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  1. Brown Town
    I have three St. Croix Triumph 4 piece rods. 2 spinning set ups and one medium heavy casting rod. Extremely convenient for traveling and I have great sensitivity and strength with each rod. From throwing weightless flukes to jerkbaits to buzzbaits I've caught countless bass and northerns on them and some smaller muskies and never doubted strength of the rods. I know travel rods get bad raps but mine are a part of arsenal every trip.
  2. Brown Town
    2 weeks ago I came home from fishing one night and had a Whopper Plopper on the bait keeper. Put my rod down to close and lock the door behind me and my chocolate lab, greeting me at the door, decided to take a sniff at the bait and hooked herself in the nose. Before I realized what had happened she was running around the kitchen with the rod until the baitkeeper broke. She had 2 hooks of a treble into her nose and the other treble was starting to catch her bottom jaw and while trying to unhook her she shook her head and thankfully the hooks popped out. Could have been way worse but definitely will not be bringing her fishing or have any hooks tied on when I come home.
  3. Brown Town
    I like throwing flukes on aerators, but if you're fishing 17 feet of water maybe try vertical jigging a spoon. It will create a lot flash and when you get bit then you will know what depth the bass are sitting around those schools of shad. Then you can go with a bait or technique you are more comfortable with fishing at that desired depth whether it be near the bottom ( i.e. texas rig or dropshot) or more suspended fish (i.e. cranks, spinnerbaits, swimbait, etc.)
  4. Brown Town
    I always trim the length and thin some of the skirt out to help it walk better. I also have seen a lot less misses since the fish can't really target or hone in on the long legs. It really seemed to make a difference in the thickest cover where the legs right out of the box could be dragging and moving weeds or pads that are 4-5 inches behind the hooks. I used to get a lot of blowups behind or around the bait and now they get the body almost every time.
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    I have one tied on at all times. Personally, I've seen color be the biggest factor to get them to bite. Someone in my boat always has one tied on and some days they will only hit black/blue and some days only white for example. Same bait with the same retrieve and location with 3 people throwing different colors and only one guy will catch all the fish. I have a box full of skirts just for chatterbaits in case I need to change on the fly to what they want.
  6. Brown Town
    For summer throwing I always throw a topwater like a buzz bait or frog to find fish and if they miss then anything texas rigged as a follow up. Otherwise a swim jig or a weightless fluke when the water cools off.
  7. Brown Town
    I agree with this 100% as you're reeling in the slack pinched between your fingers that rod tip shaking is adding subtle action to your bait that just triggers bites when you least expect it.
  8. Brown Town
    I know at least with muskie fishing you can have the same fish follow you up to the boat several days in a row in the same exact spot and she won't eat it until she wants to. Its easy to distinguish muskies because of distinct scars or coloration so we know were going after the same fish. A lot of times they will just sit on the same log or boulder for days at a time. I'm sure big bass are the same way at least staying within a couple hundred yards of their core area. Caught a 5 pounder one year on one point and caught her again the next year 100 yards away at the adjacent point. gained about half a pound since the first time she was caught.
  9. Brown Town
    River to Sea Bully Wa and Snagproof"s Poppin Phatty are my go to frogs and always in a darker color. Used to throw Spro Bronzeyes a lot but for some reason my hookup ratio was terrible until I switched over. Probably just a confidence thing but I don't throw Spro frogs anymore.
  10. Brown Town
    Yeah this is the video I used to make mine. Just seeing if there's better ideas for swimbaits or other plastics to use as trailers. Might even try cutting a ribbon tail worm or using a grub too.
  11. Brown Town
    Hey guys pretty new to the forums. I've made my own frog like the Teckel Sprinker by putting a split ring over the hooks and connecting it to a barrel swivel and a twist lock bait keeper. Everything works and looks great except for the swimbait trailer. I've only tried several different ones but they do not churn water like I want it to. I think the paddle tails are too thin to really make a lot of commotion on the water though it does look pretty good still. Any suggestions of swimbaits made of thicker plastic or that have bigger paddle tails that won't fold back easily going through the water? Thanks for any suggestions.
