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I was looking at an ad for them BASSMASTER and d@mn they look good for being 3.79. The lipless cranks and crankbaits in particular look really promising. The finishes look really high quality and the hooks look pretty good too from what I can see. Are they as good as they look? Is there anyway to order them online or over the phone???

When you go below an x-rap, you have a noticeable dropoff in performance IMO. Both the x-raps and pointers are excellent jerkbaits. You can find them cheaper than $10 on ***.com. If around $7 is still more than you would like to spend, I would recommend trying rogues. Or, more ideally if you're one of the lucky SOBs that have an academy near buy I would go get some of their jerkbaits. From what I've seen and heard they're pretty sick for the price.

Bass-Brat: no I did not catch anything. I only fished them for maybe 15 minutes total. There was a pretty good spinnerbait bite on that day and I decided that I would rather catch fish and mess with the swimbaits later. I'm hitting my home lake next week so I'm going to use them extensively that day. Randall, I have the fast sink version, not the floater. It doesn't exactly look elegant flapping around in midair but I have not had any problems with distance, accuracy, or the line getting tangled in the hook during the cast. Also, you might be right about the sebile, the action is probably tighter than the spro, I was expecting a wide swimming motion.

I'm using the 110 with 14lb BPS fluoro and I was fishing open water so I wasn't getting any grass or debris on it.

Can't speak about the GL2 but I have a GL3 and its a nice enough rod but its definitely not a IMX. Sensitivity wise its about the same as my carrot stix which is both cheaper and lighter. Still, you gotta love the loomis warranty...

So I received these two lures from TW about a week ago and I got chance to try them out a little bit on saturday. I absolutely loved the action of the Spro BBZ shad, it has a great swimming action and I didn't have any of the casting problems that some other people mentioned. I think its going to be killer! I also tried out the Sebile Magic Swimmer and I wasn't that impressed. The action seemed lifeless and it had very little swimming motion. Did anybody else have this issue? I'm sure it will catch fish and I'm going to put in a lot more time with it before I decide one way or the other but so far I'm a little disappointed.

I would take #2. I've had several 30+ days but I haven't caught a bass over 8lb so #2 appeals to me more. Definitely wouldn't be disappointed with either scenario though!

I throw spinnerbaits in all kinds of conditions but overcast days with high winds are always good for spinnerbaits. I match my blade configuration, blade color, and skirt color based on the water clarity. My absolute favorite condition to fish spinnerbaits is during an overcast day with a moderate wind and pouring down rain. While everybody else is heading for the dock you can usually load the boat with a spinnerbait!

I am usually a LC pointer guy but there are times when x-raps will flat out crush bass. I'm a big fan of glass and also the traditional black/silver color. Caught 2 19" smallies along with some 15-17" in a period of about 5 minutes on x-raps about months ago. When they're on they're on! Also, I can't confirm this personally but I hear that the pink color is a smallmouth killer!

Lucky Craft LVRs and Strike King Redeye Shads

Pretty much exactly what Catt said

depends how much of it you drink

Fishing is definitely my main thing but guitar is a very close second. I honestly don't think I could live without either. I enjoy playing drums as well and I also spend a lot of time doing artwork and hunting. luke on g-borough, sounds like we have a good bit in common

X2 Great post! I have never seen anybody on this forum who uses high end baits berate somebody who doesn't. Its always the opposite, people who hate high end lures criticize those who use them when they haven't even tried them. I can never understand people who give their opinions about things they don't have any experience with. I guarantee that 95% of these people would have different opinions if they actually tried a high-end lure.

;D ;D ;D That's good stuff! The most unnerving flight I've been on was on the way back from france. I'm relatively certain that the pilot learned to fly in Vietnam so I understand the ladies comment about being shot down.

