My big fish getter

[WRB]

The C-rig requires 3 knots, a swivel and heavy egg sinker. Slip Shot has 1 knot no swivel uses main line and cylinder sinker stopper that slides through rocks.

Tom

[Cbump]

27 minutes ago, WRB said:

The C-rig requires 3 knots, a swivel and heavy egg sinker. Slip Shot has 1 knot no swivel uses main line and cylinder sinker stopper that slides through rocks.

Tom

I did the swivel thing on the one pictured because I was out of keepers but that’s the first time I’ve ever fished a c-rig that way. I fish It with the pictured tungsten cylinder weight, two Carolina keepers, and hook. Can adjust length of leader on the fly, one knot. 
Maybe we’re talking about the same thing?

[WRB]

2 hours ago, Cbump said:

I did the swivel thing on the one pictured because I was out of keepers but that’s the first time I’ve ever fished a c-rig that way. I fish It with the pictured tungsten cylinder weight, two Carolina keepers, and hook. Can adjust length of leader on the fly, one knot. 
Maybe we’re talking about the same thing?

That is what I call the Slip Shot rig?

[Cbump]

Nice. I’m officially a slip shotter. 

[Darth-Baiter]

On 3/17/2023 at 1:34 PM, a1712 said:

6" Magdraft, go slooooooow. Brian. 

this...but i would like to add, magdrafts have two speeds.  slow and stop. 

[txchaser]

@Cbump water in east tx was 57 degrees (down from 63-64) last Saturday. Cloudy, windy, nasty. Fish were supposed have pulled off some. Nope. Big fish was on a buzzbait in 3fow, neko Slink-o 6fow, next chatterbait in 5fow (shallow creek channel), neko rigged bellows gill in 3fow, all the rest were on a flashy swimmer in 1/2-2 FOW. I might have done better just fishing the buzzbait and the flashy swimmer and covering more water, but there were a couple of high percentage spots that I wanted to slow down on. Threw a bunch of other stuff like big soft swimbaits and swim jigs and got no bites at all.

 

It was almost the opposite of what I expected. No beds visible, no worn tails. Not a bunch of big fish though. It just felt like a prespawn bite, full on feed bag. Other than the two neko bites, everything else was a reaction/fast moving. Buzzbait only got bit when I was burning it back. Normal speed buzzbait was getting nothing at all. 

 

Anyway I shared all this because it was not at all what I expected, although there's been another cold snap since then. 

 

[Primus]

On 3/17/2023 at 4:34 PM, a1712 said:

6" Magdraft, go slooooooow. Brian. 

I like the Magdraft too, that said I tend to do better with the 8" . Don't sleep on the Beast Coast Creep . 

[the reel ess]

On 3/17/2023 at 5:54 PM, KP Duty said:

20 years ago, the lizard would top most angler's list.  C-rigged when the water was in the 50's, T-rigged when the water was 60+.  Not sure when the lizard went 'out of style', but I'm going to throw it more this spring.

Lately I've had one tied on a swinghead football jig for deeper water and one with a 3/16 oz. T rigged.

[scaleface]

Spring  my top baits for big bass are jig n pork, I dont have pork right now . spinnerbait . Bomber Long A and Bomber Long A with tail prop .

[GoneFishingLTN]

Sorry If i missed it but how did the tournament go?

[Cbump]

8 hours ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

Sorry If i missed it but how did the tournament go?

It was really tough. Low weights. I got second overall and first big bass. But It was only 4lb 7oz.