Ricky Taylor

Providence Forge, VA, United States

I am a husband, father of 3 girls, and a retired Army veteran who settled in Virginia. Fishing was my first love and I love chasing bass!

22 Oct 13:29

1. Try to match your trailer to the water color and environment. If I heard correctly.

2. Definitely will try the 20 minute rule when going thru colors.

3. The connection point for the line on the jig head. Why does it matter about the direction?

4. I know you said three, but can you elaborate more on threading compared to hooking and when you would select? *** rewatched and found the answers I needed***

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21 Oct 09:13

This weekend I learned a hard lesson with my baitcasters running braid to Fluoro. I lost 2 reels due to that FG knot disrupting. OMG! I found that ripping that bait thru the air catches every time! I am switching them to 12 and 15 pound fluoro going forward.

Thank you for answering my question. I have been searching for a go to worm for my Carolina, and wanted to try something more buoyant.

I caught my largest smallmouth in Midcoast Maine. Some of the best smallmouth fishing I have ever witnessed!

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21 Oct 08:46

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6 pounds even, Largemouth, caught this year on a 10” curly tail junebug

20 1/2” Smallmouth on a rapala orange and green. Scale didn’t work, so no weight.

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21 Oct 08:35

Nice catch! Thank you for sharing.

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19 Oct 21:54

Thank you also. Your school has challenged me to take more chances with baits I never considered. That confidence to believe you can catch something o t hose baits is game changing.

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19 Oct 07:27

Ken Pfeiffer I’m trying to figure this lake out. Should be called more of a river.

18 Oct 20:59

I uploaded a photo with the Garmin data for the day. I was all in that the bass would be targeting blueback hearing schools. I threw all these baits with colors similar to this and a few late with darks due to visibility. The only thing they hit, Black & Blue senko, hook tip back side egg sack,and tip towards nose.

16 Oct 06:02

Brian can you dive into the electronics portion more? I definitely struggle with this category.

I recently watched a few of his podcast on spinner bait fishing retrieval. How you burn it in extremely fast, keeping the spinner right below the surface without breaking.

Another super detailed and experience fisherman. I’m excited to see what Randy brings to SUF.

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