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Been a dry spell for big fish this spring with missed opportunities and heart breaks but finally connected and successfully landed a good one! So stoked for this one!

I still haven’t figured out the dead walk, but caught a smaller fish cranking the TK. Hopefully I can only go up from here! Haha

Sheesh, is it football season already?? Way to get out and grind that weather!

I mean, for me personally, cork would not last. I would destroy it like Godzilla going through Tokyo. Thats not say it won’t work. It’s your idea, your design, give it a shot and see if it works for you. If you want a pretty good idea for inspiration, check out this DIY box. You can design something similar based on your needs. You’re only limited by your imagination. I made one similar for larger baits and I made a smaller one for baits 6” and under, which is very portable.

Solid northern bass. Congratulations on a quality PB.

Trashy baby shiner and micro swimmer

I caught a bunch of fish the other day pond hopping with the Cl8bait water vole

Ok f it I'm in

Don't sleep on the dark sleeper

Congratulations!

Maybe it's the profile or the squeaky joints that mimic a scared or injured rat, but the Baby Possum consistently gets me the bigger bites.

Hit the water early morning before the wind got too intense. Went around and hit some areas that looked good in my opinion. As everyone knows I have no clue what I’m doing but I ended up landing a jersey giant some how and now currently my PB. Very grateful since I only started swimbait fishing few months ago. You don’t have to learn much just go out there and throw big swimbaits and you’ll get quality. Going to continue to throw the big baits and see what else this year brings. Drt klash 9 best swimbait ever !!

Maybe I worded it wrong? I dunno, it’s the typical rotisserie motor setup.

Sv spool came later than that reel. The reel is an absolute battleship when it's correct tho

ZERO ADJUSTER KNOB says Daiwa. Hah it requires 'zero adjustment' my foot!!!

Don’t underestimate presence & vibration. These beloved gilled animals are highly sensitive and in-tune with their natural environment at all times. If a mayfly sneezes, they know about. Ask a trout:) What we may consider stealth mode is still an intrusion to their space and domain, awkwardly an unnaturally mucking about on the ceiling of their home… Real mice and rats don’t rattle or click-clack at all in fact they don’t saunter about in a labored left & right fashion at all either really, typically they paddle straight forward from what I’ve seen. Like you touched base on in your “This is Bass fishing…” mention things don’t always follow hard n’ fast rules or immediately intuitively “make sense” so to speak. Sound can be key to draw attention, pique curiosity or irritation and trigger for sure… But I’ve also witnessed firsthand it’s not necessarily always an advantage and certainly a secondary feature. (Arguably like color…) Rats are a Seal replica (Often nothing more than a foam cut out) being dragged over South Africa’s waters near False Bay’s Seal Island. It’s a meal to an opportunistic & highly attuned predator. Also don’t underestimate the power of pause or ROS -Rate Of Stall. A baits ability to stay in prime real-estate. Although may it be said, also be cautious about what you presume the strike zone to be as you may very well nearly lose your rod while scratching your nose or checking your phone. I fish rats passively sometimes but I feel I do best with them when I fish them intently & with intention and purposefully assume every moment of my presentation is being watched. Pauses, hesitations and trying to engender fear through a scurry or tentative crawl or swim. Sometimes the last twitch bait coming to rest or handle rotation 3 feet from you just as your about to lift the bait from the water for weed inspection and another cast… Sometimes it’s time and place sometimes it’s none of that all together and not that serious. But other times it is and the pay off of nuance is priceless and “Stars align”. But I digress and have already said too much: ) Welcome aboard. Stay Positive. Enjoy the journey.

First blood on the mothership Crankdown

best fish yet on my bait, been testing it the past few weeks here in san diego and it produces!

Mission fish!

It seems like cranking big baits is becoming vogue with everyone making shad divers to hit 15-20+ so what in the hell happened to the DRT DTk13? From the research I can see it’s a completely different body weight system from the tK, not just a specific lip style. Videos on it make it look like it would be a viable bait but all that comes out now is ghosts, K9s, tKs, and Jokers. Did it fall out of vogue? Issues with the bait? International cabal keeping it secret? Just curious