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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:04:35 PM EDT
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I never wake up a big fat mother unless I present a Senko just perfectly. frankly, I will go after them with a jumbo leach on a jig under a bobber. 
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:04:57 PM EDT
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Senko or Zoom Trickworm in only two flavors! Junebug and Watermelon Red all day..............................
If I'm floating the river in a 12' jon then it's gonna be an H&H single leaf baby |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:05:12 PM EDT
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Bluegill live lined with a circle hook through the back.
6" Berkley power worm in camo with slider jig head scum frog popper up in the weeds |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:05:27 PM EDT
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Been many years, but Hula-Popper. ETA: Spinnerbaits as well. ETA Again: Topwater is best water. 
Hula popper for the win On the farm pond I fish on they either hit a green or black scum frog or a purple worm or I go find something else to do. About 5 years ago I found the tackle box I had as a kid. I pulled out a Hula Popper that was probably 45 years old. I hooked what was probably the biggest bass I've ever caught. It broke the line about 3 feet from the dock. 
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:05:29 PM EDT
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Top water hula popper early in the a.m. on the California Delta
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:05:57 PM EDT
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Watermelon worms
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:09:14 PM EDT
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For late July that's pretty typical (and those are four different fish). Last year I caught 13 bass over seven pounds from July 1st through August 1st. This year I've been on the water four times since July. 
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http://i.imgur.com/ywx3gpi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OpPFuJx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cTmaZyy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Gowy6Cs.jpg These are all skinny July fish. If I'm targeting big fish, I'm pitching a 3/4 ounce jig with a thick skirt and a fat trailer (usually a Pit Boss or Missle D Bomb) around structure. One of the above came off a lay down that I bumped four times with a spinnerbait before he hit it. Nice. That bass is all mouth though. Perhaps not eating well. For late July that's pretty typical (and those are four different fish). Last year I caught 13 bass over seven pounds from July 1st through August 1st. This year I've been on the water four times since July.
Can I go fishing with you?!?! |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:11:29 PM EDT
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June bug color trick worm
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:11:35 PM EDT
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The YouTube videos of live feeder mice seem to work well.
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:12:38 PM EDT
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Purple worms.
I forgot the brand I use, but they kill it. |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:16:55 PM EDT
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VBC, we'll have to disagree on that one! I lived in Dallas and fished at Texoma and Lake Fork in its heyday...great time and caught many bass. I then moved to Houston and started saltwater fishing. There is absolutely no comparison between a big redfish or speckled trout to a bass A 10lb bass is quite a fish and they are caught occasionally. A 10 lb redfish is common and you'll think you're fighting a horse! Love both but salt is better in my opinion.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I don't fish for little pond fish much anymore but when I was younger my go to was a jitterbug lure near sun set The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. VBC, we'll have to disagree on that one! I lived in Dallas and fished at Texoma and Lake Fork in its heyday...great time and caught many bass. I then moved to Houston and started saltwater fishing. There is absolutely no comparison between a big redfish or speckled trout to a bass A 10lb bass is quite a fish and they are caught occasionally. A 10 lb redfish is common and you'll think you're fighting a horse! Love both but salt is better in my opinion. An 80 pound reef donkey makes that little redfish feel like a lethargic bluegill. Both are fun and I wouldn't give up either. Saltwater tackle is pretty cool, though: 
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:17:59 PM EDT
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rattle traps
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:19:55 PM EDT
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Shiners.....was on Okeechobee back in 1985 when I first used them with ballons as bobbers, flipping rods and 40lb stren back in the day (i thought that was heavy)lol.....caught one that winter right at 10 lbs.....my buddy brought one in that was 12lbs same day....not huge by Florida standards but for a couple of young guys from Ohio i was in awe......i saw some bigger but couldnt land any...spent two weeks over Christmas bumming it sleeping out of the back of a pickup truck just outside of Roland Martins marina drinking old milwaukee every night until we passed out then up early and back on the lake...good stuff....the following summer we chased smallmouth in Canada for two weeks during the spawn.....wtf happened now i have bills and all kinds of responsibilty lol
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Posted: 8/21/2016 9:21:42 PM EDT
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Spinners and scumfrogs
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:04:41 PM EDT
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My biggest came on a Super Spook during the early fall. Otherwise, very large worms, cranks, and swim baits
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:12:15 PM EDT
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My biggest came on a Super Spook during the early fall. Otherwise, very large worms, cranks, and swim baits Walking the dog with a Zara Spook slammed into one that wrapped around a fallen cypress tree maybe 10 years ago that felt like a monster. It took three casts of him snapping at before I hooked him. |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:15:18 PM EDT
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I am a Senko cultist Senko or Swim Senko. Black and blue with blue flakes Watermelon with red and green flakes Black backed chrome rattle trap |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:18:39 PM EDT
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crawdads
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:22:15 PM EDT
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The biggest I've caught (which weren't that big) were with rubber worms and spinner baits.
