05-27-2022, 02:20 PM
(05-27-2022, 02:02 PM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: Thanks, 2knots. I had three smallies on that were in the three-pound range, but lost two at the boat due to allowing a fraction of a second of slack reaching for the net. Funny how the dinks all get solidly hooked but the biguns manage to be only slightly pinned, ain't it? The one I landed had the Ned rig fall out in the net. I think they chomp down and hold so hard that the hook never gets really set - then they open up that maw when the line slacks and...
Yep lol, when I was chasing bass a lot it was common to see the plastic get picked up and they would just start swimming away with it only to have it spit at you after the set. Fun chasing them for sure. For smallies we did well on the Yumm craw pappy in watermelon, but they would tear the “claws” off them so fast you needed a couple bags if the bite was on lol