Latest Tackle Purchase Thread (Bait Monkey Victim Support Group)

[LrgmouthShad]

32 minutes ago, Cbump said:

I have one on my c-rig rod. You should love It. 

Sweet ?

 

Of course pics will follow once it gets here

[Sphynx]

Picked up a Pro Qualifier 2 combo, 7'MF with the 7.5:1 reel, spooled it with 18lb Sniper and I think this thing should work pretty well for a dedicated plastics combo, guess we'll find out if the fish agree tomorrow morning lol.

[LrgmouthShad]

21 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Sweet ?

 

Of course pics will follow once it gets here

Bait monkey and I are very very pleased with this. 
 

I like that Tatula. Feels good in hand and looks very functional. Sweet ?

[PhishLI]

6 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I like that Tatula.

...and the handle is on the "smart" side. So smart.

?

[Cgolf]

Well 131 and change goes along way during a 6th sense sale. Looking forward to trying the slow sink Quake lipless for fall and spring. The Quake suspending has done well for me. 

[Born 2 fish]

Got my custom painted bluegill bullshad back today.

 

[RDB]

On 7/24/2022 at 8:19 AM, Ski said:

New releases from ‘22 JDM iCAST.

[fin]

8 hours ago, Cgolf said:

Looking forward to ... spring.

 

In the middle of summer! ? That's pretty bad, I'm always just looking forward to "next month". You've got the right idea though, might as well dream big.

 

 

[WVU-SCPA]

11 hours ago, Cgolf said:

The Quake suspending has done well for me. 

Same with myself in the spring working it almost like a jerk bait.  Think the majority of fish see so many suspending jerkbaits that a suspending lipless is different enough to get strikes.

 

 

[FishTank]

Not sure about the Bait Monkey but the BFS Bug has been biting pretty hard.

 

 

[PotatoLake]

23 minutes ago, FishTank said:

Not sure about the Bait Monkey but the BFS Bug has been biting pretty hard.

 

 

That Nanahan has been ?. Works well with tiny schools of shad of everywhere this time of year.

[FishTank]

9 minutes ago, PotatoLake said:

That Nanahan has been ?. Works well with tiny schools of shad of everywhere this time of year.

This is my first one of these. The color though,  Kasumi Ito, has caught a lot of fish in each different bait I have tried it in.  We will see how it does tomorrow. 

[Jmurphy87]

A few things for myself 

2 jackall popping frogs 

1 jackall regular frog 

1 5/16 jig 

2 1/4 jigs

some trailers

1 pack rage chunk amber green flake

4 packs paca chunk sungill, perch, natural craw, Alabama craw.

[Cbump]

My buddy texted asking if I wanted this. He knows I’ve been looking. Uhhh yes please!

[treble hook]

Went to Palmetto State Armory today and Sportsman’s Warehouse…

[Jmurphy87]

A few more things lol, saw the full metal shower blow, speed wake yesterday and couldn’t resist lol. I had a hard time deciding on bluegilla or Spanish bone decided to go with blugilla since it will be in the water. Got a mango jig that something just stole around 15 minutes ago lol. I guess my bfs rod and 5lb line wasn’t up to it or a pike stole it, good news is 1/8 oz jig let’s me work the tops of the salad without getting hung up in it. 2 packs of trailers. 

[Big Swimbait]

I can't wait to sling this beauty!

[Jmurphy87]

A small trip to the tackle shop lol, I wanted a specific jig in a certain color and the same with the trailers. I have a idea for the punching rig after fishing a frog through a pad field and having 10 fish or so miss it completely. 3/4 oz punching rig, not sure of the brand but it is local and they carry quite a bit of different types of lures at D&R sports center and I figured That I would choose local over strike king. I still like strike king stuff for sure though. Jig is a 3/16 oz nichols mango jig in green pumpkin and rage chunks in summer craw, I love the 1/8 oz one if I was a fish I would have been caught a long time ago on that combo, the fall looks amazing.

[bulldog1935]

On 7/29/2022 at 8:16 PM, FishTank said:

Not sure about the Bait Monkey but the BFS Bug has been biting pretty hard.

 

 

 

I was ordering braid and leader for my new Zillion Silver Wolf, always check the Sale lures, and couldn't resist these 3.5-g salty finesse prop plugs from INX.  I did swap the #10 trebles for BKK Fangs #10, which always measure a size larger (#8). 

Orange for low angle light, blue for dark. 

[KP Duty]

On 7/30/2022 at 6:59 PM, treble hook said:

Went to Palmetto State Armory today and Sportsman’s Warehouse…

Picking up some stuff you actually needed.  What a refreshing idea.

[Darth-Baiter]

not bait/lures, but i just bought way too many of those Shin Fukae, Neko hooks.   its' go time with the more weedless neko presentation.  we were killing winter bass with the presentation, but getting hung up quite often.  

[Fishingmickey]

2 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

 

I was ordering braid and leader for my new Zillion Silver Wolf, always check the Sale lures, and couldn't resist these 3.5-g salty finesse prop plugs from INX.  I did swap the #10 trebles for BKK Fangs #10, which always measure a size larger (#8). 

Orange for low angle light, blue for dark. 

Those look like they would kill the trout at night under the lights.

FM

[bulldog1935]

@Fishingmickey

The dome in the front is like a clear lens, that gathers as much light as possible to send it through the transparent color. 

Especially trout under the dock lights at night could read it as a ball of half-inch glass minnows and slash into it.  While we mostly prospect deep in the winter, change-up is really important, and I've seen periods when schoolies would only take a lure in the surface film. 

On Plat, INX had a pretty good video of it being fished - dog-walk it like a surface jerk bait, and it's an evading shrimp - of course, the click is built in.  When you pull hard, there's just enough plane on it to make it dive (reds in skinny grass).  Steady retrieves turn it into a wakebait. 

[KP Duty]

The ZPI PG spool is my favorite spool.  I have a couple of '17 Tatula SV's with them, as well as a couple of steez reels with them.  I don't see a drop in perfoance with the zpi Tatulas vs the steez.

  So when I saw that asian portal still had these spools for only $42....I jumped on it.  I figured I'd  pick up a pair of standard Tat's for a good price...nothing fancy.  Then I saw Japan Lure still had the Megabass Rhodium...a reel everyone ignored because it was a $320 Tatula.  However, with the exchange rate...they were down to $230.  More than I planned on paying, but I thought why not...I'll be more proud of them.  I really didn't know anything about them.  In the website pic, they looked all black, so I was surprised when they showd up 2-tone.  Also didn't know they had a tuned spool that will throw 4g's.  So I've got one with the stock megabass spool to try out.

 

 

Stock Tat sv spool vs rhodium spool

 

 

 

 

 

Couple baits including a 2oz OSP bluegill squarebill

  Got a 110 type R as a free gift.

 

[Fishingmickey]

Gad's you guy's are killing me. I am actually salivating here..... 

FM