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What did you think of it?

Cool I will try it for a year. I like having a stash of fishing magazines for long rides and when we travel without internet.

I have been getting the email from bassmaster for awhile to sign up for a Bass times. Does anyone get it and is it worth the buck an issue?

Put in an order on Friday and got it today. Was able to get some swamp crawlers in some colors I haven’t seen before. This was a big bonus since netbait quit making the slim shake. Also so picked up some smoke red jig trailers along with a couple fancy topwaters. Glad I branched out from TW.

There chart makes some sense, except I have found clear water to be finicky. Sunny and flat lets more natural colors work best like smoke and some color flake works best while sunny with choppy water or overcast sees colors like water red work the best and the smoke colors shut off.

Any Easter sales out there?

If I am being lazy I would just toss firetiger all the time as it loosely represents a bluegill, pumpkinseed, and perch. Main Clear water colors - Bluegill, orange craw, firetiger, sexy shad, Ayu (worked on a spinbait last year going to try it in other cranks) Main Dirty water colors - Gold, chartreuse blue back, and firetiger Looking at that short list trying to figure out why I carry so many colors

While I agree with you, I have a big stash of them I got on sale. I treat these like Rage plastics (which I really like), I only buy when they are on a good sale, and if my color of choice is there buy as much as possible. They have been that good for me, which is funny because I can't catch a fish on a regular Senko lol. I didn't like the swimming dinger, the tail doesn't have as much action, but on a bladed jig that could be a good thing.

I only tub tested them but agree with A-jay that the action on the back of a swim jig is bordering on ridiculous. In my head I thought Senko equals subtle, nope. They will get a lot of time in the water this year. Previous use use was on a slider head, let it drop, sit for 5 seconds, pop it hope I had a fish, recast if not. Fish weren’t in a chasing mood.

18 pack of 1/4 ounce slider classic spider heads 12.87 Yum tube Melon Candy 3.49 Kalins 5" Ron's Craw 3.19 With those baits and colors I should be able to catch fish in any water I go to regardless of color and clarity and can imitate anything from a craw to a baitfish.

I base mine on experiences now with it turning a bite around, and didn't fully buy in until gel scents like atlas mikes and now liquid mayhem. The spray on stuff for me was to much of a pain, messy, and constantly needed to be reapplied. The gel scents last a long time between applications saving me fishing time, and they are less messy in the boat. Not sure why I tried it in the first place, many years ago, but glad I did. I think the first scent product I tried was berkley crappie nibbles.

I know that there is no convincing you, but I have witnessed it multiple times making a difference, not just with me, but others a well, someone going an hour without a hit and with the same bait get hit 3 casts after adding scent. This is one of those topics that people tend to draw a line in the sand. Would like to know though if those that don't use add on scent buy scented or scent free plastics? I know your answer since you use Zman a lot.

Thanks for pointing that out, I was selecting Berkley to filter out the other brands and forgot you also have to select powerbait. Makes more sense now, I thought they were missing a lot of other baits.

Not sure if this has already been posted, DSG has 4 for 14with the rebate going, but really only has power worms. About a buck a bag.

Those are the ones. I won some on social media and ended up buying a couple dozen more. The three weights cover the depths I fish.

Super magnum bag, vacation only to carry stuff in one bag. The width pocket to pocket, not stuffed full of stuff is about 28” and front pockets also not stuffed full of stuff to back of bag about 15” bottom of of bag is about 24”wide by about 12” deep. Matches what previous poster had for main compartment. In it I carry 5 Plano 4700guide series double decker boxes stacked. Two deep 3700 boxes on vertical along with a falcon trap box vertical. End pockets a 3600 box in each. Front pockets will have the double 3500 boxes in two of them. Also a tackle logic double worm wrap on top in the main compartment with bagged jigs and spinnerbaits. Definately to to big for 16 foot boat on the water but great tool for packing gear for vacation. Oh yeah and it weighs a ton;)

I have been using a Santone swim jig for a couple of years now, and it has been pretty versatile for me as I have been learning to fish a bass jig. The head is flat on the bottom, which in theory lets it stand up briefly if hopped along. I have fished it as a swim jig and bounced it along with some success. I have bought other brands and styles since then that I will be working with some more this year to figure out what works best and when for me, but so far the Santone is the one I will tie on when I am indecisive on how I want to fish or am trying to figure out if the bass are chasing or tight to bottom.

Pretty much everything but a spybait. On cranks I put them where the water hits the bait, top on cranks and on the top in front of the line tie on a lipless, to help disperse the scent.

I have pretty much stuck with 1/2 oz models switching to a 1/4 oz when the bite was tough. I have landed 40" class musky on a 1/2 oz and had bigger fish chase them, so haven't seen a need to go bigger yet. I think the rattles and action of a trap and RES make them fish bigger than they actually are, they punch a pretty big hole coming through the water.

Liquid Mayhem

How does it work? I have some mushroom heads with bigger hooks I can rig them on. I like how the tentacles float when in the water on this bait, worked well as a drop shot bait for me in the past.

That is one concern, but I could just trim two or three of the tentacles off the top which would likely remedy the situation. Will be interesting to see how it works.

My first attempt will be with a Ned head, which will allow one hook size larger, that is a #2 and I have some morels with a #1 hook I could try. Since I am all in and bought 3 more bags from the TW classic sale, if the hookup rate isn’t good, I have some jigs with 1/0 and 2/0 hooks that I can and will use, but it will be a jigworm then, not a Ned.

I have to wait till May to try it, but it is a pretty soft body so it should compress nicely. Sadly for a Ned bait with the old school hook sizes that is more gap than I am used to between the bait and hook point. The newer Ned jigs being marketed and sold have larger hooks with bigger gaps.

I was on instagram a while back and one of the many small companies that advertise their plastics on there had a Ned bait with tube like tentacles with balls on the ends at the head of the bait. Not having an unlimited budget to buy all the crazy cool plastics I see, I realized I had something almost identical, the Damian Hydra. I reverse rigged the 4” model and it looks really good. Only concern and it is a minor one is will the tentacles impede a hook set. I can’t believe they will though since bass can get to the hook through a weed guard on a bass jig.