Airman4754

I have a lawn. I want kids to keep off of it.

Depending on my mood I'd take 20 dinks over one good fish. Sometimes I want numbers.

GLX. Not an NRX fan at all.

The best I have found for the entire range of crank baits for non braid is 8lb CXX. It has 20lb break strength and is the most abrasion resistant line out there.

I use 20lb Power Pro SS8 with either a 6 or 10lb fluoro leader. I initially tie about a 10-12' leader with an albright knot. I run braid to fluoro or copoly on all of my setups no matter what it is with an albright knot. I've never had in fail on any setup at any point. I'm sure there is something newer and cuter but I'll stick with performance.

On a main river the location is more important than the bait, line, or anything else. If you're watching people catch fish pay attention to where they are hooking them as opposed to what they are hooking them on. You can be off two feet and never get touched. Drag a 1/2 - 3/4oz football jig around or a 3/4oz C-rig with a Rage Craw behind it and figure out the bottom. If you're fishing the same spot over and over with zero results but you know fish are there then you haven't learned your spot.

Top water for me is like throwing big swimbaits. There is a time and place for it and the rest of the time is casting practice.

Wheeler was tough last night too. When that current gets over 100k the ledge bites are hard to come by. You can always grind out fish, but a bag over 12lbs is tough sledding.

I can imagine Gary standing there doing some devilish laugh every quarter when the earnings statement hits his desk. If Zoom is doing well charging 25 cents a pop he must be crushing it at a dollar.

If you don't have a high quality vice you will need one of those ass well doing big quantity, that's another $300 expense. I got a PEAK Jurassic vice in February. LOVE IT!!!

I don't flip much, but dragging a football around is about as good as it gets.

You are in Phoenix. This was about a decade ago, but I lived by 31st & Dunlap. The pond there at Cortez park had some really good fish. They planted trout in it all the time. There would always be a ton of people fishing it, but not for bass. To answer your previous question they were rainbow trout colored. I don't think that really matters.

Another thing I will add is if you think you have a bass on real down into it. If it was a short strike you missed it anyway. If the fish actually ate it you will feel it start to load up. You're already there so just set the hook appropriately to the power of rod you are using and the wire gauge of your hook.

Here is the easiest thing to remember with tubes. If the weight is out in front like a T-rig it falls straight down. If the weight is internal the width of the spiral increases as the weight moves farther away from the head. All of them have their use and purpose. It's literally the most versatile bait every. The 7" or 8" Tora tubes are amazing. You can fish them like anything from a swimbait to a crawdad. The little tubes get bit too much if you're trying to catch decent fish.

I would never buy that from someone without a scale and I hold myself to that same standard. This fist fish is 25" and went 7.4. The next one from Wheeler had a 7lb head, was really long and was under 4. My 8.6 was just under 22". It was a nice fish though and a lot of fun.

It's an old crankbait made by Storm. Any suspending bait will work. See a fish, throw it near it, whenever it starts to lose interest give it a twitch. One of you will quit first. It's super awful fishing, but works.

The Tennessee River has done that to me a few times already. Drum and catfish will turn a good time into a meh time in a hurry. I tail hooked about a 15lb catfish a couple weeks ago during a tournament. It wasn't rolling so I thought I had a behemoth.

I don't know where you live but when I lived in Phoenix and Tucson I would catch some toads sigh fishing with the big suspending Thundersticks. It's super boring and can take what feels like an hour per cast, but it does pay off.

Unless you are Andre the Giant your fist should be able to fit in a 5lb fish's mouth pretty easily. Out of the zillions of fish I've caught and handled for other people in that weight range it's always accurate, northern and Florida strain. Unless you are a giant human your fairly average size fist isn't fitting into that bass' mouth. If that is the case you're looking around 4lbs.

I measured the leader and measured it on my leg from where it hit with the tail on the ground. It was 26" both ways. I just didn't get a girth measurement which makes the length calculators a little shaky. I don't care what the actual weight was or I would carry a scale in my bag. It was really big and I'm about 99% sure it's my new PB.

Weight requirements are dependent on depth and wind. If you're on a point fishing for spots and they are holding in 60' of water and the wind is blowing 15mph you need weight. Any of the jig heads made for it will work fine. It's lead on an open hook. Don't complicate it.

I caught this about an hour ago on the Warrior Project rod Kent and the guys had made for me which was pretty awesome. I've only had one other bass on in my life that I had no control of a couple years that I guarantee was double digits and this one was the same way. It jumped once, making things much worse for my psyche. It was in a pond so I took a measurement, a quick picture and let her go. I only did a length measurement with the leader and didn't do girth. I'm much more worried about the long term health of my everyday romps than anything. It measured at 26". The calculators put that in the 9.5-10ish range and I don't think that is too outrageous. I've caught a 25" northern strain that was totally healthy and 7.4lbs, but I'm told these Florida bass down here weight a bit more. My previous PB on a scale was 8.6 and this one sure looked, felt, and fought bigger. I'd never claim a double digit without a scale unless is was like 15+ with no doubt, but I'm pretty sure this is the closest I've come.

I finally caught a good fish on it. I never throw hard jerkbaits and only throw the soft ones on hot windy days. It finally lined up today.

Also don't look for them, if that makes sense. Just lock your eyes onto an area and don't move them. The slightest movements or color changes will jump out to you. It's like those optical illusion things. You don't see the hidden picture if you are looking for it.

I fish about 250 days a year between ponds and the rivers and it happens maybe 7 times a year. It's pretty hard to go fishless with the amount of finesse gear out there.