Senko lover

I've had some luck with the Big Bite Baits chunk. They're cheap and might be what you're looking for. They're very small. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Big_Bite_Baits_Chunk_10pk/descpage-BBBCHNK.html http://shop.bigbitebaits.com/Chunk-275_c62.htm I don't like those types of trailers anymore and usually just put some sort of rage product on the back of my finesse jigs. I also really like a bit-off trick work, similar to what you do with your chatterbaits sometimes.

I've found EWG's to lose fish for me - I only use them with thicker plastics like toads and senkos. I gave them up a long time ago for smaller baits.

1. Leave your crankbaits at home 2. Chuck it anywhere you'd throw a crankbait and a lot of places you wouldn't 3. Enjoy

I'd love to hear some advice about investing. I've been doing a little bit of research about options and also learning about investing and financial choices through a personal finance course. Here's my situation: I'm 16, and I've managed to put a decent chunk of change (for me, at least) in the bank over the last two years. It's not much, I'll just say around 7k, but looking ahead, every bit of it is going to be sucked up in the near future unless I do something about it. I'm going to be paying for a car, insurance, and gas money in the next few months. I'm also 100% responsible for funding my college education. That's all coming up fairly quickly, and what I've worked hard to save is going to go down the toilet in the next year or so. Typically, the advice I've seen is to pay for your college education before starting any kind of investments. However, my thinking is that once I graduate college, I'll likely have some form of debt and a life to pay for - life out of college isn't necessarily financially easy. I won't have money sitting in the bank then like I do now, and I don't want to have to borrow money to invest. So, my thinking is it would be advantageous to start something right now while I can still make the investment. It would be a small amount, sure, but it would be a snowball type of mentality. I'm thinking about investing a small sum, say $1,000, into something that (1) prioritizes diversification, (2) is a low risk, long-term type of deal, and (3) something that I'll be adding to for decades to come. This is not something I'm thinking about as a get-rich-quick strategy. I'm seeing it as an investment in my future. Am I a complete idiot for wanting to do this at 16? Is that even a workable plan? Will investing companies laugh at a thousand dollar deposit? What advice from your personal experience would you have for me as far as going down this route? I know next to nothing about where I would go to invest this or what all my options are. The last thing I want to do is waste my money. I've talked to my parents about this, but they've had bad experiences with investing in the past and could give me very little guidance. I appreciate any help y'all can give me.

I broke two guides on my favorite rod and a local tackle shop made it look good as new for $35.00.

I can't get past how thick they are. They feel wrong to me in hand, never fished one.

I had to back out of all my prize groups last year when I was leading a lot of them - I'm under 18, so I'm not eligible for any of the prize sweepstakes. I just play because I love the sport. Similar to the way that the Bassmaster employees all play fantasy fishing even though the rules say no employees of Bassmaster are eligible lol.

RIP tires

I'm a big Warriors fan so let's do this!!

Almost certainly a post-spawn tourney. Here's something y'all may or may not find helpful: "Among all the popular activities that go along with a lake or reservoir, bass fishing is the most popular sport on Ross Barnett. Other species such as spotted bass, crappie, and catfish attract lots of fishermen; bass fishing brings the most folks to the reservoir. With the size of Ross Barnett, there are quite a few different ways to catch bass. In springtime, the fish are moving shallow for the spawn. You might have some difficulty finding the bass but once located you definitely want to plastic jerkbaits and floating trick style worms, smaller spinnerbaits, and lightly weighted lizards. Summertime brings on a great deal of vegetation in the reservoir. Lots of anglers are flipping the vegetation, working spinnerbaits, or dragging plastic frogs across the top of the vegetation. Fishermen also move out to the ledges with deep crankbaits and carolina-rigged plastics. You can also find schooling fish in many areas of the lake during summertime. Casting surface lures at the abundant schoolers can provide a lot of fun for the bass fisherman. The schooling bass carry over into the fall and fishermen also continue many of the same summertime patterns such as spinnerbaits and lures that work well in vegetation. If you are going to Ross Barnett in wintertime, be sure to have jigs with trailers, rattletraps, spinnerbaits, and worms on hand. These have historically been the best producers during the cold weather months."

