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.