247bassin

I am fairly new to this site, but in your situation I would do as many people have already recommended. I would use the cranks for the first few passes. After I caught everything I could with the cranks I would go back and fish it with a clean up bait. I would go with a chigger craw on a straight shank hook. I am cheap so the hooks I use are the BPS XPS hooks. I like the 4/0 for the chigger craws. This time of year, I would want something falling a little but slower, so I would go with a 1/4 oz. lead weight. I might even go back with a light jig and a twin tail grub trailer after I fished the chigger craw. I would say with the cranks producing, I would fish them and go to another spot, go back later and fish the texas rigged chigger craw after they have time to settle down. Good luck in the tournament and hopes this helps.

I bought one the other day and it is ok. It is smooth and casts great. I bought it for flipping and pitching baits into thick cover and wanted a high speed reel to drag them out of the cover. The only problem that I have with it is that the wheel does not spin easily when there is weight on the other end. The other problem is that you have to really turn the reel hard to get the reel to reel after casting. Once the casting button comes up it is smooth. All in all it is a great little reel. I am going to have it super tuned in a month or so to see if I can get everything smoothed out a little bit. I think that having to have one tuned a little bit when it is new is acceptable since the reel is so cheap to begin with. After I have it tuned and lubed it will have cost me about $80 and it will be as smooth as a $120 reel (in my opinion). Hopes that this helps. And yes, the wheel is a lot better to use than the Daiwa. The twitchin' bar is just awkward to use, the wheel is right where my thumb sits when I am fishing, so it works out great.

I guess that is what I am looking for. I am wanting to get some pinnacles tuned up and maybe a bearing upgrade. Does pinnacle have this or should I just get someone else to do it?

I love mine...it is about to get a makeover, but it is one of my favorites for sure. I will always have it with me when fishing.