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Just wondering if anyone has used any of these lately? For the price I'm thinking of switching to their braid just to see if it's any better or worse than my old standby Power Pro. Not that I'm not happy with Power Pro but I'm a tinkerer and have a bad habit of switching stuff around just to see what happens.

If I'm on the lake who cares not me. If someone is bored enough to be filming me fishing I kinda pity them cause I'm the most boring person in the world according to my 12 yr old. On the other hand if it's flying over my house (I live out in the sticks btw) it's going to suffer impact damage.

The one that catches fish ?. In all seriousness there is no one magic bait. I use the zoom lizard a lot but just as an example about 3 weeks ago I was throwing the lizard and caught 3-4 decent fish then they just seemed to shut off. Tried a craw then a centipede nothing tied on a 6" watermelon worm and got 3 more before I went to throwing other stuff (cranks spinners and such) . During the whole program I never moved the boat more than about 6 feet so I guess what this long winded rambling post is trying to say is you kinda have to experiment and find out what their looking for.

Me personally as long as I'm catching something I'm happy. Just put them back and keep on fishing. Most people get to focused on catching the biggest fish in the lake and fail to enjoy fishing as a whole.

I had a 1999 Dodge Durango 4X4 with the 318 I used to tow my 22' cabin boat wit never a problem even towing from Central Florida to Key West at Interstate speeds. It's is basically a half ton truck but you have massive storage capacity with the seats down.

That's a 12 lber if I ever saw one ? That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I just keep a small pair of sharp scissors in my tackle box. Haven't found anything that works better.

I'm not a professional welder but I do know how to weld (disclaimer). I would have to say yes you have it cleared enough but any decent welder will charge a bit more for having to grind that gorilla patch off the bottom but at least when their finished you should have a simple seam inside and out and not that huge rough patch on the outside unless the hole is wider than appears in the pictures.

West Lake Toho in Kissimmee. Not sure it's the best but that's how they advertise and I do well on it usually. ?

I haven't broken double digits yet but I've gotten within ounces on several occasions. Of course I live within about 4 miles of a boat ramp on the "Best bass fishing lake in Florida". But anyway statistics aside the law of averages reigns if you fish long and often enough you're bound to get a big'un in the boat eventually.

Hello all. Been away for a while checking in but not posting ya know kids work life happens sort of stuff but anyway I'm back. Looking for some new equipment and I've narrowed my selection. What I'm looking at is a cranking rod,mostly for lipless rat-l-traps and such,and I was hoping some of y'all could give some opinions on the two. I'm looking at the Elite tech 7'2" mh mod and the Fury 705cb is the Fenwick worth the extra $40 is the Fury good enough? None of my local shops has either so I'm buying sight unseen so any insight I can get is immensely appreciated. Thanks in advance for any opinions-advice-insights you can give me.

I'm in Central Fl. and been having real good luck with spinners dark color w/large colorado blades in gold and either gold or silver w/ blue or black lipless cranks. Hope this helps.

Just never used a frog with a spinnerbait skirt for legs. Maybe I'll try to glue it and see if that works.

They usually get lockjaw about the same time I'm making my first cast of the day. Seems to last about the length of my trip ;D :

I've recently started throwing frogs,probably 8 or 9 months. I have been using and liking the Snag Proof casting frog but I've noticed that after a few casts it fills with water and starts sinking. Does anyone know how to prevent this or a similar frog that does'nt have this issue or did I maybe just get a bum frog? For info's sake I really like this frog as it very strongly resembles the approx. size and color of most of the real frogs we have here and the bass almost can't leave it alone.