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No sense in buying a fragile orange stick. Fix the blanks and then the orange can once again be cool.

Lowlands typically have more grass and timber and less or no pelagic baitfish. Bass will be relatively shallow all year due to presence of grass to insulate water. Frogs bugs sunfish and minnows are primary forage. Highlands are rockier and deeper. Main prey is pelagic baitfish and crawdads. Bass orient to depth changes like humps points and ledges that force schooling shad into a tighter area. Lack of insulating grass and presence of shad will push the bass deeper in summer and winter.

Brush heads would be okay. But football heads are more useful with swing heads as they don't tip over and deflect off cover. I haven't had a problem with snags when pitching to wood with football heads.

Personally I'd prefer just the head without hook so I can put split rings and my own hook on it. I'd buy a ton in the 1/4 to 3/4 range. What would be super is if you found a way to add a skirt.

Which brand frog? Zoom seemed to be the main one used. May try a shellcracker rigged sideways

Read an article about forrest wood cup and FLW tour and how popular using a buzzbait with plastic toad was. Added casting distance, lift, and bulk.

Any rod that can handle an ounce or ounce and a quarter with xfast action. I don't often get to 1 oz but that's the stiffness I want.

Two zero calorie monsters Reeses and kit kats. Usually have a couple sandwiches but I don't consider those snacks.

That's what it is, except you can get a mount for the boat so you stay still. They really are all about the same. Dig in has more mounting options though.

Looking at these for our 17' tracker. Anyone have them? Would prefer 10 foot over 8 just for extra options but not sure if it's worth the extra money. Stick it anchoring is cheaper but there 10 foot is two piece and they have less mounting options. Would prefer not drilling holes into boat.

They can be found for $60

Anyone use these? Video with Palaniuk doubling over 250 pound braid and destroying it was impressive. The needle nose pliers are nice too.

I walked to the pond with a bow hunter my age. He didn't know what to make of me bass fishing. He was pretty surprised when he came back through and I told him what I had caught.

May go after work. Was thinking a 1/8oz shaky and roboworm. Weightless trig may not get under the pads.

I'd like to find another tdz. Maybe a type r tatula.

Fishing from shore...Hard to say. High 40s at lowest and maybe 4 or 5 at deepest. Average probably 2 feet.

Found a shallow pond with green pads on about half the lake. Didn't get any bites from the pads. What strategy would yall suggest? I was working swim jig through which often pulled to surface by pads. Also tried a frog but I wasn't confident doing so and switched. Drop a jig in and let it sit? Try to pull a wakebait through gaps? Hard to maintain bottom contact with all the pads.

Went to a new pond today and was slow rolling a 1/2 swim jig through timber and got bit by a ~3#. Felt like I was hung on a branch until he took off. My 2nd smaller one was the same deal when I was jigging it. Also had a small one hit a crankbait on outside weedline. More time and not fishing from shore I may have done better. Air temps were right at 40. May post a pic later of my first ever November bass

Okuma tcs is well within your budget

3 pounds I figure. Dad caught an 8 on an old fashioned snag proof

Location is a given....I'm not shooting an elephant in my back yard. Action trumps all Switching trailers from lots of action to little and boom. Soft plastic fluttering down won't get bit but a crank smashing into same tree will.

About the size of holes I was making. Going to look for thinner soldering tips to make a cleaner and smaller hole.

I always heard they were for turning on a school of suspending bass. I wouldn't buy one though

I'm from WV. DD bass are very rare. If I'm hunting for one I'm going to back off shore and fish where my boat would be especially in spring. There is no surefire catchall. You gotta understand the water and have a lot of luck.

My thoughts exactly