spartyon8

Hit up DSG right now. They have a huge clearance sale going.

It is extremely crazy as to how high these prices continue to climb. I have a personal rule about never paying retail for anything. With that being said, check out DSG right now. They are clearancing about 60% of their fishing supply including Lucky Craft and a few other "higher priced" lures.

5/0 EGW for my tubes.

Switch it up by texas rigging your tubes and you will see an increase in production. Tube headed jigs never really took off as much as t-rigging the tubes.

I tried worm binders and they just managed to tick me off more than help. I found the easiest way was original bags inside of gallon ziplocs. I label them trailers, senkos, swimbaits, craws, tubes, etc. I put all of the bags into my old soft sided tackle bag. Of everything I have tried, I seem to have kept this method the longest.

I don't have a very fancy finder and, honestly, am not very good using a finder to find fish. I have my usual spots and somewhere in the vacinity of my "spot" I will land smallies. My uncle taught me to use the areas where faster moving water meets calm water, even the hidden areas, and that is when I anchor down. The fish finder, for me, doesn't do much when I am targeting smallies. A map of the lake showing springs or rivers is better.

Any place there is a rocky substrate and higher oxygen levels (i.e. submersed rivers/springs) seem to alway produce for me. I may not catch the biggest but I seem to catch quantity and most colorfully vibrant smallies in these places.

Just pulling your chain!

Great advice from someone who shed his for an avatar pic? Haha!

As a 3rd grade teacher myself, I decided to take my nephew (1st grader) out fishing this summer and we spent 8 hours on the lake. I made sure that he was catching fish. I forced him to get hands on with taking the hook out and putting his own crappie nibbles on. I threw his spincast reel in my locker and gave him my crappie spinning reel. Taught him for a few casts and he was all on his own. Just knowing what I do from inside of a classroom of youngsters, staying occupied is difficult but VERY rewarding. This concept is even used when I speak with parents. As long as I keep them in the loop or doing something with their children, all runs smoothly.

No...the cold Illinois winter has shut me down for a while.

I picked up 2 of those GM Vortex rods 2 weeks ago for $15 in store.

"There's a snake in my boat!"

I love my BassPro Extreme Qualifier 370. It has more than enough room that I always end up overloading. I would stay away from the blue softsided Plano bags from Walmart. I bought one to store my plastice and both seems ripped with less than a month of little use.

How about: BASSN