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Thanks Ham... I hope so!

Wanting to thin down my terminal tackle and a few jigs. Some is unused just out of the original packaging. Some has very light wear. All hooks are still sharp. Asking $30 TYD. Please shoot me a PM if you are interested. PayPal preferred. - (10) 3/8 oz Swing Oil Baits Flippin Jigheads (copper vein color) - All NEW - Mustad Ultra Point Hooks- (5) 1/4 oz Chompers brush jigheads- (5) 1/8 oz Chompers brush jigheads- (8) 1/4 oz Chompers standup jigheads- (7) 1/8 oz Chompers standup jigheads- (14) 1/8 oz football jigheads w/ 1/0 Matzuo sickle hook (Would be good for the Ned Rig)- (3) 1/4 oz Scrounger heads- (3) 3/16 oz swimbait hooks (5/0 hook)- (1) 3/16 oz Owner bladed swim bait hook (1/0 hook)- (2) 5/16 oz Jewel Eakins Jigs (black/blue)- (3) 5/16 oz Jewel Eakins Jigs (brown) Thanks for looking! Paul

Wow! I wouldn't have the confidence to throw it but i've heard they'll start hitting it again when the water hits 49 in the spring. None of our fish were on the bank last weekend. Most were in that 6-8 foot range off the bank.I struggled Sunday morning too... Only a couple 14.5 inchers and two keeper crappie. My second day is never as good as my first day when I come down there. I think I need to find some new spots

Hahahaha... He's cold when it's 90 degrees out. Never seen the man sweat in the 15 years I've known him!

Yep he has meth mouth

I hear ya Wrench! The sparseness of that Dirks jig is what I think makes it a really good cold water jig... I've been playing with the same premise on some homemade jigs myself... Using the 7/16 oz. Mitch Head as my base....

Had a really fun day on LOZ with my father-in-law today despite the strong winds. Not crazy numbers or size but a lot of fun and and a lot of good laughs! Had 16 total with 6 keepers. Lost a decent keeper and had another 4 lber follow my bait to the boat but never bite. Water temps never got above 53. Rock transitions and secondary points leading into spawning pockets produced best. Caught some in the backs of creeks and some closer to the mainlake. Didn't seem to matter... RK Crawler, Wiggle Wart, Spinnerbait, and Homemade Jig w/ a Mitch Craw did the damage. Did more beer drinking with some neighbors than fishing this afternoon and ended the day with a few crappie. I truly love this place!! Back at em in the AM!

No kidding... I haven't broken 7 yet... But I'm gonna give it another shot in the morning!

The whole state just seems to be on fire this spring... That December flood and a very mild winter may have something to do with it but who knows!

Unreal! But another 10 lber was caught on LOZ today! Same arm of the lake... Same bait! This lake is showing out this year!!!

I buy from Chad Deaver on Facebook. He's one of Dirk's buddies and started helping him make & ship them this winter. He'll make pretty much any color for you and then you can pay via PayPal. Really nice guy to deal with and he shipped fast. Even sent a few extras because he took a day longer than he originally said (which was still fast though). They are just a great jig all around! Awesome hook, hand tied, and the powder paint they use is indestructible. Quality and a proven producer for sure which is why Wayne can't keep em in stock. Chad actually told me that they are usually sold before the shipment even arrives at Fitz's

I've always had issues hooking fish consistently with a fluke... So this year I started using a weightless screwlock swimbait hook with a treble stinger hook just slid onto the shank of the swimbait hook before texposing it. Seemed to work well although it's not as weedless as before.

I hear ya... Your buddy's looks very similar!

Well done!... Headed down tonight and will be in the Tan-Tar-A area... I'm thinking it may be a spinnerbait bite with the wind that's being forecasted... Thanks for the report. Those are some solid fish! I'm a big fan of that Dirks Jig!!

Great news on both fronts!

Couldn't agree more... Best measuring board for taking pics when you are by yourself and want to show the true size. I just dip mine in the water first so it's wet before putting the fish on it. Plus it takes all the guessing and lying on size out of the equation. I put mine in the bass boat at LOZ and I'm gonna buy a new one for my kayak.

Absolute tank! Congrats!!

Impressive!!! Those are two pigs! Congrats

Bass fishing has been slow for us this weekend but at least we've found some crappie... All between 10-12". Three of us cleaned 45 today. Some on a roadrunner but most have been caught corking a 1/32 oz jig. Color hasn't mattered much. 24-26 mm.

