Water Clarity

[CadeWompus]

This is the jighead I have used in the past. I am by no means experienced throwing the grub, but I have caught several fish on it. I always used 8lb fluoro but you guys are making me think that I need to go to 6. The jigheads are inexpensive and I seem to hook the fish I have caught pretty well. Haven't had one straighten the hook, yet.

This is good info for me and I appreciate you feedback. I only get about one trip per Spring to TRock, so I just want to make sure I have a good gear set up. I have complete confidence that you guys have figured up the best setup by now.

Speaking of straightened hooks, several years back while fishing in the Kings I hooked into a good fish with a Lucky Craft jerkbait. Never saw the fish...never even turned it. It was taking drag hard and I made the mistake of putting my thumb on the spool to slow it. It pulled off and when I got my jerkbait back in, one of the trebles was straightened out. That fish still haunts me.

[mixermarkb]

Your jerkbait fish could have been a big gar- not gonna say a bass won't straighten a hook on a pointer, but the hard mouth of a gar would pretty easily.

As far as your grub heads, those would work fine, although the hook looks a little small to me. I prefer the unpainted heads with either gammy or mustad hooks. I fish grubs with 7 pound green sunline flouro, but I also like 4 pound Trilene 100 percent flouro just fine. The Trilene is good line, but runs thick for it's pound test compared to lots of other lines. I don't know if it's visibility or if the lighter line gives better action or both, but I'm a firm believer in as light as you can give away with-

[Champ188]

With fluoro, you can get away with 8-pound test. I throw my grubs on mono (just don't like fluoro on a spinning reel) so I prefer 6-pound test.

[mixermarkb]

Maybe it was just how clear Bull was that day, but my father in law (newbie to bass fishing) was getting bites 3 to my 1 last year on 6 pound seguar vs 6 pound Trilene 100 percent. I switched to 4 pound Trilene, and started getting the bites I felt I'd been missing. Line diameter can make a huge difference...

Fwiw I'm normally throwing grubs on flat pea gravel a little later in the spring- and I'm really not fishing any sort of cover that I need to keep fish out of. Light line, smooth drag, lots of fun brown fish...

[mixermarkb]

Champ- you should really try the sunline sniper on one spinning rig for grubs. It really handles better than any fluro I've tried. I'm convinced that the fact that it sinks really and truly puts more fish in the boat for me on the grub vs mono. I know I feel bites that I used to miss due to mono being blown about by wind, and I've gone to a 3/16 ounce head vs a 1/4 ounce on all but the windiest days. Fluro really works for me, and the sniper, while expensive, is the best on a spinning reel by a good bit, and I've fished seguar carbon pro, invisix, red label, bass pro and cabelas house brands, and Trilene 100 percent.

And yes Ham, nanofil is great stuff too, I love it for my crappie rod, and I love it on the wife's rods for it's ease of management, but it floats and I feel like the sunline just works better for bottom baits for me.