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F-11 original floating minnow in silver

I agree with the night fishing also. This time of year I always catch more fish at night, plus as an added bonus the lakes will be way less crowded and it won't be as hot. At night in ponds I just take a handful of baits. A black single Colorado spinnerbait, a black cavitron buzzbait, a black jitterbug topwater, black 7" and 10" worms, and a black jig and trailer. I carry a few white lures too but usually catch more on black. I add rattles to the bottom contact stuff and even the spinnerbait. May just be a confidence thing but I catch more fish with rattles at night or in dirty water.

It depends on whether you want a lot on fish or want to go after the biggest bass in the pond. If you want a lot use senkos, shaky heads, ned rig, drop shots, and smaller hard baits and jigs, spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits. If you want to catch the biggest one try a large jig and trailer, a 10 inch worm, or large spinnerbait. Or try my favorite, a bluegill imitating swim bait like the Mattlures ultimate and u2 gill, savage gear gill, little creeper sunfish, hudd gill, etc. My personal favorite is the ultimate gill but I've caught fish on all these. Most ponds have bluegills and panfish, crawfish, and frogs as the forage base. Try imitating these and see what you catch. Small baits do catch big fish, and small bass hit large baits, but most or the time I find I catch much larger bass on average on large baits than small ones. Also I'd much rather catch 1 or 2 big ones (or more if they are biting good), than 20 keeper size 12-15 inch bass

I'd experiment and see what works best for you. I use everything from 4 inch straight tail finesse worms to 10 inch ribbon tails to craws, creatures, and I've even caught fish on lizards and flukes on shakyheads. My favorite is the whopper baits boxing craw

I like the entire lucky craft top water line, but the gunfish, sammy, and Kelly j are my favorites

If its the hard bait with trebles then your line and rod setup should be fine. A med abu rod is what most manufacturers would call mh anyway. I'd try doing as small jaw suggests and use shorter twitches.

There are lots on rods made in china. Dobyns rods are too, and many other manufacturers including lots on jdm rods. If you want American look at loomis, St Croix, edge rods, kistler, falcon, hammer, alx, and others or have a custom made

To me it would be worth it because the avid is made in us and the mojo is made in mexico. I also like the full cork on the avid. The avid X is supposed to be very nice also, I'm just partial to full cork. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the avid has a better warranty also. The new mojo is a very nice rod also, and I think you would be happy with either of those or the avid x

Big game is going to be way to stiff and have too much memory for sure. Sunline supernatural us pretty limp. I've used 12 on a spinning reel (3000 size) and it handled ok. I have a buddy that uses 14 lb original stren on a 4000 Shimano sahara and it works for him. I don't know about much higher though, maybe 17 would work for you. If you want a very strong line though u may be better off going with 40 lb braid or so on a spinning reel because of memory and line twist issues

It was supposed to say u40 instead of up. Sorry my phone got me again

You can try filling it with cork filler and sanding it and applying up to seal it to patch it up. As far as the Winn grips I have no idea but I have fixed cork handles like this before

Most ponds, especially in the south, have bluegill and other panfish as the main forage fish. These, crawfish, and frogs are what the bass feed on. I'd pick up a few spinnerbaits and buzzbaits, and spend most of the money on paddle tail swim baits, creature baits, soft frogs,and ribbontail worms. Spend what's left on some ewg hooks and light bullet weights in 1/8 and 1/4 since the water will most likely be shallow. As far as brands I like war eagle spinnerbaits(pond scum perch color in ponds), cavitron buzzbaits(black), and I use many brands of plastics but big bite baits, Berkeley havoc, and yum are all good value brands that give you a lot of baits cheap. In plastics watermelon or pumpkinseed for clear water, green pumpkin in murky water, and black and blue in murky water or at night

I use the blue bass master bag and I also have side pockets on my backpack that hold 10-12 bags each and the front pocket hold about 20 bags plus pliers and tools. I keep my hardbaits in 3700 size boxes in the main compartment and terminal tackle in a 3700 shallow box. There is enough room in the top of the main compartment to put the BASS bag full of plastics in the top. I can pack it so full i can barely stand to carry it to my fishing spot if I want to, but usually I don't pack that much and only take lures I know I'll be using

I'd go with the tatula(can be found around 110 shipped depending on length) or an *** black. Or if you are open to used rods you might find a crazy good deal on a much more expensive rod

Sorry the spell check on my phone got me and I didn't catch that lol. The crazy crawler is basically the same bait. The jack all probably has better hooks but you could put owner stingers or other hooks of your choice and still buy 2 for the price of one Pompadour. The only difference I see is the addition of a small spinner to the rear trouble, but the crazy crawler makes plenty of commotion.

Super flukes, weightless senkos, tubes with insert heads, floating worms(white, chartreuse, and methiolate), jigs, and shakeyhead jigs all work for me

My mistake I meant to say the Hudson crazy crawler and not the jitterbug. I'm not saying the bait won't catch fish, just that you can buy the same thing for less money

Basically the same thing as a jitterbug. Imo no they aren't worth it. I'm also always on TT and I haven't heard much about this bait. Those guys use all the latest and greatest jdm stuff and if it was that good I'm sure they would be talking about it

Vimageoutdoors.com has originals, chug-n-spooks, and one knocker spooks on sale for $4.99-5.79

Definitely the original. Look around at different places online and you can probably find them on sale somewhere

For crank baits in the lower price ranges, bomber 5a and 6 a, bandit 100 and 200, and all the Norman cranks work great for me. I really like the whole rapala dt series and spro rock crawler and little John series, but they cost a little more. The lucky crafts are excellent but I buy most of mine used or on sale because I crank a lot of cover and hate breaking off an expensive bait. Lip less I like super spots and red eye shade and booyah (were excalibur). Jerkbaits I like the bomber long a, Smithwick rogue, rapala original floater, husky jerk, and X rap, and lucky craft pointer 78sp and 100sp. There are tons of good baits out there though and what I like may be different from what you like. As for colors I keep it simple. Shad colors, bluegill colors, and craw colors are basically all I use with a few chartreuse based patterns for murky water or if I'm going after smallmouth

I'd look at the daily tabula 7'2" heavy or 7'4" heavy frogging rod. Very versatile rods that handle about anything from 1/2 oz frogs, to 3/4 oz football jigs, to 2 oz or so swim baits and a rigs. They retail for more than your budget but can be found on the auction site and other places for 110 or so shipped

Nice! I'd get the other core as well

If you want to make them squeak, just hit the rivet with a piece of sandpaper

I went ahead and checked and they do have a kit for the air that comes with the bearing and instructions for about 10 dollars