Kevin22

Try something on the next hit you get. When you feel him pop it, drop the rod tip a foot then set the hook. This should give him time to suck it in, close his mouth, and turn away from you. That should increase your hook-ups. That goes for any bait you are dragging/swimming and having a hard time getting good hook-ups.

Any time I am fishing topwater I have sunglasses on. Even if it is late evening and I can barely see the water. I've had too many close calls where the bait flies out of a fish and right at my face, catch a treble hook in the eye and your day (or life) is never going to be the same.

Grab them from the back and pinch the gill plates. Don't do a death grip, just enough so the fish holds still. This will usually make them open their mouths also. As long as you do not do a death grip it will not harm the fish at all.

It produces its own wi-fi connection. You will need a smartphone with wi-fi capability though.

My favorite color is green pumpkin with blue tails. I would get the GP then you can dye the tails any color you want. Or just straight up GP, it works well also.

The only thing I use a snap swivel for is inline spinners. Those will twist up and make your fishing very difficult. Otherwise I use snaps on blade baits (sonars) and sometimes cranks if I am switching baits often. I use size #2 duo-lock.

I was going to say the same thing, you beat me to it. Tried swimming EWG poison tails a few times and it just does not work unless you adjust your fishing to suit it. Not my specialty so I went with standard round bends. The standard round bends are 5000% better for swimming IMO. If you do have round bend, then maybe the hook is too small. Looks like a 1/4 head? The hook on the 1/4 might be too small for the full skirt and big trailer, its not leaving enough gap to keep a fish buttoned up. My suggestion on that would be to have some poured with bigger hooks.

Sarcasm is often overlooked.

Try bouncing a single willow blade spinnerbait or square bill crankbait on the flooded timber. Look for shiners or shad jumping and target those areas. Any place with current and a break (a stump, rock point, sandbar, etc) will hold shiners which in turn will hold fish. Its all about finding the forage now, the spawn is over and all the fish care about is eating. Early in the morning a topwater can be deadly, again follow the baitfish. Shiners will run shallow early and the bass will target them before moving out to the structure.

I bet the flippers will like it, if they can afford new braid every week. Otherwise I see it as a waste of money.

Strike king series 3 in sexy sunfish, and KVD 1.5 in sexy sunfish.

Wait a minute, $450 for a $1400 motor plus he just gave up his transducer (another $80)? Something smells REAL fishy here. You should have met him at his house, ripping motors off boats and selling cheap on craigslist is a big time scam right now.

You could probably order replacement knobs from quantum.

A medium scrubbie pad, a healthy dose of liquid soap, and some warm (not hot) water. From past experience, it is much easier with the hooks REMOVED. Either remove them from the lure or you will be removing them from your hand!

There is a reason you do not see them like that anymore. The spools freeze, the line freezes, and they just flat out do not work when it is below freezing. They are pretty cool though.

It would work perfect IMO.

Its a homemade tip-up. It is used for ice fishing, the arm is extended over the hole and the line goes through an eye on the arm and down the hole. When a fish strikes he pulls line and triggers the flag to go up (you can see the flat wire at the top). You come over, grab the line from under the arm and yank, then pull it through the hole.

Looks like a tip-up.

Make sure you get the correct shaft, you may not be able to reach the water with a standard shaft from a pontoon!

If you ever see them busting shad/shiners on the surface, the smallest little reble pop-r is dynamite.

We target them all the time. Just today I caught 52 in an hour or so goofing around. I'm sure I have close to 2000 already this year. From 3" up to 17". We have found what IMO is the best rig for whites, it will catch them day in and day out no matter if they are busting the surface or down on the bottom spawning. But first you HAVE to check your regulations and see if you can use two lures on one line. Three-way swivel attached to your main line 9" dropper to a 1/16 oz jig head and crappie tube 12" dropper to a 1/16 jig head and crappie tube Throw it out and twitch it, they will try and take the rod out of your hand. Doubles are very common. It is something about that schooling look with two of those tubes going through the water together that just gets them to hit, I've fished 1 jig head and caught a few then went to two and caught a ton, then back to one and catch a few. The two jigs at least doubles your catch even if you are catching them one at a time. Two 2" white grubs works also.

I remember when I was first starting to bass fish, dad would always spray our culprit electric blue worms with craw BANG. I havent seen that stuff used in years, every time someone talks scent it is the new fancy pastes and XXXXX strong this and that. Does anyone use the old fashioned can of BANG?

What is under the pads? Any coontail or grass? If you are just punching pads then a 1/2-3/4 should do it. Aim for holes.

If those are your two options, I would go for the 82 hand control. It may slow you down having to reach down to use it.. but I wouldnt want to pull a pontoon around with a 50lb. As for wiring, its very simple. You just buy the minnkota parts necessary, I think they even have a kit! Check their website.

This spring for about a week every bass I caught had a catfish tail hanging out of their mouths. The first couple I thought were shad but then I caught one with only the head in the throat and I was able to GENTLY remove it with hemostats to see what it was. About a 3" channel catfish. Didnt surprise me, that week I probably snagged 30 of those little catfish by accident. Last year must have been a good hatch.