aikenyounggun

This is awesome. Always talked about catching peacocks, and on a swimbait would even be better You may get a random PM one day if I make it down there I'm guessing you used to collegiately fish from the username, so we can swap those stories

I bought this one ~6 months ago. I just assumed it would be rough around the edges for $20, but it's solid. No idea how the guy makes any money off of them. I went to Wally World and got a rope for like $2. Been perfect so far. I also bought a money pole, which extends to ~15 feet, I think. It's a great one-two combo

S-waver 168 And for $17, you can't beat it

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I was wrong, my buddy purposely bumped himself down the list since he couldn't fish for a couple weeks So I have no info

Had set aside a week to throw the big baits, and the slammer seemed to be the bait that best fit what I wanted to do. Kept telling myself "you may only get one bite this week". Mentally prepared First day out, my gf at the time is with me. 6 hours in and she has started to tan. Had a day-dream the day before of her mis-netting my first swimbait fish... have that in the back of my mind (I really liked this girl, but hey, that would be a deal breaker) Well I roll up on this little point, bait is cranked down a couple feet and this fish shoots out of nowhere. BOOM. I slam the rod back (7'11 flipping stick - veritas). Yell "get the net". She laughs. I yell "get the net". She says "you're joking" (laying on her stomach). I yell "get the %#*+€£~ net". She obliges Now I coach her through her first net job. I saw I had good hooks. Went smoothly. 6 lber I'm screaming and shaking, more for the excitement of seeing it and being the first swimbait fish. She finally got to see me excited for a fish. When I took her to ponds and stuff she would get excited to catch fish but made fun of me for "not getting excited". Been hooked ever since.

Well, I'll get off the 3:16 train with this: Obviously not the slammer, but the old school castaic that just happens to really dive down. Don't see many of them floating around, and people convinced me to not throw it cause the history. So unicorn to me

I don't have the pic on my phone anymore, but I caught a pound and a half spot on one. And I'm pretty close to you geographically. Chuck it.

BPS's are probably still more expensive. Haha But that is low Also, BigSlant, is the Chinese on the back of the box from the pic you posted? That box and bait looks like the original s-wavers, not a knock-off On another note, a couple years ago like 5 or 6 of my buddies talked about buying 100 Chinese KOs for like 1.99 each, or something dirt cheap

Not 100% sure my buddy has received it yet, but I assume he has since we are trying to plan a trip for this weekend. I'll make sure we post up some pics of the bait and hopefully the fish cooperate

Y'all have fun. Hope a lot of the attendees post up their thoughts and experiences afterwards

I fish open water mostly, so take with a grain of salt, but I throw 20# on my 250s/10" TT/8" hudds. My smaller stuff I throw 15 or 12. Just think about your water clarity, cover you are fishing, and how often you check your line. May also want to consider how financially impactful losing a 68 or whatever bait is on your wallet. If not that big of deal, just another pro in going down a size

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Shoot me a PM if you would like and I'll give you my phone number I can answer pretty much any question when it comes to a Lowrance, and if you can stump me, I can get an answer Much better with my graphs than swimbait fishing, haha

Congrats on the win, Matt No idea where you live, but the little spotted bass made a run at it if you are in Cali/Texas

Awesome pic. Here is to a better 17 for ya