lecisnith

I'm looking pretty hard at the Strike king baby shad and the bbz. Thanks for the input.

I'm thinking of picking up a light swimbait. I'm talking nothing over an ounce that I can throw on a MH rod. I only have experience with soft-bodied swimbaits, so anyone have any suggestions on a hard-bodied one?

Is you line breaking or is your knot coming undone? Early in my career (last year) when I was learning the improved clinch and other knots I had a couple of times where I had the knots come undone. My main problem was not leaving enough of a tag end on the clinch so it slipped a tad and had nothing to hold the knot. Then I gave up on the trilene, but that's a story for another day.

I have this exact combo, actually. I don't have a "normal" hand position per se, when I notice how my hand is it is usually forward of the reel post or the post is between my ring and pinky fingers. As far as fatigue setting in from using this combo all day? There is little to no chance of that. It is so light that you can use it for twelve hours without a break and be fine. And you're going to be very happy with the performance. Or should be.

Being a "patriotic American" also means supporting capitalism to it's core, which means free and open trade. Therefore restricting international trade wouldn't be very patriotic. I'm a big fan of Abu Garcia, Daiwa, and Rapala myself. I'm a super patriot.

I've only ever had the confidence to swing a fish in one time, and that was a two pound LM on #50 braid. I am a religious lipper.

I haven't had any issues filling it with six combos. Four baitcasting and two spinning. You have to rotate the reels ever so slightly sometimes, but it's not been a problem for me.

I've got the rapala Lock-n-store, or whatever it's called. It's pretty sweet. Only holds six rods, but you can get however many you want to expand the rack. Super easy to install and not too expensive.

It was fun. I definitely chose wisely on that one. He didn't get the other three I caught on it on video. He also missed the 6-7 pounder that I had on with the frog that came off.

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=fishing%20with%20levi&sm=3 Me, too...

Funny you should say that. My buddy caught his first musky a few weeks ago on a 4" tube while fishing for smallies. Not familiar with barracuda tubes but I assume they are fished in a similar way?

This has happened to my fishing buddy two or three times this year, as well. I felt like it happened after he had a backlash or two. So it probably was the line weakening at the point at which the backlash was crimped the worst. His look of wonder when it happened each time was priceless, however.

3 pounds 12 ounces.

Got out for a few hours after work today and caught a bunch. Started with a slew of little smallies, most of them on senkos rigged weightless T-rigs. One little one on a shadow rap and another on a spinnerbait. Tied a different color spinner on and immediately got into about a 4 pound largemouth. After the spinnerbait bite died I went back to the senko and switched from a green pumpkin to a baby bass color since I was catching so many little bass and got a couple nicer smallies. Finished off the evening with almost 3 pound smallie on the green pumpkin senko on a shaky head. My buddy caught a few nice ones on spinnerbaits, as well. So, yeah, I'm starting to get a lot more confidence in the senko after never having caught anything with them before a week ago I've gotten ten on it the last two times out. And no deep-hooked fish this time, either.

I have one from Cabela's Guidewear. It looks like a condom for your head and is really scratchy on the beard, but it gets the job done.

It's been that price for a couple months there and on gander mountain's site as well. I keep telling myself to stop procrastinating and get another but I haven't yet.

Probably about that time of year where fledgling marsh birds are getting big enough to fall out of the nest. That's why a lot of the colors are black and white, red, or yellow for topwater.

You can usually find a Daiwa Lexa 100 for around $60. I've got one, it's a nice reel.

Working on it.

Got out on the water for the first time in a few weeks. Started off slow with some missed strikes on tubes. Had a keeper pike bite a chatterbait and get off at the boat. Then another one on a jerkbait that I landed. After a while I decided to tie on a weighted swimbait hook with a senko rigged on it. I caught a decent smallmouth and a three pound largemouth within five minutes of each other. Towards the evening went to my topwater spot to try some frogs where I promptly missed half a dozen strikes. I had a 6-7 pound largemouth hooked up but I was too preoccupied with untangling a small backlash that I didn't get a good hookset and it shook the lure at the boat. After that I got tired of missed strikes and switched to a jitterbug and I'm pretty sure I caught ALL of the bass that mocked me and my frog in the span of 30 minutes. Five fish in half an hour, made me happy. 3 pounds, 4 ounces on baby bass senko.

Saw the two faces of the senko today. For the first time I made an effort to use a senko. I had it rigged on a weighted swimbait hook after reading an article somewhere on how effective it was, and caught two fish in the span of a few casts. First one was a decent smallmouth, couple pounds, the second was a 3+ pound largemouth. It showed me how effective they are but the smallie really ate it, taking it deep. I knicked it's gills and was really embedded in some part of the tongue or throat. It took me a pretty long time to unhook and she bled quite a bit. I revived her for about five minutes before she got loose. She swam on her side for a minute then I lost sight and didn't see her again. So either she was fine or a four foot Musky got her. The moral of the story is: I like senkos...

I just drove through Elmira. It's a GD winter wonderland over there...

Lake Skegemog in Williamsburg.

I know it's probably just semantics, and it might not matter, but bass don't, technically, "mate". The females drop eggs and those are later fertilized by the males, usually multiple males.

First largemouth on spro bronzeye Killer color. Pretty early for frog bite in Northern Michigan but I found it.