Jaderose

I throw and lose a LOT of the old H&H Spinner baits. Of the hundreds I've used over the years, I don't think I have EVER put the hook on right side up on the first try. I'd hate to guess how many times I've screwed up, taken the hook off, confused myself and did it wrong AGAIN. Love those things but they sure as heck confuse me!

I did this not once but TWICE in one day a few days ago. Brand new hair jigs...gone. I left after the 2nd one. Figured I'd wind up hurting myself if I was gonna be THAT absent-minded

This.

Looks like a good place to be in the morning with a coffee or at sunset with a bourbon. Bravo

I love throwing my Lazy Ikes occasionally. Those ol suckers flat out catch fish.

95% of of my fish is caught on a weightless T-rigged Stik-o, a skirted Shaky Head or a jig with a creature or craw bait of some sort, or a frog. I do throw a lipless crank occasionally and spinner baits when conditions call for it. I'll throw tubes occasionally, too, but to me these are just variations of the same techniques. I have gear to cover most "techniques" but rarely use it. I see new "techniques" (usually from Japan) and they look interesting but forget about them 10 minutes after I see them. This is exactly how I think about this.....a T-rig is a T-rig. Topwater is topwater. It's just that conditions call for using different types of the same tool. These are all screw drivers....

My first cast on my little lake is always to a high percentage brush pile that's off shore maybe 80 yards so it's quite likely my first cast will net a fish. Along with my 2nd, 3rd, etc. So no....I expect a fish on my first cast.

I wouldn't go out on the water without polarized sun glasses. For the obvious protection but also for clarity and my little lake I fish is so full of stumps under the surface that I'd spend all day pinballing off them if I didn't wear my shades. Forgetting my sunglasses is a deal breaker for me on the water

My PB was caught from shore in weird conditions. It was kind of a fluke but she hit the bait, I set the hook, got her in, weighed her, unhooked her and put her back. It counted and she won't be bested for awhile. In that lake anyway. I don't typically have a scale with me. I don't really much care. BUT, my PB was weighed because I was on shore and a guy fishing close to me actually DID have a scale and insisted on weighing it as it was the biggest fish he had ever seen pulled from the little lake I usually fish at. This ol girl was 9.3 lbs. I didn't get a pic as I was too excited and threw her back before I could think to. A few days later I hooked one that I believed to actually be bigger but she threw the frog. That small stretch of a coupla days is also what set me on the path of becoming a frogger. They say that to learn something deeply requires you to do it 10,000 times. I have no doubt I've made at least 10k frog casts since then!

Senko and Pit Boss. If you can't catch something on one of those 2, go home or go somewhere else.

Put on your glasses and just stick it back through.

Northland Thumper Jig. Good colors. Well made. Made in USA 2 pack - 4 bucks.

Braid on frog rod and finesse spinning rod. Obviously, VERY different sizes. No leaders. EXCEPT......I will tie a short (usually FC because I have FC leader material) leader on my frog rod. I know, crazy, right? Hear me out.....A great deal of my frogging is bomb casting out over very heavy muck mats that are FULL of stumps and underwater wood. I have absolutely no way of getting my boat into these areas. Inevitably, I get hung up and the hang up might be 30-40 yards from the boat. I can't break 50 lb braid. I CAN break the knot on 20 lb FC or Mono. That way I'm leaving one ft of mono at the hung up frog as opposed to however many YARDS of Braid that I was forced to cut . Better for the environment and better on my wallet. I should also say that on my first day out every spring (before the muck mats develop) I try to go around and collect all the frogs I lost the previous season.

12 miles. Driveway to ramp.

SS Custom Jigs. Can be found on the Facebook. Dude makes great jigs at very reasonable prices

Very nice. Still waiting my first DD bass. It'll happen.......someday!

How big were they? Have you tried a Yo-Zuri Snap Bean?

This and Chrome Red....

I C&R too. I mash down the barbs on ALL hooks except for Jigs and Frogs. My hook up and landing rate hasn't suffered.

I resisted GP for a long time because I figured the water I fish is basically the same color so how could fish "see" it. I finally tried it a few years ago and have never looked back. I do use other colors depending on conditions but consistently GP/blk flake with tail (or claws or tentacles or whatever) tipped in JJ's Chartreuse usually does the trick.

I put my stopper up the line a few inches and put a couple of beads....one glass and one shiny metal between the bait and the weight. It works like a rattle. Nice little *click* sound when I'm working the bait. Works for me

You can't tell by the picture but it's also weedless.

Both excellent colors of the old H&H Spinnerbaits. Throw them both all the time

Same boat here. I have nothing against the Ned Rig or or anything that catches fish but throwing it in the lake I fish most of the time would be the same as taking the money I spent on any of it and just throwing THAT directly in the water

I suspect THIS will qualify. I have another one just like it black. The inspiration for this is a Chrome/Blue and Chrome/Black Rat-L-Trap. Custom made. My thought was to use this on a shallow flat I fish occasionally on Bluebird days. Guess what? It works. I put a white twin tail grub on them tipped with JJ's Red.