Blue Streak

I buy whenever I see something I like, I am a sucker for new baits especially soft baits. Some months just a few bucks some a hundred or so.

My favorite for a lot of action is the Paca craw.

Not my favorite bait or my best producer, but they have days when they work very well just like every other bait I have ever used. I try just about every soft bait I can find I think I am addicted to them.

Yes there is a considerable difference. The new scent is a result of Berkley's extensive research, they have probably done more scientific research on the senses of bass than just about anyone else. I am not sure when they replaced the original scent with the new one, but it has been several years ago and they did a lot of advertising about it. Still the finest line of soft baits on the market in my opinion.

I can name several that I thought I would be very successful with and wasn't, turned out to be big disappointments. But I won't add names because some are from our sponsors.

I fish them both ways but I seem to get more hits tail down.

One of my buddies caught a pelican while fishing from a pier one time. One of the funniest things I ever watched. He and the pelican cleared the pier of fishermen and spectators.

I can''t answer that really. But I tried to give some away on here and nobody wanted them.

Forget the bobber for sure. I would think that murky water on a cloudy day would be prime time for a buzzbait and spinnerbait.

Is it just me or are the older ones just a lot better? I have several that go back to the sixties and seventies and they just seem to have a different sound than the new ones. They seem to be made a little better and they cast a little easier. Has anyone else experienced this?

You put two excellent baits head to head, interesting results and great fishing.

Raul is right and the bigger ones seem to glide the best.

I wish you new what you are talking about as far as this issue is concerned. I have had numerous Strike King Baits do this, still in the package having never been in the boat. They were sitting at home with all my other extra baits that have never had this problem, stored exactly the same. It is NOT a problem that happens with all their baits, just some. Strike King does stand behind and replaces all the baits this happens to so Kudos to them but this is a production or design flaw. To say otherwise is a little ignorant to the problem if it hasn't happened to you YET. It has happened to me and it was because I left the box in the sun. I knew it was my fault and I did not ask Strike King to cover my ignorant butt. I have dozens of Strike King cranks and this was the only time I ever had a problem.

When I was a kid in grade school, which was many years ago, they preached to us "do not litter" and it is worse now than it has ever been.

You can't leave crankbaits in those boxes in the sun because this is exactly what happens. I would suppose the Strike King people have encountered this problem a thousand times, and yet they still seem to be good enough to make their "defective" baits right.

It seems to be getting worse every year. Not just around the places we fish but in the homes of the careless pigs that seem to want to turn every place into a filthy, littered hole.

When you adjust those pots for calibration, you should put a small drop of paint across the crack to hold them because they have a tendency to stay lose and drift.

Actually the Color C Lector will only tell you which color the fish can see best under different conditions. It does not tell you what color the fish will hit. It is more or less a light meter. As for the older units they were usually out of calibration and not very dependable for color or PH.

I wish I knew a good answer to this. Sometimes color makes all the difference and sometimes it doesn't and I don't think there is any way on earth to tell that ahead of time. Sometimes it just doesn't make any sense at all. I guess the bass know and we just have to ask them with our presentation.

Six inch Berkley Power Crawler in black or junebug and Zoom lizards in pumpkin. They just work best for me and I am not sure why.

A six or seven inch straight tail black worm An old wood popper. Jitterbug Original Rapala. Shad Raps the original Bagley balsa lures. Arbogast Mud Bugs. Flip Tail lizards 3, 4, 5 inch curled tail grubs, the single ones. If I was hungry and had those I know I could catch my next meal.

Hand made baits are a different animal for sure

None. I don't buy that theory at all, never have. I have fished with cranks for a many, many years and although they will differ from brand to brand I don't think they vary much when using the same. I have had a few that I could not get to run right at all. I think most of our members feel differently about this.

I don't turn the line tie, I bend it. If you turn it, it can go right back where it was. Sometimes you can clamp needle nose pliers onto the line tie and actually see which way and how much you should bend it. Also check the hook hangers, they can get bent and cause problems and are often overlooked.

I used to have a beagle that liked to go. He was pretty good most of the time, but when we would get into weeds that matted the surface he thought he could jump out and run around on them. He was a pretty good swimmer.