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:24:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don't fish for little pond fish much anymore but when I was younger my go to was a jitterbug lure near sun set The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:31:36 PM EDT
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My biggest bass was on a Spook. I am very good at walking the dog. I have loads of confidence in surface baits, Rebel Pop-Rs and Rapala thins minnows(original floating) are a couple others I am good at using. I am willing to use whatever though.
A big grub pitched or flipped when the gunk gets thick and times are tough, I like bluegill patterns. . |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:46:50 PM EDT
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Walking the dog with a Zara Spook slammed into one that wrapped around a fallen cypress tree maybe 10 years ago that felt like a monster. It took three casts of him snapping at before I hooked him. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My biggest came on a Super Spook during the early fall. Otherwise, very large worms, cranks, and swim baits Walking the dog with a Zara Spook slammed into one that wrapped around a fallen cypress tree maybe 10 years ago that felt like a monster. It took three casts of him snapping at before I hooked him. Sometimes the misses are more exciting than the actual catches! Too bad the big one got away. I have had a few big ones end up throwing the hook with trebles. I get a little excited, and forget to drop the rod tip. Almost hooked myself a couple of times when the lures flew back at me. |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:47:51 PM EDT
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather.
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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:56:08 PM EDT
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berkley chigger craw!!cant go wrong with green pumpkin on a spot remover jig head! |
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Posted: 8/21/2016 11:32:20 PM EDT
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather. They work, too: 
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Posted: 8/22/2016 5:51:51 PM EDT
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather. They work, too: http://i.imgur.com/mrPGPt5.jpg That exact KVD chartreuse has been my go to lately in green water. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 6:01:35 PM EDT
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Big ass live shiners
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Posted: 8/22/2016 6:03:24 PM EDT
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weedless kelly worm, rubber salamanders or a hot pink/blk mepps spinner.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 6:04:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/22/2016 6:36:11 PM EDT
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That exact KVD chartreuse has been my go to lately in green water. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather. They work, too: http://i.imgur.com/mrPGPt5.jpg That exact KVD chartreuse has been my go to lately in green water. Mine, too. I fish a lot of dark tannic water and the black back/chartreuse seems to produce far better than either a regular shad or bluegill color. When it starts to cool just a bit and bass are schooled up chasing shad I really like the KVD 1.5 in natural shad. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 6:49:03 PM EDT
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Large baits to consistently catch big fish, you'll catch fewer fish but they will be bigger.
http://www.onthewater.com/big-swimbaits-big-bass/ |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 7:02:14 PM EDT
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T-Rigged Strike King Watermelon River Bug.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:19:10 PM EDT
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So when you are throwing a senko and the fish nails it while it's going to the bottom can you feel it on your rod?