Great news on Mary! And great fishing reports!

After HogWally and Smalliebigs epic day on Friday, I was lucky enough to step out of the on deck circle on Saturday morning and join HogWally for a quick morning trip on the river! I hadn't seriously fished since Thanksgiving due to work and just a busy schedule at home. It hasn't been for a lack of my fishing buddies asking me to go, so I was thrilled to finally be able to take one of them up on their offer! We planned on fishing some new water but building upon a pattern that HogWally has been figuring out over the last 3 weeks. Recent high waters and the cold front didn't deter us but we hoped it hadn't shut down the bite. He was pretty confident the fish hadn't moved completely but he figured they may have changed where in the holes they were holding. I met HogWally a little after 7 am and launched the "jet boat of all jet boats" before 8 am. Water temps ranged from 49-53 all morning. That cold front really didn't drop them much. The first hole we tried only resulted in one small fish on the Mitch Craw and a few other missed bites. Couldn't get anything fired up on the jerkbait either. We moved to the other side of the pool and I threw my crankbait towards a gravel point that was causing a current seam. My rod loaded up and my first decent smallmouth of the year was in the boat. A chunky 16" that had me grinning from ear to ear. We fished that spot without another bite before making a run upstream once the fog had lifted. Stopped a couple places along the way. Had a small largemouth briefly hooked on the jerkbait but he pulled off almost immediately. Nothing in the other spots. The bite was obviously off a little from the past few weeks, but we kept grinding and HogWally kept pulling idea after idea from his bank of endless memories and river experience. He was determined to put us on some fish and nice ones at that... And I was confident he would! We ran back downstream to the first hole we had fished hoping that the sun may have turned the fish on. We kept rotating between the Mitch Craw, a crankbait and the jerkbait. We just weren't getting bit so we moved to the mouth of a feeder creek and HogWally soon set the hook on a fat 14". But that was all we could muster from that spot. I looked towards the front of the boat and could see the wheels churning. Up came the trolling motor and down went the throttle. He was a man with a plan and a spot in mind! After a quick downstream run we pulled up to a section of river I had never fished before. HogWally positioned his boat in an area that would've been mostly dry had the water not been up. A current chute to our left with a defined current seam and a trough of 4-5 foot water just out of the current. He chucked his crankbait into the swifter water and was grinding it through the rocks. His rod loaded up and we knew he had a nice one. He couldn't move the fish but could only try and hold it while it slowly thrashed it's head back and forth. I kept an eye on the water and saw a thick gold side flash at the same moment HogWally's crankbait came flying back at the boat. He never saw it but we both knew it was a big one. I cast into the same spot almost immediately and hooked another nice one! Luckily we were able to get this beautiful 18.5", 3 lb 5 oz beauty in the net. It had been way to long since I had caught a nice one like this. To say I was pumped would be an understatement. Some quick measurements and photos and she was swimming off strong. We would've had an incredible double pic had we been able to get HogWally's in the boat too. The one he lost was bigger for sure. At least two really nice fish sitting in a nondescript area. This idea/spot had paid off! We fished the general area for another 30 minutes without another bite so we buzzed back up to our starting hole hoping those fish would've turned on. We only had 15 minutes to fish as I had to be off the river at noon. Had a fish break off on a jerkbait almost immediately and was bumming thinking it may have been another nice one. About 5 minutes later we saw a 14"-15" smallmouth jumping just down stream trying to throw it. Hopefully it was able to shake that $25 lip ring (Smalliebigs - Your replacement has already been shipped!). At least I had the peace of mind that I didn't break off on a giant. While we only landed 4 fish, I learned a ton from HogWally and had an even better time! I'm lucky to be able to consider him one of my good friends! OAF has allowed me to meet some great people that will be lifelong friends and fishing partners. I have a lot of knowledge and experience passed down to me every time I get to share a boat with these guys! Thank you Hog Wally for the quick morning fix! Those smallmouth and the time on the river has energized me!

I can't wait to get down there for the next 3 weekends... Lake seems to be on fire!

Nice Brian! You have put some BIG river bass in the boat this winter/early spring. Always enjoy your reports!

Stellar fellas... You did a good job of making my day at work even more miserable

BTT... Really want to get this sold!