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I use them to pitch to pads a lot. The Jackal Cover Craw and the Kietech Solid Core Tubes have the same gliding action as the Ika. The Kietech tubes are a good bit heavier as well, which lets me use a more powerful rod to fish them in heavier cover.

It does work better if I put the cart on the bow but it's too hard to keep it balanced pulling from the wider and heavier stern. The issue I run into is that I am trying to load and unload my yak with all my gear on board, including the heavy peddle drive. I suppose I could unload everything, mount the yak on the cart, then reload it all and pull it to my car, but I have grand dreams of floating the yak onto a cart, strapping it in, and pulling it away. The idea I am toying with would involve making two thin aluminum brackets that attaches to the stern via a bunch of well-nuts. Attached to this will be some kind of mechanism that lets me quickly attach two wheels, likely the C-Tug ones, and then just lift from the bow and roll it away. The challenges will be in getting a solid mounting to the yak and keeping it all tidy enough to not snag on grass and pads when I am fishing all up in cover.

On land it isn’t too bad but trying to get it mounted in the water is very frustrating. My yak is so wide and flat that the C-Tug’s “flaps” have to be almost flat which makes it really unstable.

Have you looked for larger sled heads? I think Confidence Baits sells them. I had a guy make me up some larger sled heads and I am really liking them. They are a little rough due to the mold not 100% working with the larger hooks but they work great.

Premethrin on my hiking clothes, picardan spray on my skin, and I wear the shortest shorts I can find, I want max time to feel and remove them before they latch on.

My admittedly arbitrary division is: Shakeyhead: If I want to hop or drag a lure with my rod. Weighted T-Rig: If I want to swim or crawl the lure in with my reel.

I have a Slayer 10 and honestly the C-Tug isn't great for it. It's about as hard to get seated under the boat as my old scupper cart was and it far fussier in challenging conditions. This year I am going to add some eyes to the sides of my yak and mount some bungees to the C-Tug to see if I can make it easier to get it seated in the water. I still use the scupper cart on for my loaner yak and at a lot of launches it's a ton faster then the Tug. I have access to an aluminum welder and might try to dream up some better cart design.

Just lost a $30 one that way last week. Got a new swimbait rod, wanted to see how a 4-5oz lure felt on it. Second cast I snapped the line and it sank to the bottom. It's only in like 6-8' of water and like 20' off of a pier, I am going to head out and try to snag it at some point next week.

I found a rod for you. I am really looking at the H/F 6’6” one but can’t find somewhere that will ship to the US.

That’s where I got mine from. I have a lot of them in back w/red flake and pearl and a few in pumpkin. They were like a buck or so a pack and I could not resist. I am almost out of the pumpkin ones, curious to see if the black and pearl ones produce as well.

The tiny ones are good little panfish plastics and also work great as trailers for small spinnerbaits. They add a good bit of weight without adding a lot of bulk.

This is the only reasonable way to do it. I do mostly skip the jelly and sub in a banana. I also do this thing I call "mega-chunky" where I add a small handful of cocktail peanuts to the sandwich. I accidentally bought creamy one day and wanted some crunch. I ended up loving it and it's now the standard method. The last hiking trip I took I was too lazy/cheap to figure out proper food, so I just brought along a jar of PB, a big bag of salted cocktail peanuts, and a package of good flour tortillas. A bit monotonous, but very low-fuss.

I have started using the 6.XX" ones a lot this spring. Before I was fishing them weightless and didn't see much difference between them and a senko. But once I started adding a 1/16oz un-pregged sinker in-front of the plastic I really started having luck with them. They still fall pretty slowly, but more nose-down and the tail does a very gentle sway as it falls. I have been doing great with it in light pads on days when it's too windy for a trickworm. I retrieve it with a series of short hops, tugging it through the pads as needed. I have some of the 4" ones and use them on a DS every once and a while, but they have never been anything special rigged that way for me. They work nicely on a 2/0 Slider head though and I think the rest of my stash of them is going to be used up that way.

I would buy that rod for $100 without even a second thought. The Loomis Magbass and Classic Bass series are all amazing general purpose rods and the newer-old IMXs are quite nice. I have been buying them up when I find them on ebay and have a nice little collection of them I use on my kayak.

Thanks for the storage suggestions guys. Next question, other then lightly taping them with painters tape, is there a better way to keep the weedguard isolated from the skirt? The tape is a little fussy but it makes getting the skirt arranged a lot less annoying.

Tied up the rest of the jigheads. I am going to end up with a million jigs I fear. What's the best way to store skirting tabs? I was thinking in the oem plastic sleeves kept in a worm binder?

Hah, that day was all pitching, roll casting, and one-handed flicks to get the lures around shoreline cover and to try and keep the thin tip from impacting said cover. I maybe made a dozen normal casts all day at most.

They really seem too. I rig them with either Shad Impacts or Burbbling Shakers and fish them just faster then the current, just ticking the bottom to gauge depth. I think the shape of the jighead, the angle/location of the line tie, and the overall light weight of the package all help keep it from snagging. I have fished this rig a fair bit wading the upper Potomac and I focus on steering the jig back to me safety, I only really seem to loose them when they wrap around the plentiful wood debris. These are also great as are the very similar Decoy Nail Bomb heads.

It’s actually a SK Shellcracker. Great plastic with a very subtle action. They are a huge pia to get rigged stright however.

The Draggin’ heads work very well, but are expensive. Rock River sells them as well. I also like the tiny Keitech football shakeyheads for rocky rivers.

Airy Red Pixzilla on a P3 Criffhanger. Got it out for some pond hopping on Wed and am loving it. It’s fun as hell and is looking like a great combo for a lot of the overgrown ponds I fish. The reel puts my thumb to the test though, I think I am going to bump up to 10lb Sniper from the 7lb I'm using now to get a little more overrun forgiveness.

First attempt at wire tying a jig. I didn't get the skirt super even but that will come with time. Going to use them as bed jigs this spring.

I think I have a gig on May 4th but I will know by this coming Monday. I have never fished there before however. Rocky Gorge is the biggest spot I normally fish, I mostly stick to smaller spots around southern MD. Dude your average canal bass is like twice size of one of my better ones, it's insane what you pull out of there.

I use braid to back casting reels both to keep the spool light and to serve as “emergency” line if I am on foot far from my car and ruin all my main line. It’s only happened once in a few years, but I was real glad to have the option.

I am over by Annapolis but I fish out of a yak as well. I do a lot of weekday fishing due to my work schedule but I can makes weekends work as well.