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i have alot of pad crashers and i have been using the black the most so i took a marker and made some of the green frogs with white bottoms into black bottoms. I have been told to use white bottom on sunny days and black on darker cloudy days and into the evening. Anyone go by this or do ya just throw any color anytime?

$100.00 reels pflueger and $80.00 rods ugly stick carbon are working well for me. I use a $15.00 walmart shakesspear combo for my panfish setup and using a hose clamp to hold the reel on.

i really like using the buff this season but last night when the skeeters came out the buff was no help as they were poking away at my face. I may need a bee mask next.

where do you get these hair bands and how do you use them? talked to the wife and we may go back to this spot just to catch sunnies and gills using gulp minnows for a good fish dinner. Eating my nemesis.

i have to agree with this, my wife was fishing the same culvert and she was using tr and had no problem and even caught 14 bass on 1 senko before she had to put another one on. Then she even got tired working the tr so she put a bobber on it and ended the day with 25 bass and 2 big blue gills and 2 big sunnies caught on the tr. These sunnies she caught were big and fat and hungry getting caught on a tr with a 4/0 ewg hook. My o-rings are vmc new but they slide on so easy with my fingers so i punched through the senko skin just a bit also but maybe not enough. Next time the double o-ring crossed i may try also the shrink wrap or just do as my wife and use a bobber ? on the tr or just abandon the wackey alltogether agreed yeah i agree, i got so mad at losing the senkos it became me wanting instant satisfaction to nail the culprit that i immediately put on the other senkos, white, blue, watermellon, orange and then even changing to a circle hook all to get swiped in a minute of hitting the water.

any ideas? here is the skinny. I was using a 3/0 worm hook with a wire cage weed guard, hooked up a senko using the o-ring and hooked it also through the worm wacky rig style, threw it out and felt 2-3 tugs and it was gone. Hooked up 3 more worms and same thing all within 10 minutes or less. Then i thought to out smart the whatever it was and put on a circle hook with wire cage which i have never had problems with wire cages before a 3/0 wrig and tossed it out to same spot and it happened again 2 times in a row minutes apart. Now all day there were 4 huge carp hanging around the culvert area, also a snapping turtle, could i have been robbed by the carp or the turtle? I have always used wire cage hooks and caught bass as i did tonite but in this one spot where i tossed my wrig i got robbed and all that was left was the darn o-ring every time. How did the creature suck or bite that worm off, anyone have this experience with the wr?

Started fishing today at 4pm, nice cloudy sky and some wind. Wife rigged up the texas rig and i threw a jerk bait and first cast caught a bass by a culvert outlet. She caught bass 2nd cast and she never stopped catching. She stood in the same place from 4 to 9:30 pm and caught 25 bass and 4 sunnies all on t rig with 4/0 hook. She got so tired of reeling in the bass that she put a bobber on her t rig and was still hammering them just by wiggling her line a bit. Her best one was 4.5 lb. I was off trying all different lures as i get bored with t rig and i was catching them on a 3/8 oz keel hook and a 8 inch berkley kingtail red, then green pumpkin. Then i switched to a black hollow body frog and caught a few and then spinners and chatterbaits but no takers on them. Tried tubes and jigs and no hits so i decided to wackey rig a senko on a wormhook and caught a few. The mosquitoes came out to bite at 9:15 pm and they were so thick we had to get the heck outa there, just kamakazied us relentlessly on my face hands. Got home at 11:15 and took my underware off and found a tick, they like my undies for some reason as thats where i always find one.

i am going today for the late afternoon and stay till 9pm or 10. Will put the waders on today also bank fish. I dont fish this lake much but i should so will be fun to see what i can hookup with. Leaf lake right next to cormorant lake minn.

no dissrespect from me either. As a retired mechanic i have driven many turbocharged vehicles. Regarding my honda civic i have 138,000 miles on it and if it had a turbo i dont think it would be as in good a shape as it is now with zero oil burning. Its just alot of stress on 4 cylinders with a turbo. I wish you nothing but good luck with your purchase and it would be neat if you could keep us updated with its performance. I like to keep up with real people telling the truth and not dealers telling us what we want to hear.

Specs for the I-4. Says to use premium fuel to reach 300 spec hp. Engine has 10 to 1 compression ratio which is stressfull for a 4 cylinder turbocharged engine. Has a 3.58 final drive and 300 ft lbs of torque, the 3.58 gear will help with the towing but hurts non towing fuel mileage. I would search the ford truck message boards and read about owners thoughts about how their explorer tows with a 4 banger and the longetivity of the engine before i would purchase it. Never believe what the dealer says as he is now in your head. I made a mistake years ago buying a regular v6 with an automatic to pull my 20ft jet boat and it had no power with the trailer hooked up and i coudnt drive it in high gear i had t drive it in 3rd with the trailer. What it needed was a manual transmission as the auto tranny just wasnt geared properly for towing. I have a honda civic with a 1.7 liter 4 cylinder non turbo. I get 35 mpg combined city-hiway and 39 mpg highway only. I give my honda a 10 out of 10 rating for reliability and fuel mileage. The best part about my car is it is not turbocharged, i dont want a turbo if honda offered to put one on for free.

any 4 cylinder engine with a turbo is getting worked very hard. To get 300 hp out of it means the turbo is packing massive air into the cylinder and with only 4 cylinders that is heavy stress and fast wear on those 4 cylinders. They wear out faster than a woodpecker with a plastic beak.