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:25:32 PM EDT
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196 colored Senko.... Lucky Craft Spintail 90 for top water.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:30:13 PM EDT
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Mine, too. I fish a lot of dark tannic water and the black back/chartreuse seems to produce far better than either a regular shad or bluegill color. When it starts to cool just a bit and bass are schooled up chasing shad I really like the KVD 1.5 in natural shad. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather. They work, too: http://i.imgur.com/mrPGPt5.jpg That exact KVD chartreuse has been my go to lately in green water. Mine, too. I fish a lot of dark tannic water and the black back/chartreuse seems to produce far better than either a regular shad or bluegill color. When it starts to cool just a bit and bass are schooled up chasing shad I really like the KVD 1.5 in natural shad. If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:32:15 PM EDT
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Senko- wacky style and I usally like plastics in motor oil or watermelon, color
Been killing them on a Rapala Huskey jerk (suspending) this last week though. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:35:04 PM EDT
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I have been using a lot of frogs this year.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:35:59 PM EDT
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Square billed crank baits, in chrome, shad, or craw patterns depending on the season and weather. They work, too: http://i.imgur.com/mrPGPt5.jpg That exact KVD chartreuse has been my go to lately in green water. Mine, too. I fish a lot of dark tannic water and the black back/chartreuse seems to produce far better than either a regular shad or bluegill color. When it starts to cool just a bit and bass are schooled up chasing shad I really like the KVD 1.5 in natural shad. If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use Dolphin love some pink... |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:39:28 PM EDT
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The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I don't fish for little pond fish much anymore but when I was younger my go to was a jitterbug lure near sun set The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. I enjoy fishing little Brookies in a beaver pond to Bluefin Tuna. Ive never met a fish that I didn't like to catch. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:42:46 PM EDT
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My favorite method is a Carolina rigged U-tail (Kudzu) fished around trees/brush. I also dearly love catching smallmouths on top with a Pop-r.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:53:12 PM EDT
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So when you are throwing a senko and the fish nails it while it's going to the bottom can you feel it on your rod? Tagged scribed from a novice It depends. If you're fishing a braided line and the Senko is falling on a slack line then no, you won't feel it. On a slack line monofilament is more sensitive than braid (which has zero slack line sensitivity) and fluorocarbon more sensitive than mono. There's no free lunch, though - mono abrades easily and stretches and fluoro is expensive and can be hard to work with. If you're fishing an old glass rod or a poor quality graphite rod, you might not feel it. Personally, I think the whole rod thing is overblown for most recreational guys. Once you get above about $75 you're only buying incremental improvement, and a $500 rod probably won't land you many more fish (if any). Except for a Loomis NRX blank. Those things are magic. 
It also depends on how the fish takes the lure. Sometimes a bass will hit it like it owes him money, and sometimes it seems the fish just catches the lure as it falls and then sits in place with it. I catch a bunch of bass that do this when I'm pitching around structure with a jig and the only indication I get is that the line just stops moving before the bait reaches the bottom. Hook sets are free, so I'll usually hammer it and sometimes I wind up with a fish, most of the time it's nothing, and occasionally I break a rod.
Most of my Senko fishing is done with a Loomis GLX rod and 10 lb fluorocarbon. If a fish even breathes near the bait on the fall I feel it. 
I honestly don't fish a Senko that much anymore. It works and it's a good bait, but I can generally be more productive (either in numbers or in pounds) fishing something else. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 10:55:24 PM EDT
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I enjoy fishing little Brookies in a beaver pond to Bluefin Tuna. Ive never met a fish that I didn't like to catch. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I don't fish for little pond fish much anymore but when I was younger my go to was a jitterbug lure near sun set The way saltwater people tear down on bass fishing just reinforces my knowledge that bass fishing is the superior sport. I enjoy fishing little Brookies in a beaver pond to Bluefin Tuna. Ive never met a fish that I didn't like to catch. Probably my favorite fishing is with a 3 weight (or smaller if I can get away with it) catching native brookies on a tiny mountain stream. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:06:45 PM EDT
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http://<a href=http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b561/hanker8271/hank%20fish10_zpslkfcretw.jpg</a>" /> berkley chigger craw!!cant go wrong with green pumpkin on a spot remover jig head! Biggest this year has been on a pumpkin chigger. Most consistant catch is on wacky senko. 297 green. Chigger on a bitsy flip pumpkin 
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:12:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:19:47 PM EDT
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I am a Senko cultist  Go wacky or go home Green pumpkin, black flakes, wacky rigged. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:19:57 PM EDT
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The best large mouth I ever caught was on my fly rod jerking a black woolly bugger. Man that was a fun fish.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:20:40 PM EDT
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Whatever it is, I'm usually fishing deep.
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:25:01 PM EDT
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A good sized, live glue gill. But that isn't legal most places. I have more fun with lures, and like the rubber top wate frogs with the snag free hooks. Forget the brand. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:28:48 PM EDT
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If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use Dolphin love some pink... My favorite for dolphin, once a school is located, is an 8 hook chicken rig with what ever live bait caught that morning tied off on a cleat. Keeps at least one in the water while you pick off the big ones on the outskirts. |
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Posted: 8/22/2016 11:32:53 PM EDT
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I used to get some good hits late in the day with a BPS top water lure, just walk the dog and they'd smash it..
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