Senko lover

I use two-piece for transportability and it comes in handy, especially long family trips. Especially.

Nothing like a popper bite! Good job.

Great job! You must have had a blast.

What else should I expect? That guy is a monster! I should have gone with the St. John's river guys in the fantasy for Sabine. Both Shaw and Chris Lane are in the top five. Go figure.

Wait, what did I win?

I will not succumb to the bait monkey. I will not succumb to the bait monkey. I will not *!* Ow! Why did you do that?????

I recently discovered the magic of jigs and rarely fish without using one sometime during the day. That's saying something, because I really love to fish soft plastics and I only have two rods. Here's some things that I have learned: You will never catch a fish on a jig if you don't throw it. You will up your catch ratio if you use a trailer Don't get stuck in a rut working it. Swim it. Hop it. Drag it. Find what the fish want. Colors are pretty. But the only two you "need" (!) are Green Pumpkin and Black/Blue. Try a GP/Blue for the best of both worlds. Trailer options are endless! Find one or two you like and stick with them. Little fish will eat them too . But the bigger fish will usually get to them first. Unless you fish very heavy cover, you don't have to get a H rod. I use a MH with 12 lb. mono and have no problems with hooking or fighting the fish. The jig is an awesome bait for pitching and flipping. Very compact. There's no wrong situation for a jig. They excel in almost any scenario. Once more: get out there and fish with it. You won't be disappointed.

4 1/2, forget in my excitement to measure her. Oh well. In the pictures it really doesn't look that big, I guess it was really wide the other way or something! But I did weigh her.

lol don't you love those "over the head moments!" I get it.

What things?

Any experience with the Excalibur EEratic Shad? Just got mine today in the mail. Out of the package, it looks great. Little longer than I expected but I'm sure they'll still eat it. The only thing is that the bill seems pretty weak. It doesn't seem like it'll snap off but if you try you can wiggle it slightly. Do these perform well for you?

I'm not embarrassed to do it, I just don't see the point. To each his own!

No, I'm not really a fish kisser. My sister's boyfriend suggested I get a posed picture. I don't really have anything against fish kissing, but I just don't do it.

A more recent one, Better Bass Fishing by Robert Montgomery is an excellent book. It taught me everything I needed to know to fishing with lures.

Jigs, flukes, lipless crankbaits, and senkos.

Yup!

If you plan on throwing crankbaits, jerkbaits, and topwaters a lot, go with a medium. If you're more of a spinnerbait/soft plastics/jigs type of guy, get a MH. If you're trying to do both, stick with the MH.

Orange baits were good to me last year during this time, went out today and caught my PB on a red/orange lipless. Go for it!

I have never fished it. I don't have transportation to be able to fish the lakes very often. Falls is only about 15 minutes from where I live in Wake County. I have heard that Harris is a great lake. A lot of vegetation there, right? I have fished Jordan for crappie, and would someday like to knock Harris off the list.

I second this message! I have learned so much from this place. You guys have made a difference.

Thanks guys. I forgot to add the best part: I was "along for the ride" on my sister's date. I convinced her & her boyfriend to take a walk by the pond so I could fish. Shameless, I know, but hey! I got a PB out of it.

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Just got in an order from "my personal TW," also known as a retired FLW co-angler in my church with a garage FULL of baits he never could use in his lifetime and gives to me at a big discount. Never tried any of the soft plastics before, can't wait to start throwing flukes and lizards. They crush weightless soft plastics at my ponds. All of the bags were consolidated with other bags and have about twice as much as normal stuffed into them: -Two bags of Zoom Salty Super Flukes -One bag of BPS Flukes -One bag of Sug Gos he threw in as extra -Two bags of Zoom Lizards -One bag of FLW series Mann's Lizards -Two Cotton Cordell Spots He only charged me 12 bucks for the whole lot....when you consider that the bags had a ton in them there was probably about 40-50 dollars worth. very nice of him. Once I get my trick worms that he forgot this order next week and my jerkbait comes in, my fishing "needs" will have been wrapped up. Now it's time to get some bass smell on those baits......

I measured them last night; they're about 6 1/2 inches, so pretty long. If I want to downsize I could probably just snip off a coupla inches off the tail. But hopefully these'll be seeing some use. Thanks again for the help.

Yeah, one thing not to love about spring. Mosquitos are my worst fishing enemy.