[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUUAEhthcQ] One day I celebrate hardbaits, the next I celebrate softbaits. I cannot make up my mind lately which I like better. I like them all, well, I like the ‘good ones’ from each category and work every day to understand which ones are good and which are junk. …
3:16 Lure Company
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wtVA87YzU] The 3:16 Rising Son Jr. is a sleeper swimbait and is great for certain applications. I realized I’d been overlooking this bait as part of my tournament and trophy arsenal this past winter in Okeechobee. You are going to have to be patient, I have an Okeechobee sessions thing…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvgiSIRm6lQ] The 3:16 Lure Company Sunfish is a bait I reconnected with this year. I had fished it before, but after some sitting and thinking about some things, simplification and just expansion of the bigbait journey, I realized the bluegill/brim/sunfish space was something I needed to focus and…
Click the above imaged for the enlarged version, that you can read. This is a digital image of an article I was fortunate enough to get done in collaboration with Curt Niedermier. The intent was to take a simple look at various tails on swimbaits and understand some subtleties…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLQGri_yvY] Wacky Rigging. One of my favorite things to do in a small bait, finesse, tough bite, you just need to catch 5 fish and haven’t had a bite in a while style of fishing is wacky rigging. Wacky rigging is the canary in the coal mine to me at…
The guy has a Stiffy!!! Great day on Okeechobee, sight fishing, poling around some good areas, taking it slow and stealth, and it paid off. I have a 14 foot fiberglass Stiffy Push Pole. It works great. You need a push pole for many reasons, especially for…