AMEN about the resins! But this also comes back to buyers not knowing what really goes into making a rod blank. You commented minimum of 9 guides on a 6'. What size rings? What type of guides? Is this with equidistant spacing? What kind of spacing for the butt guide? If you are using size 6 single foots... my take is that's 2 guides too many on a 6' rod. Micros, maybe, but I usually don't get into 9 micro guides until at least a 6'6" rod - mainly on 7' and longer. 7'6"+ usually take 10 micros. I believe adding extra guides is a negative. You're decreasing rod sensitivity any time you needlessly add weight, which includes too many guides. You are also altering the natural flex of the rod through the addition extra thread wraps and rod finish. The only benefit I could see in two extra guides is keeping the line more parallel when the rod is under load. On a 6' rod, 7 guides does a pretty good job of keeping the line on the right path - even under load. I'll also through this out... if through handle construction is so important (which I personally believe in), explain why the majority of high end japanese rods actually have handle kits and not through handle construction. Granted a lot of this is subject to personal opinion as finding quantitive data to prove this is difficult. I just know the results I get using what I mentioned. I have only been building rods for two years so I don't have anywhere near the experience level that some guys on here have but I agree with you completely, 9 guides is too many for a 6' rod. Adding unnecessary things to the blank is detrimental to sensitivity.

Where did you see about the sol. I looked on the BPS website under the fathers day sale but I didn't see it mentioned. I would definitely like to pick one up if they are on sale for that price.

They are sweet. I promise you won't be disappointed.

By far I think the best reel that can be had for that price is the new shimano curados. You can get them on ebay for about $150 even. I picked two up on ebay for 149.97 with free shipping. They're awesome reels and they meet your parameters. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

Between the 10 and 14lb I would go with the 14lb for both, however, if it were me I would probably use 17lb.

Okay, I'm going to try to explain this again because it seems like some people don't understand my point. I am not saying that cheap baits don't catch fish, I am not even saying that cheap baits don't catch a lot of fish. I'm also not telling anybody to spend beyond their budget. I am simply making the observation that some people spend $100 dollars on 20 lures in a 20 different colors, 15 of which will probably never see the water and they think they are saving money by buying cheaper lures. I'm am saying that it might be wiser to spend $100 on 6 or 7 lures in productive colors that you know you will actually use. I'm not telling anybody how to spend their money because its not my place and frankly I could care less what people do with their money. I am simply making an observation based on my experience with the people that I have met and fished with. Take it or leave it. I'm not trying to step on anybodies toes. Bass-Brat summed it up best, buy what works.

First of all, I'm not trying to criticize anybody for how much money the spend on lures and I'm not criticizing people for buying "cheap" lures. All I'm saying is that many times it might be a better use of your money if you buy 2 $15 lures that are high quality instead of buying 6 $5 lures that aren't as high quality. Secondly, I have put in a good bit of time fishing rogues before I started using LC and in my experience they do not produce as well as lucky crafts or x-raps. And if you haven't fished LC before how on earth would you possibly know that they don't produce any better than rogues?

There a few individual lures that I have that just flat outproduce other lures of the exact same brand, make, and model. For example, I have a lc pointer 78 in chartreuse shad that outfishes other pointers of the same size and color. That individual bait has a little bit different action that fish love and if I lost it, I would be very upset because I doubt I would find another one like it. However, the vast majority of the time I'm not phased by losing a lure, that is unless it had a big bass attached to it when I lost it...

Yeah, there is. Leaving the store with a basket full and NOT getting what you originally went in for. Which means a second trip back, and the vicious cycle begins again.... Thats the story of my life. I think I subconsciously don't get what I plan to on purpose so that I can be assured that I will have to make another trip back

There are always threads popping up about whether lures in the $15-20 range are worth the money. Many people say yes, they are indeed worth the money, while others say that they save money by buying cheaper $4-5 lures. Here's my observation: I have about three dozen lucky crafts in a few productive colors. As far as most of my fishing goes, that's all I need. Most guys who fish lucky craft (or another high dollar company) that I've met are similar.They have a few dozen lures in good colors that they know produce. However, a lot of guys who tell me that they "save money" by buying $4-5 lures have box after box filled with cheap lures in every color under the sun. Because of this, I have begun to think that a lot of people who buy cheaper lures spend just as much as those who buy more expensive lures, and instead of buying a few quality lures, they buy a larger quantity of cheaper lures and they really aren't saving money at all. Obviously this is not the case for everyone. Some people who fish expensive lures have cases full, and some people who buy cheaper lures have a more modest collection, however, I think a lot of the time this holds quality vs. quantity theory holds true. What do you guys think?