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That looks like a Titanium Strike King spinnerbait to me. Allen

I know the guy that was making those baits for Hart. He is the one that got me into spincasting. Allen

I will take you out this year if you want? I need to fish Sleepy Creek more this year because I am tired of getting beat there or we can hit Four Locks or Big Slack? Allen

So I had a dummy once at Cunnigham Falls Lake put his Kayak on the ramp. I was ready to launch and all lined up. There was what I assume a grandfather and grandson that had just launched a Jon boat. I was giving them plenty of time but had everything ready I just needed to back the boat into the lake. Well as I was waiting this guy in a Jeep shows up, pulls his Kayak off the roof and lays it sideways across the ramp while he goes and gets the rest of his stuff ready. I said hey I am ready to launch can you please move your Kayak so I can put my boat in? He said wait a minute I need to get my stiff ready. He gave me the well I guess you are beat you will have to wait. At that point I lost it and said I am launching my 2800lb metal boat and if your plastic Kayak is in the way sorry about your luck. He was able to drag it out of the way just before I ran over it. I am a polite person but have my limits for things like this. Allen

I remember spotted bass liked the craziest colors in soft plastics. Allen

No Elaztech or Berkley baits anything else should be fine. Allen

These are the two main swimjig colors I have used for years. White one catches more fish but the sunfish one catches bigger ones. Allen

Some more with nee blades. Allen

I have been making lures for over 30 years and have never heard of palmering? Guess I need to go watch some more of smalljaw67's videos. Allen

Some more new blades. Allen

Bass stalker is my guess. They were bought by Uncle Josh. Allen

They will meet the diving depth after the 5th cast when the bill breaks off. Allen

This year my only plan is to spend more TOW. The last couple of years my youngest daughter has been in girls soccer which seemed to be every Saturday and Sunday from April 1st through July. Combine that with the fact that my boat spent months in the shop last year I didn't get to fish as much as I wanted. As for baits I will catch something this year on a chatterbait or I am going to just sell all of them. Allen

WHAT!!!! LC Pointer 78sp's and 97mr are the best jerkbaits I have ever used. Where are all the Vision 110 guys at? Allen

Strike King blade minnow. Allen

Trig is for fishing cover and a shakeyhead is for fishing open water. This is as simple as I can make it without going into 500 different scenarios. Allen

Swim jig Spinnerbait Frog Trigged paddle tail Senko Fluke Rough start but this is what I would start with. Allen

Top 5 LC RC 1.5 Manns baby 1- Bandit Rebel Deep Wee R Honorable mention = LC BDS 1.2 Now I have hundreds of crankbaits but these are the ones that I rely on. Allen

I use them pitching creature baits to cover. Wife bought me like 500 rings from Amazon for $15. Now I need to order some more because I can't find them. Allen

For the past 10 years this has been my number 1 crankbait. Allen

The non-get your a** kicked version of the course. S.E.R.E. is at Camp McCall along with SFAS. Allen

If I am actually using a tube most of the time its 3.5" unless conditions are really tough the 2.75" is what I use. Allen

The how many years have you been fishing trigged a memory for me. When I was a young E-4 in the Army I was offered the chance to go to Air Assault or S.E.R.E. school. At the time Air Assault school for a paratrooper meant someone too scared to parachute or too lazy to walk so I decided on S.E.R.E. Since 98% of the people on here have no idea what it means its an acronym that stands for Survival Evasion Resistance Escape. Still doesn't sound too bad does it? Well the school is for soldiers most likely to be trapped behind enemy lines and end up as a POW. Whatever you read on the internet they are not allowed to break bones but its the only school in the Army where they can strike you or worse. This gets me to the fishing part. The first week is class instruction about how to survive on your own etc. Week 2 you are divided into teams of like 5 or 6 men? They search you for food and then you are on your own with a single quart canteen of water, a knife, and some water purification tablets for the next week. Week two you eat what you can find or kill as part of the course. They showed us how to make fish and animal traps during the first week that we were to use the second week. We were camping by a small lake and I decided to use my fishing knowledge to catch something to eat. I found the lakes culvert out flow into a stream and looked around to find some used line and hooks fishermen left behind. Dug up some worms and used the line, hooks, sinkers that I found around the lake. Caught 14 small channel cats in the pool below the culvert that were smaller than you would normally keep to eat but this situation was not normal. Skinned are cooked them over an open fire and had enough that I gave some to some other teams who really appreciated it. Our instructor commented that we were the first team he has ever seen that had more food than they could eat during this phase of the training. Things were a lot different once we went to the POW camp but I will admit this was the best Army course I ever attended in my career. Allen

Can't remember not fishing? My father and uncles had us fishing or hunting before I started school. Started getting into bass fishing at 11 when myself and a couple of friends started riding our bikes down to the Antietam Creek to fish, I remember saving up money by selling golf balls I found and sold to buy a $26 Abu Garcia spinning reel the next year. Spent a year learning it and then bought a baitcaster because that's what Jimmy Houston and the Pro's were using on TNN to Bass fish. No idea how much line I went through that fish tear in backlashes but I learned to use it. To this day I cannot tech someone how to use a baitcaster because it has been so long it is just a natural movement for me. So the final answer is 40+ years of fishing with at least 30 for Bass. My only regret is the first 5 years I spent in the Army I did not fish much? About a year in Georgia and 4 in Washington State that I should of tanken advantage of the fishing opportunities. Allen

Columbia Coatings is as good or better than ProTec and I have been using it for 15+ years. Harbor Freight is hit or miss so I would be careful with it. Allen