Ive heard high water during and right after the spawn is a good thing in general. Anyone know if the current high water conditions have any effect, good or bad, on the recently hatched eyes and saugers?

Got a 5th season tag yet

WI zone 4 yesterday, went 25.25lbs

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There was a bit of a backup Wednesday morning at Bay Point as someone locked their keys in the car…..with the boat backed in the water at the ramp.

People can’t read calendars anymore, myself included. From the number of boats out there yesterday you would have sworn it was a Saturday

Did word leak out yet what was working for the Tan Your Butt Off Tournament?

Paired with a beast, game on!

I went with a mojo

And so see elliot has a telescope model

Tks! Also considering a mojo telescoping

Gotcha

H&K?

Anyone try paddle tail swimbait styles other than Authentx? So many out there now, i ran a keitech a bit this past spring one day and did ok with it.

I twist my own spinnerbait arms like that

Gorgeous!

Nice birds all! Got another WI zone 4 bird on Wednesday

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I know around p5 Alma the aspirin head ones with the treble stingers are popular. They sell them lots of places in single packs on cards, forget the brand (there are several that style)

You got a pic of some of yours handy? Roughly how long are you tying them?

IF i could limit myself to a few colors of bucktail that would be fine. But can guarantee if i got into it would end up with 20 different colors plus various flash and tinsel laying around.

I knew that was coming! Ive tied a few, results were less than impressive.

Got it done yesterday with a 24lb dandy. Zone 4 WI

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I heard from a bud friday was tough

Hovering was excellent, read that a while back

Pulsars on both, running a light jig on the leader?

Somewhat of a tangent, and know its been discussed here, but anyone use 15lb or more for a leader with blades to limit tangles? I know proper technique helps also.

And i also am a fan of high vis yellow or green, even white vs green/moss. I got the itch….and see some guys go as far as running mono on the top leader on a dubuque for bouyancy and flouro on the dropper

Not sure how accurate the specs are but shopping around seems like 832 has a higher diameter to lb test rating than most other braids

Pretty standard, i do 8-15 lb fireline or braid to floro. More of the 8 mainline with a 10lb leader for pitching and 15lb mainline with 14lb for dragging

And i forgot mono, assuming some prefer that for pitching jigs

I should, but have never lubed my 3 originals that are 25 years old and still function perfectly after tons of use and a use. Tks for the replies on the round ones, probably get one for starts and see how it goes