Hook2Jaw

So, I'm gonna tell you a story to tell you another story. I slipped out the girlfriend's house Friday morning, which takes some ninja skill. She sleeps about as hard as a gunshy guard dog with an empty belly. She wakes up to a silent fart, I'm telling you. Lord knows I wore a good many dinks out before I headed back in, slid back in the bed like I'd never left. That's definitely the most impressive part of my weekend. ...onto the bad parts of the weekend. After leaving the lady's place to head home to "clean up," and "wash clothes" at my house, I of course got bit by the bait monkey and hit the Wal-Mart for some Baby Boo Jigs and them daggum Netbait Baby Paca Craws all them boys on the YouTube go on and on about. I should have been washing clothes an hour ago. I check out and meander on toward the house but get stopped at the Ohoopee River bridge by the just a few casts monkey. Seventeen head of kids are cannonballing into the river and a drunk man has a speaker system blaring some Toby Keith song about being an American Soldier, despite being a country music singer, and old overalls has himself a mic setup and he's an American Soldier too, damnit. I'm in prime fishing conditions, I tell ya. I spook a bass off the bank and pitch a couple times to the cover he's crammed himself into to no avail. I cross the river on foot. Nearly step on an old catfish tucked close to an old bridge piling. I'm a redneck, not an American soldier, and I don't need no boat. Or so I thought. Behold my three step system to making a fool of yourself. 1. Get hung up. 2. Walk back onto the bank to retrieve your jig from the other side of the hang up. 3. Slip on the muddy bank and give the score of river children and the American Drunkard your best redneck bank skiing performance. I busted my butt. An old man is laughing over a microphone. The kids have taken a break from the rope swing and are laughing their ***** off. I've landed on my reel and bent the handles in and thought I'd lost a hundred bucks over two worth of jig and trailer. So I go home, finally do my chores, and head back to the girlfriend's house. Head to the honey hole I caught my PB in to lick my wounds. Hook into a solid with the jig that caused the whole ordeal, and get broken off because I'm a slack-jawed bank skiing fool who's got 18 pounds of drag on 12# fluorocarbon. Check your drag. Or fish with big fish line when you're throwing in a big fish hole!

You won't spend four figures for a stand-up capable kayak. More like 500 bottom end.

Thanks again, Flat. Is Rocky creek that giant cut that runs north from Bass Marina?

I have a 1436 Jon boat with a 9.9 on the back and a 40# on the front, as well as a Hobie Outback and a Hobie Pro Angler 14. I only touch my boat when my girlfriend or mother wants to to fishing. The Vibe Seaghost 13 is an awesome platform if you want to paddle, but a used Hobie can be had for a grand on craigslist.

Thanks, @flatcreek. I'm not looking to drive that far up North as the southern side near the dam is only about an hour away. What baits would you recommend for this lake for this time of year? Do you know anything about the south side, particularly this area?

I'm about to start fishing Lake Sinclair from my kayak. Considering it's a kayak and I only have a range in the area of 10 miles, does anyone have any general areas for this lake? I've been a river and pond fisherman my whole life with limited experience in Blackshear, so any tips for this particular body and a good launch location that would get me on some fish would be much appreciated!

I'm about an hour west of Savannah. We're definitely in the post spawn now.

I'm from Claxton, GA, about 25 minutes from you. Fort Stewart is about an hour from you and has 20+ ponds for 30 bucks a year. The Ogeechee river is near you and has some decent fishing, you're probably not going to see much size, there was an atrocious fish kill about 5 years ago. Magnolia Springs State Park is between you and Millen off 25. I've never fished it. There is also a pond in the Mill Creek park right there in Statesboro.

I own and fish from a 2017 PA14, and occasionally my 2010 Outback. They're both phenomenal kayaks, and I've been as far out as 6 miles off the beach in the Outback. A quick tip for reducing your turning radius even more; with the rudder straight, give the drive about three solid kicks and then cut the rudder hard in your desired direction, then, continue kicking. You'll notice a world of difference. Here's a king mackerel I hooked up with in North Carolina last year.

