dink fest in the mud

[merc1997 Bo]

go to the mud, and tie on a crank bait.  they are biting.  we caught at least 60 bass today and had 5 keepers.  i just put a trouncing on a good wiggle wart basser with the iovino zoner.  he finally gave in and put one of my zoners on and immediately went to catching them at the same rate i had been doing all day.  this is not the first time that the zoner has owned a good wart fisherman.  i really do not know if i even have a wart in the boat anymore.  every day in the mud should just get better.  a lot of the bass were biting way off the bank as the crank bait was coming up.

bo

[Basfis]

Sounds like the start of something great. Can’t wait for the weekend. 

Bablers moss report got me pumped up! 

[Champ188]

I had the same thing happen last week with the crank bait dinks until I went back with a spinnerbait and slowed it down. Size and keeper ratio improved considerably.

[vernon]

Well, great.

There went eighty bucks in the blink of any eye........

[Sore Thumbs]

I was looking at them on Tackle Warehouse and Bo is mentioned in the comment section. Ha. That is great. I bought 2 Missouri craw colored ones from EBay. Slightly better deal. 

[Quillback]

I don't need no more stinking baits, well actually I think I have a couple stored somewhere, now I get to spend a few hours looking for them.  

[vernon]

6 minutes ago, Sore Thumbs said:

I was looking at them on Tackle Warehouse and Bo is mentioned in the comment section. Ha. That is great. I bought 2 Missouri craw colored ones from EBay. Slightly better deal. 

Deal Schmeel.

I typed in "Iovino Zoner" to see what this was all about and Tackle Warehouse naturally was the first site to pop up and then, of course, things started moving way too fast for me to even know what was happening much less control.

When I'm on a mission from God (or in this case Bo) I can't be bothered with the additional time and effort required to bargain shop!

I am not a smart man Jenny.  

But I know what fishing is.

[vernon]

1 minute ago, Quillback said:

I don't need no more stinking baits, well actually I think I have a couple stored somewhere, now I get to spend a few hours looking for them.  

And time is money so just get some new ones ordered already.

Heck, by my whacko reasoning you'll actually save money by simply buying more so get it out of the thinking stage and buy, buy, buy......

You'll be glad you did.

Or at least I will.

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I don't need no more stinking baits, well actually I think I have a couple stored somewhere, now I get to spend a few hours looking for them.  

actually, it amounted to having a slightly softer wobble than the wart.  a model a bomber might have worked just as well, but it very hard to get one one them that will run correctly anymore.  i bet that i have thrown 20 of them in the trash.  just refuse to buy them any longer.  definitely on different days the bass will prefer one type of wobble over another.  then there is the equation of line size and how it affects the running depth.  much more to it than chunking and winding.

i bet that champ does a whole lot of things with the spinner baits until he dials in on the right type of retrieve and depth.

bo

[Champ188]

1 hour ago, merc1997 said:

much more to it than chunking and winding.

i bet that champ does a whole lot of things with the spinner baits until he dials in on the right type of retrieve and depth.

bo

Means a lot for you to say that, bo. Truth is, I got weary long ago of bumping my gums together about the many variables and nuances of fishing a spinner bait. I'll still happily talk for hours with truly interested parties about it, but I'm done wasting my breath on the folks who think all there is to being a good spinner bait/crank bait fisherman is throwing it out there and reeling it in. Got better ways to spend my time.