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Soft plastics is my goto but for size, throwing a hard bait, spinnerbait, or buzzbait seems to attract the big ones more. Sonar I don't use. Tend to read rivers by knowing patterns that have worked, reading the current, surface, and some times just dumb luck. Look for confluence area's - even...

St Croix should replace the rod - or at least they used to

Lotsa reasons. Hit a Shikari blank with a lure or weight and next big fish will snap it apart (which is why they went out of business). Fenwick's broke due to use - big fish, big bend snap. St Croix break because of barney reasons - others not being careful and slamming in a door, drove over...

It's so warm on the right coast, that the fish are still chasing top water

I broke two Fenwick's and decided I'm done. Shikari blanks had a habit of breaking, so they quickly lost business. Their blanks were pricy! When Shikari went out of business, I bought up five rods for a fraction of their retail price. Broke three of them and still fish with the other two...

10# Sufix 832 I build rods and can cast light baits a country mile. Just gotta load them up before letting the lure fly

The walleye was eight pounts Biggest smallie I got was seven pounds and some change. Up on Erie. It fought good and glad I landed it. I need to start bringing a scale to Canada. Some of those fish are HEAVY! Not sure why some baits on certain days are ignored and others are inhaled? I...

Depends what fish you're hunting. I'm more of the big meal big fish type. I've caught smallies with baits up to 8#. Did an all day kayak float yesterday. At my age, I felt it. Caught fish but no monsters. Got up close and personal with a heron who was adamant not to leave its fishing...

Not sure of color, but 4" with a white belly and some blue sparkle. We have a great night bite but I'm usually watching the inside of my eye lids then. I'm more of a start-early-in-the-morning and get home for dinner angler

Keitechs are fragile, I'll agree. And they are starting to get expensive. Our local Dicks had a BOGO so I cleaned them out. Did not keep. Caught at the boat ramp at the start of the trip. We usually catch smallies, c&r only and are not equip to keep fish. Our only cooler was full of...

I still tip baits with 1" or 2" Powerbait grubs. They still catch fish Got this walleye a couple days ago on a small Keitec swimbait and a ball head I pour on a Gami 114

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Nice tie and looks like a tube head does the trick.

I just googled "ounces to metric weight" and there's a bunch of conversion programs out there

I've modified a SWM jig mold and pour on a 1/0, 2/0 or 3/0 91768 Mustad hook. Normally fish Piedmont rivers on the east coast. The jig is almost snag proof and the only time I've lost jigs in the rocky/ledgy rivers has been when I bury the hook into wood. Adding a blade helps seems to help...

Small mouth bass of course. And any bonus fish that jumps on the jig Creature man - this is exactly what I'm looking for JungleJim - interesting. I may try this on too. I usually throw 1/8 and 3/16 oz jigs Thx!

Nice job getting out when the bite's hot

I pour a SWM jig and have seen some add a small willow bladed spinner on the bend of the hook. Anyone have a suggestions on how to do this?

I use a single barb to hold soft plastics onto the jig. Most of the plastics I use get so tore up by the small mouth caught, that they get replaced frequently. The only exception is elastec, and once that stuff is on the barb, it's a chore to remove by man or fish

Not even vegan fish? ;-)