fishballer06

3.5 days to get your picks in for the final event. Our current top 5 is: pexari32 Bigfishadventures78 bfric fish527 blckshirt98 Only 612 points separate our top ten guys. Anything is possible in this last event.

@billmac You live in northern NY and you've never heard the term hard water?! OP - This blows my mind. Get yourself a Baby 1- and crank that thing around any submerged grass you can find and you will get bit. I promise it.

Here's the skirts I've been making. The little bit of red and orange matches the belly/fins of the perch around here perfectly. http://i.imgur.com/lcZd5yp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HxwcmUa.jpg

I had a terrible event on Tenkiller. Dropped a few spots in the standings. 5 more days until AOY Championship tournament. Get your picks in. This is the final event of the year!

1. Learn to wire tire jig skirts. 2. Reorganize my tackle/garage. 3. Hope that my less than 2 year old son learns to shovel the snow from the driveway.

Swim jigs/chatterbaits with a perch colored skirt. They're a little hard to find, so I've been building my own.

You can tell these guys didn't get to properly scout this lake. 10th place right now has 7 pounds even. The leader has around 11 pounds.

A Cavitron is the slowest buzzbait I have ever found. I fish them on a 5:1 Chronarch because of how slow they can be retrieved. I fish the 1/4oz version, and I'll cut a 1" piece of an old senko up and thread it on the shank of the hook. This gives my bait a little more weight to get me some more distance, and it gives the fish something soft and salty to feel whenever they bite the bait and make them hold on a little longer. There's no need for a big bulky trailer on a buzzbait unless the fish really want a larger profile. In which case, a Fluke or some sort of craw trailer is probably a better option than a paddle tail type swimbait.

What's with all these mid-January questions this week?

I thought they had been discontinued almost a year ago...

I went with a H powered rod for this one. Lots of modern H powered rods have a soft enough tip that I can still launch 1/4oz baits. Having the Heavy powered rod allows me to fish heavier baits and frogs, while still being able to throw a 1/4oz jig or crankbait. As for the hook question, lately I find myself preferring a jig over a texas rig if I'm pitching/flipping. So I went with the offset shank, because it kinda gives me the best of both worlds.

I own the 7'2" H Expride and I've been surprised at how light of stuff I've been able to throw with it. The tip is soft enough to throw 1/4oz baits a long way, but it's got that heavy backbone to drive the hook home on my heavier wire jigs.

Everyone - If you made your picks early for this event, please double check and make sure your picks are still in there. With them switching this event from Ft. Gibson to Lake Tenkiller, I don't want something wonky happening to anyone's picks. https://www.bassmaster.com/news/tenkiller-offers-species-trio-elite-regular-season-finale

Like others have mentioned, if I'm throwing a spinnerbait in clearer water, there's likely wind involved where I want that flash and thump to help the fish sense the bait better. The swim jig shines in a more subtle presentation, or whenever the grass is nearly topped out on the surface.

Less than a week until the next tournament. Get those picks in boys!

For me, it's more about balance and sensitivity rather than an inch, or two, or three.

Honey, is that you on here?

Canoes, kayaks, and shore fisherman? How are these guys keeping fish alive for hours until weigh in? We have a lake here in western PA that gets around 40 boats on a 300 acre lake for tournaments. There's only so many spots and there's almost always 3-6 boats at each "hole". Despite winning one of those tournaments, I've quit fishing tournaments on that lake because there's too much fishing on top of one another and in the long run, tournaments like that are detrimental to small bodies of water like that.

30 boats on 42 acres?! Woof...

Sounds good to me. Sign me up. If no on else is able to handle the shipping logistics, I might be able to help.

Can someone fill me in on this? I'd love to jump into this.

KVD Line and Lure is a Godsend for all flurocarbon lines.

Well, I missed all the good Labor Day sales being away on vacation...

I've ordered Shimano reels from various retailers in Japan and received them in 2 business days. Yet, if I order from TW, it takes 5 days every single time.

That reel holds 70 yards of 14lb line. That's more than enough to cast jigs.