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Worming, jigging, pitching, flipping, topwater. In some cases buzzbaiting, lipless crankbaiting. Whenever you need to pick up slack line in an eye blink or when you need to burn the water. I see. So does that mean you basically only use regular speed bait reels for crankbaits and spinnerbaits?. Sorry about the annoying questions. Just trying to get a handle on the best way to go about things for future rod/reel options.

I use a small concrete block and have it in a bucket when it's not in the water.

What application do y'all want these high speed reels for?

yep, I got skunked today too, and that after hauling I disagree through the nastiest overgrown jungle of bamboo and bramble to get to my best performing pond. And then the rain came ||||||| :-/ |||||| keep your chin up son.

thanks for that info Catt. Very interesting :-?

I think having a good reel is more important. With poor-average quality reels the frustration can be very immediate and very real. With rods you'll only know about it when you actually start using a good quality rod.

Bassday - Range Vib (better known as a seabass bait here in Japan) and Rapala - Rattlin Rapala

Hi there, haven't been around these parts for a while. Yep two 50cm+ bass accidentally slipped out of my hands today. And then later when I bragged about catching a few nice fish I got hassled by an old guy for releasing the fish!! The sick thing is the ponds I fish at are used for irrigating rice fields, no one gives a toss about looking after it as an environment for native fish. If there was some kind of plan in place, like 'eradicate bass in these ponds and allow sport fishing in these ponds etc' then I'd be happy enough, but I guess it's easier for people to just blame bass than to actually do something positive.

1 Pink Pickerel 2 Blushing Berry 3 Red Rover

2, this one and http://www.fishing.net.nz/asp_forums/ to keep up-to-date with what's going on back home (sorry, no bass tips there).

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I'm guessing some of you folks have a barometer on your depth/fish finder in your boat. Do any of you have this feature on your watch? Do you use it? is it acurate? I'm getting a new watch and trying to decide if I should spring for the one with the barometer, altimeter, thermometer, etc.

I use it from the shore quite alot with good success. I just tie a wee knot at the end of my line (flouro) and put a split shot above it. That way I can easily adjust the weight to different size plastics, different retieve rates etc. Basically any plastics can be used but my personal favorite is the small kut tail.

Yep, I like the grub trailer. I use it on a jig head spinnerbait. Works especially well at night