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What’s up everyone. Hope you all are enjoying the 4th holiday weekend. Happy bday America! So I wanted a slimmer profile shad type bait. Certain lake in the area is on a good reaction bait bite. I’ve been getting a few good ones on my original shad bait but wanted a different profile. So here they are. New shad body. The 3 piece is a lipless floater. Slow med retrieve leaves a nice wake. Burns great too. Glide is a ROF 1. It almost suspends. Gonna be so deadly around bluff walls and flooded cover. Very excited to get them on the water this week for some chunks! No details yet. Will carve gills and all after I test a bit more. Enjoy the holiday and the freedom it brings!

Kinda a cool story on this fish, while reeling in a smaller fish I caught on a wacky rig, I saw this bass chasing down the small one I was reeling in. Continued fishing for another hour or two and came back with my new 86baits sentinel in the black bass color to the same spot. She t-boned it right where I spotted her earlier! 5.44 lbs and a new pb for me

anyone have a guess on weight? didnt have a scale but its definately my personal best.

Right? Most of us should be out on the water…..Oh wait, this is SU……most guys on here don’t even get their baits wet.

Went out for a holiday trip with my brother and a few buddies. Bought the finnbait madhatter last week and couldn’t wait to put it to use! Thing had fish on it so hot they would miss 2-3 times then launch themselves out of the water to land on top of the bait. The most BadAss blowups I’ve ever seen! topwater cooled and I tossed on the real prey and she got chewed. happy 4th!

Ummmm, yea, I’m guessing GIANT. Wow, congratulations, beauty of a catch.

I personally have to stand and fish! Went from rangers to a kayak. Not into the towing a boat from state to state anymore. H rail on my pa14 lets me lean against it. Spot lock motor guide on the front 100 amp lithium on the back. I never use my pedals anymore. Keep them in the back of the yak in case I need them. Lots of standing space. Small lakes I don’t bring the seat.

Awesome fish!

Denny, if you're going motorized like the MK consider your alternate propulsion in the event the motor dies. Some motorized yaks don't paddle very well. Your battery life should be way more than a few hours but you're going to have to pony up for a good 75 to 100 ah battery. Then you aren't going to want to run your electronics off the same battery so you'll need a smaller battery for your sonar. Since this is your first yak, I'd recommend getting pedal powered and keep it simple. Customize as you go along and see what works for you. With all the accessories available from yakgear, yakgadget, and many other companies, a fishing kayak is infinitely customizable. I started with a used Jackson coosa and quickly started modifying it, trying different products and seeing what I liked. When the time came to upgrade from that I knew exactly how I wanted to rig out my new ride. I'm fishing out of a nucanoe pursuit now and love it. I'd recommend doing test floats on as many brands as you can before committing. Also check out your local kayak fishing clubs, maybe go to a tournament site after check in and talk to other yakkers about their rigs. Most guys I've encountered are pretty cool about sharing the mods they've done on their rigs. At the tournaments I'm always amazed at the wide variety of yaks and transportation systems that guys use. You can surely get some ideas for loading and transporting too. As far as rods go, I use my regular swimbait without considering the handle length. Yes sometimes the extra handle length is a challenge but it's something you learn to adapt to.

I own a couple of Z2020s and they are indeed my favorite reels that I have. Tanks. But they don't really meet the 'compact reel' criteria that OP was asking about.

Don’t get me wrong the zillion is amazing but at that price point I rather use my beast 40! but to be honest at that price point I would say spend a few extra dollars and get yourself a Z2020….. it’s by far my favorite reel. I throw anything on that reel from deps 250’s to K9’s all the way down to some 2 ounce baits.. jack of all trades in my opinion. I haven’t tested it out on the ghost yet but in a couple days here I’m gonna see if it can handle it!

Well done, and way to be patient! A lot of anglers would have immediately cast something at it. Waiting a bit to let things settle down and reposition worked out perfectly.

@Big Epp @danthefisherman thank you both for your responses. Since I’m still trying to get this finished sooner rather than later, I thought I would give the melted soft plastic tail a try. It’s super duper rough and won’t be the finished tail that’s installed on it, but I just wanted to see how well I could make it work. It turns out it didn’t work too shabby! I had a prior bite from one a bit bigger than this but whiffed it on the hookset. It doesn’t swim how I had envisioned it would, but as far as a twitch bait goes it looks fantastic. It can just about suspend in place while darting from side-to-side without any of the rolling or nosing up that it had previously. Also, as much as it pains me to admit, I think 90% of my previous problems with this bait were my fault. I’ve never fished, let alone owned a glide bait before, so learning how to fish this effectively has been as much of a learning curve as actually making it has been. Since the bass seem to like it at this point, I’m going to come up with a better soft plastic tail and finally break out my airbrush for the first time on a bait. The next week or two are about to get very interesting!

Wow. Everyone is such an expert. Lol. F all y’all. Phx az. Anytime any place

I used to have to haul my kayak around on the roof of a Subaru with no roof rack while my truck was out of commission for a bit. Used stuff like this: https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/field-stream-canoe-carrier-kit-18fnsufscnblckktxpsr/18fnsufscnblckktxpsr?sku=18968930&camp=CSE:DSG_92700072972549300_pla_pla-1749939368097_58700008026119464_71700000100235726&segment=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnf-kBhCnARIsAFlg490t62Mms5baYqmsGFBphbnFLLycBWX31tEXMrKdZwELUq7JGDz7elIaAqYDEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds You can get other "noodles" and such to fit your needs. It works in a pinch, but may do some minor damage to your roof.

Hung two more good’ns on Lake Fork! I decided to get out of West Texas and head East. This was my first time on Fork and she sure showed out. I didn’t get a DD, but still gotta love big bass!

Casting big swimbaits, distance is never an issue. I can bomb cast them as far as I want. In my opinion after servicing the three reels I mentioned the Beast 40 is, well a beast compared to the delicate 200 series Daiwas.

You must still be waiting on baits to come in if you’ve done thousands of dollars in business with him

How many weeks? Because surely the people on this forums know nothing on the matter As have like 500 guys on this forum…

You drop a post blasting someone's name and calling him a scammer, flag him on eBay, you're proven wrong...and you disappear into the ether. What, no apology post? Bad form, breh. Getcha mind right.

Yes I’ve had 2 of them before, the 7” and the 9 or 10” (can’t remember the exact size). The one you posted the pic of looks real to me

Been into this stuff for a pretty long time. I probably have at least a dozen hinkles. I’ll reach out to some extremely knowledgeable people and ask. Pretty sure Andrew will give me the time of day since I’ve done thousands of dollars in business with him directly lol