i may be one of the very few on this forum whom uses the ugly stick carbon 6-6 and 7 spinning. I find it very comfortable and matched with the pflueger president xt and a superior reel which are both light reels i can manuever those setups with no fatigue from casting, jerking and walking. A couple weeks ago i broke out the old 7 foot gx2 ugly stick and that heavy rod wore me out casting and doing the above. The carbon 6-6 and 7 can outcast the gx2 6-6 and 7. The reason i busted out the old rod was for distance that day but it wasnt getting the distance using same lures as the new carbon rods were getting. I love me some ugly.

when i put my gloves on to fish i forget they are even on as they are skin tight open fingers. They smell like decomposed fish guts and just this past sunday i was putting peanuts and cookies in the palm of them and eating through the smell. You see when i am fishing i dont get all prissy and dainty, i was hungry while fishing and that to me is roughing it in the outdoors. Just today i went grocery shopping at wallmart and asked the self checkout attendant for help to cancel a purchase and he was rocking electric blue fingernails. always wear sunscreen on my face and large straw cowboy style hat. This year is the first for using a buff and i like it. I still put sunscreen on my face and then the buff pulled up when needed and still apply sunscreen after a couple hrs as sun can penatrate fabric even if the manufacturer says their buff is sunproof.

i bought the material to replicate the feathered look online and then purchased shrink rap and now i make my own feathered hooks. Yes i put feathered hooks on my top waters and even tried one on a jerk bait and caught a pike. Tatical bassin had a video out long time ago on how to make a feathered hook easilly.

sure was, we didnt get home till 12:30 in the morning and after putting the gear away and prepping the panfish for the next days dinner i didnt get to sleep till 4:00 am, i just lay in bed reading the computer and got up a 6 am to eat. After arriving home at late night, its an hour and 15 minute drive, and putting all the gear away i just cant sleep, i am so jacked up from the day and believe me i am constantly moving, wading, climbing up embankments and sore and stiff when we get home from the lake but still i am just to wired to sleep.

as a former mechanic i used duct tape numerous times to hold my cut hands and fingers together.

put yourself in his shoes, he committed himself to making these videos and i am sure his is as busy or busier than many people who watch his vids. He has many followers now and he has to keep putting out the vids or he wont last long so i am sure he is time stressed and makes these vids when he can hence the driving in the truck vids, the kids running around the house..... So what would you guys do if you took over his channel for say 6 months? You are a busy person but you know you have to make 2 vids today, where would you fit that into your day? Would you do a presentation which takes more time to prepare or would you just ad lib your true feelings and make a easy vid? Would you talk about the senko for the 6 millionth time, or repeat the millions of allready done vids on how to fish a jig? Well he mixes it up with lectures about conservation and controversial subjects that allows him to get the vids done and covers subjects that may turn people away or could attract more followers. Like he says if you dont like the channel just unsubscribe.

yeah i tell ya it came out of the water when it hit and the splash it made and then the pull to the weeds made me think i had a big bass. It fought as hard as the 3 lbers i caught earlier. Then i had to pull it out of the weeds and when reeling it in it jumped and i was still convinced i had a big bass. It was now dark out and when i finally pulled it out i was surprised how small it was and started laughing because i was all jacked up thinkin i had a monster 7 pounder.

theres a guy who is on youtube and he paints pictures by holding the brush with his toes because he is disabled so give that a try.?

did you watch his most recent video posted sunday about keeping bass to eat? I like the guy as i stated before. He was really primed up on the latest vid.

while bass fishig the bluegill and sunnies were hittin my jerkbait, the wife was catching gils, sunnies, and crappie all day on 3 inch gulp minnows. wife catches em,cleans em, cooks them, i just supply the gulp minnows.

its mouth was just like a crappies, it just didnt look like a crappie colorwise. It came out of the water when it hit the lure and it really pulled hard into the weeds.

started fishng at 3:00 pm, wife was crappie fishing and she hammered the blue gill, crappie and sunnies all day into the night. Me, well i went for bass and i threw spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, big swim baits on a keel hook, lipless and caught zero, nada on my favorite bass lake. So now what? and this is all from the bank, i put on a suspending jerk bait because, why not? and this was a 110 size and wham, i got bit and got her in. Casted out again and wham got another 3.5 lb and cast out again and get it deep and then tug it a bit and let it sit and this time i seen the lure suspending and i watched as a bass came up to it and looked at it and i didnt move it and it slammed it for another 3.5 and then it all stopped for the bass that is. I couldnt catch a bass after the jerk bait died off, i went 2 hours with nothing throwing the spinner, chatter, so i changed up to a big berkley kingtail 8 inch red worm on a keel hook and finally caught a couple small bass dragging it through the weeds and pads. Then i went another hour with nothing, throwing tubes, wackey rigs, neko rigs and no takers so now it was 9pm and i thought i will try top water so put on a white frog hollow bodied pad crasher nothin, put on a black frog and now its 9.20 and finally it hooked up and hauled in a decent bass and then i lost 2 as they got me hung up in the weeds. I kept at it and caught 2 more bass at 9:40 pm. I thought heck im goin throw on a el-choppo wopper plopper and caught a bass and then i caught what i think was a rock bass, can you make a geuss, rock bass, crappie?

caught this at 10:00pm sunday and couldnt tell if it was a crappie or rock bass, i am going with rock bass what do you all think it is? It slammed the el- choppo and headed for the weeds and i thought i had a big bass since i had to drag the little tough guy out.

2 inches in 5 days here in fargo nd