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There are also picture editing apps you can download for free. I use Photo and Picture Resizer.

Got on a few at my local public fishing area yesterday after work, which is surprising. Normally I'm doing good if I manage one fish out of the three ponds ever since they opened Georgia PFAs to anyone with a license. It used to also require a WMA permit, which, of course, costs a smidge more money and kept a lot of folks out. Now, the place is swarmed with bank fishermen and a few boats and most of them have a bucket to toss whatever gets caught into them. It's the place I go to figure out if a new bait will catch fish, considering they're so pressured and scarce. Well, I've recently fallen in love with jigs, landing my personal best and probably my fifth jig fish a few weeks back on a private, unpressured body. I wanted to see if they'd pass the test against very wary bass. The old black and blue bankroll jig and Christie craw did well. Four fish in three hours, which is whipping them for that spot. This girl fought hard from 20' down to several jumps and a tailwalk from about 30 yards out. @Bluebasser86 sorry about your boat, broheim. The only cylinders I blow are in my calf muscles, but then again, the kayak tops out at 7mph!

Gotta love this forum, so much help, and not one link to the jig topic! Thanks again, guys! I'm still not decided on what I'm going with, but that big bite baits craw looks amazing and I'm really feeling that color to imitate local crabs. It's time for redfish on a bass jig!

That's probably exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks, Chop! Gonna check it out right now. As soon as you mentioned bright blue, I was like, heck yeah!

So, I like to fish inshore as well for redfish, speckled trout, and flounder. I can catch tons of fish with shrimp and baiitfish imitators, but... I know a spot where the reds swarm crabs, and they won't touch anything else when they're doing so. The crabs I'm looking to imitate are blue crabs, and they're typically a mixture of dark brown and greenish on their bodies, but their pincers are blue. So as far as the actual jig goes, green pumpkin and brown should do just fine, but does anyone know of any trailers that come in brown/blue or green pumpkin and blue?

Awesome, you guys have been tearing them up!

Hit eBay and buy every Dancin' Eel you see. Not really. Do not do that. Grab some bullet weights for Texas rigging, and a bag of beads and swivels for Carolina rigging.

Nothing special besides the four hours I devoted to this fish in the morning slinging the Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money once again. I got her to look at the YUM Craw Chunk in Craw quite a few times, but she never committed. Returned that afternoon and slapped on a Christie Craw in Watermelon Red Flake and she hammered it on the first cast. Picky girl.

...those daggum crankbaits will be getting thrown more this year. I bought a good number of squarebills telling myself I would fish them more last year, but that never really happened.

Most definitely a 5" YUM Dinger Texas rigged, weightless.

I've just gotten into jig fishing myself with heavy success, I kept things simple with the beginnings of my jig plano box. Booyah Boo Jigs, both in 3/8oz, one black and blue and one black brown spice. I use these for cover and moderate grass. Pitching, mostly. Booyah Bankroll Jigs, both 1/2oz, one in black and blue and the other in money. I use these in deeper water, making long casts and doing my best crawfish impression. These jigs do a phenomenal job of angling the trailer up. As for trailers the YUM Craw Chunk in black and blue and crawdad. I settled on these because they're 2.99 a pack and YUM baits have always delivered for me. Good luck!

That's a good looking smallie, BB86. Also a solid lmb by Dorado. I've still never caught a fish at night.

Tom, I've had success actually sliding the hook eye into the plastic and covering the knot as well. Another added benefit has been I pick up less grass taking a bigger initial bite of worm and the places I fish are absolutely chock full of grass. I've saved many Yamamoto senkos Texas rigging in this fashion, as the plastic often takes the path of least resistance and slides up the line akin to a line through swimbait.

Thanks again, guys! I'm sure you will. The only times I've hooked up with big girls has been doing some outlaw fishing in a rarely fished old sand pit beside my local river, and more recently in a hardly fished pond I actually have permission to piddle in. I still consider two of my river fish in the same league as that big girl just because of how big they were in comparison to the usual.

That is an awesome fish. Thanks for sharing!