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Squeeze the pee hole a few times... always works for me hahahah

Hands down the TORO Rocket. Same gear ratio and size as the bigshooter I think. You can always reel slower, but when cranking fish that hit at the end of a long cast, you can never reel fast enough.

Picked up an old, beaten cracker off a member here and brought into the shop to see what we could do with it. Nothing amazing but not too bad. Replaced the bill, sanded and filled holes with body filler, and sealed, based, pearled, then cleared. I’m a prepper in a paint shop so I had access to material. My painter sprayed it and mixed the color for me.

After my last 4 trips out in the cold rain and wind without a sniff(besides a 6+ that snapped my alpha shad off last trip) I have been blanked. Although the water is still cold for this time of the year here, if there’s open water, I’m fishing regardless of temps. Water was about 50 degrees today. Decided to bring my girlfriend with me today in hopes she’d catch something or at least she’d be there to take some quality pictures if I managed to catch one and that’s exactly why she came lol. No bites on any soft baits, tied the 175 on and just worked it with reel turns and the fish were all fired up, follows back to the boat, eats right at the boat, it was a very different day on the water for me. I ended up with 4 total, 3 that we’re about 2 lbs and this last big girl that ended up weighing 6lb1oz. It’s already been a grind but keep grinding and you’re time will come eventually...I usually call it luck haha

Hello all, Just finished a single shad for guy that wanted a specific rate of fall which posed a little bit of a challenge. Hopefully this bait serves him well. My turn around on baits these days is improving now that im getting used to the postal work. I hope everyone is enjoying there spring fishing. Here is some pics of the shad before and after the clear coat.

For those who have never seen the front deck size of the Caracal, I’m almost 5’11” tall...Massive!

The straight razor did the trick. I cut out what appeared to be old epoxy from where the old tail had been installed. Thanks for the help.

Not sure what others have done, but I have used a single edged razor blade and a small regular screwdriver to clean up the old residue in the slot so the tail would fit flush. I used rubber cement as well to affix the new tails.

For the Hinkle Trout/Beast Glide size baits i used either Abu Beast or Lexa 400

What a sweet rig man! Congrat bro

Damn Mike that looks great!

Before... and after... Painted console. Not going to put more fish in the boat but didn’t like the cheap plastic looking console.

Thats........ A Biggin

I have a Revo Toro Beast that I love. Just picked up a tranx 400 so I’ll compare the two!

Revo toro beast 6.2:1and bigshooters 7:1. Great reels

Nothing to understand really. It's a nice little bait. But so is a Toxic Wake and Crank. Or a Pizz Riot. Or an Imakatsu triple lipped. The mystique comes in because you can't get them, so it is human nature to think it must be so incredible. I've had a few. Not majic, same fish that bit it would have bit 10 other baits. Don't get sucked in.

TOAD! congrats

Keep your eyes on the Black Market here or there's always Ebay

Wow nice fish!

I kind of did. It was gut wrenching. The only reason I was ok was because I ordered its replacement on my way home so it's coming from Japan this week haha

Pig congratulations

Thanks. I used Mona Lisa foil leaf. That SUCKED. i still have some Jonestones foil. Think I'll use that next go round. foil tape is hard to beat. But it won't hold up on jointed baits. These below are made with a/c foil tape. Flat walkers like lunker punker.

Haven't tried them on soft baits yet but have made almost a complete switch to them on my hard baits. I was skeptical too but you'll see what I'm talking about the second you hookup with them. Game changers.

Hiro 8.5 Kokanee LDC XXH Conquest 400 25# Abrazx While casting towards shore chasing largies I heard what sound like a toilet bowl flushing about 50yards behind me towards deeper water. Wasn’t a Bird wasn’t a dink. Hit the trolling motor got within casting distance and sent a long cast past the “toiletâ€. Twitch twitch twitch all the way back to the boat. 100% did not plan on making a second cast into open water, God I’m glad I did! Second twitch pause and BOOM! Released to fight another day! She went 35 inches and 16.4 pounds. Couldn’t be happier to stick a land locked stripe like this for the first fish on the newest combo.

This is the new "the babe" swimbait, made after the famous discontinued basspro swimbait that Steve Kennedy and Fred roumbanis made so famous. Here's our video review. Don't forget to subscribe. https://youtu.be/2BK7xER9FFI Thanks for watching

First actual review I've bothered to write here, so I hope I cover what y'all want to know. If I miss something, just ask. High Power Gliding Gizzard Super Slow Sink & Slow Sink 3.6oz - 3.8oz 1/0 Owner ST-36s ~9†long from line tie to tail Resin, stainless screw eyes, carbon hinge pin, durable top coat, etc. All the same things you’ve seen on the Herring. I’ve had these baits for about 8 weeks now, and caught a lot of fish on them in that time. I wanted to put up a review, mostly because I feel like I owe it to Randall. Currently, I’m fishing these baits on a LDC Production H, Curado 301DSV spooled up with 25lb P-Line PF. I’d prefer to be throwing them on a production XH but don’t have that rod anymore. The Custom XH throws it fine as well, but a little stout for me considering I stick with the ST-36s. When they showed up in the mail, I had them tied on and in the water within an hour. And I’m not going to lie, the action was nothing like I had in mind. If you’re looking for another bait with a big, wide smooth glide like a 250, this isn’t it. I had to get over that first myself. After a couple of days with them on the water, and just seeing what they will do, I was all in on this bait. On a straight wind, it has a very tight swim, not moving a lot off of center. But get creative with the rod and reel, and that’s where it shines. The super slow sink will just about suspend. It digs a little bit on the retrieve if you put the rod tip down, and will stay up with the rod tip up. You can control the depth of the bait throughout the retrieve this way, and kill it without it sinking out on you. Once I had a feel for the baits swim, turning the reel and twitching the rod at the same time, at the right time gets the bait to dart out 2ft or more to one side. Shorter, less exaggerated movements like this timed right, shoot the bait back and forth, about 1ft off center. There’s a bit of roll in the belly of the bait as it swims which throws a good bit of flash. The harder you fish it, the more flash it throws. A more erratic retrieve has been best for me, mixing in a lot of pauses. This is coming from a guy who fishes slow as hell though, so what I might be calling erratic, y’all might call boring… I’l let it hit the water and wait a few seconds, a couple of turns of the reel to get the bait down a couple of feet, pause and let it suspend. You might be able to pick up some of how I fish it from the video below, but honestly you just have to spend some time with the bait to learn it. Most of my bites have come on the pause, and they knock the hell out of the bait. Almost always a head shot. A really fun bite, and I’ve pulled a lot of bigger fish with it. You won't see near as many follows as you do with the 250, but that's a good thing in my opinion. I hate to pull a fish off of their spot, not eat, and then swim off.