Trying A New Rat Lure On Smallmouth Bass! 

Sorry for your loss. That would be indescribable. Hopefully you get back at it one day. I’d bet she like to see you out there enjoying it. You need a good fishing partner.

Thank you very much! Those 4 years were some of the best years of my life.

@@larryreed7455you definitely need to get back out there. She would want that. My cousin Mikey was my fishing buddy. He had Down syndrome and passed away a few years ago. I catch more big bass now and I swear it’s because he’s still fishing with me from Heaven. I think about him every time I catch one and remember his excitement.

So sorry to hear that. I know exactly how you feel. Our daughter was an only child. You're right she would like for me to do that and maybe one day I will. God bless and wish you you all the best!

Es un relato terrible que le llega a uno al corazón. Lamento mucho el fallecimiento de su hija. Esos cuatro años con ella compartiendo jornadas de pesca fue de lo mejor que pudo hacer usted por ella. Creó un vínculo muy intenso entre ustedes. Dios le bendiga. Le deseo que retome cuanto antes esta magnífica afición. Será muy doloroso, es verdad.

Tell your brother to stuff it and fish the Plopper.

I run my ploppers on a spinning reel exclusively

If you have a medium action you can throw the 75 and 90 size no problem. If it’s a medium light then throw the 65 size. I’ve caught hundreds on a spinning reel and plopper. I add a barrel swivel to the split ring, it stops line twist. Also the lower gear ratio of spinning reel is a good thing for a whopper plopper.

All i fish is spinning reels headed to Canada smallie fishing. Whopper plopper alreadyntied on!

You can run a Whopper Plopper on spinning gear, the only problem you might run into is with line twist. The Plopper tends to twist up your line quite a bit and you’re more likely to have issues with that with spinning gear. Eventually the line will twist up and tangle as it’s jumping off the spool on a cast.

sounds killa.liked brotein shake name. im a bassman too

Making your own lures is so freaking fun and awesome, especially when they are effective on the fish. The first experiment I ever did, I just took a tube bait and a finesse worm, and shoved the finesse worm inside the tube (with the tail sticking out of the back). I used a worm hook and worked that thing just like a jerk bait, and slayed my local ponds.

@@jamescanady3442 cool i had a guy cudtom pain 3 lures in tayburn red but i forgot who and price .it wasnt cheap.he painted a wiggle wart and a flat wart.3 original storm s from early 90s

@@jamescanady3442 i have a buttload of tubes mizmo mostly but i mainly use wacky worms then ned rigs.

@@GRILLBUOY101 Dude, awesome! Did your custom painted crank baits show any promise? As for the tubes, wacky worms, and ned rigs, are you targeting Smallies? Here in Florida, the largemouth tend to go after other lures.

Yup! I'm from Jersey also and I say the same thing everytime I watch his videos 😂😂

Where abouts in Ontario?

I had several of them run across the road in front of me the last ten miles before the lake!

I was kind of on my night editing schedule so I slept in late the day before. It’s no fun driving tired though. Coffee always helps on the way home and the other trick I always used when I drove for a living was to eat sunflower seeds if I was feeling tired, that seems to help keep me alert.

@@ndyakangler What a coincidence! that´s just what I learned from a co-worker only five days ago: eating sunflower seeds. Another co-worker objected "ok, but then you have to let go of the steering wheel". After an exhausting walk fishing when I get to my car in the dark I drink my heavy coffee (oats "milk" with coffee, actually) eating five cookies, which is a very light meal that keeps you from sleeping while giving you a good boost of glucose to your brain. I only have some occasional yawns shortly before arriving home. The main issue then is that once at home I have supper at an insane late hour and my sleep pattern is somewhat destroyed!

I’d like to try flathead fishing one day, it’s a several hour drive to get on some water that has them so I haven’t fished for them yet.

@@ndyakangler We have them here in St. Cloud, not terribly far from you. Can go up on the dam and jig for them later in the summer when it really warms up the Mississippi. The more south you go or even into WI, they start a bit sooner. Ever trip out here ill get you hooked into some!

It’s an unmistakable sound!

I ordered a couple more myself after this trip! It fished really well and I could see it becoming one of my favorite smallie lures.

I’ll have to try the 50 rat again on my big bass lake! I tried it there a few years ago and didn’t get bit, figured it was maybe a bit too big but those fish might have just not been hitting topwater that day. The 40 has caught me a ton of big fish there.

@@ndyakangler I'd highly recommend trying the 50 again...not my favorite of the big rats, but a great bait for the price....2 lb. Bass have smashed it as well

Rat lures have caught me a ton of big fish over the years!

You weren't first.

I generally stick with mono line for those lures, the little bit of stretch compensates for a fast action rod a little bit. I prefer fast or extra fast, that’s really all I own other than maybe one or two rods I never use.