IndianaFinesse

Thanks, i'll have to try using a loop knot next time I want a more aggressive action on a jerkbait. I usually throw jerkbaits on a medium powered fast action rod spooled with ten pound braid and a short ten to twelve pound leader.

Absolutely none.

By far my most productive fall lure is a jerkbait.

I have found many lures, but the best ones are two kvd squarebills, an inline spinner (that thing has literally caught hundreds of white bass now, and it still works even after bending it back in shape many times), a suspending smithswick rattling rogue with upgraded treble hooks, a cordell redfin, a strike king buzzbait, and a booyah jig. I have caught fish on all of them, and still own most of them.

Thanks for the help! I will definitely pick one up with this weekends labor day sale, along with a slender pointer.

Thanks for the answer! I would describe it as a lot of side to side darting action while twitching/jerking it (like an x-rap), while less aggressive jerkbaits dart less and don't partially turn around on a hard jerk (like an RCSTX).

I have only tried a few walking baits, but the spook line-up has been by far the best producing. If I could only pick one it would be a super spook junior with a loud knocking sound (every spook I've tried sounded different, shake them and listen for the loudest sound in store if possible) like T-9 and everythingthatswims said. I mostly use them in the post spawn period and for schooling bass in the summer and fall.

Is the action on the kvd jerkbait very aggressive?

Try the booyah popping pad crasher, it has quickly become my favorite all around frog. Cricket frog is the most versatile color I have used, with black coming in a close second.

Then I would use a larger hollow bellied popping frog popped and walked noisily across the surface, and also a brightly colored single blade spinnerbait with an oversized Colorado blade.

True, but he just hasn't performed well the last few years. Hopefully I am proven wrong. I sure hope you are right.

They're not the same without manning. They still have an incredible defense, but with there qb position of having to choose between a kid fresh from a mediocre at best collage career and sanchez they are going to have zero offense. My prediction is the broncos will be carried by there defense to just barely sliding into the wild-card round and losing there first play off game. At best.

Unfortuanately this is very common in Indiana. They treat the lake I live on with weed and alagae killer every single month, and twice in the summer if the weeds finally get thick enough to make a suitable weed mat to throw a frog into. It even sometimes makes a second "thermocline" here if it kills a lot of alegea from all of the decomposition sucking the oxygen out of that band of water which really messes up the fishing.

In order to give you a detailed answer, i'm gonna need a little more info. With the information I would choose a hollow belly frog like a booyah pad crasher.

I would highly recommend getting a hollow belly frog to round out your topwater selection. They are extremely versatile, so many people think they are just for heavy surface vegetation but they are just as effective (or more) in open water. They also skip very well, even better than a jig making them great dock skipping lures when the fish retreat to far under docks to hit with the rest of your topwater selection. Although you usually can't see them strike a frog when it's skipped underneath a dock, you can still hear them explode on the surface.

Not at all. Toledo bend, lake toho,etc. all have established catfish populations, and they don't seem to have hurt the bass there at all.

I have caught one blue heron, three ducks, a broom, a plastic owl, many water toys, socks, and two swimsuits. Unfortuanately i have also caught way to many giant, angry aligator snapping turtles bent om seperating me from my fingers (or hand)

Been fishing a fair amount lately, usually I can get out for a couple hours in the evening. I've been catching them on frogs, x-raps, squarebills, and senkos for the most part. The areas the fish are in are points and deep docks, but two days ago they seemed to be starting to transition to early fall locations. Managed to catch a a lot of bass on x-raps and squarebills on wind blown points two days ago (including a chunky 4.6), but yesterday I only caught eleven bass on a frog. If this keeps up I might have to give up on trying to catch bigger bass and switch back to the ned rig, I can't wait till fall finally brings a good crankbait and jerkbait bite.

I hate those. They were (and often still are) a nightmare back when I fished from a canoe. It seemed like the smaller the boat you were in the less space they gave you, not the other way around. Several times they dumped my canoe, it got to the point I had to start calling security on them. I usually won't cancel unless it's something suicidel. I caught my second biggest bass at 8.2 pound bass in 30 mile an hour wind with gusts much higher, its a pain to fish in but definitely worth it.

Thanks for the help, but I found a shimano curado 200e bantom for a great deal and juped on it!

Now that I fish out a boat, my cut-off is 30-35 miles an hour. Back when i fish out of a canoe it was only 15 mile per hour. It's not a lot of fun fishing in the wind, but my pb was caught in 30 mile an hour wind so that makes it all worth it.

I do not think you will spook fish by using straight braid on topwater even in clear, open water. But this is just my opinion, the only way to tell for yourself is to start out fishing with a leader tied on. Once you start catching fish cut the leader off, and what happens next will determine weather line visibility matters for you.

Just because your line breaks at eight pounds of pressure does not mean that the fish weighed over eight pounds. Bass do not simply sit there when hooked, they fight against the pressure and therefore put more than there dead weight's pressure on the line. A three pound bass can and will break eight pound line if the drag is jerky, set to tight, the line gets rapped around something, or is frayed from rubbing against something such as a boats propeller. Not saying that your bass wasn't a beast but the fact that it broke eight pound line doesn't neccesarilly mean that it weighed over eight pounds. Set your drag with dumb bells or tie the line on the reel to a scale and set the drag to slip at about 1/3 of it's breaking strength like WRB suggested and this will be far less likely to occur again in the future.

I don't know. I have always believed that color was fairly un-important, partially to console myself when I can't afford more than one or at most two colors of a particular lure, but after reading this I am starting to question myself. Sure the pro's will always try to convince you that you need every color of there sponsors bait, but I had always chalked it up to trying to get product sold. After reading his first hand account of how much kvd cared about color, maybe I've been wrong.

I haven't ever tried smackdown, but I have used powerpro for a long time and can tell you that it's actual braking strength is about double what is advertised.