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I have a underspin tied on at all times. I either have a keitech trailer or a fluke jr. I fish it year around. It does seem to do better at different times of year but they are a great lure for suspended fish or to be slowrolled across the bottom in winter.

Not really superstitious but I wont make a good cast on the first cast of the day. I usually flip my bait out into the middle of the lake and reel it in superfast to make sure I dont catch a fish onto he first cast. My net stays put up until the first fish is on. I will only fill my livewells when I catch the first fish to go in. If I have a big fish I dont weigh it before weigh in. When I cull I always throw the fish off the opposite side of the boat I am fishing. I wont quit using a worm after it has caught a fish until it is totally unusable. If I have a really good day on the water my rods stay on deck until the next time I go fishing. I don't want to put the rods up if the have just been used to hammer them. If I have a bad day. Anything I fish with gets cut off and re tied. I have a special color I have more confidence in because I won a couple tournaments on it on tough days when I know that the color wasn't the deciding factor but I still feel it is kind of lucky. I dont think I am that superstitious though.

Definatly start with a T-Rig with a Zoom Finesse Green Pumpking worm. Fish with it and you will be like 90% of fisherman and that will be the first thing you have confidence in. I haven't fished a T-Rig very much in a long long itme but if someone put a gun to my head and told me you have 1 hour to catch a fish on a unknown body of water I am tying on a T-Rig with a finesse worm. Then start branching out form there. Fluke's, Brushhogs, Senko's, Pop-R's any of these will be good baits to dip your feet into other realms of fishing. The one thing I wish I would have started 10 years ago is a fishing log. I have just started it but I know that if I would have did it a long time ago I would have quite alot of valuable information.

That is totally untrue. As long as he uses a good livewell treatment the fish will be fine. G-juice or Rejuvinade either one will be fine and kill all amonia and neutralize any chlorine in the ice. Please don't spout off incorrect information.

I am very happy with the bait coffin for my terminal tackle. 30 bucks is expensive but it truly does a better job for my terminal tackle. I like how small each of the trays are and how many dividers there are. All of my other boxes are either flambeau 3700 or plano waterproof 3700. I like either and usually just grab whichever is cheaper at walmart when I am in there.

I fish a shakey head or a jig 90% of the time and they get split evenly. I always have each tied on. I let the fish tell me what they want. I believe the Jig is more productive after a full moon due to crawfish spawns. I rarely fish a T-Rig jsut because my home lake dictates a shakey head for me. Granted I have a buddy that all he will throw is a T-Rig Finesse worm and he usually catches some fish on it. I think you end up fishing what you have confidence in. I would rather fish a Jig but if the jig bite isn't there I throw a shakeyhead.

I us a Bass Mafia 3700 series box. I like how the dividers are set up and it holds pretty much all of terminal tackle with the exception of a few Technique Specific stuff. I have all of my drop shot stuff in one smaller box, All of my wacky rig stuff in a 3700 with the stick baits I use in there with my oring and tool, and a box for my hollow body frogs and rage toads with the hooks in there. The rest of my terminal tackle is in the Bass Mafia box and I continue to add stuff to it. I am about to have to get another box for weights but I hate having to open 2 different boxes to rig say a carolina rig but I am starting to run out of room.

Pit Boss Jr. Yamomoto Twin Tail Rage Craw in that order. Usually either in Green Pumpkin or Black and Blue.

I use Red Label and have yet to have a problem with it. I am not willing to pay for Tatsu or even Yellow Label when the red does as good for me as it does.

I think I am in the minority but I like the idea of MLF but I guess I am traditional and I like to see a sack taken in and weighed. I like to see a traditional derby with friday cut lines and saturday cut lines. I like to see the guys who can bring a 20lb bag to the scale 4 days in a row. I like the idea of MLF format and I think it maybe better for television coverage but I still haven't saw where it is way ahead or way behind the other 2 tours. What I would like to see is Fishing get the same style of coverage golf gets and actually have live coverage for the final 2 days. I think you could create enough excitement and actually have a good shot at getting a following. I understand you can't have a full 8 hours of live coverage but even if you could get it to where at say 7:00 on Monday we could watch the tournament from this past weekend. This waiting 3 months to watch the tournament kind of stinks.

I sold my boat when I had my first daughter and was starting out my family. Didn't have much choice. I was married, broke, and had a baby on the way. The 10k the boat brought was used to make a downpayment on our first home and pay for the medical bills from our first daughter. I still fished from the bank I just never really enjoyed it as much. Here I am 11 years later and I have sold our first home, bought another one, and built a swimming pool for the wife and kids. I bought another bass boat in January of this year after waiting 11 years and I am the happiest I hav ebeen in a long time. I picked up some other hobbies along the way just to kill time but now I am right back where I started. I am already tournament fishing again and I am doing pretty well with that. I think people may get out of it for a personal reason or finances but I don't know anyone that truly enjoyed it that just quit fishing because they didn't like it.

You are missing the bite. Alot of times when the fish aren't real agressive this will happen. Watch your line.

On my home lake probably 80% of people are throwing a shakey head with a trick worm. It is a deep, clear, spotted bass reservoir. Everyone I know throws a 1/4 ounce shakey head and for the most part everyone is throwing a spot sticker. I will step down to a lighter shakey head if the fish are super shallow early in the spring but I think spinning gear is a necessity.

1/4 oz shaky head with a 6" trick worm is what dominates my home lake.

Zoom Trick Worm is my go to worm. Change colors depending on where I am fishing.

Braid with a fluoro leader is the answer you are looking for. Also close the bail by hand will help alot. I can fish mono on a spinning reel you just really have to pay attention when you are putting it on there.

I do it out of habit with a spinning reel because I am most likely fishing a finesse application and I want the Bait to fall where I cast it.

I fish Chickamauga a good bit and people will drive you crazy on that lake. They will give you 25 yards to fish. They will cut you off. God forbid you start catching fihs you will have boats on top of you. That being said though I try no to let it bother me. I am out doing something I enjoy so I just roll with the flow and try not to sweat it.

I typically use a sweeping motion like I would with a Carolina Rig.

The biggest problems with using a EWG is that I always end up hooking them deep with them. I typically use a gamakatsu octopus hook 1/0 and the majority of the time they are hooked in the corner of the mouth. That's is my preference but to each his own. Fishing a wacky work though you will end up guy hooking more fish than probably any other technique.

Wishin I was Fishin on facebook always has some fat sacks.

Hate to bust your bubble but if you have fished any at all you have killed multiple fish you never knew about.

I would bet most are like me and fish from both.

I mean taking a sharp piece of metal and sticking it through a bunch piece of there mouth and then yanking them from there home and then drowning them while we take pictures or RIP the hook out is pretty rough. If you think bed fishing is un-ethical you should probably reconsider the sport as a whole.

I have often though about doing it but have just never took the time to do it. I probably should do it at some point.