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These swim poorly and smell horrible (like a freshly molded tire)

Norman

Luck-E-Strike picked them up. Not to worry too much.

If your wanting a good rainbow trout swimbait that won't break the bank, look at either the Spro BBZ1 6 ($20) or 8 inch ($35), or the Savage Gear 3d line-thru trouts 6 ($13) or 8 ($20).

That was 8 years ago, when I lived in California. I bought it from the Diamond Valley Lake bait shop, went down to the lake, threw it once and the soft plastic body came off. I promptly returned to the shop and got a refund.lol

We are quickly expanding and developed a North Division, same rules apply and can be found at showmekayakfishing.org Here's the 2016 schedule

Eric Hansen should be getting a hold of you sometime soon for an ad for Ozarks Extreme Outdoors / Kayakfishingproshop.com

Never heard of them, but the trouts look very close to the Castaic HardHead trouts easily available on Tacklewarehouse.com. but beware, the bodies are poorly attached to the head, i had one come apart on the first cast, right out of the package.

Small bass? Evidently you may not know Richard Woodard and Dan Boyer (Weekend Warriors Fishing). They've been catching 17 and up to 23lbs limits of black bass for the last 2 months. It slowed down for them after the flood, but its starting to pick back up.

Both models you named are very popular amongst kayak anglers. Both are good brands. It seems split 50/50 amongst boaters and guides around here between Hummingbird and Lowrance.

Buster Loving got into the lines-sides pretty good this last summer. Look him up and see about a trip with him on Bull Shoals

I'll buy any. Regardless of my swimbait rep, I love those spinbait80's for suspended bass on TR. Biggest bass last summer on one was a 19 inch smallie.

I haven't heard anything, this forum is always a bit quiet. But last I seen the water is back into Shadow Rock park... I haven't been down there in over a month.

Not an old pic, that was taken Wednesday afternoon on the east side of Indian Point. The area maybe protected from the wind and that maybe why some trees still have leaves on them.

What seems to be the problem?lol Found a few bites on the bluff bank by Jakes Point, slow rolling a 1/4oz underspin (Jakked FlashJakk) with a 3inch paddletail. Found fish suspended about 10 ft down in 15 to 20 fow. Some were even hitting small minnows on top (couldn't get those to bite)

I saw those guys at the marina when I weighed in my 3.73 LM (5th place for the hour). Me and my buddy cashed 3 checks for the event throwing bigger swimbaits, only caught maybe 12 to 15 fish between the 2 days. We weighed in a 3.60, 3.73 and a 4.02, all Largemouth. I had caught a 3.80 smallie during practice on Friday before the event. And my buddy had a good dock pattern during the week (very sunny) but that disappeared as it was cloudy both Saturday and Sunday. Another friend of mine and his boater caught an estimated 70 bass on squarebills, zero checks (they caught nothing over 2.25lbs)

Missed the striper bite (although I did help a guy land 2 over 39lbs and he let me to take the "small" one home) this year but got a new PB LM @ 8.69lbs.

When I went to Lake Fork last month, a guide there told us of a bass they caught and tagged. Took it 17 miles to a marina on the other side of the lake where it was released. The kicker? The fish was caught 21 days later less than 200 yards from the original spot it was caught from. Also another observation I made after joining the "Fishbrain" app. The 8.69lbs Largemouth I caught on Table Rock in the very back of a large (1.5 miles from the main channel) cove and released about halfway to the channel. I got to looking on Fishbrain and found a lady had caught a 8.75lbs LM on a point in the same cove in August. It's either the same fish, or there's multiple lunkers in that cove.

Go check out the creek now.lol

It's been good to me recently. Even won a kayak big bass tournament last weekend on it with a 5.5lbs, 20.75 LM.

I've caught several keepers up to 17.5 inches lately but haven't found the bigger ones yet like I had this time last year on the swimbaits. Had a decent wiggle wart afternoon, last week, but that bite disappeared for me. So I went back to catching on the big hardbaits (Spro BBZ1, S-waver)

Forgot to add, change the hooks out, the stock VMC's are crap and bend out on bigger fish. I put Gamakatsu 2x short shank round bends on mine. #2 on the 168 and 1/0 on the 200.

I stayed out a little after dark (off the water about 730). After dark, I had one good bass grab the a$$ end of the Rat 50, right at the kayak and missed it. Lost another good bass at the bow and landed a 15.25" Ky on the BBZ1 Jr floater.

And I went out again this afternoon. Landed 2 on the BBZ1 Jr floater, lost one at the kayak. Then had another fish short line me on the Spro Rat 50, didn't get a hook in it.

One thing I do know with the boats is the electronics. Use it to see what the WT is, find the fish (if they're deep) and turn it off. When the butt of my kayak is against the bank, i don't need the graph on. My buddy Kevin, Butch Brown, Mike Gilbert, Matt Magone, and Bill Siemantel all do this. It's just white noise to the bass (unnatural). Fishing "uphill" creates a funnel, so does fishing a bait near or on the surface, parallel against bluffs, tree lines, and other obstructions(docks, the hull of the boat, etc), something that the bass can use to corner the prey. The reasons why I like fishing bigger chunk rock, boulders and ledge type areas, they have ambush points for the bass to hide in. The Shine Glide looks great from the side, but look at it from the bottom or rear, that profile slims down compared to the straight-on side profile. Last year in the late spring, I literally saw over 150 bass follow baits to the boat/kayak/shore, sometimes in groups (most I saw at once follow a S-waver to the bank was 9 Ky's between 2 and 3lbs). I once fished a brush pile in 10fow, the water was clear enough to see the top half of the pile, with a jig and craw then ran a spinnerbait by it, nothing. Threw the s-waver by it, 6 bass (mixed- LM, SM, and Ky's) over 3lbs came out of the pile to look at it. Since these encounters, I've learned a few things to do to try to get them to bite.