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1 on a swimbait. 6 total. Really helps to have lived close to Castaic for 15 years.

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Clear Lake giveith and Clear Lake takeith away. When you live far away, it's such a huge gamble to make the trip because you just don't know what you'll end up with. February before last everyone was out there whacking the crap out of 'em on glide baits so I loaded up the boat and took off ... arrived literally 1/2 a day too late. Cold front moved in, it rained, cleared up, and the swimbait bite croaked. I fished 3 days straight and literally never got a bite (on anything). Turned out there was an okay bite on drop shot in the tules the whole time, but I can get my fill of drop shot fish here in SoCal. It's literally the last thing I ever want to pick up when I'm on Clear Lake. Anyway that trip tookith away my confidence across the board and started me into a prolonged slump which I really didn't break until midway through the summer. But I went back in early September and had one of the absolute best fishing trips of my life. Wake baits, jigs and cranks for good numbers and good size. To the point about Clear Lake advice (and I noticed another poster asking in a separate thread), Clear Lake is big, but fishes very small. If you have a secret spot nobody knows about, then you truly have something special. I certainly can't make that claim, but I do know they exist. I have my go-to spots in the south end and mid lake but they are the same go-to spots that most others know about as well. My goal over the next couple years is to become more familiar with the north end, where Rodman and Byron's Corner are the obvious ones but I'm sure there's more out there. So my advice for anyone looking to hit Clear Lake for the first time is to go ahead and invest in a guide trip. At a minimum, you need to learn all the community holes because they are community holes for a good reason ... sometimes they're the only places you'll get a bite and they are a consistent litmus test to help you figure out what's working and what's not. In terms of swimbait selection, I think it's safe to say you want to carry a Rising Son / Osprey style line through (I like the top hook weighted RS bounced on the rocks), a weedless option of some sort to throw in the Tules, a wake bait b/c nothing's better than a wake bait blow up, and the glide bait of your choice for weed edges and docks.

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Yup. Had mine almost a year now and I still like it better than my Lexa (which I also like).

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Great Black Market transaction, as per the norm. Christian took care of business super fast. Don't hesitate to buy from him. -Dax

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Yeah I saw he was out of the weightless when I ordered so I figured I'd just buy them on TW. Wrong. All the usual online tackle shops are sold out. Ditto for eBay when I searched. I found an Amazon seller that claims to have them but I'm not holding my breath. Hopefully they will actual show up at my house. Kind of frustrating looking at these new rising sons knowing that I don't have the hooks to fish them yet. I think that Owner sells the screw locks with center pins separately?? Feel like I've seen that. If so then a Trokar 10/0 plus the Owner screw lock should do the trick.

This is the only Youtube video I found on it. Gives you a basic idea. Doesn't look too bad for the price point. https://youtu.be/9WJ90O2lprY I might pick one up b/c I'm always looking for a cheapish glide and have never been a huge fan of the S waver's action. When I get the chance to go back to Texas and fish at my dad's place, that lake is so full of stumps the idea of throwing my 250 out there is a little sketch to say the least. Those big girls know exactly how to wrap you around a stump and break you off and they waste no time doing it.