Bass Junkie

Damiki MTB is my personal favorite. Quality components, hand tied skirt, great overall design, and good durability.

Most bass nation wide? 5" Texas-rigged soft stickbait.

20lb Sunline Supernatural. Great strength to diameter ratio (0.015", or the same diameter as 14lb. Suffix Elite), the right amount of stretch, and handles well.

LC RC 1.5DRS

Try the old Renegade lure series from Wal-Mart.

Lucky Craft RC 1.5DRS

If you don't plan on buying one, that's perfectly fine. It's the beauty of Capitalism. But there's no reason to bash a product that you've had absolutely no experience with and no intention of buying. Remember, on the other end of that product is a guy that's making his best run of living his dream. If you don't wish to support that, it's your choice, but to criticize a product and say that the owner neeeds physically attacked for the price displays a distinct lack of class.

For the $20 price point check out the Jimmy Houston series.

Looks like you've got a great system going, thanks for sharing!

7'2" MH Quantum Tour Edition Shaw Grigsby rod 2nd Gen. Abu Revo Premier 20lb Sunline Supernatural Mono 1/2oz. Persuader Lures Jay Yelas spinnerbait 3lb Female on a typical pre-spawn location. Next cast was another 3lb female.

I've used them as swim jig trailers, and they were solid but not stand-out. I actually had decent success throwing them on a belly-weighted Mustad Impact hook. Biggest surprise was the size of fish I caught on it, up to 5 1/2lbs. Overall for the price they're definitely worth picking up.

Pano 3771's for all hardbaits, with regular 3700 boxes taking care of pretty much everything else.

Squarebill: Lucky Craft RC1.5DRS Lipless: XCalibur XrK50 Jerkbait: Lucky Craft Pointer 100SP Lucky Craft Live Pointer 95MR Topwater: Lucky Craft Sammy 85 or 100

Damiki Slim Jack

Another approach would be to check out a swim jig along the lines of the CLU Zero Gravity jig, which has a reduced rate of fall. Add a heavier, salty trailer such as the GYCB grub and have at it!

If you're not trying to be, don't be. Pretty simple. This thread is for tackle enthusiasts who love their equipment to display it. Nothing more, nothing less. And I'll take that bet on the $30 vs $300 setup any day of the week.

Heavier wire is the only difference you'll notice.

Kershaw 1840CKT. Rule #9 definitely applies, especially in fishing!

Awesome!

Local Dick's Sporting Goods has a couple of the jerkbaits and cranks in, a couple different colors in each. I'll be buying some at some point.

1. Megabass Pony Gabot frog. If they were more durable or less expensive, this would be one of the only frogs I'd throw. It truly is outstanding, and gets bit when other frogs, including the Spro Bronzeye, don't. 2. Spro Bronzeye, both sizes. A massive selection of colors, most of which are great, and some of the better and more durable terminal tackle I've found. Hookup ratios and action are great, and they cast and skip really well. 3. Booyah Pad Crasher. In my opinion about the same level of quality as the Live Targets at a much better price. 4. Spro Bronzeye Poppin' Frog. Action, hookup ratio, castability, color selection... All the advantages of the original Bronzeyes, but with a different profile and sound. The only downsides are the reduction in weedlessness and a tendency to rip out at the mouth. 5. Spro Bronzeye Big Daddy. Definitely a unique frog, that does everything it's supposed to do correctly. All the positive traits of the other Spros, but with a much larger profile and more of a walking action straight from the package.

Just a rudimentary list, but my starting lineup looks something like this: 1. Suspending jerkbait, either a Lucky Craft Live Pointer 95MR or Pointer 100SP 2. Bluegill flavored swim jig 3. Squarebill Crank, probably a LC RC1.5 4. Lipless Crank, either a Rapala Rippin' Rap or Sebile Flat Shad 5. Zoom Fluke I will have deeper running jerkbaits and cranks on hand for early season, maybe a spinnerbait as well.

The Tatula rods are fairly easy to find, even in my neck of the woods. I know at least one local shop has them, I handled them and was impressed. I had the opportunity to try out the casting drop shot model and.the sensitivity was.very.impressive, even with mono. One doesn't have to be very creative to find the rods online...

So? It makes the reel smoother, which is the marketed purpose. It takes the reel from a connected Daiwa feel to more of a floating Shimano feel. I personally despise that move, but it is successful in completing it's intended purpose.

1/136 oz