SethB

Rising Son

Big for smallmouth standards not swimbait standards. 7" slammer, wake jr. ,lunker punker jr. Are all perfect for that kind of fishing.

Big topwaters over deep ponits.

#1 What does this have to do with swimbaits? #2 What was the lesson?

Curious as to why you think glide baits wont work?

Yup 8" hudd gets bit all year long. Summer time it does split time with rising son. But i always have one on deck.

If i couldnt get bit on a swimbait and knew people were catching 9#ers on worms. Think id fish a worm. I could care less what i catch a big fish on i just like catching big fish. I dont fish stained water very often but i have had success #1 fishing big plastic worms and cranking slammers and working slammers and wake jrs real hard on the surface with 5-10 second pause then work real hard again 10-20 second pause then slow steady wake back to boat or bank.

You can transport a bag limit of legal size game fish on the body of water from which they were caught. But to transport them anywhere else they have to be dead.

In CA it is illegal to possess any game fish or animal without the proper CDFW permit. And they aren't jusy handing them out.

Twich, twich twich, pause. Works pretty well for me.

Wait what? I decided to stop fishing and drink til i barf. Think you might have the wrong site.

Definitely not ideal but should be fine for the smaller stuff. I have one spooled 40# braid that i have been using for big crankbaits, spinnerbaits up to 1 1/4oz. No issues yet. Imo it will work but if your gonna get serious you will need to upgrade to something with a little more line capacity.

Yup

I use 1/16 -3/23 tungsten nail weights. they are easy to move around just don't push them all the way in until you get the fall you like. once you have the right location and angle push them just below the surface. they will stay put fine and still easily removed with pliers. adding nail weights to the zero you can do some neat things add the weights towards the anal fin and on a semi tight line you can make the bait nose up to the surface and slowly back down and repeat like a trout nipping the surface. or add one between the foam and skin just in front of the gills and towards the mouth and it will swim nose down and look like a trout feeding on the bottom in the shallows. those are fun to play with and sure would work in the right situation. But best for me has been one 3/32 vertical just behind the foam from bottom up. gets bit pretty good in choppy water fished just below the chop or right up in the chop up shallow on wind blown points. Zeros gotta be in clear water though.

You have to look at swimbaits like tools. Would you go to the hardware store and ask what tool should I buy? You can drive nails with a wrench if you bang on them long enough, but a hammer is a better tool for the job.

Both. I ment outfish it by number of fish in the boat, but the bigger baits get bigger bites for sure.

Doesn't matter where you are the bigger glides will outfish the small version of the same bait.

Sounds like a fun day on the water... Okuma will take care of you for sure. You got a nice one 6# LM and that cichlid is epic.

+1

7" slammer, 316 wake jr. and rising son have both put some decent smallmouth in my boat and are excellent night options.

Thats freaking awesome.

Hammondsfishing. Google is your friend.

Just out of curiosity why the 7'6" ex heavy. Over the heavy.

As for the reel i use an older curado 201for 65# braid and a newer curado 301 for 25# mono. Both reels are about 6.2:1.