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you will get pricked every here and there but when you get good at it you'll probably be able to do it faster than you could with plyers. I know I can. I'd only recommend plyers for the little baits with tiny split rings that are a pain to try and get open.

crankbaits are ushually a size 6, but if you like bigger/smaller hooks you can put them on as long as they dont tangle with eachother or kill the baits action.

yea man you can what i do is push the eye to the replacement hook inbetween the split ring to get it open and then just push it around to the opening and threat the split ring through the eye and slide it around until it's on all the way.

thanks haha

I'd fish a rapala floater jerkbait because the max depth is 4 feet so I'd be able to fish it fairly thoroughly. I'd take the front hook off and just fish it with the back hook so when i caught enough fish and the hook in the back got dull/damaged i could put the one from the front on the back and get more fish out of it. then when i felt the hooks were both dull I'd sharpen them on a stone. I'd have enough fish to last until I got rescued. lol

Ever see a color and say thats blue but have another person call it purple? or how about the same cenario with red and orange? what I'm saying is maybe the way color is percieved can differ between two bass just like it can between two humans. some reds may look a little more orangish to one person and some purples may look a little more blue to another. not everyones eyes see things the same, why should the eyes of a bass? I doubt bass can't see color, but i don't doubt that they see it diffrently from one to another.

definately a colorado because if the bass cant see the lure well you want something that gives off enough vibration for the bass to feel with their lateral line. that way they sence the baits presence more and find it easier if it cant be seen.

indeed.

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lol I'd call it slightly murky.

clear to me is sight from 6 to 10 feet. stained is 3 to 6 feet, murky is 0 - 1 feet.

lol no prob

i spoke on that as well.

i mentioned the indiana in my last post. there are also oaklahoma blades. lol

I'll check it out thanks.

thats the thing I'm willing to spend the extra 20 for the quality.

colorado blades = more vibration and lift willow leaf blades = less lift, more flash indiana blades = even amount of flash, vibration, and lift gold blades = best in stained water silver blades = best in clear water chartruse/colored blades = best in murky water the sliver blades in clear water have a bright white flash to them, bass love that. the gold blades flash in stained water can help the bait stand out and provides just enough contrast between the water color and blade. chartruse/colored blades are good when you dont need a lot of flash but want the bait to stand out in murky water. also willow leaf blades come through weeds better than colorado, agin indiana blades are somewhere between the two.

I'm getting a revo sx and want to pair it up with either a medium powered duckett ghost or a st. croix primere cranking rod. I have heard good things about the duckett's but need info on the st. croix, i hear from a lot of people that the st. croix brand is on point but i'd like to know what anyone on here would choose and why? the st. croix is only 20$ more than the duckett.

I would never give up on a pond i caught a bass in, you caught one. There's bound to be more, try to match the hatch and bounce around until you find the spot they're in. sometimes they'll be in spots that are too hard to get to, other times they'll be in your face. thats just how bank fishing is.

that way will work but i prefer rigging them weedless. either paddle tails or flukes.

i wouldn't know never fished it lol

toughest mono line with the least memory = sufix elite. IMO

great haha i scored.

so Xcalibur is better than excalibur? ^

i was in the same position you're in, I didn't know much about Xcalibur either. thanks to this thread i do and im gald i got the Xcalibur xcs100 and 200 and not the lower quality brand. 3$ at dick's on black friday.