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Take a look at the attached schematic. It looks like item 65 (collar E) for the 2000HA. It goes over the black cut collar in the pic above #67(Collar F) which is on your thumb screw. Daiwa exceller.pdf

I have been using Roto-metals for several years now, top notch service and excellent pure clean lead. I believe if you order a certain weight you even get free shipping. The nice thing about Roto-metals, is you know what you are getting. Buying lead on e-bay can be a crap-shoot and if you get bad lead, you have to deal with shipping and returning it. Smalljaw67 buys lead from Roto-Metals as well and I'm sure he will post his take on them.

If you took the clutch assembly apart, I think it is the spacing sleeve..

About six months ago BPS was discontinuing their Revo MGX baitcasting reels, and I bought three brand new ones for $174 each. I really love these reels. I have an opportunity to buy a few more used Revo MGX reels for a good price, however, I see the new version of the Revo MGX-2. With that said any of you guys have the Revo MGX and the Revo MGX-2. Is there any difference in quality? I do know that the original MGX had a flat black finish and the MGX-2 has a glossy finish, other than that are they just as good, worse or any other input you guys can give me? Thanks in advance.

My wife and I went to Lake Beulah on the 4th of July. I had a really slow day on the water , but my wife did really well. She got 6 fish with the three biggest being 15-1/2, 16 and 18" The 18" was almost 3 lbs. She caught them all on my custom made underspin. I am really proud of her fishing skills she has developed over the years. Job well done. Whatever she did that day, she did well and out fished me. She's been kicking my butt fishing this year. Plan on going to Little Muskego on Saturday. I'll post results next Sunday.

I fished a new lake this past 4th of July weekend. Lauderdale lakes in S.E. Wisconsin. Went out there with my buddy and got there around 6 a.m. I started fishing and underspin and he started with a top water. Right out of the launch I picked up a small bass. In the next 2 hours we picked up 20 bass and 6 pike. The biggest bass was 14". Next the inevitable happened, my buddy hooked me with a treble hook which went through my hat and then into my scalp behind the ear. My buddy couldn't push the hook through to cut the barb so we ended up going to emergency to a hospital in in Lake Delavan. Anyway, 2 hours later and a tetanus shot we were back at Lauderdale Lakes. When we got back we fished for 5 more hours and picked up 3 more pike and 6 more bass the fishing really slowed towards noon. All in all it was a good day fishing. I guess if you want to take someone out to learn how to bass fish this is a good lake as it has tons of bass everywhere. The only drawback was all the bass were small a lot of 12-13" bass. I would like to try this lake in early Spring, and I will try it in late fall this year when the lake empties from boat traffic. I was also out at Lake Beulah as well and will post some pics later.

Like mentioned above, hose hooks are not meant for wacky rigging. I would use a hook that is more of a circular profile something like below.

NetBait Paca Chunk or Craw.

I use them for spinnerbaits and they are great. I feel that they are too stiff on jigs for my liking.

Are you referring to the Silver Lake in S.E WI off of 50 and Hwy "B"?

Went out to Beulah Lake yesterday, 2nd time out there this year and yet another windy day. My wife caught the biggest for the day a 17". She also got 4 more around 14". She started to fish an underspin this year and has had good results. I got two bass just over 16" and 6 more under 15" all on jigs.

I inflate my trailer tires to the max pressure on the sidewall for over 20 years and never had any issue.

I have been fishing, 3/8 mainly and if it gets really windy, I go to 1/2 oz. to keep the bait lower in the water column.

I have a 2007 Terrova on a 20 foot boat, with Walmart batteries, and so far I am very happy with the batteries. The batteries are on their 3rd year and so far both batteries are holding up. JMO

It seems that every now and again, someone will have a problem with a name brand. Several years ago I bought (3) Revo Premier Gen 1 reels. I love those reels, still have them to this day. Last year I bought (4) Daiwa Tatulas Type R reels. I've used 1 of the 4 and it wasn't what I thought was a great reel. In February I bought (3) Revo MGX reels at half off from BPS. I have been using them regularly and I love my MGX reels. I have heard so much negative talk about the MGX reels and how cheap they feel, however I do not have any complaints about them. They are very lightweight and are very easy to cast. All in all every manufacturer will at some point have a problem with their reels even their flagship reels. So, If it were me, and you love the reel get it fixed or replaced and use it. If you still don't like it go on to a different brand.

I started fishing those as well this year to see what all the fuss was about. I am a die hard jig guy and I fish a mix of jigs 90% of the time. Well my wife and I were out in the beginning of April, and the water was below 55 to 58 degrees. We were both fishing jigs and I was not doing well on my jig, so I tied the only underspin I had in the boat on my wife's rod. A couple casts later she started picking up fish. I thought wow that was interesting , I would have never thought that this would work. She got 3 fish that day the biggest being 2 lbs, but I was really surprised. We've been out several times since and have not gotten any on the underspin, but I will keep trying to see if this is something that has potential. I fish mine with a Berkley Havoc.

I have (3) Revo Gen 1 Premiers, love them the best. After a good cleaning love them even more.

I put naphtha in a small jar and put it in my ultrasonic cleaner. Cleans the bearing very well without any residue. Once the bearings are dry (I wait about 1/2 hour, as naphtha flashes off quickly), I put on my favorite oil and I'm good to go. There are a lot of ways to clean bearings, find the one that works for you.

I sometimes use the weighted wacky jigs, but I like the weighted wacky hooks better for skipping under docks and they come in 4 sizes.

I use a custom made weighted wacky hook.

All jigs can be made out of bismuth which is non-lead and a substitute for lead jigs. Although bismuth is not cheap, it is still cheaper than tungsten. Just some more info for guys in Massachusetts.

Contact Smalljaw67 on this forum , I'm sure he can help you out. He does some great ties.

There is no visual way of knowing if the jigs are baked long enough, short of taking them to a lab for hardness testing. With that said any of the methods and times of baking are fine as mentioned above. Like Dave A mentioned you can bake jigs for 30 hours and they would still be fine. The reason times are given is those are recommended minimum times, for the powder molecules to cross link and harden. Yes you can take jigs that have cooled and bake them again with no harm to the paint . I do that many times when I want to add 3 or 4 colors.

There are a lot of items to use to use as mentioned above to keep the hole open in your mold. Finishing nails will work as well. The thing would be is to try to find one that has as close as a diameter to the weedguard hole in the mold. If you find a size, naturally use the painted end, however I would cut or grind the points flat so you can get the nail as far in the cavity as possible. if the nail has a tendency to fall out when you turn the mold over to pour, take some tape and wrap it around the shank of the nail, the part that sits in the mold cavity. that will tighten it up. And like mentioned above, you can leave the nail in the jig head and paint the head, however I would take the nail out as soon as you paint the jig, because the paint will stick to the nail and when you pull it out later it will chip around the hole.

I have the same mold, and what you can do is stick in a (.081) drill bit (shank first) into the spot where the weedguard is supposed to go, put your hook in, close the mold and pour your jig. If the mold doesn't close, go down a bit on the drill size. You want the drill bit to fit snug, so it doesn't fall out when you turn the mold over. Take the drill bit out of the jig and repeat the process on the remainder you need to pour. Once you are all done paint your jigs, and then glue in the smaller weedguard into the weeedguard hole. The 1/8 oz head was not made for the FG-30 weedguard. It was meant for a smaller weeedguard. If you want a bigger weedguard to glue in later, then drill out the existing weedguard hole to the size you want. You have a PM