Kevin22

Carp will eat minnows, crawfish, bugs, vegetation, anything really. But yes, we do catch a lot of them fishing with live shiners for white bass in the spring. They will cruise just under the surface looking for bugs/larvae on the surface.

Looks good to me! I'd throw it!

Warmouth, rockbass, and sometimes green sunfish (although usually orange) have red eyes. We can rule out green sunfish. Looks like a warmouth like the rest have said if that is its true colors.

Thought this would be interesting. I'd like to hear what your ONE lure would be if you could only have one. You have to travel around and use it, multiple waters... no X lure for X place and Y lure for Y place. This is the only lure you can have with you. Which lure would you choose? Myself... I'd choose a white spinnerbait.

I don't know if he still makes them or not.. but my favorites were made by a guy that goes by "chunky dunk'n custom baits". Aside from that, probably the booyah original old school one.

Rotated the picture for you, a little easier to see now.

Very well could be a warmouth. I cant tell if that is its true colors (yellowish green) or if that was your camera. Anyhow its either a warmouth or a rockbass.

The definition of a swimbait is a bait that swims side to side. Most crankbaits wobble and don't swim unless you reel them VERY slow.

Northern rockbass.

I've seen carp do that. They swim just under the surface and make a big long wake.

Lots of rockbass in NY, I would not doubt it one bit that you are catching rockies. Good eating fish if you can get them 8"+.

No clue what to throw there, dont have anything like that here! I'd probably just throw one of those spinnerbaits and knock it off all the stumps I could. Side note, that first picture bottom left lure looks like a smithwick rogue. My favorite color and bait for early spring smallies!

After looking at it on my computer and not my phone, it does look like a big black bullhead. Don't know what you are talking about with the yellow bullhead. There are two species, black and brown. Brown can have a yellow belly or a white, black are always white bellied.

Oh and for those who use a sharpie... pick up a BROWN sharpie at walmart and use that. Brown camos in the water, nothing in the water is black. Black line stands out in the water which is why most braid companies do not make a black anymore. Brown sharpies only come in singles and are around a buck a piece right now for the back to school shopping.

I have caught many many bass both largemouth and smallmouth with yellow power pro tied directly to a jig head and grub fishing for walleye. I would not hesitate to use it for a visual approach to bass fishing, such as weightless senkos or light t-rigs.

Either topwater poppers/spooks or jerkbaits. I like a longer rod for buzzbaits to help get them to the surface and I like longer rods for spinnerbaits and cranks as well. Personally it would be a spook rod for me.

Topwater. Awesome deal for sure!

Mine is white. I don't fish vertical bass so it does not matter to me. No way a bass is seeing my boat from 20-30 feet away in the muddy miss.

I have owned and used the GT and HMX. Both of them I really liked but braid ate the tips. I held an elite tech smallmouth spinning rod a while back and really liked the feel. I might have to pick one up, those guides are braid-proof.

For treble hook baits I cut the lure off and put it in a cup in the back of the truck. Then I tie it back on real quick when I go fishing.

Nobody can be sure on that one! Only the bass know! IMO no, it does not matter. I've caught tons of bass while walleye fishing with bright yellow hi-viz powerpro braid or blaze orange trilene sensation copoly.

Exactly. I'd speculate to say that any American that buys an orange max is doing it for the colors or to have something exotic to show off to his friends. A waste of $140 IMO, but still.. if I had the money to waste I'd probably have one. Alternatively you could probably take a pro max and start fabricating parts for it (new handle, upgrade bearings, titanium spool, etc) and then have the frame custom painted orange/black and still come out under $150 with a reel that is 10 times what the orange max would be.

No clue.

Never tried that, but I bet it would work where I fish also! I will try it next time out. Was that big one on those giant sticks I traded you? Guess it was worth the trade then, at least you got to see him!

0.298oz for a watermelon seed super salty.