jcoffman55

Cool, I'd love to read it. It's interesting to learn about how little tweaks in lure design came about from these guys experiences isn't it. I could fish a lure for years and never notice a little feature then learn something about it by reading about it's development and then the light bulb comes on. Might not catch any more fish but it's cool lol. Thanks!

some jig heads for those grubs you already have a chrome or blue and chrome rattle trap a super spook jr new bag of zoom trick worms new bag of zoom super flukes new bag of zoom brush hogs should set you back about 24 bucks.

Zoom super fluke - bluegill flash, dip tail in chart jj's magic. It's a killer for me in ponds with lots of bluegill

The first post after your picture nailed it. Those hooks are much stouter than a standard hook and are meant to be used with heavy rods with heavy test braid. If you use too light a rod with say 10 or 12 pound mono you likely will set the hook, but not have enough "power" to push past the barb and the fish will throw the hook. The Gama regular gauge offset hooks are the best of their type IMO. You can catch them at Dicks Sporting Goods every once in a while for two packs for five bucks. Give those a try.

I broke my all time favorite rod tip off last weekend. I'm still in mourning. Had that thing for like ten years was my BFF, we caught hundreds if not thousands of fish together. RIP......... FYI power window in my truck......

Yes you can. Ironically, I find that when the bass are more finicky and are short striking my baits a bigger hook gets the point further back on the bait and I'll actually catch more fish with it. I just find that the action of the bait sometimes suffers depending on the bait itself.

Keep the soft plastics in the original bags and put them in one of those speed bag things. Those are great. Then carry three boxes, terminal, and divide up top water/ crank/ jig- whatever between the remaining two boxes. Done! I carry three rods too in my Yak, two spinning and one casting. Usually.

Not necessarily my all time favorite but d**n nice for the money and I never see them brought up on here. The Academy brand H2O poppers. They have great finishes, VMC hooks, epoxy dressed thread on the feathered hook, oval split ring, AND were recently on sell for 3.99. Cheaper than a POP-R in my stores and soooo much better quality out of the box. They spit more than pop, and to be honest, they fish walk and sound a lot like my rico......go figure.

Superspook Jr. with feather tail booyaa popin padcrasher (although I found some nories nf 60's on sale and am liking them very much) one of my new faves is the z man pop shad love that thing. it's like a floating fluke with a cupped mouth that pops a little and is totally weedless.

Did a brief search and don't know if it has been covered before. I love Elaztech, I love JJ's. Don't know why I haven't discovered this unfortunate phenomenon before. But JJ's dissolved my Z man's lizard yesterday and I mean instantly lol. Now my JJ's is full of little black flakes from my watermelon lizard. In other, happier news, when I replaced said dissolved lizard, and threw out my mojo rig. I was happy to find that the bass were on the beds in my local pond and attacked the lizard with much ferocity. All in all it was a good day.

Little late but mine was the weightless zoom trick worm- watermelon chat tail superspook jr in black shiner Booya popin pad crasher

No, I can't cast 80 yards with my bass rig, wish I could though. I just wish the reel manufactures and the line manufactures would settle on a standard "fill up" size. It's kind of like buying eight hot dog weiners and ten buns, or more often then not a reel with 170 yard line capacity and spools that come in 150 or 300 yards. Just barely not enough to get you there. It's frustrating.

I would go 20 lb bright colored braid with a 12 lb flouro leader. Braid floats, flouro sinks. I like the combo because if I'm throwing over grass or pads the braid stays on top and is visible, letting me see a lot of bites that I don't feel due to the muk, The flouro leader helps the bait sink, but doesn't drag my whole line down with it. This lets me target specific "holes" in the pads or grass without my whole line getting mixed up in it. I can hit a hole and my bait will sink down into it slowly while my braid stays more or less higher up. I also feel like I can keep a little more slack in the line when I want to with the braid,flouro leader combo which lets me work the bait more effectively for a lot of presentations. My favorite is a weightless soft plastic on a smallish light wire EWG hook on a four to six foot leader with braid main line. I thinks this gives an awesome presentation to a trick worm or fluke while letting me see the line on the water. I don't worry about it because the flouro is all the fish is really around. This is my favorite spinning setup. Also, as a side benefit, if I do get hung up real bad and have to break off, the leader breaks and this lets me keep the majority of my main line. I just carry around a small spool of flouro and retie a new leader on. Albright knot with a drop of super glue is what I use. Always wrap the braid, not the flouro.

