He had a Georgetown, Ga., company that produces soft plastics go through four different grades of soft plastic before settling on a saltwater hard plastic thats got durability and enough compression when a fish bites it. Once we got it nailed down, the mold came in and we started running it, said Dean
They hold the fish better. Shepard is enamored of a new style of top-water lure where the back end of the lure has a tail that rotates around an axle on the retrieve, called a Whopper Plopper
The line counter helps you to gauge the depth at which the fish are feeding and allows you to get you bait in the take zone every drop
In the video below, we point out that first tying on fluorocarbon or monofilament backing helps prevent braided line slippage
Mason noted that in the lakes that have blueback herring, the baitfish spawn lasts a little longer than a shad spawn, and that with cloudy conditions, that shad spawn can continue until around noon