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They look unique. Somewhere along the line they did something here to get the dreaded ****. Seems like I remember a mainline company had a flexible arm spinnerbait at one point as well, but don't remember the company.

They seem to be nice boxes, but still too expensive. Only expensive box I will lay down money for is the Plano 4700 double level. They can be had for like 11 bucks and I must have 20-30 of them. Can't imagine the cost of replacing them with Edge boxes. I know that the upper end boxes have a place for some, but unless they come out with a nice lipless box, I will just stick with the Jig box which is very nice:)

You have changed out the hooks on those to the KVD 1x strong 2 x short right? They look a little beefier than the stock hooks. Knock on wood the stock hooks have been good for me. Rapala and 6th sense seem to put pretty solid hooks on their baits out of the box.

Switching up my christmas order and picking up 1 each of the different styled cosmics. Right now the reason I have so many listed above is that this summer I saw a war eagle outfish a strike king spinnerbait 3 to 1 multiple times under post frontal conditions. I got a ton of war eagles, like 20, when outlet bait and tackle ran a deal on them. War Eagles are fragile, but wow did they stick them. So that is why right now I am trying 1 offs of different spinnerbaits. The ones that work I will load up on next year. Thankfully my choices were limited by 1/4 ounce baits which are harder to come by. I have some heavier ones, but never seem to fish them. Todays deal on outlet bait and tackle is on their Wahoo line of spinnerbaits, has anyone tried them?

When I fish a plopper style bait around reeds I had a lot of misses to. Best I can guess is that the reeds are making it difficult for the fish to line up on the bait and the strike zone is small. Most were caught in wider open patches. as I write the above maybe a popper or chugger would have been the right bait to extend the strike zone in a crowded environment like reeds.

Bandit 100, Tube, grub especially 5" Kalins, and Yum Crawbug. Those lures have me covered.

I am nowhere near as knowledgeable about Jerkbaits as A-jay, but I can say the Shadow rap has been my best producing jerkbait and the shadow rap shad hasn't worked as well. I have fished it in 2-6 fow with water temps ranging from the upper 50s to the mid 70s.

Any opinions let me know

Why are you guys afraid of a small piece of metal like a snap. I haven’t had a duolock snap fail on me. Only snap I have seen fail is a Norman speed clip. I guess if you throw heavy stuff all the time it doesn’t matter.

Unless he does a crazy post turkey day sale I am looking at TW or the other fishing sites. I am getting a bunch of tungsten stuff from Siebert my in laws are getting for me as a gift.

I have a Dobyn champ XP I am really happy with along with a st Croix avid X that I also like. I know when I asked a similar question the answers I got led me to believe a jump from a 100 buck rod to say a 200 buck rod gained you a lot of sensitivity. But going from a 200 to a 300 dollar rod the jump in sensitivity was less but maybe the rod was lighter too. So I have settled on rods in the 200 range give or take a little. That said one of my favorite cranking rods is a st Croix premier medium heavy moderate action.

Looking to pick up some new spinnerbaits to me and was curious if I should stay away from any of them? Being that they aren’t the cheapest, will take all the advice I can get. Strike King Baby Burner 1/4 ounce Humdinger 1/4 ounce Different blade combos Nichols 33 mini double willow 1/4 ounce Northstar compact triple willow 3/8 ounce booyah mini Shad 3/16 ounce

Actually if you reread what I wrote, it’s not that retying is annoying, it that you get a different fall with a snap and light lures. I fish a lot of vertical cover and on tough bite days this can make the difference of going home empty handed or getting bit. Also frontal bass run larger for some reason so I want to get bit.

I have the poppers, some walking baits, frogs, etc. All have not been good to me. Guessing I will just need to put more time in or the cover where I fish most, reeds, maybe the bass don’t look up much to feed. Both. My local river is cloudy, but had had some success with a chug bug and most of my plopper fish came from there. Vacation lake is moderately clear, can see bottom in 10-15 feet when calm, and I mostly fish Reed beds there. That could be part of the problem as all my plastic bites are on bottom. Spinnerbaits and jerks work too, maybe there they don’t feed much on top. While I don’t use therapala minnow much on the lakes, they do very well for me trout fishing. I should break them out next summer, as I got a bunch of vintage ones in an auction, and they are so much more vibrant, silver and gold, than the current ones.

