Any largemouth guys here?

[Got Stripers]

In the early 80's I was a club and mass federation bass tournament fisherman and wasn't fishing the salt at all. In the mid to late 80's it became too crowded and too much of a job and I started to transition to striper fishing. I was in love with sluggos and jig fishing and back then I used a larger plastic jerk made in Abington called a wide body and marketed under the name Carty's Critters. The logical next step for me was to design my own baits to add some things I saw missing from the typical sluggo, which was primarily more meat at the head so they fished better behind a jig and harder plastic to last.

Finesse fishing a jig in fresh water has served me well when it comes to putting anything in the boat, but I love targeting tog on light jigs.

[puppet]

I feel trout are more similar in behavior than largemouth.

Largemouth seem be more loners and territorial, where trout
will group and pack up on structure. In still water trout will
hunt in a pack....like a school of striped bass.

I feel that trout have similar picky characteristics as striped bass, where
largemouth are rarely as picky. You can drop the same senko in its territory
every day and lift that fish out.

I am not saying that largemouth bass fishing is easy,
I just feel its easier than striped bass fishing.