You Have $50. What Do You Buy?

[bronzeback28]

packs of those for $1.50 at my walmart. That is something you should look at.

I second this. $1.50 for a 5 pack of the 5 inch yum dingers. Go buy 5 packs (25 worms) of different colors and find out which ones work best. Also I would get some drop shot weights, drop shot hooks, and 3/0 or 4/0 hooks. You should be able to get all of that for around $15 and still have $35 to spend. With the remaining money I would grab a couple of strike kings jigs, two packs of plastic trailers, spinnerbait and buzz bait in white/chartreuse and one in black/blue, and then a pack of storm shads 3 in. With all of that you would be looking at right around 40 dollars and you would have 10 dollars left to pay for gas or food for the day. 

[John Hansen]

Thanks all!  I will have to go see if our Walmart has any Yum Dingers.  I figure if they are as cheap here as elsewhere I will get a few different colors to use over a variety of water conditions.  

 

Black/Blue, Natural green and or brown shades, white maybe?  Maybe something in a brighter color?  

 

Ill have to check out a spinner bait or a buzzbait.  Im just not sure if I can cast that light of tackle.  Me and my bait caster struggle with the light floating Rapala I have and the ugly stik I just don't think will do it, but ill have to check them out in person to see what they weigh. 

[Dyerbassman]

A case of Three Floyd's Gumball Head

[John Hansen]

Thanks all!

 

Ran to Wally World.  All they had for Yum Dingers was 5" Watermelons, got a bag of them.  Restocked on a few split shots and sinkers and hooks just to be sure I have enough.  Nicest hooks I can find in town are Gamakatsu, they work for steelhead so they should get me started with bass.  Biggest I found was only 1/0  should work for now.   Are there such things as EWG hooks that aren't an offset worm hook? I couldn't find any.

 

Ran to the local sporting goods store.  They didn't have much but I picked up a pack of black/blue w/ flake then they had a bag of watermelon/Pearl on sale so I grabbed a bag.  

 

Checked out the spinner baits, neither place really had any that looked decent.  Walmart had some $1 ones but I passed them up.  Same with Jigs. One store had a few BooYa jigs but again didn't look too special and deffinately not worth the price tag they had on them.

 

Didn't quite find what I wanted but thats fine.  3 weeks of school left.  Only going to get to go fishing 1 maybe 2 more times.  Then Ill be headed to Utah where I can start working again and put a little extra money back into tackle.  Also give me a chance to fish a few different spots on the way back.

 

 

EDIT:  I got one final question for you fine fellas, its small and stupid so I didn't want to bother with a new thread.  I am curious if I rig my rods wrong.  My whole life Ive always used swivels and leaders.  Is it bad or wrong to tie a snap or barrel swivel onto my main line, run a 12-20 inch leader then tie on my hook?  Curious if the swivel can be scaring more fish than it helps?  Also is it bad to run mainline with a snap swivel and attach that directly to say a Rapala or a spinner/buzz bait?  

[livetofish28]

Thanks all!

 

Ran to Wally World.  All they had for Yum Dingers was 5" Watermelons, got a bag of them.  Restocked on a few split shots and sinkers and hooks just to be sure I have enough.  Nicest hooks I can find in town are Gamakatsu, they work for steelhead so they should get me started with bass.  Biggest I found was only 1/0  should work for now.   Are there such things as EWG hooks that aren't an offset worm hook? I couldn't find any.

 

Ran to the local sporting goods store.  They didn't have much but I picked up a pack of black/blue w/ flake then they had a bag of watermelon/Pearl on sale so I grabbed a bag.  

 

Checked out the spinner baits, neither place really had any that looked decent.  Walmart had some $1 ones but I passed them up.  Same with Jigs. One store had a few BooYa jigs but again didn't look too special and deffinately not worth the price tag they had on them.

 

Didn't quite find what I wanted but thats fine.  3 weeks of school left.  Only going to get to go fishing 1 maybe 2 more times.  Then Ill be headed to Utah where I can start working again and put a little extra money back into tackle.  Also give me a chance to fish a few different spots on the way back.

 

 

EDIT:  I got one final question for you fine fellas, its small and stupid so I didn't want to bother with a new thread.  I am curious if I rig my rods wrong.  My whole life Ive always used swivels and leaders.  Is it bad or wrong to tie a snap or barrel swivel onto my main line, run a 12-20 inch leader then tie on my hook?  Curious if the swivel can be scaring more fish than it helps?  Also is it bad to run mainline with a snap swivel and attach that directly to say a Rapala or a spinner/buzz bait?

Don't be so quick to pass up those 1 dollar spinnerbaits for a buck they work just fine and I liked them. Plus they have some colors that I haven't seen before. Sure the skirts arnt the highest quality and the blades and swivels arnt the best but the hooks are ok and if they break just buy another that's what I used to fish a lot.

Tight lines

Andrew

[DaBassMasta]

Definitely my situation, glad that you asked this question. I don't know if using a leader is bad or not, but I tie directly to the lure most of the time if I'm not trolling for walleye. (Then I go bottom bouncer with a leader.

[TheSmilingSwordsman]

Cotton Cordell Super Spots. Chrome with Blue back and Craw color.

Yum Dingers (cheaper Senko style bait) pumpkin or black

Creature bait (Brush Hawg or similar) pumpkin or watermelon

Bullet weights

EWG hooks

You should have some extra to spend on something that you want to experiment with, whether that be spinnerbaits, med diving cranks, jigs, jerk baits, flukes or frogs.

[IAY]

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