TriStateBassin106

Yes, I remember one time I ordered two bags of Berkley powerworms and two bags of chigger craws. They sent me a extra bag of powerworms in electric blue I believe. I looked over the email and the third bag wasn't included in the order.

Had a blast fishing this past memorial day weekend, started on friday fishing the local small river for smallmouth and managed to catch at least 10 small guys this size before it started to downpour, it was my first smallmouth in over 3 years so I was pretty Pumped, then caught 24 bass between sunday and monday, 19 of them were the size of the 3rd picture, but I did manage to catch a couple 2+lbers on texas rigged craws and buzzbaits!

I had this problem with Zmans Finesse shroom heads and the normal size TRD. I just glued it to the head and the problem went away, it was very annoying always putting it back on the jighead after a fish or two. ?

Absolutely, my boat is already docked at the family house on our private lake for the weekend and I plan on doing multiple morning and evening outings (to avoid recreational boat traffic mid day) BBQ planned for Monday so I probably will be off the bigger water. Maybe I'll hit up a pond or two if it's not busy during the day time.

What size of those mustad o rings would be good for 5inch senkos? Medium or small?

I did last year in March, it was our first warm day in 2021 and there was still some ice and snow on the bank I was fishing at a local pond, all of a sudden a black pick up truck with the word POLICE on the side doors pulled up behind me in the parking lot to the pond, officer was a nice guy and I always had my license renewed every year so he just gave me a warning I guess. I wouldn't even call it a warning just a "make sure you try to renew it ASAP" we also talked about trout stocking in the nearby river and he then left. My only problem with this encounter was a few months later we had problems with foreign speaking folks taking buckets of bluegill and undersized bass and there wasn't no game warden to be found...

I use KVD L&L and it helps. Probably the best spray you can use for line.

Similar thing happened to me but at the bank on a public pond. I was fishing a tiny section of bank next to a fishing dock, I had to retie something and this dude came up to me and we talked about the fishing for a minute but he immediately started making casts in the spot I was in...I didn't even move out of it I was like 2ft away from the guy, probably one of the most disrespectful things you can do to another angler is take over his spot while he's still there. I didn't say anything because I'm not the confrontational type but I was also in a good mood and just started fishing. If this was a few hours in and the fishing was slow I would've probably said something.

This may be a stupid question but I don't fish the wacky rig as much as I want but when I do I've been using the field and stream wacky tool with the o rings it comes with, only problem is these things are ridiculously tight to make the X on the worn and when I do after a few casts the senko begins to rip like pic below. Anyone know any good size o rings I can get that won't have this problem? I can't seem to find anything anywhere at my local stores besides the field and stream models.

Here in NJ we get 4 to 5 months of good warm temps so I'm gonna say 65 degrees+

When you guys pair chatterbait trailers do you trim the head of the soft plastic down a tad bit to give it a more smaller profile or do you leave it at normal length like pic related. This is specifically for the zako/razor shad guys since it's a big profile out the bag.

3/8oz, don't need any bigger size. Use it in deep water all the way to 1ft.

I personally use zakos and get this... Yum swim'in dingers rigged upside down. I've had plenty of luck of them, maybe more than the zako. Pretty weird but they work.

For a squarebill I'd go with the Strike King kvd 1.5 & lipless crankbaits either the Strike King red eye shad or a Ray Lewis Rat L Trap

How do cold fronts affect the spawn for pond/small lake bass? We recently had two 50 degree days with heavy rain here in New Jersey which resulted in water temps being dropped a bit, I went today to one of my spots and noticed all the cruising females were now gone and a few beds were abandoned with only a handful of small fish locked on some in the shallower section of the lake. Where do these females/males that left their beds retreat to and how do you catch them?

I've lost too many fish setting the hook like a wimp, I lost a 4 to 5lber last summer on a black powerworm because I didn't add enough power when setting that ****... I still think about that fish every now and then. Yeah with the ned rig it's all about reeling when you feel the bite/pressure, I had a few zman heads get slightly bent because I did a slight hookset when I felt a bite because I'm usually switching from a bottom bait like a texas rig or jig when I use the ned rig, It takes practice. Drag is also very important I agree!

More topwater, more specifically buzzbait fishing.

May so far has been on fire! here in New Jersey we're finally in the heat of the spawn, caught more fish in three days this past week than I did in all of April!! Bunch of fish on beds and cruising around at my lakes! Including this first fish which was close to 3lbs on a bed! Mostly caught on senkos and chatterbaits, almost had my first buzztoad fish but I didn't set the hook right.

Nice job Mike! I've been using the chatterbaits for about 3 years now. I didn't know the big deal about them until I got my first fish on it! The more and more bites you get on them you'll start to get a groove going!

800 or so dollars probably, I've only been hardcore bass fishing for 4 years.

Black n blue 5inch senko. Fished wacky style!

I use Columbia PFG Terminal tackle fishing shirts. They have a version with a hoodie and one without. I usually wear it in when the temps are around 58 degrees or higher in the morning and then gets warmer in the afternoon. Keeps me nice and cool. I also wear them in the heat of the summer since they have UV protection. They're around 40 dollars.

Had a good week of fishing, finally starting to catch bass again here after a 2 week skunk and also had some fun fishing for trout in the creek on our season opener here in the Garden State

I fish alone 70% of the time but I have a group of friends I fish with and they're always fun to hang out with and talk to especially if the fishing is slow or really hot and we're all getting on them. Personally if I had to prefer I would say fishing alone or fishing with someone who's also not a heavy chatterbox is preferred.. I'm more intune with the fishing and usually do better in terms of catching.