Dwight Hottle

All those big girls are giving your rotator cuff a workout.

Welcome to the smallmouth fraternity deep.

Better not let LuckyCraftMan see the rest of this thread.

Like Scott said thread you minnow onto a single hook so it sits straight then attach the hook by split ring to your inline spinner bait. If your inline spinner baits have a hook attached without a split ring just cut the hook off & then attach a split ring to the ring on the shaft end. You can use any inline spinners you already have.

Congrats on the new boat. Get the trolling motor & the biggest battery you can afford.

My insurance carrier gave a discount for completion of a boater safety course. Worth checking out.

Welcome to the club. Sounds like your wife has your back.

1st choice would be a jig plus trailer. 2nd choice would be a jerkbait

So has the whole city of Cleveland.

Send them to me and I will tune them for you.

I have that same blank in a 7' spinning rod. I use it for vertical jigging spoons & blade baits on lake Erie. It really is a high performance blank. It will handle 1oz baits too. Two thumbs up.

Daiwa certate JDM for mid $200 range.

Welcome John. Nice intro also.

Welcome. You are in the Canadian hotspot for multi-species.

Its going to be a little stiffer than your Yozuri but less stretch & stronger.

Nice work Scott.

Good eating too.

Congrats on the smallie.

Braid.

They make killer perch rigs. I cut them in half & modify them to get two rigs out of one. PA only allows three hooks per line.

Don't want to talk about it.

I like the certate lineup. Bulletproof reels.

Sometimes it is better to listen than to talk. You might learn more that way.

Big flutter spoon might work well.

Yes if you mean 1-3 oz baits you should be using 20-25 lb mono.