Latest Tackle Purchase Thread (Bait Monkey Victim Support Group)

[PhishLI]

36 minutes ago, Big-Bass said:

What rod are you using for the baits?

A true 5+ power heavy. The hook is like a 6d finishing nail with a point. It requires backbone.

[Big-Bass]

2 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

A true 5+ power heavy. The hook is like a 6d finishing nail with a point. It requires backbone.

I am thinking of throwing those on a Megabass Levante Perfect Pitch.  I have been throwing Dark Sleepers on it and it has been terrific so far.  I picked up a few of the Megabass Sleeper Gills last week so I think they are very similar to the Savage gill.

[PhishLI]

3 minutes ago, Big-Bass said:

I am thinking of throwing those on a Megabass Levante Perfect Pitch.

If you feel it'll drive home an extra heavy flipping flipping hook then you're good.

[Big-Bass]

5 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

If you feel it'll drive home an extra heavy flipping flipping hook then you're good.

Thank you!

[TnRiver46]

19 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Some more new stuff.

 

You have water deep enough to sling that crank in your urban swamps?? 

[PhishLI]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

You have water deep enough to sling that crank in your urban swamps?? 

Nowhere local to me, but we have a few natural lakes 70 miles east of here that have the depth. At least one private spot is spring fed and has an outlet stream to the salt that allows alewife to migrate into it to spawn. I don't get out there much, but when I do I'll be ready. BTW, this crank is absurdly huge. I should've read the fine print more closely.

[Ravox]

Anybody know if TW have any sale on father’s day?

[WVU-SCPA]

16 hours ago, PhishLI said:

BTW, this crank is absurdly huge. I should've read the fine print more closely.

The wife got me one as a stocking stuffer.  Absurdly huge describes it well.  Literally a palm sized crank.

[treble hook]

Look what came in the mail today…

[volzfan59]

I'm so weak. Ordered eight of the new Mepps, "Bronze Slammer" inline spinners. Four different colors, two each, all 1/4 oz. Heading to the Buffalo River in north Arkansas in late July, gonna give them a go.

[walleyecrazy]

My recent travels had me thinking about a new travel setup that could pack down super small, but still fish close to a one piece. Also I’ve been very into finesse and BFS fishing this year. So for that I ordered  a new “power BFS” travel setup. While this isn’t truly a BFS setup, it will still easily sling ned rigs and micro jigs around which have been some of my go to’s this year. 

[txchaser]

I think I just bought a lifetime supply of buffs/face shields on the TW sale. 

[Cbump]

Wife fished a two day tournament with me yesterday and today. She stayed frustrated trying to use my good gear. Backlashes, not feeling bites with worms etc, wind knots with Braid, etc. You name It. 

She said more than once to just give her a d**n rooster tail, which I didn’t have. 
 

So we got home today and I went straight to academy and came back with a new ML spinning setup, 8lb mono, and a bunch of  1/8-1/4oz rooster tails, 1/8 oz spinnerbaits, and a few light bandit square hills. Said here you go girl, have at It next time. She’ll probably out fish me. 

[Jmurphy87]

Went to the store to get dinner, clearance prices were good enough max scent for 0.79 a pack now take 50% off that. That led to this haul all for under $7, not bad if I say so myself lol.

[hokiehunter373]

43 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Went to the store to get dinner, clearance prices were good enough max scent for 0.79 a pack now take 50% off that. That led to this haul all for under $7, not bad if I say so myself lol.

Wth.  I need a store like that!

[Eric 26]

45 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Went to the store to get dinner, clearance prices were good enough max scent for 0.79 a pack now take 50% off that. That led to this haul all for under $7, not bad if I say so myself lol.

 

2 minutes ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Wth.  I need a store like that!

Out of curiosity, what store was it?

[Jmurphy87]

1 hour ago, Eric 26 said:

 

Out of curiosity, what store was it?

