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rmflint
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject: Best one sofar this year!! |
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Caught my best bass this year today at Dayton pond as I worked a wacky natural green senko. I waded through the water over a slippery submerged concrete dock to an old piling to free a snag I caught. Once there I decided to cast since I now had some new angles. I casted about 10 times and got one thump or so I thought. I was about to go change colors or lures but decided to cast once more. On this cast I felt something not hit it overly hard but kind of just take it and swim so I set the hook hard. I faught this bass for a little but wanted to get it in my hands asap. I finally saw it and quickly stuffed my whole hand in its mouth with a death grip because now I had to walk back over the slippery concrete. On top of this as soon as I grabbed the fish my swivel broke. But I quickly made my way back and called my grandpa down the street who just got home from spending winter in FL to come see my fish and take a picture since I couldn't get a good one with my phones front camera. After I let this fish go I started fishing again and got a hit relatively fast just as the senko hit the water. I adding Ed it was another bass and to my surprise it was a good sized catfish. What a weird fish to get on a senko. And that its how my before dinner hour and a half of fishing went.
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rmflint
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Heres another pic of the bass
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job!
PS Why do you have a swivel w a senko? I don't get it.
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rmflint
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well for starters I change lures a lot and It was already on there and I only brought one pole with me today. Plus I left my stupid multitool in the car so I couldn't trim line when I needed to.
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| nice bass! You should resize all the pictures to look like the last one. |
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slim2043
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| rmflint wrote: | | Well for starters I change lures a lot and It was already on there and I only brought one pole with me today. Plus I left my stupid multitool in the car so I couldn't trim line when I needed to. |
Gotcha. I personally don't use swivels 95% of the time in freshwater situations unless I have some kind of rig that has a swivel above a leader etc. The only time I might use them for terminal tackle is with lures like floating rapalas that don't have split rings. I know people use them but I don't trust them. I'd rather have it be my own knot than a mechanical failure of a snap/swivel and like you explained yours broke. I got good at tying knots and I trust mine. To each his own I guess. Just trying to help you avoid losing the next big one 
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:03 am Post subject: |
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I personally don't use them either in freshwater but for a slightly different reason...I have a feeling fish can see them...I do however use them in saltwater all the time. I use a lot of 3 way swivels too..kinda have to in salt. 
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slim2043
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I agree Steve.
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rmflint
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Well I started the year tieing but I quickly got sick of it...however when I fish the backwaters of the Indian river in Florida I actually tie all my knots. You can't use swivels in the saltwater down there it actually does spook the fish...especially when free lining shrimp if u check my gallery u can see some of my Florida catches. I only have a few pics though the rest my grandparents have.
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rmflint
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Little thing I noticed too is that the senkos sink faster with the swivel which is nice.
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And the swivel gives it more action.... Sometimes I use a ball bearing swivel to give the bait some extra sink and a super free fall.
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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sap I guess fish of the sea have poor eye site compared to freshwater fish =P
I usually have a snap swivel on one rod for quick changes..
Snap swivels can damper movement on some lures
Though simple barrel swivels may give a bit more action.
Snap swivels and barrel swivels also help to eliminate line twists.
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| nice brown bullhead. they are caught more by accident than they are intentionally, as are black bullhead. great bass as well. |
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slim2043
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| perfect hook set wrote: | sap I guess fish of the sea have poor eye site compared to freshwater fish =P
I usually have a snap swivel on one rod for quick changes..
Snap swivels can damper movement on some lures
Though simple barrel swivels may give a bit more action.
Snap swivels and barrel swivels also help to eliminate line twists. |
I think sometimes swivels give bait too much action (ie. rollovers) or unnatural action. Sometimes I do use them but it's rare for me. Glad to see I stirred up some replies from other people on this. I was interested to hear some other opinions. Sorry to hijack your thread rmnflint
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Any knot can be tied in like 10-15 secs FWIW  |
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