Alright I had a better outing last weekend. I tied on small jigs with small trailers and it worked textbook. Found them where I expected them (with FFS) put it on them, took my time, and hooked a nice small mouth.

Unfortunately, my leader knot came loose before I could get him in the boat.

So I have to look up the knot videos, especially tying line to line. But that leads to my question, how often should I be retying my leader line?

Hey fam, been on the struggle bus of late. I can find them, I can get them to chase, I can't get them to bite. Swim jigs, chatter baits, football jigs, Texas rigs, spinner bait, drop shot, and wacky rig. Sometimes I get a couple of bites, but no fish. I think it's definitely user error. Any technique suggestions to save what's left of my summer fishing? Thanks in advance!

My boat is not very big so not a lot of places to put stuff. I remembered a video where BLat suggested using wood. This is about iteration #3 but set up this improvised rig to hold my live scope hardware. Let's see if it holds up on the drive to the lake tomorrow.