Columbia Craw

Broken surface water refracts light and fish, not just bass feel more comfortable moving distance or moving shallow. It's like a form of cover, similar to how bass use shade and or mud lines like a form of cover. This can stimulate the feeding impulse. Cover, such as vegetation can be agitated by wave action and fish will move, at times to edges where moving baits are often more effective. Wind action can move particulates and algae which can get bait active and the bass will take the opportunity to feed. Spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerbaits and top water can all come into play when this takes place.

Come on man! Will some one please make a swimbait in sexy grass carp. Come on man! Will Diawa please make a Zillion without the T Wing.

Come on man! Design a bass boat with a self driving feature so I can sleep while running the 30 minutes to the other end of the lake. Tesla owners are doing it. Why not me?

The spinnerbait is a very unique lure type unlike lures designed to look like forage. But it offers features unlike any other bait albeit the Alabama rig or Chatterbait. File that away. The lure features provide contrast (skirt), flash (blades) vibration signature and water displacement (blade/blades). When you evaluate the situation you can put those features and attributes into play. Example: Smallies are roaming and munching allewives, perch or shad. Match the color scheme, blue glimmer shad and duel nickel willow blades and move the bait at speed and very that speed. Example: Largemouth are are in stained shallow water on flats with non emergent lilly pads, water is cool. Blue gill, sculpins, tad poles are starting stir. Provide a color that provides contrast, blades that displace water and a blade color that provides some flash. That may be a bream skirt, white/chartreuce skirt with double Colorado blades in gold. Slow the retrieve Apply the attributes of the features and match them to the conditions and adjust your retrieve accordingly. You will catch em!

For that weight range Marc, I throw a Dobyns Champion 705CB. Several guys in our bass club are throwing the Fury 705CB. These also make outstanding squarebill rods. Good shopping.

For the techniques you listed the DC 734C would be on target. The DC 744C is designated as a Jig Special and has, as mentioned, an Extra Fast tip action. The tip is very reactive and the rod locks up pretty quick, hence a jig action. If you can swing an Extreme 744 refurb you will be blown away by the increased sensitivity. Call Dobyns and tell them what you want because they are behind on listing available refurbished models right now.

Don't encourage him.

Come on man! Don't just down size your existing baits so you can call them a ned rig bait. Come on man! Stop building Alamaba rigs so they are so large Search and Rescue buys them to drag for drowning victims.

Come on man! If you're going to make a reel and bling it out, just put the rhinestones on it and get it over with.

Is the vacuum an upright or canister?

Lets pretend bass fishing manufactures read BR religiously and take members input to heart. If you could tell them something you would like to see then here's your chance. Come on man! Put a premium hook on your hard bait the first time and don't cheap it. Come on man! Take your six best selling colors in your plastics and offer it in bulk packs to reduce cost per bait and reward your loyal customers. Come on man! If you make a split grip spinning rod put the hook/dropshot weight holder on the rear like the Tatula 73MS Come on man! Make spools of line in 420 yards so I can fill six reel spools with 70 yards each. Come on man! Just put the other bearings in the handle grip and the bail roller. Your turn.

Missile Baits Bomb Shot Robo Worm and FX Sculpin SK Half Shell

Give it a fair shot ON. I spooled two spinning outfits with #12 last year and fished them all season on my two drop shot set ups. I had zero issues. I would not fish it on casting reels but for spinning, it performed very well. Glad to hear your on the mend !

Welcome Curt and you made a great choice. The Fury 703 is light enough to drop shot and has the power for shakey heads, tubes, and is a gem for fishing wacky rigs and neko rigs. Enjoy it.

BOSS does produce a good quality head and decent skirt. With that said, I would look at Sieberts Outdoors offerings. Mike provides a super quality jig, top tier skirt in some fantastic colors patterns and you have the option of getting then HAND TIED and that's a big deal. If you haven't tried them, i'd give him a shot for sure.

Crooked River Gorge near Madras Oregon.

Drama

Lava Butte just outside Bend Oregon.

Thanks for the link. I ordered a good sampling today with the rest of my Siebert order.

I pre tie with #8 Invizex and store them in individual 2.5 by 2.5 inch zip lock baggies which are in a larger zip lok baggie. I bought a 100 pack at a craft store for a couple of bucks and gave half to a buddy. What a time saver on the water.

The Tatula 100 at 99 bucks would pair up nicely with your Fury. Mine is on a Champion 734

I fish Spot Removers in 3/16 and 1/4 ounce with a full size trick work and have never had an issue with hook sets. I'll have to try the 6th Sense Devine. I have a similar head I found in California only sold in a family owned shop. Owners are really good as well.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you yahoos. You make this forum/site so much fun. Time for a nap.

Smelly Jelly and Pro Cure gel in crayfish scent on plastics, especially hula grubs and shakey head worms.

Hope is a powerful thing Tom. So is prayer. My oldest son is 45 and survived a brain tumor and my wife ovarian and breast cancers. So I will hope with you and pray for you and your son Tom.