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  4. Quad hooks are they a thing?

    in Member Reviews

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    Ive had great success with the 1/0 quads so far this season. I run just a single quad on most of the baits I make and out of the 35 fish I've hooked this year (LMB, pike, pickerel) I've landed every single one (I know I'm jinxing myself by even posting this) Biggest fish so far was roughly 7 something so I really can't attest to how they hold up to real big girls but overall I'm pleased. Also, most of the baits I've made have been on the smaller side (8 inches and under) i imagine they might not work as well on a 13 inch glide or something like that because the hooks themselves aren't too big

  6. 2 PBs in one week!!!

    in Got'em

    Posted

    Hey guys been a minute since I posted on here, been too busy fishing! Went out the other day test swimming a diving rat bait I made. I was cranking it down probably a good 2-3 feet when I hooked into what was easily my PB pickerel. Normally, I try to avoid these guys but I'll take one this size any day especially on a homemade lure. 

      Flash forward exactly one week. I go out again throwing the same lure at the exact same spot, I'm talking identical cast to the exact same log. This time I'm slowly waking it with long pauses. I get the rat about halfway back to the yak and BAM this fat momma just inhales it. At first I think it's the same pickerel until it come up and I see it's probably the fattest bass I've seen in my life! I didn't have a scale but she measured 23x15 inches. Feels amazing to catch PB's on something you made yourself! IMG_2586.thumb.PNG.b57e27ae3c0404b85c8cb85e28827881.PNGIMG_2659.thumb.PNG.659edf665b68c62452c02e1c5a81ad47.PNG

  8. 10 foot+ 30 ounce rod?

    in The Underground

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    In my experience bait size is more tied to time of year, water temp, and weather. Really big baits really work the best in the fall with colder temps. Don't get me wrong, I will throw big baits year round and catch pike, but spinners and jerks will work better when it's warm...unless it is stormy weather, then I throw The biggest loudest baits I have. Bad weather really makes the big girls hungry in the river system I fish

  11. Swimbait Fishing North East

    in The Underground

    Posted

    I lost a WRS to a pike over the summer and since I will be targeting them partially this year I finally settled on titanium wire leaders between 8 and 14". We'll see how they work but I am very impressed with the titanium just from tying and handling it.

     

    As someone that has caught hundreds of pike on rising sons do yourself a favor and get the top hook model. I find the weedless hookup ratio on pike sucks but the top hook get them literally 99% of the time.

  17. Knocking the rust off

    in Got'em

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    Went out in the yak yesterday before this storm hit. We had 3 warm days in a row so I knew it would be money. Started out throwing a small rat lure I made. I was tossing it right up under some overhanging branches and within a few minutes I had my first fish of 2018!post-21268-0-06488200-1520049946_thumb.jpg

     

    Next cast I hooked into a 5lber but dumped it at the yak like a complete amateur. That got the blood pumping! I kept fishing for another hour with no action. As time went on I started really wishing I hadn't missed that fish haha. I broke the tail off the rat on a snag so I switched it up to this weird shallow cranking rat I made. I'm fishing a shallow cove for a few minutes beating the bank with no luck when I randomly decide to bomb a Hail Mary cast right into the middle. Before my lure even hits the water I feel my phone buzz. I fumble around with my phone for a minute replying to the text when out of my peripheral I see the lure just disappear. No explosion, no swirl, just gone. It took me like 3 seconds to realize what was going on! I dropped the phone and started reeling the slack as fast as I could. When the line tightened up the fish was still on! I couldn't believe it! Took a few pics and off she went post-21268-0-30253800-1520050734_thumb.jpg

     

    At this point I was beyond psyched. First bass of the year, on lures I made (one of the best feelings humans can experience, on par with beer in the shower) It was starting to get cold and my back was starting to feel like a dry bag of concrete from sitting in that damn kayak so I decided to call it. On my way out caught another one cranking the rat a few feet down by a fallen tree post-21268-0-98670900-1520051158_thumb.jpg

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