Blue Streak

Fish them slow with patience, I have caught some big bass on them.

They work for me.

x2. I find this answer interesting since casting contest participants I've met while competing were all guides, tournament anglers, & highly productive anglers. Probably true Catt. But if a guy is in a casting contest that involves distance plus accuracy. Don't you think he is using equipment suited for that? I think they would be using reels with super fast bearings and ultra light spools and probably using the lightest line they can possibly use. But my whole point is, it is much easier to hit a target while standing on solid ground rather than in a boat with the waves moving you up and down and branches or whatever blowing around in the wind obstructing your target. And who neds to make 50 yard casts while fishing? Sorry I am not impressed with competion casting. The competition I compete in is outdoors, with normal fishing tackle, and from the deck of a parked boat. Are you saying then that you can pick up any one of the oufits you use for bass and cast it 50 yards and hit your target? In the outdoors, from the deck of a boat.

x2. I find this answer interesting since casting contest participants I've met while competing were all guides, tournament anglers, & highly productive anglers. Probably true Catt. But if a guy is in a casting contest that involves distance plus accuracy. Don't you think he is using equipment suited for that? I think they would be using reels with super fast bearings and ultra light spools and probably using the lightest line they can possibly use. But my whole point is, it is much easier to hit a target while standing on solid ground rather than in a boat with the waves moving you up and down and branches or whatever blowing around in the wind obstructing your target. And who neds to make 50 yard casts while fishing? Sorry I am not impressed with competion casting.

I fish poppers a lot and it seems I never have it figured out. Everytime I go out it is different. What worked yesterday does not work today. I just vary my retrieve until I get a hit and hope that fish told me the secret.

You need a tube.

White cedar, basswood, and HARD balsa.

Years ago they made some wood Pop Rs could be one of those. Wood poppers make that bloop you are asking about. There were also some made out of a heavy plastic. Could that have been Tenite?

Casting contests and casting while fishing are two entirely different things. Put those contest casters in a boat with the wind blowing and branches hanging over their target and see if they can still hit it at 50 yards.

"Fishing is one of those things where it's going to vary from lake to lake, state to state, coast to coast. Then, it's going to vary based on an anglers experience, level of patience, and willingness to learn and keep an open mind".

Now lay that hula hoop under a bush and cast to it with the branches covering most of it. Seems like that is what you need to do on the water, the honey holes are seldom easy.

When it comes to fishing you have to think beyond the rules, don't get "boxed' in by what you think you are supposed to be doing. Think while you are on the water and try something different. You never know when you might find that strange bait that works. I mean look at what pink will do with smallmouth.

Purple is a good color in stained or dark water. But purple seems to always be a color that attracts bass.

Not adapting to changing conditions. Staying with their favorite bait or method way too long.

Yes and I was wishing I had my c rig outfit with me that day

You know it is a funny thing about these "new" techniques, they seem to have started when someone gave them a catchy name. I can remember back in the sixties when they were hooking the Creme crawler like that and just saying they were side hooked. I'll never forget the first time someone showed it to me, I thought it was dumb until I watched the action in the water.

T rig, I know I am going to get bass.

I am wondering about this myself. Does this mean people who do not fish for an income? Or does it just mean inexpierenced fishermen?

I got to fish it a little the other day before the wind kicked up. It is really not that hard to rig and it does have a nice action, gotta be slow with it though. I want to give it a good workout as soon as the wind lays down a little. It has been a wicked spring for wind and rain.

Drop shot hooks work very well for me. That is all I use for a wacky rig now.

I caught a 40 pound flat head on a Rapala dt last spring and it is not uncommon to catch chanel cats from 5 to 10 pounds in this section of the Ohio river on cranks. They can turn a slow day into a bunch of fun.

This is one thing that fishermen are never going to agree on. I don't know what it is. One man's trash, another man's treasure I guess.

I agree, the only Lucky Craft worth the price may be the Pointers.

I used the weed wing and it was a very good bait for getting the bass out of weeds. Sort of a spin of of a Johnson spoon.

It may make a bass hold onto a bait longer which is a very good thing, and it will make your bait slick so it comes through cover easier. As far as attracting a bass to strike. I don't think there is an odor in the world that can actually do that.