A local meijer, they are still in the process of remodeling it. 

[PhishLI]

2 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Went to the store to get dinner, clearance prices were good enough max scent for 0.79 a pack now take 50% off that. That led to this haul all for under $7, not bad if I say so myself lol.

I'm imagining a stripped, empty peg board, and you shuffling down the isle towards the register murmuring "mine, mine, all mine".

[Wprich]

Wasn't really looking for this rod yet but did plan to buy it later this year.  Lucky for me I came across a price on a show room demo model 893C I just couldn't pass on so grabbed it.  Plan to grab another Zillion to put on it and be my main 5/16 & 3/8 ounce jig rod.

[Jmurphy87]

7 hours ago, PhishLI said:

I'm imagining a stripped, empty peg board, and you shuffling down the isle towards the register murmuring "mine, mine, all mine".

Yeah that’s how it went mostly lol.

[bulldog1935]

I couldn't be more hooked on finesse tackle.  I'm a 48-y fly fisherman, and have caught well over 100 species on fly rod in rivers and salt.  Finesse tackle pretty much makes the fly rod obsolete for all except trout fishing moving water.

If it makes you guys feel better, also have a local 400-acre no-motors reservoir, high on creek headwaters, where I kayak and fish my BFS MM bass rod (or 2). 

I use a stream trout BFS set-up for our endemic river bass - Texas Brook Trout - this is most often busting and wading, just like you'd use a fly rod (a bit of kayaking thrown in).  Also a good way to beat the summer heat in spring water and cypress tunnels. 

My most recent Japan purchase included Meiho 800NS lure boxes, which are the best for small lures I've ever tried.  You can fit a gang of them in your fishing bag, along with whatever else you want to bring.  (Meiho 1200ND is the same adjustable box sized up for bass-size plugs). 

Nothing in the boxes below is over 4 g, and only a few are over 2 inches.  Newly put together this floating (and +diving) box

Rounded out my sinking box with Smith Niakis spinners

and the black/gold Shine Ride crank on the bottom row is for bottom-bouncing. 

 

Salt finesse has 3 main uses for me.  Winter glass minnows in tide passes, and especially nite-lite dock fishing along a favorite navigation channel.  Same nite-lite use for tiny summer mullet in coast neighborhood canals.  The third use is wading and sight-fishing expansive salt "lakes", same place you'd use a fly rod. 

I added these lures to my salt finesse boxes.  Magbite Mimiq slow-sinking pencil shrimp that makes me want to wade Fence Lake with UL right now.
Timon Buriburi glow floater/diver (wakebait) going into Arroyo glow finesse box (only floater in the box). We mostly prospect deep in the navigation channel for schoolie specs and snook along the dock piles, but have seen times when their defense mechanism sent them to surface-only eats.
The bottom two are Smith Gunship floater/divers for sight-fishing reds in skinny grass. The "larger" 45-mm Smith plug has bad-boy Vanfook #3 single hooks installed. 

While a few of these plugs come ready with single hooks, most come with tiny trebles.  I also tried Vanfook ME-41 plug single hooks for the first time.  The photo on the right compares the tiny 36-mm Smith plug with #6 ME-41 hooks installed, next to an Owner/Cultiva S-55 #6.  The short shank on the Vanfook hook lets you go up a hook size - the tiny plug would need a #8 in the Cultiva hook. 

[Jack Hanson]

I just bought  a bunch of hardbaits and jigs from Rapala, haven’t fished with them yet but they look great

I’m also planning to order the Lews Classic Pro Speed Spool SLP to go with my med heavy 7ft casting rod.

[treble hook]

Got a new tackle backpack for Father’s Day…

[Born 2 fish]

I just got a 6” bullgill and a strong shad 6” both in slow sink

[Jack Hanson]

20 hours ago, treble hook said:

Got a new tackle backpack for Father’s Day…

That’s a great bag, I have the same one for surf fishing.