I am a huge fan of Owner Hooks. I have had a journey with treble hooks, as most of us have had. You go thru the balance of: Uber sharp points, short shank/non fouling, hook strength and ability to handle 80# braid or a giant fish,…
Rigging
[youtube=http://youtu.be/9k3WCuG_jK0] I will admit it, I was a snob when I saw and heard about swimming worms. I can think of 3 times the swimming worm was relayed to me as the bait, and I foolishly tried to make it a bigbait / swimbait bite without putting it into context. …
[youtube=http://youtu.be/zUqxw-vIOGI] You have to check this thing out. The flying/swimming V. I messed around with the Picasso Bait Ball Extreme over the summer. Talk about a cool derivative of the Alabama Rig. There is a V4, V6 and V8 Model of the Picasso Bait Ball Extreme. …
Just like Dolly Parton’s coat, my 3″ Big Hammer swimbait box, is of ‘many colors’. The Big Hammer family of swimbaits has some prime real estate in my tackle boxes, boat, and ‘office’. I spend a lot of time tinkering with the various flavors of Big Hammer swimbaits…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CmMDkxzWQ] When you have a swinging weight that is connected to the eye of a hook by a single solid ring, you get a free flowing rigging system that changes things like: how baits rig, how they drop, how they fish, how they swim, how well they drag over stuff…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdF6CxaSTI] In case you don’t know this, you need to have yourself an assortment of colors of the Skinny Dipper from Reaction Innovations. The bait catches fish in the grass, and it catches fish in the open water. Reaction Innovations is owned and operated out of Alabama,…