Zachary M

I’ve used them before and they messed with the suspension...maybe go a little smaller size?

I love fishing the Megabass Vision 110 Jerkbaits. They absolutely slay out here for smallies and spots. Their stock hooks are wicked sharp, but aren’t quite robust enough for handling giants. What are good replacement hooks that won’t alter the bait’s suspension??

I love jig fishing! I started with a a Powell Endurance 764 and I love it. That rod is around $150. I just bought a G. Loomis E6X just because I have heard great things about it and it’s my new favorite jig rod. Unless you’re flippin super heavy cover, I prefer rods that have a great tip, softer mid section and strong backbone. I don’t like rods that are stiff. I would start with the Endurance 764!

I use Lime Green 10lb J Braid and 6lb Seaguar Inviz X. Ultimate finesse, my go to for Neds and shaky heads.

No not necessarily for no reason. Usually if I’m fishing jigs and I am dragging bottom, every time I drag bottom, I feel like the Braid is digging in. When I go to recast, whenever my line reaches that particular area on the spool where I was dragging my jig over rocks, it catches and ruins the cast.

I have used braid, fluoro, and mono all on my baitcasters. They definitely have their benefits and advantages in certain situations. I’ve gone back to straight braid and braid to leader on my rods, and I forgot how bad braid bites on itself while casting. I run 30lb J Braid and have not had issues until now. Every other cast, my braid bites down mid cast and ruins the cast. It’s annoying to be modest. I love fishing braid but this makes me want to go back to fluoro. What brands of braid do y’all think bite less? Or is it simply the diameter of my 30lb braid not being large enough??

I’ve been fishing swimbaits for a while and I love them. I particularly love glide baits, simply because they are a ton of fun to fish, and it just makes sense why a bass wants to eat one. A lot of my friends enjoy huddleston’s and other more “realistic” swimbaits. I personally can’t find any joy in throwing them, simply because 99% of the time when fishing one of these baits they are just creeped along the bottom...I would much rather just fish a jig. But if you watch trout or Kokanee, they are never moving at a snails pace on the bottom, they are schooled or moving about the water column. Whiskeytown Lake and Shasta Lake are my home waters, and I’ve seen both Spotted and Largemouth bass ambush and attack trout and Kokanee, coming from the beneath them. I can smash these fish on glides, but never on anything else. I want to start fishing more realistic baits just to expand my horizon, but I just want to better understand how to fish them and why I should fish these baits on the bottom, when the fish they are imitating are not swimming on the bottom??