Latest Tackle Purchase Thread (Bait Monkey Victim Support Group)

[softwateronly]

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bought a pack of Bellow's Gill 3.8 a month or two ago.......was very worried about their durability.......make a few casts, catch a small fish on one, and immediately the bait goes flying off with its first jump. 

 

So much to like about the bait, the SAF material, the design, but ultimately their is no way I'm fishing a bait that cost over $1 per bait, and lasts only one fish.     

 

Hopefully the Deps Bull Flat are more durable, gonna try those one of these days.   

 

 

Prepare to be 1/3rd as disappointed....

 

scott

[OHBuckets]

5 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

Prepare to be 1/3rd as disappointed....

 

scott

I hear several complaints about the durability of Bellows Gills, Shads and Sticks - I personally don't see it that much. I put them on an Owner CPS Twistlock and don't have many issues at all.

 

Last Bellows Shad I had on caught me 8 decent largies, with nary a tear in the bait. Fished it the next day too until I cut it off to try something else (plus, scent was largely gone at that point).

 

Also caught several largies on the 3.8 Stick, before a tear. But still, certainly more than one bite per bait

 

My dog loves the smell  I'd rather smell Geecrack than Missile or Gambler, but I like them too

[softwateronly]

17 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Trade deal.

I like your style.  I traded credit card points today for my latest one, but then had to buy some more varivas pe, horizon heads, deathadders, and a little diawa spoon.  It's such a great reel for M-ML applications and love the current price at digitaka.  I recently followed @bulldog1935's advice and did a zillion bearing upgrade and roro x27 spool for a zillion and got an abu garcia Kurodai 7'3ML for true 2-3g bfs fishing.  I need to be done for awhile, till the points rack back up or I blow thru all my line learning how to handle a high speed spool.

 

scott

 

 

@AlabamaSpothunter and @OHBuckets I was being slightly tongue in cheek, they're not terrible, but I certainly can't call them durable.  Maybe it was just the aggression level of the fish I was catching, on those days I sometimes switch to cheaper/easier baits to source when they really like it, my last couple times I just rode out the bite going thru most of what I have.  Cps does seem to help but you can also backslide rig if the nose is toast but intact.

 

scott

[OHBuckets]

 On durability, jeepers I put a Zman 4" scented jerk shad(z) on a weighted twistlock and fished the same one forever until I got bored with it. Those things outlast my attention span

 

On the bait monkey, I just received a handful of the Zariganist Juniors and a pile of Missile Mini Magic worms. I look forward to switching over to those if I can't get on topwater early tomorrow 

[FishTank]

Used my Father's Day gift cards and picked a Daiwa Tatula BF 70. Going to go break it in on a Megabass P5 Siglett and some 5lb Sunline Invisible.  

 

 

 

See if you notice it. All I got to say,  as a printer, is come on Daiwa, you can do better 😁.

 

[Eric 26]

19 minutes ago, FishTank said:

 

 

 

See if you notice it. All I got to say,  as a printer, is come on Daiwa, you can do better 😁.

 

The line capacity doesn’t change for the pound strength even the pe/braid which is definitely thinner compared to its mono/flouro counterparts 😬

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[GreenPig]

Got a couple Piscifun Alijoz 400 6.6:1 and two more Madkatz Poison Ivy med/hvy 7'6" 2 - 16 oz for dragging for Blue cats.

[ATA]

On 6/19/2024 at 2:44 PM, NorthernBasser said:

 

You throwing that beast on a muskie rod?? 

Yes, Thats the plan, I didn't do it yet, but soon going to try.

On 6/18/2024 at 10:02 PM, MN Fisher said:

With the way the Esox around here steal baits...not something I could afford to lose....if I could afford it.

 

Oh yeah, That can grab anything and go, But we don't have them here in SoCal. I am so exited and can't wait for the first fish on it.

[ATA]

Got two OG 10" KGB shad, God I love this lure, A real fish catcher.

[UncleSasquatch]

On 6/21/2024 at 1:19 PM, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bought a pack of Bellow's Gill 3.8 a month or two ago.......was very worried about their durability.......make a few casts, catch a small fish on one, and immediately the bait goes flying off with its first jump. 

 

So much to like about the bait, the SAF material, the design, but ultimately their is no way I'm fishing a bait that cost over $1 per bait, and lasts only one fish.     

 

Hopefully the Deps Bull Flat are more durable, gonna try those one of these days.   

 

 

Lucky for you they’ve released some Gills, Shads and Bellows Sticks in elastomer plastic. I don’t mind paying the price. 

On 6/21/2024 at 1:15 PM, NorthernBasser said:

 

I love the smell of the Bellows Gill. Very unique scent. I'm guessing the Shad has the same scent? 

They do, I believe all their plastics have the same scent. Don’t quote me on that tho lol. 

On 6/21/2024 at 1:36 PM, Texas Flood said:

I have a cheapo verison of this carhartt sling bag that I use walking the river. I love it because it forces me to bring only a few baits which is helpful for my back.

 

Smells like Fritos to me

Where did you get the Cue Bomb? TW says they wont have them until mid July.

So my local shop, Copper State Tackle got some in stock. Check their website out. They only had 2 colors available at the time. 

