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Water Temp
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Stage
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Location
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Top Presentations
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Best Lures
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45°-50°
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Pre-Pre-Spawn
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Deep, 15ft or more
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Jigging, Ned-rigging, Drop Shotting
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Jigs, Finesse plastics, jerkbaits
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50°-55°
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Pre-Spawn Begins
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points and ledges off flats
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Slow, Deep presentations, reaction baits shallow
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Jigs, diving crankbaits, spinnerbaits, shallow cranks
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55°-60°
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Prespawn
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Shallow water near cover
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Working fast reaction baits
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Spinnerbaits and shallow cranks
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60°-65°
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Spawning Begins
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Sight-fishing beds
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Sight-fishing beds
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Creature baits, works, jigs
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65°-70°
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Peak-Spawn to early post-spawn
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throughout shallows, near cover
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Sight fishing, finesse, topwater
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Plastics, buzzbaits, other topwaters
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70° and up
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Post-spawn
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Shallow shady cover, deeper structure
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reaction baits shallow, slow presentations deepr
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Buzzbaits, frogs, jigs, plastics, crankbiats
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Technique
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Pound Test
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Line Type
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Pitching to Sparse Cover
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15-to 20-poun
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Fluorocarbon
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Pitching to heavy cover
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20-pound or 65-pound
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Fluorocarbon or braid
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Frogs over matted grass
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65-pound
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Braid
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Cold water jerk baits
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8 to 12-pound
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Fluoro or Mono
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Deep diving crankbait
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8 to 15-pound
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Fluoro or Mono
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Shallow crankbaits
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10 to 17-pound
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Mono
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Lipless crankbaits
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12 to 20-pound
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Fluoro or Mono
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Topwaters
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15-pound or 30-pound
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Mono
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Spinnerbaits
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15 to 20-pound
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Mono
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Senkos
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8 to 20-pound
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Fluoro
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Drop Shot
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4-10 pound or 10-20 pound
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Fluoro leader Braid Backing
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Shaky Head
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8 to 10-pound
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Fluoro
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Type
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When to use
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Willow
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Less vibration
Faster Retrieve Use Warmer Weather |
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Colorado/Indiana
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More vibration
Slower retrieve Stained water or dim conditions |
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Number of Blades
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When to use
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Single
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Murkey or low visbility
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Double
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When a smaller presentation is needed
Clear Water Cool Water |
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Color
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When to use
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Gold
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Low light conditions
Stained water Cloudy days Early morning/late evening |
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Silver
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Clearer water
Sunny conditions |
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Colored
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Muddy water
Night fishing |
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Type
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Benefit/Use
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Monofilament
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More buoyant and likely to float
Stretches slightly Great for top water lures |
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Fluorocarbon
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Stiffer with little stretch
Nearly invisible in the water Perfect for lures used under the water |
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Braided
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Lot more visible
Weeds or Heavy Cover No Stretch Extremely Strong |
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Conditions
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Color
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Bright Days and Clear Water
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Translucent
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Cloudy Conditions
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Solid colors or those with flash
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Stained Water
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White or Colored Bottom
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Windy Conditions
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Flashy
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Conditions
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Color
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Rainy or Cloudy
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White
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Stained or Muddy Water
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Brightly colored crankbait with as orange or chartreuse
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Sunny
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Silver (If bass feed on shad)
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Sunny
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Green/Red/Brown (If bass feed on crawfish)
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Rig
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Description
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Carolina Rig
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Tie about 18 inches of clear leader between the rigged hook and a small barrel swivel. On your main line, thread first a brass Carolina weight (or a lead sinker), followed by a small, red glass bead. Then tie your main line to the other side of the swivel.
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Texas Rig
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Bullet Weight above a Hook with worm, hooked straight to make it weedless into the body
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Tube Rig
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Small internal jighead
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Drop shot
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Tie your hook with a long tag end and add a drop shot weight to the tag end
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Ned Rig
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Soft plastic turd bait on a flat-headed Ned Head Jig
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Wacky
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Hook soft plastic bait through the middle of the bait, can add a nail weight in the plastic end if needed
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Neko Rig
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Hook soft plastic bait through the middle of the bait, can add a nail weight in the plastic end if needed, recommend to put a rubberband in the middle to make work last longer
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Tokyo Rig
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Hook has a rigid metal wire coming off the eye, bend the wire to keep the weight in place
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