NavyVet1204

Glad you mentioned the YUM Dingers because they are worth it! I will also give a shout out to the BPS stik-o’s too. They are really good for the money.

Same here. June 17th ship date for an order I placed on May 30. $40 worth of squirrel tail and grande bass shaky head plastics. I will admit that the bulk of what I buy at my local BPS is mostly FC and soft plastics. My local Walmart only has a very few select colors of zoom and culprit plastics which for the most part forces me to go to BPS and pay a dollar more because TW is still taking forever to ship. I do however, enjoy actually handling a rod/reel in person there and looking for it cheaper online if I can find it cheaper.

Watermelon Red Flake Core Has this been a producer for you guys? I couldn’t resist picking up a pack with a pack of Yama Black and Red Senkos. I’ve been eye balling them for awhile and today I decided to pick them up finally. Definitely a great looking worm I think and I hope it’s gonna get some big ones!

I’ve had very little luck on that setup myself. The last time I even got a bite on a t-rigged senko was a Googan lunker log in white.

I must not be holding my mouth right or something haha great fish! And that’s why I haven’t completely given up on the ribbon tails. I feel like I am destined to see success again lol

Years and years ago, I couldn’t catch a bass on anything except a ribbon tail worm t-rigged. The Riverside brand of worms had a ribbon tail that was close in color to Tequila Sunrise that would absolutely murder the bass every trip. I haven’t caught a bass or even had a bite on a ribbon tail in so long….I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with them lol What would that lure be for you?(if this problem exists for you).

How much did you have to spend on that Daiwa line? Edit: I just priced it on TW and it was $33.99 for 220 yards of 14lb….? good lord. I’ll stick with my tried and true Seaguar Red label lol I do appreciate your report friend. If I manage to find some on a good sale I will no doubt give it a fair shake.

I too started buying mass amounts of different lures all because of what the other guy said was hot on the water at any given time….for them. What I ended up actually using was what was working for me. So I too have an arsenal of mostly unused stuff, but it’s still practical stuff like colors of worms that will work that I haven’t got around to actually using. In the last year, I have narrowed my arsenal down to what has continuously worked and that is the shakey head, the chatter bait, jigs, and Texas rigged worms/creatures. Of those choices the jig is the less producing lure, but it still produces. I stopped buying crank baits because no matter how much KVD or another big name catches with them, I still couldn’t catch anything with them. In other words, you need to stick with what works for you and not spend your money based on what works for the other guy. That has helped me the most.

Yeah it could very well be my technique or lack there of. Honestly, I do just fine with FC and braid was mostly something I wanted to try with top water. I can manage what I need perfectly fine with the FC because shakyhead, chatterbaits, T-rigged craws take up the majority of my fishing time. If I ever decide to put together a dedicated bed rig setup then I’ll put some braid on a spinning reel and my luck may be different. Ned rig setup*

That’s normally what I do as well, but for some reason they are way worse in entanglement than FC by far. I honestly don’t have patience to set for a half hour and pick through knots that seem impossible. I just cut it out and off and spool up with FC and good to go.

The bird nests I have with braid are far more catastrophic than bird nests with FC for me. Maybe I’m not spoiling tight enough?

How often do you change the line on your gear given it lasts long enough? At this point I’m a once to twice a season respool depending on if I have my days where I’m getting hung up a lot and having to cut the line or a bird nest results in a respool. Braid for me is nearly a 100% guaranteed respool I guess because of inexperience with it. Haven’t fished with mono since I tried FC except for catfish rigs on spinning gear. Edit: I think I missed my own point partially above, do you ever have to respool due to line that is old and degraded?

I do enjoy the company of my wife on fishing trips a lot. I feel very fortunate that my spouse loves to fish too and sharing that feeling of hooking a 1lb monster never gets old especially with that look on her face every time lol. She is however seven months pregnant at the moment so she hasn’t been fishing with me the last few months. My son will one day be joining me on our fishing trips and I honestly cannot wait.

Candy bug has been a recent produced for me as well.

For me I was nine years old and It was a Riverside ribbon tail worm in what I remember being a tequila sunrise color worm. I know for a fact that I did not tie it in the proper manner for the technique but I was determined no one was going to help me do this as I was grown enough to handle it. Third or fourth cast and I had my first bass with a straight retrieve on a zebco 33. I felt like I had taken a huge step towards fishing stardom in that moment lol My love for riverside plastics was confirmed that day and I bought a lot of their lures and plastics with my own money starting that very day!

This is why I opt for week days off from work when possible and my current job has me working every single weekend with three days off during the week. I’d rather work when everyone else is on the water and the fish when everyone else is at work.

Agreed with the above poster. Color only plays a small factor.

I actually have more Zoom products than YUM, but I will second the opinion that they are amazing plastics. Most of my bass caught last year were on YUM cranberry finesse worms in all colors of water.

The academy we frequent 20 miles from home is pretty good about keeping the shelves and peg hooks full.

You and I are very alike in that we want to be left alone while we are out and about. So far I have managed to avoid altercations entirely, however I do know that day will come.

I really enjoyed the cheap Riverside soft plastics that Walmart kept their clearance bins stocked with. Best .99 packs of plastics on the planet.

That actually crossed my mind but I didn’t want to just come out and ask lol

I’m a fanatic of fishing the shaky head technique and I’m always looking for new plastics or ideas to build on. So what’s your most productive plastic and color? For me, Zooms tried and true trick worm holds the torch in my race particularly in June bug with black/scuppernong/watermelon red holding up the rear. I’m really itching to try Big Bite squirrel tail plastics next.

Creature. More precisely the craw. I did find the color in the stick-o worms and someone else pointed out the bug creature that the color was available in as well.

Just wait until your boat motor is all electric too.