You will love the PowerPro - excellent braid. With 3 ft. visability you'll probably be alright with reaction baits - I might be more wary with slow presentations / highly pressured fish. Eventually the color is going to fade and you might want to color the line with a permanent green marker (the met...

Zoom Mag II or Ol' Monster for ribbon tail

Lightning Plastics (now gone ) 6" straight tail hand pour for finesse fishing

tunnelengineer wrote:All the crankbaits out today will work better and run truer than even the best crankbaits form 15 years ago.

Now, now.......I have some Made in CA Poe's from the late 80's that might disagree....

I take a bit of exception to the heavy cover crankbait rules . I do have the typical Bagley and a few other boutique balsas that all pop up like baloons when they hit something, and they work very well a lot of the time, whether round lip, square or coffin. That said, there's plenty of times fish do...

You might just try making your own.......you can use whatever hook you want, wire diameter, blade, etc....it's really pretty easy.

Making your own spinnerbaits and buzzbaits alllows you to make the exact configuration you need for any condition.

Agree with the above......of course he didn't throw a regular Pointer, because they would have eaten it, and where would that have left the marketing campaign for their new lure?

The Original Bomber and the Arbogast Mudbug are two different baits......I have several of both, including the Arbogast from 1/4 oz to the monster 1 3/16 oz (or as I like to call it, the "Abominable MudBug"....it's so scary coming through the water that many smaller bass have to seek counseling afte...

Crankbaits

I dig the Bombers.......Fat Free Shads in 3/4, 1/4, Flat A's and 7As, even some of the old-school Bomber crawfish cranks (they do still work).

Great designs.

I like graphite.........the first couple of years I got into deep cranks I used glass rods and Lews slow:1 gear reels until I finally figured out I hated using that stuff.

Now it's graphite and a Curado (and PowerPro braid )