kikstand454

u could buy a q-beam. thatll light up anything. lol. or... if your feeling sneaky, u can get some reflective paint and outline the ramp. then your back up lights will work fine.

if you change baits on the water, or when your headed back home on the boat ride or the car ride, take the lures and hooks that you used in saltwater that day and toss them into the melted ice in the bottom of your cooler. tada!!! clean as a whistle.

i have found that the pink bubblgum color works well for me in dark/silty flowing rivers. havent had a lot of luck with it elsewhere.

well i dont have specific news on bass.... but many times ive been hunting redfish up a river or spring creek and caught bass instead. i typicaly throw them like a fluke really. past the cover then reel reel twitch twitch twitch...etc. occasionally let it pause and flutter next to that current break or isolated stump. around oysterbars and creekmouths a spoon is just bordering on cheating for reds. but like ive said, ive caught many a 2lb lmb on them too by 'accident'

that link must be to the new ones. mine is nothing like those!!! mines this--- http://stores.channeladvisor.com/harleerod/items/item.aspx?itemid=6883 hahaha .i have a left handed diawa 100h and i love it. it is my bottom reel. its nice and strong and easy to cast. and easy to maintain too. you may be able to find one... i got mine at bps. but you can get an accurist pretty cheap nowadays since quantum is replacing them. id get one of those. mine is amazing and i wish i had got one sooner. i got the pts saltwater one and it retails for 149 and i got it for under 90 bucks! just gotta look around.

if you take youor time and do it carefully, you can clean and grease your main gear in your accurist by unscrewing your spool tension knob off and carefully using a toothpick and a brush to apply. this is super tedious though and ive decided to just let someone do it from now on. my diawa was easier to get apart... but a complete pita to put back together. so ive stopped that. i basically just oil mine now and sometime mid spring when hes less busy, let a guy do the yearly maitanence.

you can get a peice of 4" pvc or maybe 6" and slice a ring off about 4" wide. then cut that in half. notch on side deep enough to secure a rod and then drrill a hole through the other for the rods handle to sit in. small hole in the bottom of it for a wing bolt or toggle or whatever... and there you go...pretty kewl rod holder. if you make the mounting hole more of a slot.... you can adjust the angle on the fly. let me find a picture.... alight i cant find one. ;D i know it works though... ive seen it... and ace hardware down here sold them for a bit...

SWEET~! imma have to do the same. let us know how they work.

im just going to jump in and say i like quantums just fine and have never had the first smidgin of problem with any of them. the ones i have (baitcasters anyway) were between 100 and 150 bucks and i got them on sale below 100. my quantum spinning reel is marvelous and it has caught more than its fair share of bass ,redfish and sharks. and its three years old now. bash quantum all you want. more for me. and also for the record, in the store... the new citica felt smoother and nicer than the new curado. there. i said it. 8-)

both. i have always cast spinning with my right hand and reel with my left. when i got my first bc... i figured itd be more comfortable and sensable to stay that way. so i got a lh bc. i have now regulated the left hand reel to fishing plastics and bottom rigs and rh ones for retrieving lures. the thought process behind this being i have the reel already in my hand and ready to be engaged if a get a bite on the fall. not as important (to me) for spinnerbaits or cranks.

"You can substitute regular hybrid for baling wire, the ultra soft is more like leader wire. " hahhaha... i like it better than big game. hybrid does it all for me.

http://www.nextag.com/549199699p/prices-html?nxtg=303b0a240516-556095F5E1ADB8B5 thats my opinion of that problem. and you can get them cheaper than 55bucks if you look around.

YEAH what he said. ;D id also like to endorse yo zuri. i love it and it is by far my line of choice now.... all i have to do now is find some kvd spray.....

yeah i can go all year fishing saltwater with the same spool of braid. at least 6mos. power pro. its the best. i personally use yo zuri hybrid on everything i own now with the exception of the accurrist pts i got a few weeks back that was strung with pline cxx. i do not like it and will be replacing it with yozuri as soon as i feel im not wasting good line. it handles odd and has the memory of a female elephant. its strong though. gotta give it that.

hot sauce is good on the quantums it comes on. as im sure youre about to read, alot of people dont like it at all on other reels. :

yes i can see why you would think what i said was retarded. lol. it was a bit oxymoronic. maybe this will explain what i meant better. http://www.bassresource.com/fish/flip&pitch.html thats the diffence i think i was refering to.

welcome aboard! id get 6'6 mediumheavy fast tip for most everyything cept, 7ft if you want a dedicated topwater (though i jut use my crig rod @ 7'6") and a glass rod if you want to throw cranks. i have found for myself anyway that a 6'6 mh rod with a tiny bit of give at the top works great with most stuff. its a great all around rod imho.

pigsticker, i think you are mistaking flipping for pitching. pitching is for distance, like a short horizantal cast under a dock. flipping tends to be closer to the boat and vertical like hitting isolated holes in matted vegetation. or maybe im an idiot. thats totally possible.

dont forget the black cavitron buzzbait. and if your catchin them on nightcrawlers, try a senko or a big 10 in. worm. ooo ooo and a paddle tail worm will do well too!!!!

that sux. love my diawa tho.... i cant imagine going out without my 100h. its awesome. :-/

hey. i have the exact set up you want. i use it constantly for what youre talking about doing. i have a 6'6" medium uglystick intercoastal graphite (blue wrap) with a "40" series quantum incyte reel. it is perfect in every way for what i use it for which is everything. lol. it has enough give to make catching slot trout fun and yet enough backbone to easily tame slot reds like the one in my avatar. the reel is around two years old and is as smooth as the day i bought it. the drag is smooth, the casting is effortless. 11 bearings and a spare spool, for $40 bucks or so. i use one spool for salt (20lb powerpro braid) and one for bassin' (8lb yozuri hybrid) and i fish probably and average of 6 to 8 days a month year around. the rod is indestructable as you know and has spent the last 5 years with me riding in the back of trucks and the bottom of canoes and gheenoes and still landed a 3ft. bonnethead shark last weekend. trust me when i tell you its all you need for under a hundred dollars.

hey NBR, does your buddy want to get rid of that quantum and ugly stick??!! ;D

might buy me an extreme this winter. take it out redfishing. i dont have to worry about seasons here. yay! good testimony hawgchaser. and really nice red! 8-)

L - O - V - E the sweet beaver. just awsome everywhere. and paca craw or the like near rocks, docks and bridges. bascally like craws on my football heads annd sometimes punchin grass.. beaver on everything else.

im used to fishing gin clear water in deep spring quarries and spring rivers etc. and what i used to use alot over top of the muck was an 1/8 oz. beetle spin in black w/green stripes and various 1/8 to 1/4 oz swimming jig heads with grubs on them. darker grubs and any sort of green or brown killed. these baits will destroy bass in the 1 to 3lb range and quite honestly my PB largemouth was on a 1/8oz beetlespin at roughly 10lbs. also good is the original rapala 2 and 3 in. floating minnows. i used to fish for only small bass for a long time. trust me on this. lol. most anything that is marketed for crappie will catch small bass and will stay above your hydrilla rather easily. tight lines.