candersen

So I bought a soft bait mouse early this afternoon...It is grey, has whiskers, a tail, and its weighted. I cast in and it looks really sexy, but couldn't get any interest. It was a tough day of fishing anyway, but any ideas on how I should work this mouse? I can reel it back in slowly and it looks delicious, or I can reel-pause-reel like a worm. What do you think is gonna work for using such an apparatus?

So I heard through the grapevine that bass will eat mice. Are mice a delicacy- will bass devour them? If so, do they make a mouse bait...or is a live mouse the only option...

sweet one...need to go up to 10 lbs. any ideas for brands?

I hooked a school bus size largemouth down on the river bank earlier this evening and I wish I had a way to measure its weight. What kind of devices are handy to bring out to the water to measure lbs.?

too heavy line + the wrong rod

...went to the feed and seed this morning, got me a 6' medium casting rod and some 6 lbs. test line. My casts are like butter. I had a blast this morning reeling in huge smallmouths. They just love these joe's flies spinners. Thank you all for your help!

thank you all for your input...im getting some good ideas keep them coming!

I need some equipment setup ideas so that i can send a size 8 Joe's fly spinner with a couple of split shot weights at least 30-40 ft from the shore. My reel/rod combination currently will only send it a mere 15 feet. I need more distance to get to the middle of the river. More weights added onto the line result in the spinner catching the bottom of the river. Will a proper line/reel/rod setup work better? Any ideas? My current setup: 6'6" berkeley cherrywood rod (the eyes are small in diameter) - shimano tx2000 fa spinning reel - 10lb test line - joe's flies - split shot weights

question: what is a good rod/reel combination that will send a spinner a good 40ft from the shore?