The fish today really liked the 4"Rippers and weighted hooks today, 1/16 ounce on the weight and a 4/0 Gammi. Deadly combo. The molded in hook slot is really shining and the split body colors just add frosting to the combo. Using Essential plastic on the rippers. I boated 5 bass and 5 decent pike on one Ripper today before the last fish, a pike, tore it right behind the hook's bend. Keitech Fat Swing Impacts are good for maybe three fish and one is stuck with factory colors. Today a strong watermelon green with heavy .040 purple and heavy .015 garnet flake over a silver string glitter clear belly ruled the fish. The Pro Blue number just wouldn't get fish to hit....they'd swing at the color but not hit. Tried the Pro Blue with the Twisted Guava super shift color shifting pigment in it and got one small bass, but this bait also had the heavy silver string glitter belly and we think it was the flash of the belly color that put the fish in the net today. The watermelon backs also looked like bright sunfish backs and we also agreed that this was a color factor.
All told we out like 19 fish in the boat between 6AM and 9 AM today. Only one 6 pound doggie to my buddy. He's been the pound master lately.
