singingdog

Yes, IF what you want is a stand-up presentation that can be worked fairly slowly, a lighter more buoyant worm will work better. Try the pro senko or the YUM finesse worm. I find senkos on light jigheads deadly around timber and along deep weedlines: the jighead gives the senko a spiral fall that is just the ticket some days.

Yep, if what you want is leverage. A longer rod is giving the fish a longer lever, while the anglers lever (roughly the handle, but it is variable) stays the same. It's amazing to me how many pro anglers still push longer rods as giving them "more leverage in thick cover".

Whatever you buy a longer rod for, don't buy it for "increased leverage on the fish"....it's actually just the opposite: a longer rod gives the fish more leverage on you, not the other way around.

Grimace, You did nothing wrong. You stated your opinion in a respectful, nonpersonal way (one of the functions of a public discussion board). Bit of a hair trigger on Mr. Mercer. Happens all the time on this board when folks confuse the difference between a public discussion forum and a private website. IMHO ,if you make your living promoting stuff, you should be a bit more gracious.

Nice colors, but.....$10 for a bucktail jig?!? I am definitely in the wrong business.

They aren't a great vertical drop lipless crank: they have a tendency to spiral on the fall and can foul in their own hooks. If you want a lipless crank that is good on the drop, it's tough to beat the Aruka shad. I fish those almost like a jig with very good results.

Just like any company - Rapala, Lucky Craft, Megabass, whoever - some of their lures are winners, some are ho-hum. There are very few Koppers lures that I will throw before I will throw the same style bait from another company. I will always carry some of their craw traps: not for the finish, but because they have a very different vibration than any other trap I fish. For whatever reason, they rock in low light conditions.

Here in Haliburton, lakes with no current have a solid 6-8". After the rains on the 1st, anyplace with current opened up considerably.

smaller, sheltered lakes like wren and buller should be OK if there isn't current. Some of the smaller lakes up here have been frozen for almost 2 weeks. Larger lakes with any wave action are definitly dicey.

IMHO, most folks use gear that is waaaay to heavy when pitching/flipping. Most of that, as Garry says, is driven by the southern US or California Delta market. Tackle selection for those situations has less to do with the technique of pitching/flipping than it does with getting big fish out of heavy cover quickly. Match the power of your equipment with the lures you are throwing and the cover you are fishing. There really isn't anything tackle specific about those techniques. In fact, the reel matters less when pitching/flipping than probably any other technique. Russ Bazzdozer (another guy that knows something about catching bass) often says that spinning gear is better for pitching/flipping than casting gear.

I'll echo solopadlers comment...they catch everything. They are certainly killer on lakers.

Very cool set-up. I have used the "stirring the bottom" technique in a different way: running a deep running crankbait down a bank, then following with a jig. The crank doesn't often get hit, but the jig does.

Poor people aren't smart? I can't believe you said that out loud. Are you poor? Hmmmm....one of these countries owns a major part of the manufacturing sector (automobiles), one of them doesn't. Socialist? Capitalist? If you think that "leveling the playing field" is not a part of the "capitalist history" of the US, then you haven't been paying attention to history.

Look on the bright side....you could have a real problem to complain about.

What zone are you in? Every zone I look up has a year-round whitefish season.

I'm interested in talking to folks that may target whitefish in the fall. I'm not looking for your hotspots, but would like to get some more info on water temps, conditions....PM me if you don't want to go public.

It's a millipede. Contrary to popular belief, the # of legs doesn't tell you what it is. Centipedes have loooong legs that trail behind their body and are very fast. Millipedes have short legs and are slow. If you get a really close look: Millipedes have 2 pairs of legs/body segment: centipedes only one.

Nice smallies: both #s and size.

It's an Eagle Cuda 168. It shows me the depth and the water temp which is all I'm looking for. Lots, probably most, yak fisherman are running some kind of FF on their yaks. Most are gluing the transducer inside, just below the seat.

The article is a bit old, but informative. It helped me make up my mind to not use flouro based on 1: the incredibly low knot strength across all brands 2. the underwater photos showing that Stren mono is as "invisible" as flouro 3. that flouro is not a "no stretch" line.

Trout from a kayak? Yep!

I have been using that site since it went public a few years ago. One thing most folks may not know is that you can look up incredibly detailed historic data for rivers. If you have trip notes from past trips, and want to correlate them with the flow and the trend, you can look that up quite easily. If, for example, you had a great day 2 years ago on Oct 19 but didn't look up the flow or trend, you can go to the graph for the river you were fishing. Just below the graph is a set of fields "modify graph settings". If you change the dates, it will show you a graph for that time period: very handy for noting what was happening on that "magic day". If you want info for further back than 1-2 years, then you have to change the the uppermost field - "data category" - from "real time" to "historical". Using that feature, you can look up levels and trends as far back as the gauge has been functioning, which can be 40 years or more.

Leaves are mostly gone up here....just the oaks hanging on now. Water temps are generaly mid 50s.

Sensitivity can be important when fishing a spinnerbait. Some bass, especially big smallies, will follow a sbait and lightly inhale it. The only indication is that you can't feel the "thump" of the blades anymore. This is especially important when slow-rolling deep weedlines. Some of my best sbait smallies have not felt like strikes at all, but more like a slight increase in weight. I fish spinnerbaits on 20lb Powerpro, never a leader.

Do you mean the Dawg?. I know a shop that has them on 3 for the price of 2 right now. If you want some, let me know. Thanks to everyone for the leads.