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Thats a great rod for $40.00 bucks, too. Nice little budget bank beater combo.

Pretty much the same as iron and deleted.

Primus. Fish on. Les is arguably one of the greatest bassers ever. Lol. See what I did there? I hear he is actually a pretty good fly fisherman.

Arbor to spool, uni to uni to join lines if needed, and trilene to lure. 5-6 wraps for mono and fluoro and 7-8 wraps for braid. I leave an 1/8-1/4 inch tag end just in case. The trilene is pretty easy to tie, doesn't waste a lot of line, is strong, and the tag end isn't facing forward.

I have one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-AW80D-7A-Chronograph-10-Year-Databank/dp/B000GB0G02/ref=asc_df_B000GAWS9U/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312104441412&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2870111298194463014&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9015471&hvtargid=pla-434336323326&psc=1&th=1 Simple, cheap and they offer it in a few styles. Found mine at Walmart for about $20.00 8 or so years ago. Just had to replace the battery and band within the last 6 months. First time the battery needed replaced. Been a nice everyday/beater watch.

The wife finding out how much I've spent on fishing... Just kidding, she knows. She knows everything.

This logic has never made any sense to me. Falcon moved production to china so now I'm going to start fishing some other brand chinese made rod in protest. Lol. Falcon still makes (arguably) the best $100.00 and $130.00 rods you can buy. You are not going to find an American made rod for much less than $160.00 and the fit and finish most likely won't be good until you hit $200.00. Even then it might not be great. My Cashion is a fantastic rod but it won't win any beauty contests. Anyway I love my 6'10 lowrider spinning rod. Alot of folks might think the moderate action is to slow but with braid I have no problems setting hooks and it'll launch a fluke or trick worm. Then again I like Quantum reels so what the hell do I know?

Well, at least it sounds like the service center has great customer service. Very cool that they are going to take care of you and at a very reasonable cost. Kudos to them.

Falcon Bucco brc 717 carolina lizard dragger 2. Fantastic 7 ft. frog rod for $100.00. Softer tip and plenty of backbone. Not a pool cue at all.

Found these in the yum bargain bin at Walmart. 6 pack for $2.50. Got to fish it for an hour or two. Only caught one fish but it was a solid two pounder. I like it so far. Anyone else seen/tried them?

This is the correct answer. Falcon is always the correct answer.

No. You'll hate it for at least a week and then you'll slowly start to like it. Next thing you know, you'll have at least 5 baitcasters and you'll never want to use your spinning reels. ?

Zip tie a split ring to the rod. You might already have both laying around.

I believe the accurist uses the acs 3 and the smokes and tours use the acs 4. Both will launch a frog. I frog with an Icon with the older 3 series brakes. My smokes have no problem launching a frog either. To the OP my smokes brakes definitely make some noise. Kinda like a no tech DC. ? lol.

That sounds way more enjoyable/exciting than my last few fishing expeditions. ?

The hank parker might work for you. I tried using mine for frogs and didn't really care for it. Too stiff of a tip for me. Certainly has the shoulders for it though. Nice rods for 40 bucks or less.

Falcon lowrider all 'round for about the same coin. ?

I might use a plastic longer than I should. Found a slightly used pit boss in my tackle bag from sometime last year, today. Put it on a hook and fished it for 7 bass. It was pretty beat up after the 2nd or 3rd fish. Just kept on rigging it on however it would hold all because I didn't feel like walking 20 feet to my tackle bag to get another one out of the full bag of the exact same color. Lol. If I didn't need to retie it would probably still be rigged up.

Pretty sure OP is talking about the dust cap that threads into the opposite side of the handle on a spinning reel. Kinda surprising that pflueger doesn't offer it. I would think that would be the most lost/damaged part on any spinning reel. This one looks about right for my wife's trion but not the same part number so I'm not sure. https://www.ereplacementparts.com/dust-cap-p-1433288.html

I'd be taking a long hard look at the 7'2" heavy rod for those baits and this price. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1024716717 Never used a TFO rod but for that price it certainly has me interested.

Midway has some Temple Fork rods for a little over half off.

Wait till you throw a spinnerbait on that combo. It's wonderful. That rod and 30 lb braid can do almost anything and do it pretty good.

There is no rubberband on the skirt. The skirt is held on with a string like a hand tied skirt. Probably a machine tied skirt. They hold up pretty good.

What rubberband? They use a tied 50 strand skirt.