IndianaFinesse

Yes, but it will perform better if you replace the guide. It really isn't to hard to do, I've done it several times and I have no special equipment. All you need is some braid, super glue, and epoxy. Color the braid whatever color you want with a sharpie, or buy the thread specifically made for wrapping guides.

It's more like $30-$40 instead of twenty, but still a good deal.

It looks like a rat, except that it costs more than most of my rods.

Believe me, I've been trying. Even had a little help from @BigBassLoveSenkos, but we could not get on any kind of moving bait bite. Swim jigs, jerkbaits, cranks, (not even a senko, when in the heck do they not eat senkos?)swim baits, they wouldn't have anything other than neds and shakies. Didn't even get any 10xd eating crappie this time Although did get some white bass that somehow figured out how to get a swim jig with a keitech fat impact 4.3 in their tiny mouths. Might have to switch to whites if the bass bite doesn't pick up soon.

Chipmunk.

Only 15 degrees to go.

Thanks @RichF @Preytorienh @Burro @BaitFinesse, that's kind or the impression I got of the E6X from looking at the specs. An up charge for the Loomis name. I just wanted to check that I wasn't missing out on a potentially better rod. BTW, I will definitely be getting a hook keeper added on, either a Fuji type one or I might just wrap a real one on myself. No idea why shimano doesn't have one on it.

E-bay is probably your best bet for the magic tail worms, but there are also a couple other worms still in production that float. Squirrel tail worms and zman/strike king finesse wormzs/3×strong worm (same bait different brand) are both buoyant. I like the zmans, but the squirrel tails are good to if you don't in mind going through a few. The tails have a tendency to break off.

I don't really care about that, if it breaks after a year of fishing it's not possible to be anything other than my fault anyways.

Alright, I was set on a 6'10" mh shimano zodias to use for 3/16-3/8 ounce jigs and t-rigs up to 3/16 or 1/4 ounce, but now I'm wavering between the zodias or a g-loomis E6X. For those of you that have both, which do you prefer? Which one do you feel is more sensitive? Edit, it will be paired with a curado 70.

1/8 ounce owner Shaky ultra head, with some Trick worms or some Finesse wormzs.

When's that fall people are talking about going to make an appearance? It has been very tough (aside from the notable exception of last Monday), most times I have to resort to fishing the ned rig up under docks, with a sporadic offshore bite sometimes in play. Only caught 17 in three hours between two of us last Sunday, and not one measured 15". Most everything seemed to be 13 inches and only a couple over 14. Caught a few offshore, but that bite petered out quickly so we went shallow and finished off our time there. A 1/16 oz. mushroom head on a 3.5 inch finnesse wormz caught most of the fish, along with half a dozen on a shaky head and one on a deep crank. I can't wait until fall comes, and I can break my jerkbaits, buzzbaits, and cranks out...

I use This mold. If you fish around more weeds than brush, get the mold I linked. But of you fish around more brush, the flat eye model goes over limbs better. I'm not to picky about the head shape, which is why I just got the round head mold. The biggest reasons I started pouring shakys is because I could not find the exact hook size, brand, and style I wanted in the weights I use (plus it costs a fraction of the price). The beauty of making your own stuff is you can have exactly what you want, no compromising.

I like the owner cps shaky heads (actually, I prefer the shaky heads I make, but talking production heads here), 1/8 ounce. Get a pack of finesse trick worms (or zman's finesse wormz) and full sized trick worms and you're good to go.

Man, that's a sad fishery. Sounds a bit like lake Monroe in Indiana..

I believe they are OK with people mentioning them, as long as it is strictly nonprofit.

Like jar said, start with a spook. The spook is the easiest lure to walk, and once you can walk one lure, you can walk all of them with slight modification to the cadence and the force of the twitch.

I do not have a pop max (yet!) but I do have it's little brother the pop x. Same thing, different size. I don't use it like a traditional popper, it is made to walk or spit not necessarily pop. I will make it spit on occasion, but most of the time I'm walking it at various speeds. The pop x caught most of the bass on the day I set my pb for bass numbers, right at 99 fish.

It's a heck of a lot easier than removing a hook from a snapping turtle, those things make a soft shell turtle's tiny claws look like tooth picks.

I think it might be time to get yourself a scale, something like This. Walmart even sometimes has one on sale for less than $10 or $15.

1/8 ounce shaky head with a 4" finesse worm. 60% of the time fished offshore in 8-18 feet of water, and 40% up shallow on main lake points. 1/16 oz. mushroom head on half of a zinkerz or finesse wormz and a 3/16 ounce buzzbait get a close second.

Did it skip lighter baits very well?

Is that the one that's right down the road from lake vanderchuck?

Got out again yesterday, caught 14 in about two hours, plus a decent 28 inch channel cat. All offshore again, but they were on the deeper ~15 foot breaks now. Shaky heads caught them all, fished painstakingly slow. On a side note, the green book is always saying that "all fish relate to structure situations", and yesterday that included a big (15 inch shell diameter) soft shell turtlePulled it off of a structure situation on a shaky head in about 16 feet of water. Even got the sucker in his mouth.