Uh…I’m saying no, and in fact am dang amazed it hasn’t burst plum open:

Ketched by I believe by Broken Braid Guide Service, on Falcon Lake, TX. Think if you bounced a tennis ball off that fish it’d go a mile….

Man I hope one of my fish is on this deal one day, how ’bout you:

Little delay on this’n but cool: Allen R took his sister fishing on Arbuckle, OK 2 days after their dad’s funeral: “Pop used to take her fishing,” he said. What happened: “We caught 8 bass between 6 and 9 lbs, and lost 2 more in the same size range.” Awesome, a gift for sure. Here’s a couple, main bait was a Strike King 8XD (powder blue chart):

Dwight H was heaving a 3/4-oz Strike King Red Eye Shad (chrome/blue back) down Mexico way and caught this 11-08 that taped out at 27″ x 19.5″:

You can catch bass this big possibly more often if you fish baits longer than your forearm (@romanmade shot):

Give it up for 8-yr-old Bo H, who caught this LA 24-incher with a spinnerbait. Love this pic, includin’ what I guess his little bro with a lockback. No fear, raised right:

Windin’ it up with Rick F’s story:

HAHAHA love it man! Dude be lookin’ way younger than 6-5….

Thinkin’ ’bout 2020, aka “the future.” I’m sure it’s my bass-centric view of the entire world, but usually I see baits n stuff crossing over FROM bassin’ to places like salty word and the crap-pies. But here’s a few goin’ t’other way that maybe we’ll see when some famous basser outs it:

Huge in the salt, haven’t really crossed over to the basses yet (at least that anyone’s talkin’ ’bout) but Lunkerhunt did show off this beaut at ICAST this year, what they call the Crasher Jig because they’re called “jigs” in the salt:

Can’t really see how they won’t work for bass.

Guess this should be shrimp ‘n squid. Remember, we’re talkin’ bass here — they’ll eat ANYTHING. Doesn’t have to look natural or sound natural. Just chuck it out there.

So if you’re crankin’ or flippin’ and need a different look because every dang bass on that shoreline or dock line has seen a critter bait or a jig or whatever 1 zillion times, WTHeck — why not chuck a tasty salty critter imitation? Shoot yeah they’ll bite it!

You could make it even gooder with squid-flavored Megastrike fish attractant cuz dressed up squid have been proven to attract aggressive bass:

A few bassin’ baits — like this Geecrack G-Flapper — already look squid-ish:

Marabou is the soft feathers on a crappie jig. Why in the world we ain’t flippin’ these on bass jigs — except for smallmouths up north in some areas — is beyond me. Those feathers look like they “breathe” (pulse) underwater, and are regularly used on fly feehsn streamers (minnow imitations) because it works so well. Prolly not real durable for bassin’ but….

Oops, looks like Outkast has a Feider Fly marabou jig (up to 1/8-oz on TW), and VMC makes one that goes up to 1/4-oz. So no excuses now peeps!

Glow in the dark, glow sticks — both are used in ice fishing, aka being cold and bored (Hahaha! I actually wouldn’t know….) Why not use it in bassin’? What if it got 1 more fish a day to bite??

2. Rapala Jigging Rap

A few pros have fished it cold-water sitches — like Jacob Wheeler at the ’15 Hartwell Classic — but it was actually designed as an open-water bait (in Europe), and guys like Al Lindner kill wally-eyes with ’em in open water.

Key seems to be how to fish it, such like this vid with James Lindner. Way he describes it, might actually work in dropshot-type situations? Rapala might need a goby color for it….

Also an ice/open water bait, the deal with this thing is it falls down horizontally, like:

Full vid here. If you can’t catch a bass on that deal, you ain’t fishin’ where they live…. (Talkin’ to myself too….)

Invented (by the Lindners) way back to help prevent baits fished on the bottom from getting snagged, I believe. Think it’s not needed in bassin’? Check this recent pic from a Japan post (from lurenewsr.com, can’t link it):

TW does have the Lindy weights so….