J Francho

I have too many control issues to fish a bait that does what it wants.

LOL

Carnitas beats both

Which model?

Everything sounds fine, just keep practicing.

Same boat, so to speak.

All my jigs, except a few Buckeye Mop jigs, are from Siebert Outdoors, and do not require any trimming. Trimming makes them stiffer, for anyone wondering.

It's 50# braid - there would have to be A LOT wrong with it for it not to work. Braid is way over-engineered. I haven't really found any in the 12# equiv. diameter I have truly not been able to use.

On mine, most of the brush guards do not touch the lid, or just barely touch it. The jig box IS a little bit taller than the terminal and thin boxes.

I prefer fishing deeper, but regardless of depth, there has to be some factor that I feel draws fish. I don't often cast to shallow water, unless there's something there, either weeds, a dock, stump, change in the bottom, point or cut, slack water in current.... These are the the of things that draw my cast in any depth.

I don't use anything less than 50 on baitcasters. It's around the diameter of 12# mono, and easy to handle with minimal digging in the spool.

I assume you are mounting above the water line. Can you get to the inside of the hull? If not, then you need to use wellnuts. They are self sealing. There are also self sealing pop rivets. If you're mounting above the water line with a screw/washer/nut, then sealing the mounting hardware with silicone should do.

Anyone that's followed my posts for the past few years would know, I refer to I-Bay as "The City Dump."

A broken tip usually slows down the action and increases tip power. It also has an infuriating effect on me.

Fished the dump, caught some decent bass in 12-14', just off the weed edge. Ragetail Craw (Bama) and 3/8 oz. weight Texas rig did the trick. Seems like fish are doing their normal summer thing.

I still have a few Daiwas that had an AR switch AND a flipping switch. They are from the late 80s, and did not have instant AR.

Pepper liberally with expletives, for best results.

I do not with a spinning reel. When using a centrepin for much larger, harder fighting fish, I use a similar technique, though my pinky and ring finger exert drag pressure on the arbor, and occasionally back reel. You can find many videos showing it.

Be sure someone gets video of this.

This is exactly what I've done to 85% of my setups.

I've tried it a few times, with all types of line, and it has NEVER worked for me. I feel like those videos show it working are a hoax.

Okay boomer! ?