lectricbassman

Colgate total whitening. When I get a chance today I'll post a pic.

Colgate makes a cap that fits...

Ive experimented with all kinds of keepers and glue. Keepers usually foul up with moss and algae in the waters I fish so here's what I do. I fish them weightless on a spinning rod spooled with braid. I put a 12lb flourcarbon leader in that. Here's the trick, when you tie your hook on, leave about 1/4" on your tag end of the knot. When you rig the bait, push the hook point into the bait a little further than you usually do. This will bury the knot along with the tag end into the head of then bait. The short rigid tag usually provides enough to grip the elaztech material. You will have to play around with lengths of tags and depths of hook rigging to see what works best. I will say that this is not 100% guarantee and eventually it will tear up enough to start sliding down again. This is however the most unobtrusive way to rig them if your looking for weed less.

Stanley top toad!

Electrician by trade, bass man by hobby

I was once told by a very successful guide that smaller baitfish are more susceptible to being bothered by td noise, not bass themselves. I dont know but it made sense to me.

wish i had a pic, but i once set a 4/0 worm hook on a fish that tore a gash from the fishes belly to about midway up its side. It was a dink so i couldn't legally keep it, had to throw it back but I felt bad, pretty sure it didn't make it...

Konowa is a powerplant lake so theres usually warm water to hold the bass, its smaller than arbuckle too, could make it easier to locate the fish. Arbuckle on the other hand has some big fish in it! If youre comfortable fishing offshore you could possibly catch some monsters right now.

A-Jay, im diggin the canvas prints. Ive got a few fish that ive wanted to replica mount but no good place to really display them. This however is a great idea! Where do you get the prints done? Also, third pic from the left, is a beautiful pic. Ive seen it here before and for whatever reason the angle and fish are striking! Well done.

Texas rigged weightless, popped like a fluke or jerkbait

I agree, nothing wrong with a spinning setup to get started. My first decent setup was a pflueger president with a medium fast action rod. Still use it all the time even though i lve made the transition to baitcasters.

Fisherman bragging on facebook, to me, is the number one way to ruin a spot. I no longer post any fishing pictures for that very reason. I wont go into details but it happened here very recently.

Lol no kidding! Its sad how easily people are duped by bad photoshoped images these days.

Thanks for the tips, ill keep everyone updated on this thread on my progress

I think im going to make the jump into rod building! Since its my first time and im not sure how well it will go im not planning on spending huge amounts of money right away. Im looking at the CRB starter kit from mudhole that comes with the tools, supplies, and crb rod blank etc. My question is this, how good are the crb blanks? Would they be an upgrade from the basspro graphite series rods? And on that note, anyone use the mhx blanks? If so how do they rate? Lot of questions here and im sure ill need more info and help. Thanks in advance for your help, im excited to make the jump!