I would use one rod, maybe two and instead of tying direct go with a snap. Really quick and easy to switch between shakey, Ned, Neko, and weightless wacky rig. I personally have found benefits to how baits drop using snaps, especially lighter weight rigs, similar reasons to why many prefer snaps on cranks. Snaps allow the bait to pivot and fall more vertically vs being tied where they also need to drag the line done which means they may drift off target. In open water not a huge deal, but when casting to pressured fish holding on a spot may help you get the bait right on them in their feeding window.

So got my Black Friday order set, but I am having a hard time taking off the new 1/4 ounce whopper plopper. The problem for me is even though I have a ton of plopper baits, I can count the number of fish fought on them on two hands! Why do I feel I must have this new bait lol? Topwaters are a mystery for me. I give them water time during all parts of the day and rarely get bit. Maybe fishing them in the wrong place, who knows, but with all the topwaters I have I don’t need more baits to collect dust! I guess I always think the next new topwater will be the one that cracks the code for me.

My goto square bills are the Bandit 100, Xcalibur XCS 200, SK 1.0 and that about does it. Have others that have caught fish but not as consistently as those 3. The ones that have been a huge miss for me are the SK 1.5 and 2.5, no idea why but they just don’t produce. The bandit 100 has been my most most consistent crank for many years. It excels in shallow rocky rivers.

Makes sense. Since my bag stays on the deck, I don’t take it out on rainy days and just throw the cranks I want to use for that day in the aerated shoebox and the plastics I am using for the day in a different shoebox. If I ever get a boat with under deck storage I would be lost. Funny story, the one time it poured with my bag on deck, I put my rain coat over the bag and I got soaked.

So how do you and others end up with rusted split rings or hooks, do you put wet baits back in a box? I use a Rubbermaid shoe box that I turned into a hydro flow box to store my scent tubes in one half and we cranks in the other. Once they are dry I put them back in the box I pulled them out of. So far I really like the Edge jig box, don’t store jigs with trailers in there.

Glad to hear this, as I was debating getting this box since I am picking up 30-40 new spinnerbaits for christmas. I am also picking up their small box that holds six and drilling holes in it for a boat box after I cut them off to dry. No matter how good boxes rust protection is, I always let my baits dry before putting them in more of a long term storage.

But that weight transfer is so loud during the cast. I unfortunately need to have my rods in a vertical rod holder and that sounds always makes me think the bait has hit a rod. I still toss the standard rerange because it catches fish, but don't think I will ever get used to the weight transfer sound on the cast.

I do either straight braid or braid to leader on all my casting rods. I experimented with yo-zuri hybrid with the reel on my Avid X and I went from being able to tell the kind of weeds I was hung up on with braid by feel to the rod having less sensitivity than my ugly stick braid combo. That for me was enough to go back to braid, or spend less money on good rods;) For deep cranking weed edges knowing when you are starting to contact weed edges to keep from fouling the bait is helpful and I feel braid is needed for that. That said if I ever crack the topwater code, I could see the yo-zuri hybrid being good for that, especially since you don't need the sensitivity to know you have been bit.

Luhr Jensen made the brush baby. I have like 15 left of the smallest size I got on clearance somewhere for river fishing.

These rod socks are incredible for spinning rods at an insane price. They especially are nice for spinning rods that have larger guides. https://www.lurenet.com/lindy-fishing-rod-protective-socks-8-1-2-ft

My old accurists, I have always wondered if there was anything I could do to increase the casting distance etc. I ended the thought figuring the casting controls were setup for what it is currently doing and any upgrades would outpace the old braking system. The reels have just been so solid it almost pains me at this point knowing they won't be in the boat next vacation. I may be a bit sentimental but it always feels weird replacing solid gear. I just need more casting distance for a lot of presentations and that is where they are limited. The icon for 40 bucks figured it was worth a shot. I can always take an old accurist as a backup reel.