Shane J

The BOCA Orange spool bearings are $28 a piece, and there are two of them in the Fuego. The Carbontex drag upgrade is only about $20.

Thank you so much, Russ! Your reel is awesome, and it's actually what pushed me over the edge in doing mine. I'm doing everything you did, except the spool for right now. Very big help there, and much appreciated.

Thanks, and I definitely will! I love my fuego, too, and can't wait to get her back all done up.

Where's the best place to buy an upgrade handle and drag star for a Daiwa Fuego? I'm looking to do a 4 bearing swept handle for it, and the guy doing the supertuning and drag upgrade says he will be looking for my handle this weekend, but I want to see what's out there. Thanks for the help.

I've found this the best way to use the Rooster. Just swim it like a swim jig, or slow roll it along the bottom, or over the top of grass. Has a very sexy fall with this type of weighted hook.

Everything's easier with the correct equipment.

Now we're talkin'!

I don't know, but a white swim jig always seems to work, no matter if it's clear, cloudy, light, dark, etc.

None of those for the biggest fish. The biggest will be below, so a Carolina rigged soft plastic. I hear a fluke is money for this, but I still stick with a craw worm or lizard.

Great reels for the money.

Sure. Definitely try one.

Alright, I'll give you a call. Gotta get by the national guard (wifey)!

When you're ready!

Yeah, they'll catch you fish, but no, they are not the best plastics company.

You might wanna try a keel weighted Rage Craw, and work inside and outside weedlines for lurking lunkers. Sometimes the big girls are sluggish, and the slow horizontal fall of that rig is a good way to get them.

UNH, definitely bring the Tracker. I bring my bass boat in there, it just takes some skill backing a trailer down, but you'll be fine with your truck. Also, you'll wanna cover lots of water, so the bigger boat is much better to use there. Go to the other side of the 89 bridge (Big Turkey Pond side), and hit all in between the small patches of islands, and through the channel going toward the bridge. Good luck, and you might actually see me out there today, too!

Yeah, buddy! Turkey is a good place to fish, except one thing. The launch sucks hard!, and parking is tough at best on a weekend day, but not bad during the week. Huge pond, way bigger than most think, and it holds plenty of fish, including some big ole bass, and absolute monster pickerel.

C rig and weightless topwater for the Eeliminator, and keel weighted hook for the Rooster. Using a swimbait hook for the Eel kills the side to side action.

Well, I'm no help, because the three you listed are the only ones I use now, but I used to have a Pfleuger President XT that was fine, and I have a friend that loves his KVD Quantum Tour baitcaster.

If you're talking about Glen Lake in Goffstown, it's tough from my experience, but there are some descent smallies there.

Unless you're suicidal, do not bring a small boat like that into the Potomac, unless you wanna stay in a back, protective cove and not move. That place changes on an instant, and will destroy you.

Hey, how'd you get in my garage?

Welcome, Triple D! Glad to have ya. Why don't you come on to our outing we are having on the 27th at Massesecum Lake in Bradford? You'll get to meet some of the gang here, and have a great day fishing all in one! Hope you can make it.

Very cool. Sounds like an awesome trip!

Yeah, no kiddin'. We still doin' this?