View attachment 975720 View attachment 975722 Gearing up for this season. Setting my 2023 goals.
1. New personal bests in largemouth(6 lbs) and smallmouth (3lbs).
2. Continue to improve and build on my success from last year using spinnerbaits and jigs.
3. Become proficient using chatterbaits, lipless, and jerkbaits. Currently, I have only caught one fish on a chatterbait and no fish on the other two.
4. Reeastablish my Ned rig and shaky head game. I have gotten away from those presentations the last two years.
5. Locate some new water.
So, here is some of my featured gear for the year(minus jigs, I haven’t organized them yet).
The first pic is of some of my favorite spinnerbaits. Mega bass. The brown/orange is what I caught two six pounders on last year at wolf run two days before they drained it. I have some of them paired with reaction innovations little dippers and some kvd caffeine shad.
The second pic is of my hard baits. I will continue to destroy bass on my Berkeley choppo in bone with a red feathered hook and some red permanent marker highlights-like inhave for the last 3 years. But I intend to land some bass on lipless (most of these are Ark brand) while the others(the green pumpkin and red lipless) are from a monster bass or mystery tackle box but I really like them. I will eventually figure out the brand.
The third pic is my chatterbaits. A mix of zman, thunder crickets, and I plan to try the zman stealth blade paired with their mud minnow.
The fourth pic is my ned rig box. Just to stick to the basics and the company where it all began, I am going with zman trd’s, goats, and craws-paired with their ned rig lock jig heads. I added a skirt to a couple of the rigs. I also like to use nikko helgramites as well, but zman doesn’t play well with other plastics and will melt the world to goo if you aren’t careful.
So, what are your 2023 goals? What techniques do you plan to use? Any new waters you plan to explore? Post em here!
