Jon P

Used to be able to get Poe’s Havana jackpot at one of my local tackleshops but I haven’t seen them in a while. The cotton Cordell pencil popper and the musky mania doc are both sick walking baits, most of my fish are on the cotton Cordell. I like that pencil poppers seem to work just fine early in the year if you fish them with long pauses and soft pops like a jerkbait.

Could also have a variety of international anglers and fisheries from Europe, North Africa, south Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Hawaii ETC. there’s so many communities of bass angler world wide we don’t get to interact with due to language barrier and geography and bass fisheries that we don’t even know about!

When my dad worked in Mongolia and Russia helping establish fishing lodges he got catch taimen on the regular with clients. Mostly fishing big streamers in flesh colors and big rat flies like a bigger version of what you’d fish for rainbows in AK. Apparently the locals would catch Taimen with a muskrat skin wrapped around a foam net buoy with a big Siwash style hook trailing off a length of chain. Something I really wish he’d brought back, we’ve got plenty of little salmon flies people made but none of the big taimen plugs. Bet a proper rat bait would absolutely get toasted. watching Gong Lei fish them, they seem very happy to eat topwater so some walking baits would probably come in clutch too. really hope I get to pursue them someday, I imagine they’ll likely go extinct in my life time.

Have you ever seen redline? Also a sick racing anime that’d have a sick vibe for a giant bass hunting show

Because the hooks are on top of the bait they don't shed debris like the Pierce twin brutal hooks. So you collect a lot more weed in weedy areas and it gets wedged between rocks and timber in more cover heavy areas. So it's not a great option when you can't see what the glide is doing or don't know what's on the bottom. It's a killer technique though when you have fish following but not committing in shallow spots, slow rolling the 210 along the bottom until you get a follower, and then shooting it left and right to provoke a reaction. The ability to play keep away with the 210 is what gives it a special spot in my tackle box. super bummed they haven't been making them the last few years, I'd love to get a few in that Imakatsu real print finish.

The bigroid 210 has a top hook option that works great, but it's a snag prone technique and I only have a hadful of 210s left. Something I've had good success in lakes with soft bottoms is a Duel ninja glider rigged with Ryugi double hooks point side up so you can touch bottom without grabbing weed and fish a glide a foot or so off the bottom.

Did you try to "finish" One Piece?

If you could make an anime that would convey bass fishing as metal as it feels I'd watch the hell out of that. Like Fisherman Sanpei meets Baki the grappler! Could be a great way to communicate a love for the outdoors and the incredible ecosystems we get to explore.

This is why I'm looking at Leviathans musky merc and their other swimbait rods. My old legend tournament musky rod is getting pretty old and my two legend tournament swimbait models aren't getting any younger. Inevitably when they die the only option to replace is to get it replaced with that pistol grip model. I'll grant that it's pretty nifty for older folks with weak hands who can't palm the reel well anymore, and younger folks/dwarves who can't palm the reel at all, but if you are used to palming the reel and working the rod they're real uncomfortable. The fact that they even put it on the 1-4 oz swimbait rod is ridiculous. Mind you this is all my opinion in trying out the new grips when we got them in. I don't need some Fuji representative telling me that they're actually great grips and my hands are wrong.

this is the 1-4 oz. Legend tournament swimbait rod before they started making them with that weird pistol grip. It's a great soft bait rod, super sensitive and stout enough to slam weedless hooks home, but a bit on the faster side for hard baits. I really wish they'd bring it back without the pistol grip, the 4-8 oz. mag swimbait as well. They're spectacular rods but the pistol grip deal is just awful to fish with (sorry St. Croix)

Nekosogi DSR, you can see it under the pike’s jaw in the tape measure photo as well