webertime

Ahh good point. 90% will be the softer weedier bays of Lake Champlain, there will be some rocks but there will be weeds all over/around them. I was leaning towards the 5, thank all From what little I can see on the maps I saw of Champlain it looks like you do have some deeper water up to 20 to 30+? Maybe more? idk , I couldn't find a good map really. So now I will ask , Why are you fishing shallow weeds? I would fish outer weed lines with ROF 5 and deeper water away from the weeds if I could and fish bottom contour out and away with a ROF 12 . Even when I fish lakes with weeds most times I casting out (like always) to get the big ones. It works for me at all lakes so far, weeds or not. Even worked at the only lake I tried out of state, 1st time ever at lake Dardanelle, Must be something to it, so I think. But if you will fish nothing but weeds a lot of the time a weedless hudd rof 5 would be better without the open hook, or Top hook Rising Son Get a lure retriever too , if you don't have one. It will save you hundreds + in baits. Champlain is the largest "non-great lake" in the country, it has depths approaching 400', it's roughly 7 times the surface area of Clear Lake. It's not going to produce Cali sized bass, but the numbers and quality are outstanding (87 Smallies one day last May, all between 2-5.5lbs). I'll be concentrating in the weedier shallows(out to about 12-15 feet) because on Champlain that's really where the BIG Largemouths are. If I go deeper than say 15 ft then it's mostly Smallies and Pike, while I have no doubt Pike would love an 8" Hudd, I have a hard time wrapping my head around a Smallie whacking an 8" Hudd or at least often enough to make it worth the time, and what few Largemouths that would be present would be outnumbered by Pike 10:1. AND this place is windy, rediculously windy (trees grow tipping to the north because of the nearly constant south winds. That being said with a boat out in the deeper water I'd be rocking around a lot and I think trying to fish a big bait slow and deep with the wind pushing me 1-2.5 mph and the bow going up and down ~2 feet, seems like a lot of agrivation. Your technique is what we do with Keitechs over here, it's killer. I'll be adding other sizes/baits in that size down the line, just wanted one to start. Thanks for the help guys! Chris

A "Sodelston" very interesting!

Tacklewarehouse has some pretty nasty user reviews on products they are trying to sell. Seems as though if there were to be any censorship it'd be there. A spades a spade, and a bad review or 50 on this forum really won't impact their business at all so they have no reason to get their hands dirty.

Ahh good point. 90% will be the softer weedier bays of Lake Champlain, there will be some rocks but there will be weeds all over/around them. I was leaning towards the 5, thank all

So I am stepping up to the bigger end of swimbaits for this year. I have tons of smaller 6" baits and want to step up to the classic 8" Hudd. I realistically will not be using it much deeper than 12-14'. Would you go ROF 5 or ROF 12? I am aware of the differences in how they fall, etc., just not too sure which I should go with to start. Thanks

Boil them for ~30 seconds, they'll get slightly tacky... that's perfect. I make a little harness out of snaps and a coat hanger and boil a few at a time.

"Hee Hee Snort" (psuhing glasses back up my nose) I can appreciate that info. Thanks folks!

Howdy, first post here. I'm looking at new line for next year, I have been using P-Line CXX 20lbs. I love my Sunline Sniper and FX2 on my other stuff and was just wondering if anyone has tried Super Natural with Swimbaits? Thanks. Chris