I am so looking forward to fishing against you. You were the guy to keep up with last year. I'm going to do from the bank on the first one(during spawn) and then maybe I'll put the boat in the water.

Are you sure that wasn't a game warden? They're pretty sneaky down in Texas

Central Texas here. Don't know the water temp and the fish don't turn stiff when you catch them. Had some good rain. Feeder Creeks are a bit muddy but main puddles are pretty clear with 3-4 feet visibility along the bank. Regardless of warmer air temps, I don't see any bluegill or little "wolf packs" of small bass cruising the shallows. Really odd to have higher temps and no fish activities. (and FYI the Bass Forecast app says we're in spawn 🤔)

Christopher Bowman medium heavy you say? I'm going to have to go to the website and have a look. I don't recall a medium heavy except for the salt series and dock skipper.

What is the actual question? I fish a couple local puddles and I'm really known on Fishbrain and get asked for advice all the time from complete strangers. I get stopped in Academy, Walmart, etc..

Mack Toon I hope we have the tourneys again. I missed the first one last year.

Christopher Bowman which 2 did you get? I can see they are spinning and KLX but that's as much as I can tell from the pics.

I'm wanting to take a swipe at kayak fishing again myself this year. I fished a couple of Blats tournaments this year from the bank and narrowed my rod selection down to 3. It was usually 2 baitcasters and 1 spinning. One baitcaster was Medium-Heavy. Another was Light Medium Heavy for crankbaits and moving baits. Spinning was medium light to throw Ned, wacky, shaky head, and strollin. Sometimes even just carried two spinning and one medium heavy baitcaster when I targeted creeks. The difference for the spinning was line size and leader especially when I found late spawners

Advice from a bank fisher. I'd Google Earth and go back in time to look for any structure that you don't normally see when the lake is full. 50-60°...I'd take Mack Toon advice. I'm in Texas. Topwater is never out of the equation. Jerkbaits are combination locks. Chatterbaits (minimax) get the anchor for your bag on weed lines. Good luck and tight lines!

I'm that dummy that will throw a chatterbait(especially a minimax) into the brush/timber. I know going in the odds of getting hung up are not in my favor(I basically had a reocurring order at TW). But the reward often outweighed the risk. I'll sacrifice the chatterbait for a few 5lbers if I'm struggling.