Darren.
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Everything posted by Darren.
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Good luck. Heavy jigs into the wind, otherwise cast with the wind at your back if you can. Use it to your advantage as best as you are able .
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Welcome aboard!
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Welcome aboard! Some beautiful pics of the river!
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Geez Louise! What a hawg!! Congrats all around!
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Native Ultimate 12 (2008 model) Pic below of older motorized setup. Better setup now, but don't have current pic. Pros: Massively customizable Stability, esp. secondary stability Ability to stand and fish Bare boat only 55-57#, easy to load Hybrid between kayak/canoe Easy to paddle Easy to outfit with trolling motor setup Cons: No scupper holes (minor issue to me) Umm, can't think of much else
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I use the uni-to-uni with braid to fluoro with no problems at all. Usually 5 loops for each, unless I'm using a fluoro in the 6# range, then I'll use 5-7 loops. But I also use the Alberto/Mod'd Albright. Used to use it exclusively, but went back to the double uni years ago as my main line-to-leader knot for it's simplicity. Granted both are "simple", double-uni is simpler for me when on the water. Mostly.
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Yup. Well, just the rod, since it was a 10' long pole with a line attached. One of my sons wasn't paying attention and it was pulled right out of his hands and across the pond. When retrieved it had a 2 pound bass attached!!
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Welcome aboard, Marcus!
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Shi-Diawa-mo
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Wacky- often weightless, but if the wind is up, that can make it difficult to get the bait down due to waves and wind bowing your line, etc. In that case, I go with a weighted wacky jig, or I'll put a bull-shot on the line somewhere to pull it down. T-Rig- again, wind often dictates to me whether weight or no weight. T-rig does pull thru vegetation better, but wacky is effective there, as well. Sometimes I change to a T-Rig just to give the fish a different look. If I want to fish deep, gotta have a weight.
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No can help, but as it's your first post, welcome aboard!
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Welcome aboard, Scott!
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Welcome aboard! Is there a reason you wouldn't simply use a leader and put braid as your mainline? Line management would be much better than 10# anything on a spinning reel for bass fishing (IMO). I've put 10# copoly on spinning reels and it can coil off like a spring - even with line & lure conditioner. Another benefit of braid + leader is you can vary the leader to any pound test for many techniques. Just curious...
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Welcome aboard, @Julian! To the OP, I have only handled the new CLs in-store, but I do own 4 previous versions (2 black, 2 white) and they are great rods. The rods you mention would be great for frogging. Based on specs it appears the only real changes beside color are Winn grips and new guides.
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Welcome aboard, Mike! Nice hawg!
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Fantastic outing! And congrats!
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Great point. In my bag of "mention next time" items. There are two excellent knots I use, the uni-to-uni, and the Alberto (aka Modified Albright). There are excellent tutorials for both, googling will bring them up quickly.
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Does. Not. Compute.....
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The moderators try to keep track of all that is sold, and will delete sold threads. Meaning what's still there is likely still available. You just have to reply to the thread starter and see what's up. I'm assuming you bought the spinning combo? It has a M (medium) power rod, which is kind of the avg for bass fishing, i.e., it covers a wide swath of techniques. You can use it for wacky rig, ned rig, Texas rig, cranks, spinnerbaits, and so forth. But like @scaleface said, you want to make sure the lure rating is within the rating on the rod. Usually that info is just above the handle.
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Oh please, you MUST enlighten us now!