  12. Brown Town
    If I get at least bit fairly quickly then I will work over the area more slowly or with different baits. If I can't produce a bite at all I will move to a different area that is completely different than that previous area. However, I have come back to an area I found unproductive later in the day or at night and absolutely crushed them on the same baits in the same spots I couldn't get bit hours before. Knowing your lake is pretty key.
  13. Brown Town
    The pit boss is pretty much my go to flipping and pitching bait and the devils spear rigged on a chatterbait is killer. Would be really disappointed if they over price them in the Berkeley powerbait line.
  14. Brown Town
    Jet skiers and cotton getting stuck to my braid.
  15. Brown Town
    Spiderwire braid the first summer I started frog fishing. I don't know how many big fish I broke off, but definitely learned a lot that year.
  16. Brown Town
    I brought a girl I was newly dating in college out fishing for her birthday because she wanted to go since I was always on the water. I was so worried about setting her up and hoping she would enjoy it I forgot she probably needed a license. Get out and settle in on a spot on the bank and I cast out and hand her the rod. Immediately 2 DNR officers come out of nowhere and approach us. It hit me right there that I forgot to get her a license. Tried explaining its her first time out and we would go get her a license right away. They weren't having it and wrote her a $250 ticket. I paid for it but needless to say we didn't date very long.
  17. Brown Town
    We always pickel our pike. Throw the fillets in a pickel jar with a good pickel recipe and after a month the Y bones are completely dissolved from the vinegar. No messing around trying to get all of those bones out and tastes better than pickeled herring.
  18. Brown Town
    No Jackall flick shakes on any of these lists?
  19. Brown Town
    That's why I always keep one of my muskie set ups on the deck with the biggest topwaters or Bulldawgs I can find. If I see guys coming up the bank quick and think they are trying to get in front of me I start fan casting with the muskie set up. After 2-3 loud splashes they usually look up and back off or go around me with a lot of space. Not saying I cast at them but usually the noise of the lure hitting the water is enough to scare guys into getting too close.
  20. Brown Town
    To add onto this I do recommend modifying the frog a little bit by bending the hooks upwards slightly and trimming the legs an inch or two. Trimming the legs will help prevent the fish from short striking it and will help the bait walk easier. If you are fishing really heavy cover you can't really walk it but just pop it along until you get to a hole or any gap in the cover then try and walk it slowly almost in place. A lot of times they will follow it out of the heavy stuff and hit it where they can target it easily.
  21. Brown Town
    Frog fishing is probably my favorite way to catch bass. You definitely need a heavier set up with braided line. Most pros will tell you 50-65 lbs but I don't fish really heavy cover so I can get away with 30 lb braid just fine. Can fish frogs from prespawn right through the fall. Learn how to walk it and adjust retrieve based on the fish/water temperature. I used to throw exclusively Spro bronzeyes but switched over to the River2Sea Bully Wa and my hookup ratio increased dramatically.
  22. Brown Town
    My go to baits are 4 inch senkos rigged wacky and lipless crankbaits thrown down stream and worked yo-yo style slowly against the current. Try to simulate a baitfish struggling against the current they usually crush it as you're lifting your rod tip and bringing that bait towards the surface. Downside is getting snagged on any laydowns or rocks you can't see as you let the bait fall, but you can usually get it back if you walk downstream of the snag.
  23. Brown Town
    I usually try and downsize and throw smaller bucktails like you mentioned. I also like throwing smaller rubber baits or jerk baits like a Hell Hound. When you get those follows try to burn it back to the boat or change the bait's direction to trigger that strike. And never give up on the figure 8 sometimes it takes several passes back and forth to get that fish to bite.
  24. Brown Town
    I mostly bowhunt for deer but also rifle hunt to put meat in the freezer. Also duck/goose hunt and turkey hunt spring and fall. Coyote hunt to help manage the deer herd. Pretty much hunt to get me to fishing season and fish to get me to hunting season.
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