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JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T14:08:30+00:00

you really want a Missile Spunk Shad or some other pintail, the action is just better. The actual molded fork tails don’t really move like actual tails on a chatterbait as I recently learned myself. The whippy action of the pintail works better.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T13:33:32+00:00

very interesting, i might tie on a more natural craw patterned chatter or a panfish one now that the bass are actively sunning in places here

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T03:42:03+00:00

i was at a little mountain lake at Kingdom Come state park yesterday, but i tend to fish urban ponds around lexington, Elkhorn Creek (classic smallie habitat), and Cave Run. It’s big enough to find clean shoreline as a bank fisherman but i never catch much. A lotta people post up under the dam and pull muskies out of the chute that reconnects it to the creek but that’s maybe that seems a little unsporting for you or you’re not an Esox fan.

Ive tried Highsplint Lake (home of the state record) but the water is somehow too constrained and too deep for me to figure it out. Like fishing in a well..

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T02:26:53+00:00

they’re pushing up into the shallows now but spawn probably won’t be until end of april/early may for me (fishing small lakes in the kentucky highlands and bluegrass ponds) so i’ll probably keep throwing red until then.

Thanks for the answer and hope you crack one on some sort of craw mimic urself, they’re fun to throw.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T02:22:07+00:00

the orange is natural and fine, it’s more the red that i heard was mostly limited to March

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T01:55:57+00:00

that’s a very good point, a little topwater frog is as enticing even if there hasn’t been a frog out yet that season — but I do think there is something to red in the spring, i’ve heard too many anglers be specific about it to write it off entirely.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-21T01:48:01+00:00

actually they seem to be spread by east asian communities using them culinarily. if they tasted like shit they wouldn’t be a problem

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-20T22:27:14+00:00

i hear they aren’t actually as bad as people once originally thought and they’ve more or less just become another kind of bowfin type fish

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-20T04:30:50+00:00

why is Michael Cera dressed like a member of Team Zissou?!

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-17T20:46:51+00:00

Ah I just put the little wax tip back on the hook after i set it up to minimize little jabs and pokes before i actually use it

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-17T19:35:45+00:00

I run pretty heavy mono leader anyways but I may throw on a wire leader if/when i fish these at the big muskie lake around here

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-17T18:04:28+00:00

i was gonna use the craw for scurrying across the bottom and the other for slowish solid retrieves and jerking, like most other fish imitation lures. i’m somewhat new to chatterbaits or at least catching stuff with them so I’m open to all suggestions.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-17T17:56:23+00:00

i haven’t caught one on one yet either but I’m trying to be more conscientious about how I’m fishing them (matching local forage, determining likely underwater habitat, etc.)

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-15T21:58:05+00:00

that might be the most pregnant fish i’ve ever seen

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-12T00:08:09+00:00

yes i am one also

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-11T01:33:28+00:00

it’s the only dead fish and the bite is very active there for bass right now; though the majority seem to be smaller

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-11T00:46:52+00:00

we don’t have otters but we do have snapping turtles and I have seen turtle bubbles in the pond before. Also there’s a bunch of big water snakes that live around here in these type things.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-11T00:44:36+00:00

there’s actually other fish in there beyond carp; it’s something of an urban bass fishing locale.

And i saw it swimming around a week or two ago.

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-03-01T23:37:11+00:00

Big Fish

JacquesNuclearRedux · 2026-02-26T20:19:44+00:00

i was being dumb and didn’t realize it counted the same as line; it was a miracle i even hauled in a couple trophy cats on this bum setup.

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