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AlabamaSpothunter

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  1. Every single time I have a brilliant day on the water I think to myself....." I really should have tried to become a professional Bass fisherman" A week later inevitably I'm thinking about buying live worms from Wal Mart and paying a fish to bite ? Fishing is the most humbling thing I've seriously pursued. I agree the key to a happy productive fishing career is finding stupid Bass who haven't seen lures. That's an artform unto itself.
  2. For a PG forum, some of you folks sure do make me laugh ?
  3. Yeah no power and a blizzard, that's a huge no from me.....ironically enough I was alive during Alabama's only recent blizzard in March of 93. Close to 2.5ft of snow, everything was down....power, 911, etc.
  4. Thanks brother.....I'm going to be looking like a nutjob to you guys this winter as this will be my first winter I fish heavy. You Yanks take for granted how tough the cold makes you........I mean I'm out there tripled layered in long underwear at 49 degrees.....suns goes down a little, I'm gone like the wind ?
  5. Thanks! Yeah it's very steep at certain sections of the lake. Certain parts I'd roll down like Humpty Dumpty ? Thanks Katie! Unlike the first video where the footage didn't capture it but my naked eye saw the bait being eaten, I didn't see anything on this fish. Just a freight train hit. I had just caught that bigger fish on this dock last Friday, so I was expecting a fish if you can call it that. I'm finding the GoPro is like a confidence meter for me.......if I have it going from start to catch, it's likely because I expected a fish. I get lost in the moment being a schoolgirl, so like you I'm kinda watching myself and understanding for the first time what I'm doing right and wrong especially landing them when I see it on film. I got into long range precision shooting, and once I started filming myself, and the bullet trace, I improved significantly. I'm hoping the GoPro in time has this same effect.
  6. 4 Species day.....LGM, Spotted, Channel Catfish, and Crappie. There is no lying to myself anymore, the cold is finally here for good. Been a week with lows in the mid 30s to high 20s, and the lake went from 67degrees 8-9days ago to 58 degrees today. Smallest Bass on this BD Shad has been a 3.5, biggest was 6lb. Every fish hits this bait like a freight train, something about it slowly falling after a twitch is when I get the best fish on it. Straight retrieve gets fish as well, but the bigger fish are coming when I let it fall a little way. This one isn't "slow sinking" like it says. It falls about half the rate of a normal sinking bait. Has an almost flutter look to it. I can see why big Catfish hit this bait. I lost another big cat a few days back on it as well. The 1-2lb fish are quickly turning into little footballs, love to see it. Big Bass of the day was the 4.5 and big fish was a 9.5 Channel Kitty. Caught half a dozen more smaller fish and two Crappie.
  7. 1000%, offshore big fish is the last frontier left to discover. FFS is changing that though.
  8. I was reviewing the 5lb+ fish (LGM) I caught over the last 3months recently with regards to pictures and then knowing where each fish came from. The dock fish were incredibly dark, almost black up top.....whereas fish I caught in open water were significantly lighter in color. The heavy cover fish could go either way. It's striking once you get fish big enough with LGMs. Even the dock fish have dark green/brown regions of the mouth. Same even goes for Spotted Bass which I see the most of. I've caught them submerged in sunken leaves in the Fall that had almost green bellies, whereas normally when you catch them in open water they have that white belly that contrasts so nicely. This doesn't even begin to talk about saltwater fish that can generate electric colors when excited. Fish are amazing in general.
  9. You'll be provided with one fishing shack, and one canoe....and I know you won't need a thing else ?
  10. Yeah that's the wild thing about this process. Domestic shipping has so many stops. These Digitaka FEDEX deliveries go straight to Memphis, and then directly to your city from there. I wonder if Digitaka ships JDM as fast as worldwide.....good chance they don't. Nice expensive array for cold water Going to grab a Damiki Vault in the coming days along with some Damaki Jigheads. Frustrating seeing big fish stacked deep. Been watching Tactical Bassin, and they recommend the Vault quite often. Already a huge fanboy for the Armor Shad but haven't tried the Damaki Jigheads and the actual technique behind the name. How do you fish the Trago?
  11. Fantastic, and I'm glad you were able to take advantage of these deals. That's a sexy looking reel.
  12. 100%.....plus you get the anime cartoon + promotion for JDM lure/reel brochure, a sticker, and the packer's signature. All three of mine have been packed by the same person. It's important to make the customer feel special and wanted, sounds obvious, but it's a disappearing trait among businesses today.
  13. Ordered around 11pm Sunday, arrived today around 2pm. Third time buying from Digitaka, they absolutely have ruined me to all reasonable expectations in terms of pricing, shipping, and overall exceptionalism. As for the reel, it's the most refined reel I've ever owned....the level of detail is ridiculous. Japanese reels are in a league of their own, and I've never regretted buying one. I can't wait to start fishing with it.
  14. All I know is the SV TW is the perfect reel for me in regard to Chatterbaits, that's what it was bought specifically for, and that is what it's been used for 90% of the time.
  15. I thought they were rare until The Braided Wonder started posting them like they were Bream ?
  16. Awesome additions to your arsenal and look forward to inevitable success you share with us once it warms up for you. Those are check cashing baits as they say.
  17. Ra*Pala not Rap*ala Da*iwa not Dai*wa I frequently stay at Japanese and Finnish Holiday Inns, don't question my qualifications
  18. Yeah my fishing mentor gave it to me as a kid. This man had the coolest display of lures you've seen going back to the beginning on the 1900s. They were hung all throughout his basement on pegboard. Thousands of lures. His mother's hobby was going around to flee markets, estate sales, etc. across the entire state of Texas, and whenever she came across Bass lures she'd buy them and mail them to him. That just brought back a flood of great memories about that peg board full of lures. I remember on a number of occasions he'd tell me to run inside and pick out any lure I wanted. I'm pretty sure the Budweiser lure came during one of those times. Take a kid fishing! That's the moral of the story I guess
  19. Got a Budweiser can crankbait somewhere.
  20. So you guys got me tempted, and I was looking at the Helium at 3.5ozs, but then the next model lower the Chromium with really cool carbon wrapped handle weighs 3.5ozs as well. Is the Helium just more sensitive or something, what makes it better since they weigh the same as the Chromium?
  21. Lol, we just call them "dem sharp hooks from Japan" ?
  22. Watched the whole thing before bed last night.....amazed at how much of the modern day Bass knowledge that is almost daily discussed on here was first caught on camera in this documentary. That place is magical, and unique.
  23. I've got both, they both are perfection. Both cast a mile, both are equally smooth and the smoothest reels I own, and lastly both are the most user friendly reels I've ever owned by leaps and bounds. You've got to purposefully try to backlash it. Clicking drag is cool. Not crazy about the aesthetics unlike with the SV TW which is just a beautiful reel. If you like the SV TW you'll like the TW HD.
  24. haha.....yeah the reel foot pic is the first one I click
  25. Most of the cheaper Daiwa and Shimano reels aren't made in Japan I've noticed though. The Zillion SV TW is one of the cheapest models on Digitaka I've seen that was made in Japan. A number of 200+ reels are made in Malaysia, and Tiawan IIrc. I only point that out because it matters so much to me when buying a reel. Every reel I fish with is made in Japan. Either Shimano, or Daiwa and this goes back to before I even heard the term JDM. I'm a huge fan boy for Japanese reels, they are just works of art.......perfection in functionality and aesthetics. The designers of the flagship Daiwa spinning reels that are made in Japan even hated to see visible screws on the reels and designed away that aspect. That go to the ends of the earth to create something that you feel special owning and using.
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