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Coworker is going tomorrow through the weekend. Cold front less than ideal conditions. I'll see him mid next week and ask how it was. My other coworkers friend just got back this week. It's slow. Maybe 16-17 pounds for the best bag for the day. The consensus is that Alamo will be hot soon with 100+ bass days.

In my younger years it was important to know the difference between Indica and Sativa. One was a productive day in the garage or sinking into the couch

Definitely a notable difference from water temps from high 40s during winter and 100 summertime in AZ. I believe Justin Rackley (LakeForkGuy) has some videos on youtube talking about Texas power plant lake summer bass having softer mouths. Surface temps there reach 100+ too.

Bass mouths are much harder and tougher to penetrate in the winter month vs summer. Touch up your hooks. As said above reel a few turns and sweep the rod about waist high. Put some stank on the sweeping hookset

Casting gear for my weightless Senko skipping. 7'3" medium fast action rod (6'5 height). Reel Daiwa SS SV 103 with 10lb flourocarbon. With Daiwa's SV spool reels skipping weightless senkos is super easy. No spinning gear needed.

I drank the hyper kool aid. Shipped this morning from Japan. There's definitely a quality difference between the Thai and Japanese reels I have. Pretty stoked to fish it soon.

$4.99 at jigs4bass dotcom. Lots of quality for the price. He ships fast too. Been ordering from Mike for a few years now.

With the cooler AZ weather been carrying the M&P 2.0 compact with 4" barrel, stream light TLR1HL light with Phlster floodlight holster.

Definitely lots of little buck largemouth in the tullies. Smallies are bedding now. I must have seen 15+ beds the last 2 days including a few with the female still locked. I think you are correct they're probably carp. I'm going to work harder to try and find the pods of big females. The full moon is the end of the month so hopefully there's time to get a PB.

I'm going to try a ned tomorrow and vertically fish the little 2.8 keitech. Packed a couple spybaits. I haven't fished the Damiki rig yet but will try.

Located large pods of bass off of mainlake points suspended at 15-20' Any tips to get these fish to bite? Tried Keitechs/Underspins, Lipless, chatter bait, and large swimbait glide bait. Absolutely nada. Water temp 58-60.

The singularity and AI's takeover of humanity ?

Happens a lot with my brother and I when we'd fish. Sometimes I kick his butt other times it's me getting the @$$ kicking. He's a Marine so you can only imagine the trash talk back and forth ? all in good fun. I'm sure there'll be another time when you guys go out that you will be doing the catching.

Any potential for Florida strain monsters in your area?

I believe the recovery time is a few weeks of the post spawn funk. The bass are finicky and hard to catch. If you know the routes and staging areas before the spawn, start those areas first working out shallow to deeper staging locations. I've had great days in the post spawn with a weightless Senko. Long casts to deeper structure letting it sink down with occasional twitches. Yes it's boring and slow but it works. Don't forget to fish around the bluegill beds. You'd be surprised how many really big post spawn females hang around very shallow snacking on panfish.

Only caught a few dinks on the various plopper colors and sizes I have. I guess conditions never line up right when fishing them here. Don't care much for them, but will try them more after the spawn.

USPS finally came through. Good deals on these Zillions on eBay popping up. Sights set on the JDM 2021 Zillion next ???

Looking for recommendations for a good treble hook for the magdraft 8". Dumped a nice largemouth tonight.

Couple on a jig finally. The slump is over ?

Berkley Pit Boss, Yamamoto Senko, and the now discontinued Jackall I Shad.

While a little larger than listed I really like the Ima Flit 100. They've all suspended excellent out of package too.

Ebay

Taipan Rods https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/rodcast.html?from=basres

Stradic are really nice and I'm a Daiwa guy. Wanna say I scored my Ballistic LT for around $170 which are a solid choice too.

Blanchard and NDYakAngler as well. NattieUpNorth has some quality kayak content.