Every person I've heard from that's done the marshal program says that's it's a really awesome experience.

I fail to understand why the guy threw a hissy fit about it - he's a grown man, and patients or no patients, he should have accepted the situation as part of flying. That said, the way they handled the whole thing was totally unprofessional.

The only kind of history they have on it is a couple of opens in 2013 and 2015...however, I've found that open results tend to be a little misleading for elite series tournaments. There are some guys that do great in the opens (Stephen Browning would be an example of a good opens angler) but tank in the Elite series, and the other way around. Paul Elias is the closest thing we have to home lake advantage, but he said that hasn't fished the lake since back in the day when he was using an aluminum boat, so he doesn't see himself as having an advantage. I was able to dig up some old articles of his and it would appear he knows The Rez fairly well. That said, a lot of the elite guys visited it for the Open in 2015. The reservoir is fairly small and has lily pads as the predominate cover - like lots and lots of lily pads. There are also a couple of big marinas with boat docks, and some rip rap banks up by the dam. There's also shallow backwater-looking creeks. It's definitely going to be a shallow water tournament I would imagine. Edit: I mean recent history, there's been tournaments on it back in the 90s and earlier, probably. Bobby Murray won a Bassmaster Classic here.

Justin I'm hacking your account and giving you Chris Lane for all five buckets next tourney man - I don't want to ship some jigs to your door lol Is it just me or is Ross Barnett a fantasy nightmare......

It was good to see Murray get the win today, as opposed to some of the guys that have been doing really well lately. Big hats off to him!

Three in contention tomorrow, sitting in 74th%.

lol it's weird seeing your thread from 2014 come back haha.

Sitting in 76.2. My gamble on Chris Lane having a comeback tourney did not pan out - the man has never been able to do anything wrong on this body of water but must have offended some higher powers because he can't do squat right now. Other than him, things are shaping up for a fantastic weekend. A good bag by KVD today and I could see him getting into the top twelve. My other three have gotten top twelves both days, so Sunday could be good for me. We shall see. It's funny that y'all find Davy so fascinating. I actually have really missed Zona - he provides the zest and humor into the conversation that really goes a long way. I like Davy just fine though, he's been a good addition to the team. The lack of coverage is annoying, to say the least. This happened in 2016 and at some point they may decide to only start fishing venues that have good live coverage. I don't know, but Toledo sure sucks in that regard.

I only fish jigs with straight braid, and that's because I put my jigs in places that fluorocarbon wouldn't survive.

My advice - similar to what some other guys have said - would be to look around for some deals on a new or used reel that's in a more expensive price range. If you're not in a hurry, you can find some really good bargains. I got a $140 Lew's Tourney MG reel as my first baitcaster, and got it for $50.00 brand new on black friday. One heck of a deal and I wish I had gotten more lol.

I have developed more confidence in a chatterbait, especially during prespawn, then with a spinnerbait. However, I do love me a chartreuse/white willow blade just about any time of the year.

I use a nike back pack with three plano boxes, a gallon bag of soft plastic bags, a cd case with buzzbaits and spinnerbaits, and scales, scents, etc.

I'm amazed not only to see Matt doing so well but to watch Jordan climbing the leaderboard as well. None of us has any idea about how much pressure and exposure he has right now and he's calm, cool, and collected.

Holy cow 4 of mine are in the top 12

Wheeler 1st Van Dam 34th Hite 2nd Palaniuk 8th Lane 104th. Tomorrow will be a very interesting day. If the wind dies down, some of the guys could get on that topwater bite that everyone was talking about. The weights are so close across the board that it's really a matter of who gets those big fish tomorrow. Anyone could get lucky. I'm sitting in 77th%, getting closer to where I want to be. But this is only day 1.