Latest Tackle Purchase Thread (Bait Monkey Victim Support Group)

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, Spankey said:

Nice find. That tan Wee Craw is a good producer. I’ve searched for a few years for that tan in a Deep Wee and the larger model craws but they are a no find. Don’t worry about your missed hookup they will come. Those shallow square bills will get crushed by smallies. Bit of old school there. Good luck. 

Speaking of the Wee Craws, have you seen the new matte finishes Rebel is releasing on that line of baits? One of the best looking finishes I’ve seen in a while. I don’t even throw the baits, but am still tempted to buy a few - lol

 

[Tennessee Boy]

19 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Speaking of the Wee Craws, have you seen the new matte finishes Rebel is releasing on that line of baits? One of the best looking finishes I’ve seen in a while. I don’t even throw the baits, but am still tempted to buy a few - lol

 

I don’t know if it will catch fish but it caught me.   Looking for a place to buy now.

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I don’t know if it will catch fish but it caught me.   Looking for a place to buy now.

Read back through the press release, but just said releasing this year. MSRP is $6.99. Also said, “Rebel Crawfish models getting Matte Series colors include the original Wee-Crawfish, Deep Wee-Crawfish, Middle Wee-Crawfish, Teeny Wee-Crawfish and Deep Teey Wee-Crawfish. Matte Series Crawfish colors are Gully Craw, Rusty Craw, Tiger Craw and Winter Craw.”

[Tennessee Boy]

2 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

but just said releasing this year.

I looked at one on Tackle Warehouse and it said it was expected to be in stock on August 9th.

[Eric 26]

2 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Speaking of the Wee Craws, have you seen the new matte finishes Rebel is releasing on that line of baits? One of the best looking finishes I’ve seen in a while. I don’t even throw the baits, but am still tempted to buy a few - lol

 

 

32 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I looked at one on Tackle Warehouse and it said it was expected to be in stock on August 9th.

[Texas Flood]

Stocked up on a bunch of OutKast jigs. TW gets me every time they’re on sale. 

[Spankey]

16 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Speaking of the Wee Craws, have you seen the new matte finishes Rebel is releasing on that line of baits? One of the best looking finishes I’ve seen in a while. I don’t even throw the baits, but am still tempted to buy a few - lol

 

Thanks for that heads up. I’ll dig into it during the winter. I’m game for a couple of new patterns. They have been a producer on the river for me the last 40-50 years. Glad to see Rebel do something a bit more positive. 

[Spankey]

I’ve seen where Rapala has introduced a new line of Shad Raps, they may be calling them Elites or something like that. They have a wire or a reinforcement in them. On smaller sizes like 5’s 7’s and 8’s I’m not quite sure of the thinking on that. Not a true musky size in my mind and if fishing bass or walleye with them and a Musky, Pike or big Pickerel would be more apt to break or teeth cut your line or leader. If you didn’t loose your lure I could see balsa wood possibly getting damaged. Any river Musky that I’ve caught and landed by accident while bass fishing has not damaged my lures. But I can see the reinforcement used for toothy critter sized lures. Maybe I’m seeing something wrong. 

[FishTank]

Not exactly a monkey purchase but I was given a $50 Amazon gift card through my health-care for getting a physical. So I needed some line and saw this on Amazon for $58 for 200 meters. Digitaka sells it for $78. Crazy price for line. I wouldn't pay that much for it but for $8, I think I can swing that. 

 

This is supposed to be the best YGK makes. We will see. 

 

[Peacedivision]

TW sale stuff, mostly restocking essentials. Even the sale price on the vmc tungsten 2 packs sucks but I really like the baitkeeper on them compared to my normal keitech balls that have to be superglued to survive 1 fish.

[OHBuckets]

Perhaps I'm late to the party, but I just saw Zoom's 'Winged Fluke' - seems to be their plastic's Sakamata Shad

[Smirak]

This primate is making my wife really mad…when she says something about it, I blame the VA for not giving me hearing aids. 

Stacked the TW newsletter discount with the River2Sea 30% flash sale on TW and got a tactical wake, a spro rat, a couple of double plopper buzz baits and a few nest raiders. Never tried these before, but at around $3, I couldn’t pass them up. All of this was just a hair over (less than $5) $100. 

[ATA]

[Eric 26]

1 hour ago, ATA said:

Wow that fish looks blind in that eye yet still healthy enough which leads me to believe Doug Stange is right when he preaches about the lateral line in addition to bass’s other senses. Also that’s a beautiful picture from what I assume is the marina parking lot.

[chubaka]

Needed a new scale....

[Peacedivision]

river2sea tactical wake from the TW double dip sale just arrived

[Smirak]

1 hour ago, Peacedivision said:

river2sea tactical wake from the TW double dip sale just arrived

My order arrived today. Helps that their warehouse is only about 4 hrs from me. So, UPS ground is actually next day. 
 

Quick question though - what sized hooks did you get? All the literature and even the box said 2/0. However, they don’t fit my runcl hook covers for 2/0, so I’m thinking they may be 3/0?

[gim]

16 hours ago, chubaka said:

Needed a new scale....

 

Good lord.  I just looked this up.  200 bucks.

 

What is this world coming to...

 

[NorthernBasser]

3 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Good lord.  I just looked this up.  200 bucks.

 

What is this world coming to...

Yeah, but that thing can weigh a fart down to a tenth of an ounce. 

[Rockhopper]

1 hour ago, Peacedivision said:

river2sea tactical wake from the TW double dip sale just arrived

I want one but can't decide between chrome gill or rainbow trout

[gim]

1 minute ago, NorthernBasser said:

Yeah, but that thing can weigh a fart down to a tenth of an ounce. 

 

I think I'd attach some kind of floating buoy to it just in case it went overboard.  Sort of like you see with the boga grips.

[Peacedivision]

15 minutes ago, Smirak said:

My order arrived today. Helps that their warehouse is only about 4 hrs from me. So, UPS ground is actually next day. 
 

Quick question though - what sized hooks did you get? All the literature and even the box said 2/0. However, they don’t fit my runcl hook covers for 2/0, so I’m thinking they may be 3/0?

 

looks to be 2/0 4x wire as advertised, they're the same size as a 2/0 owner st-36 just extra beefy. I have noticed treble covers are a lot more inconsistent than hooks themselves.

 

11 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

I want one but can't decide between chrome gill or rainbow trout

get one of each!

[Rockhopper]

11 minutes ago, Peacedivision said:

get one of each!

LOL! I was planned on also getting SC minnow.  So I do want two...just can't decide on the lighter color.  I mean heck, they are basically 50% off...

[Rockhopper]

Well...

[NorthernBasser]

8 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

Well...