Hey Mr Christie guess what I bought at Walmart today the booyah covert spinnerbait the color the Jason Christie special. Hey Jason these spinnerbaits look really high quality and I noticed that the wire is not shiny it's a dull color so the bass can't get a good look at it. Really nice job building these . I'll email you and let you know what size I catch on them. Thanks for all this fantastic info you give us and thanks for the time you spend teaching us knucklehead weekend angler's. I don't mean that in a bad way. I'll tell ya I would love to go fishing with some of these u tubers these guys Jason have alot of talent and I've learned some good stuff from just listening to the way they like to fish and they definitely have good tips besides yourself. God bless you and your family and all you u tubers families I hope all of you are having a good fishing season unfortunately I haven't been able to fish all year because of my medical issues. But thank you all for the great tips and tricks you've taught. God bless your pal fisherman Mike from Missouri.
My PB was 5 15 and it was on a GP with blue fleck Shupert tube 5" in October in an inland lake in MI. I was actually sad when it didnt jump ,but at the same time it made my day. Lol Makin memories...cheers
The ABSOLUTE BEST smallie bait is made by Zoom....and it's a watermelon green with ORANGE flecks 3" Fat Albert grub. Problem is, Zoom no longer makes this color. I have written and called them to no end. I offered to by cases of ese baits if they'd run a batch (it's a simple color change on an existing line). They won't do it.
My guess would be the drag. Drag is way better on a spinning reel and smallmouth fight hard so u have to play them right when that’s much money is on the line.
I mostly keep an eye on the saltwater side of things. Because that is the vast majority of what I have got nearby (the opposite to being in those large continents that have large inland freshwater resources). I notice though in conventional tackle angling, that some of the saltwater anglers in conventional tackle. They look at the same things. A little bit different. To how freshwater anglers who use the same lures and baits do. I've noticed it in north America and here in western Europe too (Japan etc it's the same, the saltwater anglers there probably fish more lures and baits than freshwater anglers do). Australia same etc. I know freshwater anglers who've moved from Canada, and they spend a lot of their time in estuaries and marginal habitats such as that.
One of the anglers in the saltwater conventional tackle fishing category. Is in the New York and surrounding area. Very much the same idea. Where the lures are being used to fish for multiple species. Not only one species (like the bass angler in a freshwater lake or impoundment).
I think that's why the saltwater conventional tackle anglers look at lures. A little different to anglers who fish the same stuff in freshwater. The saltwater anglers are looking at baits, from the perspective of mulitple species (in bass angling tournaments etc up north, it's just a nuisance to have to encounter the Carp, or Pike or other species. Cat fish and so on. In saltwater sometimes, it's even more exaggerated. They can catch a very mixed assortment of fish. Depending on what lures they throw.
With that view in mind, I've followed a few of the interesting anglers. Some of them in southern England and places. Who have invested a long time, trying to figure out the shoals, the locations and interactions between different species (much like the same mystery that bass anglers have been trying to understand for a long time). An angler on Lake Oahe explained, that he found small mouth bass on that river system. Something like his spotted bass fish on Cousa river system in the south. One of the anglers in New York on the saltwater side. That did interesting analysis of various categories of lures. To understand the lures from his saltwater angling point of view. Was an angler with the Bob Blankemeier channel. Generally, like a lot of saltwater anglers. It's a record or diary of various species of fish that one comes across. In the saltwater over years. And many saltwater fishing channels. Follow a format such as that one.
His series on 'lure libraries'. Just looking at the construction and design of different lures. Falls into a category of analysis. That I could relate to. Because to be honest. When I made and constructed fishing flies. That were made on size twenty hooks. And you realize they out-produce the flies made often. That are dressed on fourteen's or twelve's. You quickly understand, that the way fish look at lures and baits. Is not like how the human vision operates. The fish are able to magnify things to a level. That we just aren't able to. With our normal human vision. In that series that Bob Blankemeier created over time. For numerous different categories of lure. Everything from Ned rig baits, to top water plugs. Frog lures and spinner baits, or bladed jigs. All of them used in various ways in saltwater. He studies them from several angles. That the fish is likely to view these lures from.
It's something that Mikael Frodin for example, one of the better cold water river anglers in Europe would always mention. That fish don't actually see lures. In the same way as they look in the packets. That hang on hooks in stores. That is typically not what the fish sees. When they take something. Sometimes it a rear view of the bait. Or a perspective from below. Or a perspective from the front. And it's also a magnified type of view. There's also something else that happens in terms of how the fish looks at the bait. They're able to just 'slow down time' I think. For some reason, things happen when fishing different baits. Such as the size twenty sized hooks. That can be floated over fish in quite rapid water current at times. And in some strange way. It stands out and the fish can distinguish it. To the extent to which I know the fish are able to 'slow down time'. They don't see things in the same sort of 'real time' perspective. That human beings do. It's kind of like the way that cats, when owners watch them. Appear to be doing nothing, until they do something. And when it happens. It happens faster than our slow brains. Are able to register.
