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Use the same thing you would use during the day. Seriously. Bait, be it shad, gills, perch, trout, craws dont change color just because it gets dark outside. They're the saw color 24/7.

What it all comes down to in the end is preference. That's what bass fishing is, preference. The fish dont care what line, rod, reel, hook, or sinker you use. I'm sorry if my response sounded condesending in any way. By inconsistent I meant performance inconsistency.

That's cool but I base my opinions on experience with products. I'll never knock a product ever but ill give my honest opinion of one after I've used it for a bit. With seaguar, it was nothin' but problems. Three different spools, same problems. I gave it a chance and came to the conclusion that it was junk to me. That's my opinion. Sunline and toray have never once given me problems. Its lasted and lasted with not one break off or anything. I'll never waste money on seaguar again so more for you to use. From my understanding, seaguar extrudes cabelas fluoro, toray extrudes bps. I'll stick with what's been proven to me time and time again.

Spend 320 and get a rod that was specifically designed for flippin and pitchin on the delta. Zombie rod and tackle. You wanna talk about balanced, light, and powerful. These rods have it all. I have a dobyns 766 and I use the zombie a whole lot more.

I'd go with lew's over the curado e, woops I mean the chronarch. You'd be surprised at how smooth lews reels are, especially the tourney pro. They do have a few new models coming out in October that are going to be awesome! Already have them pre ordered. I wouldn't mind checkin out one of the new revos though. They look siiick!

First of all, what's your price range?

Keep it simple man. Natural colors have always been fire. No need for 10 different colors. 99% of the time im throwin a brown fine living rubber jig with a watermelon, watermelon red flake, green pumpkin, and cinnamon black flake Yamamoto double tail grub. Never had a problem catching fish in any body of water.

If money isn't an issue, go with a zombie 7'4" nice tip and a tooon of backbone.

I think it'd be better. Its not necessarily better than a 7'6" but when your punching you want that extra length to keep that fish pinned when your having to dig her out of the grass. I think theb795 would be best for swimbaits because you can't really cast it over head like smaller baits so that extra 3 inches would help get more distance on a side arm/lob cast. I was actually looking at the recon 795 myself for the same reasons you are.

I would go with the 795. That seems like it would suit your needs better. I'm addicted to throwin swimbaits right now but I also looove fishing the heavy stuff so thats what I would get if I were to get a recon.

Try some event. I've had bass follow my swimbait before so I smothered it in scent and bam! They demolished that thing. Just a suggestion.

The Okuma guide select would be perfect and won't break the bank. Trust me, you'll be throwin 8" hudds and other big swimbaits in no time lol all the suggestions here are great so you've got some thinking to do. I've been dedicating every trip to swimbaits and its paid off so get the best rod you can in your price range if you really plan on throwin them exclusively for awhile.

It actually doesn't. You want the wraps to stack on top of each other neatly not ball up.

You have to make the same number of wraps up and down for this knot to be at its strongest.