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I just got this rod in, but will not be able to use it for another week. I believe this rod will do what you want it to do as far as having a pretty stiff backbone. When you talk about Falcon rods being a MH, H, etc. you really need to pay attention to the power rating they give these rods. A MH rod can have a power rating of 5 or 6. H can be 6 or 7. I have the lowrider lizard dragger as well, but it's the 7 power one. It has plenty of backbone and more. I'm pretty sure you have the 6 power, that's why it feels maybe more like a MH. I can tell you that I mainly use a 3/4 oz weight on my lizard dragger, it doesn't feel anything like a MH rod. I got the amistad special mainly to throw 3/4-1 oz jigs a long way for the whole day. The head turner rod that I have does this but it does wear me down after awhile. I'm very confident that this rod will do what I want it to do.

Boise St. just went to the Mountain West. http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-mountainwest-boisestate

OU will end up in the Pac-10 with Texas, along with Texas Tech, Ok St, and A&M. Good chance the remaining teams from the Big 12 will eventually be picked up by the Mountain West.

x2. Go with 8 or 10 lb line. You're defeating the purpose if you use anything heavier. With Pline you don't have to worry about much of anything. The 10 lb is very strong. The 10# is very strong indeed beacause it is comparable in diameter to 14-15# in most other brands. Personally, I use 10# sufix for when I deep crank. That diameter would be equivalent to 8# Pline. The reason for this is that most of the time there isn't much to hang up in on the ledges. I'm also throwing a 7"10" All Star Crankin rod with a curado E5. The depth ranges from 8-25 ft. Now for where I crank that has a lot of stumps, stake beds, laydowns, etc. 10# Pline gets the vote. This water ranges from 3-12 ft. The diameter of 10# Pline was the same as 12# sufix and trilene xt. The only brand that I saw during the quick search that was the same diameter but higher was 14# Stren Orig. The point I'm trying to make is that in order to crank deep(8-25 ft) you need three things. A long rod, 8-10# line, and a low ratio reel. The line diameter of #10 Pline doesn't really make a difference since it's in the same class as 12# Sufix, which means both of those lines are sufficient for deep cranking. Now for cranking in the 3-12 ft range I would say that up to 12# Pline, or equivalent in diameter, would be fine. But the reason for throwing the 8-10# line is to get the crankbait digging as hard as it can. I wouldn't be against throwing 6# CXX for deep cranking.

x2. Go with 8 or 10 lb line. You're defeating the purpose if you use anything heavier. With Pline you don't have to worry about much of anything. The 10 lb is very strong.

Citica.

Academy has a Revo S/All Star platinum combo on sale this week for 139.99.

That's why Chuck would be in my boat. To roundhouse kick their *** to last week.

If you have any wood a spinnerbait will do wonders.

x2 Used it Sunday in a tournament on a 3 lb smallie and 4 lb lm. Would have used it on the other 3 but they were just keepers and we knew we were not in the money. Fun fishing, anything that looks over 3 on treble hook baits and anything that looks over 5 on single hook baits. I never swing anything over 3 in the boat. Either grab the line and pull them in or lip them in the water.

Just have to keep checking, usually a couple times each year.

That's what I have right now for deep cranks. It works very well. If you can wait till they go on sale it would be a better buy.

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x2 I'd throw dwight hottle's name in as well. It seems he has those brown fish figured out.

According to tyrius quote, yes. I also read it as you can catch them one place, and use them somewhere else as long as you follow the regs for that body of water.

Look at Raul's link, it gives you access to the GA fishing guide. On pg. 18 under hook and line it states you can use gamefish as bait, as long as you do not exceed daily creel/possession/size limits.

Nice fish, sorry the weather wouldn't cooperate. I fished big sandy saturday and we actually caught fish off of a paved road by the paris landing hotel.

I believe what speedbead said is what you will be faced with. They will be drawing the lake down but I would still expect it to be 2 or 3 ft. over summer pool. Also, if you see any buckbrush that is visible there's a good chance that some is in front and under the water that you can't see. You need to fish the open water in front of bushes as well, these will be in 5-8 ft of water.

CG has opened up the lake from pickwick to the 68 bridge in Kentucky. Everything else from the 68 bridge up to the dam is still closed as well as barkley.

http://lakeinfo.tva.gov/htbin/lakeinfo?site=PKH&DataType=All&submit=View+info If you click right above the numbers where it says observed, it will show you a graph of where they would normally have it and where it's at now.

I received a text from bassinsoldier monday morning. He had already caught his personal best smallmouth.

Ditto, the best bed time story I have read in a long time. ;D One of the greatest ever. ;D

Early 90's stratos w/ a 225. Bmadd what kind of lowe do you have? I have a 1756 roughneck and I'm on ky lake quite a bit.

If you sent a MO through the post office, which you probably did, you can file mail fraud. Just go to the post office website and it explains it all there.

Supposedly the guy that won the bfl saturday was fishing topwater. Now I don't know how accurate that is since the storm come through and it was pretty rough on barkley where I was at. He could have caught those fish before it came between 6 and 9. There is a good chance though, he said he caught them in big sandy.