I use 15 lb braid on a med action rod with a 10 lb flouro leader. I love the way this setup casts, but more importantly, I really like the way the braid sort of floats on top of the water with a lot of slack in it and the flouro sinks. This lets me sort of control the depth or sinking of the weightless rig and the flouro sort of acts like a weight. I dead stick the fluke around structure and when I twitch the slack braid the fluke shoots up towards the surface then wiggles back down. Sort of like senko fishing but with something that looks a lot more like a wounded minnow. I've caught a LOT of fish using this setup and it is my favorite for fluke fishing around cover near the shore. Throwing them at schooling fish in open water is a little different. I call what I was talking about finesse fluking and It is a lot of fun. You just watch the braid, use high vis since you have a leader, when it starts doing something different sweep set the hook. Oh yea for a regular super fluke, I use a smallish 3/0 gamakatsu lightwire EWG. I think it gives the fluke more action and a better fall as it's less nose heavy. I've gone through different weight flouro, and you can get different sink rates by using heavier or lighter line for your leader.

I have always wondered why in the world reel manufactures design bass bait casters to hold so much line. Now you're seeing some with 165 yards capacity, but a lot of premium lines come in 150 yd spools. Go figure.

Why don't you stick with the braid and just use a leader. When you want to tie on a frog, cut off the leader and tie directly to braid. Back to finesse fishing, tie a short leader back on. Problem solved. That's how I do it. Much of my fishing is done with one or two rods at most so I have to be versatile.

I like the low profile of the albright for casting, but I always use a tiny drop of zap a gap brand super glue over the knot. Mainly use this to eliminate the little frayed ends of the braid tag end, but I assume it helps greatly with the know strength as I've never lost a fluorocarbon leader either. If I break, it's at the hook end.

zoom trick worm weightless, watermelon with chartreuse tail.

my two best pond baits are a zoom trick work rigged weightless, and a pearl white super fluke rigged weightless. I always manage to catch fish using those two even on the slowest days.

It never ceases to amaze me, but I've recovered a couple of lures from fish that I've caught where someone else's line had broken off apparently. I even recovered a mepps spinner from a trout's mouth that someone lost. lol

It never ceases to amaze me, but on a couple of occasions I've gotten some nice lures that were still lodged in a bass from where someone's line had broken. I even recovered a mepps spinner from a trout's mouth that it had broken off of someone's line. lol.

best two lures overall for me are weightless superfluke in white pearl, and any natural color zoom trick worm. Both rigged on a 1/0 or 2/0 gamakatsu wide gap hook. biggest large mouth bass is 8 lb 4 oz on a weightless zoom trick worm in motor oil/ chartreuse tail Having said that, I've caught some pretty good strippers on x raps. Whenever I go to the beach I tend to tear up the redfish and trout on x raps as well.

I have had very, very good luck with the white pearl color. It has outperformed, overall, of any color of super fluke that I've ever thrown. Yes, on some days, they want something a little darker or perhaps that shows a better silhouette, but overall, that's my go to. Also, for some reason, it seems like often even the bigger fish seem to prefer the super fluke Jr in white pearl. I also have had better luck with smaller hooks like a 1/0 wide gap. I think it has something to do with letting the bait have a better action. I have also been having some really good luck with a couple of zoom's new colors, sexy shad and (I think it's called) bluegill flash. They're pretty similar to each other. They seem to be producing very well for me this spring. When it's stained, I throw a bubble gum pink super fluke. It's not transparent at all and I think it gives a better silhouette for the fish to see. I almost always fish them weightless. They and weightless trick worms are by far my most successful baits.

Fill both!