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  1. Jon P.

    jump frogs

    Jon P. replied to Jon P.'s topic in Fishing Tackle

    they're originally intended for snakehead in Thailand, but they're pretty solid for bass, as well yup
  2. Jon P.
    I've thrown a modified dropshot rig through holes in the ice the second that it begins melting but I've never caught fish through the ice
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    jump frogs

    Jon P. replied to Jon P.'s topic in Fishing Tackle

    too bad there's no such thing as topwater ice fishing ?
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    jump frogs

    Jon P. posted a topic in Fishing Tackle

    what are your thoughts on jump frog type lures like these? unlike most topwaters they have heavy bodies with a slow sink rate so that they can plow through cover better than their soft bodied counterparts. they look like a buzzbait on the surface, spitting water everywhere. the mouths on them are flat, instead of cupped like a popper so they can "jump" out of the water a little bit when snapped hard enough. they originally created in Thailand by guys who were tired of having their soft buzz frogs chewed to death by snakehead. recently I purchased a few from MegaFrox USA and they have been producing very well. wherever I would ordinarily fish a buzz toad or weedless frog I've been using these and they've been producing pretty well!
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    most of our water bodies in montana have a steady flow in them so most of our bass are high in muscle but low in fat, unfortunately this means they grow very slow
  7. Jon P.
    once while fishing at a flooded quarry a little one pounder bass slammed the spinnerbait I was fishing and the second he did so a gator pike, the biggest one I had ever seen comes plowing towards my fish in under a foot of water and plows the little bugger. it ripped the fish off the hook and chased it in circles before cornering it by a sunken bulldozer and swallowed it whole.
  8. Jon P.
    that photo is the official state record, the original photo I was talking about I don't have on my computer
  9. Jon P.
    this is Darren Williams with his state record
  10. Jon P.
    Once again, I'm not looking to retrieve a dropshot like a buzzbait, or a shaky head like I'm burning a spinnerbait, I'm just looking for tips tricks and alternatives for fishing a finesse presentation slightly faster. with wacky worms, for example, I dip the bends of my hooks in tungsten fly-fishing paste and opt for a thinner worm so that it can reach the bottom faster. it's simple things like that, that don't make a monumental difference, but do shave seconds off of the time you spend fishing. I don't believe that subtlety is necessarily fishing at a snail's pace. it can be as simple as using a smaller bait, less vibration, or lighter lines. I apologize if I phrased my initial question poorly.
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    if you want to optimize your ability to fish most any finesse presentation the obvious solution is to fish slow, but I would prefer to optimize the time I spend and the water I cover, so I'm looking for a happy medium here that would allow me to both catch finesse-y fish and simultaneously cover water. obviously I cant throw a wacky rig through the water column like i would a spinner bait, but I can wrap the hook in lead wire and use narrow braid so that I can fish faster.
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    hey folks, just curious as to what your thoughts are on finesse fishing with speed. I find that if you can succesfully cover an entire pond or a large part of a reservoir with any bait or presentation you greatly increase your chances of catching a fish. but if you have a finesse-y bite you might have troubles fishing fast. any thoughts or ides are greatly appreciated.
  13. Jon P.
    (in order of personal importance) 1. Catch a new PB and/or Montana state record 2. Get a new fishing kayak 3. Expand my swimbait box 4. Thoroughly map the Bitterroot and Clark Fork rivers for better bass fishing 5. More tournament fishing
  14. Jon P.
    the electrofishing survey teams always find giants, but for whatever reason I have only once seen one as big as that one in the photo. my little brother caught one that large on a huddle bug in an irrigation canal by the MSU griz stadium in missoula, it was nearly the size of him! but for the most part they average out around 2-3 lbs.
  15. Jon P.
    thank you, I'm not the best with words or math
  16. Jon P.
    I've never measured the weight differential, it never really occured to me. but if you find the volume of 1 oz. of pure lead, divide that volume by two, and calculate the weight of that volume in tungsten and then in epoxy, add the weight of the epoxy and the tungsten, you should get your answer.
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