (sometimes fish will come back after they rest for a while) but she never moved. Heart attack maybe? Dunno. Anyways I put it in my bucket as it was a legal keeper and I couldn't just throw it back and hope she revived sometime. Man did I take a lot of flack from the people around me, but I think I did the right thing. The fish was cleaned correctly and the meat was used, so I don't feel TOOO bad about it.

04 xrap. 06 if you need a bigger profile.

I highly doubt it. White bass look nothing like a largemouth, they are not even in the same fish family.

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I like my st croix premier for drop shot. 6'6mlf. Its $120 but if you can swing it, its nice.

Its just like swamp people... Edited together footage to make it more dramatic. You think every tuna bites as the fish finder is beeping and on EVERY BITE the reel goes tick ..tick...tick tick.. Tick tick... Ticktickticktick WE GOT A FISH!!! Come on Then the reels change 3 or 4 times during a fight. Heck that fish that they needed to catch to make a profit that day could have been caught a week prior. Just like swamp people.. The last episode i watched, years ago, the boat changed 3 times during the fight. Went from the big jon to a long shaft mud motor boat, then to the boat from prior years, then back to the big boat. Was the last time i watched that bullhonky

Huh? That's a new one to me. I think you've been miss-identifying a lot of white bass!

No way it is a yellow. I've caught tens of thousands of wipers/white/yellow bass (we have repeat 150-200 fish days in the summer). That is hard to tell what it is, looks like its been dried out for a week. Absolutely not a yellow though. Either a wiper or a white bass, looks more like a white than a wiper though. Wipers are sterile stocked fish so unless someone bought it and stocked it in, I doubt it is a wiper. Most likely a white bass, if you have a river near you it probably came from there as an egg on the foot of a heron/egret. If someone stocked them in there they could be reproducing, we have lakes (large ponds) around here that have them. Whites do successfully reproduce in ponds if the water is good and the conditions are correct in the spring.

I had that same line on my 3wt all last year (in wf3), was very nice for a budget line! I would recommend it to anyone. I think you just got a bad one, it happens with all lines. Might try ordering it online (its always on sale in bargain cave) or buying at another store. Otherwise go for rio, their budget line is 2nd best IMO.

I have the elite 4 hdi, does ever thing I need it to. Easy to read as long as you are not far away. I've found it to excel on the dash. I'm going to upgrade to an elite 5 for the front.