[Pat Brown]

Got frogg'd very hard for fathers Day/on vacation at a local tackle shop we like to stop at:

 

 

On the way to the beach I snagged my first Phat Frog in the duckling color and I snagged a 1/2 oz toad trophy and a shad trash panda (discontinued 13 fishing frog - Oliver Gnys favorite!) and a bone Launch because you can never have too many white launch frogs.

 

 

Got my first snag proof Bobby's Perfect Frog in shad color and popping trophys in shad and bone.  Son wanted a Teckel Sharker for his 5th grade  graduation lure in the shark color after seeing it on Bassfishing HQ channel and I got the gizzard color for dad.

 

 

Got back from the beach and my midway USA order arrived.  Got some Spro Bronzeye Shad 65, white popping pipsqueak, some green tea popping and 5/8 oz trophy, bone trophy and more Launch and Launch XS in good colors.

 

Also got a bunch of skirt material because snapping turtles keep getting my skirts!

 

 

Really thinking hand tied custom skirt colors will yield some wild bites when I figure out what drives them nuts!  😎😎😎🎣🎣🎣

[Texas Flood]

Thanks for sharing @UncleSasquatch I can’t wait to try these out!

 

[softwateronly]

@Pat Brown That Teckel shark is an open water gem.  It walks so easily you can dance it in place, preferably right over their head.  Don't sleep on it.

 

scott

[UncleSasquatch]

19 hours ago, Texas Flood said:

Thanks for sharing @UncleSasquatch I can’t wait to try these out!

 

No problem. They’re good people. They’re actually doing a grand reopening this weekend. They’re expanding floor space so they’ll have some sales going on. Be on the look out 👀 

[J._Bricker]

Father’s Day present from Mrs B. just arrived from Japan via Amazon. This Alphas is a pretty little reel and will probably be replacing my trusty old Type F slinging senkos.

[ATA]

I was low on lucky crafts, Also I wanted to try the GRAT  always. plus some pink grub and tuna blood for next week saltwater fishing.

[NorthernBasser]

Been wanting to try the 13 Fishing Power Slide when it was first released a few years back. I never got around to getting one but then I was watching a Whatnot auction and they put one up for cheap so I snatched it up. I've been so impressed with it, I ended up getting 2 more off eBay. 

 

You can still find them but not sure for how much longer, since Rapala bought them out and looks to have squashed most of their baits (definitely all their hard baits). 😡

 

Shiny Bone, Translucent Bone and Bone. 

 

 

 

[Texas Flood]

I’m intrigued 

[Jmurphy87]

Well I made my second trip down the big baits road once again 

 

1 deps bull shooter 160

1 deps slide swimmer 145

1 gantral jr

2 loaded soft swim baits 

1 pack mag draft freestyle 

5 packs 4” senkos 

10 packs of skirts

1 osp slipper swim jig 

1 pack 3.3 keitech trailers for the swim jig

1 daiwa prorex 8’6” mh regular rod , I know that it’s a musky rod. Although it seems to be soft enough for trebles and stiff enough for top hook swim baits.

[Peacedivision]

Wanted to try the Plano frog box for a while but the price was a little obscene even by Plano edge standards. TW had it marked $10 off plus the 15% 4th of July sale made it a little more palatable 

[IcatchDinks]

Bait Monkey got me pretty good today. The biggest expense was a long sleeve Tshirt to fight the sun, but wanted to try some of these swimbaits everyone is talking about, 

 

Academy kept throwing stuff in front of my face and like a first year bass, I bit on every single one. 

 

[Smirak]

I just got off the phone with the bait monkey. He called to tell me personally that he appreciates me… 

 

Father’s Day and my birthday are a week apart. Got some gift cards. The below is what I got.  I may, or may not have, spent more than the $150 I got. SWMBO may, or may not, know about all these purchases..

 

I can’t get all my pics small enough to post all at once..

 

First off, some terminal. 

6th Sense flippin hooks in 4/0 and 5/0

Owner ST-36 in 2, 4, 6 (2 of each)

Eagle Claw oval split rings

 

Next up

Diawa Lexa 300

SC Mojo Bass 7’-10

 

Next up, 2 softball lots

About 20 spunkshad (not all shown)

Hellgramites

Some handpoured swimbaits from a small shop in Chattanooga (talkin tackle I believe)

 

Next up

6th Sense 6” trace (6 total)

6th Sense bait coffins (2 ea)

 

Lastly, hard swimbaits

6th Sense 9” Draw

R2S S Waver 200

4 R2S S Waver 168s

Chad Shad

Wade Hoggs Jr

MB Vitallion

 

 

[NorthernBasser]

Picasso Tungsten Little Spotty. Awesome little finesse jig. I usually use them when targeting smallies, though don't know why. They're great no matter what kind of bass you're after. It has 3 small titanium weed guards that works really well. 

 

3" Pit Boss, Baby Rage Craw and Zoom Super Chunk Jr (threaded on) pair nicely with them. 

 

 

 

 

[gim]

4 hours ago, NorthernBasser said:

They're great no matter what kind of bass you're after

 

How about a rock bass?

 

[NorthernBasser]

38 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

How about a rock bass?

 

 

I've got your rock bass right here!