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You don't have to eat up a bunch of your leader on each knot. Pull your palomar from the main line and not the tag end. Just when you pass your bait through the loop don't tighten down the loop around the eye. Wet your line and make sure your loop is not twisted and you should be able to pull the slack out from your main line with no burn or any thing if you did it right. I would say i loose maybe about a inch of line tops with each palomar.

So I was throwing a 1/2 oz Red Eye Shad on a spinning rod at a place I had never fished before. I had made about half a dozen casts then all of a sudden BOOM! My drag starts roaring like I never heard before on that reel. I never set a hook or anything and my line was off. Turns out I must of ran into a carp and when it took off it hooked it self I guess. It wasn't all that big for a carp maybe 10-12# or so but giant for a bass in my neck of the woods. It was fairly exciting while my drag was going not knowing what it was.

I use Izorline Platinum now instead of Yo-Zuri. I like it better and it costs less then half the price. It is top notch and I never used and conditioner on it except when i first spool the reel.

I am just wondering what everyone uses to flush out there bearings? I imagine you could really use just about anything like mineral spirits gasoline alcohol or even nail polish remover. Is there something that works best or do you just use whatever you have on hand?

Yet again I will say Fenwick Elite Tech Smallmouth. Someone was just asking this and I recommended it. They said they ended up going with that rod. It is as good of a rod as you could need really. They are amazing rods.

You can always get a braid backlash out and the line is still good. I wouldn't say it's harder to get out cause you can pull on the loops and not worry about getting kinks in your line. I have never met a backlash I couldn't get out.

Just because they are aluminum guides with no insert doesn't make it bad and is not the issue. Some higher end rods come with simar guides with no insert. I have a GLX flipping stick with titanium spring guides. That is a very expensive rod and has strictly metal guides. The deal with that rod though is you can't bend or break the guides. I have stepped on it multiple times while on the deck and they snap back in place. I suppose you could jump up and down on them and nothing would happen but I don't plan on trying that any time soon.

The speed spool is a good real but I would look for a reel with centrifugal breaking. If you are new to using a casting reel it might be a challenge to learn. You will be forced to probably use a good amount on spool tension and casting will be greatly diminished because of it.

Was just a bad knot. My leaders always go through the guides with no issue. They just make a little click click as it hits the guides but they don't diminish casting. Are you sure it hung up on the eye and broke? Or is it possible the bail flipped over and that caused your line to break from shock?

Shore lunch for things like perch and stuff

Basically any forward cast I do like a roll cast is 2 handed. My backhand cast are 1 handed. Generally those are little pitches or high velocity skips under stuff.

My hand just automatically does that with fishing bottom baits and sometimes I do it with slow moving baits like a swimbait or swimjig. Sometimes you are looking for the smallest tick and for me it is like having multiple ways of verification.

Well a body of water can only hold so much biomass. If it was near or at max levels and ten you add say 500lbs of carp that's 500lbs less of other species it can hold. You would be best to direct you inquires at thepondboss. I believe it is somewhat of a sister site to this one and those guys can help you out. On a side note if no one fished there and you caught a tons of fish at first eventually it becomes harder and harder. I would venture to say a small high pressured pond can be harder then a large high pressure lake to catch fish. If only for the fact that if it is heavily fished you can literally say every fish in the pond has seen your lure. People say that fish in lake get conditioned to lures but in a 1000 acre I would say some do but... I find it very hard to believe that every fish has seen these lures.

I agree with the siege. It has some memory but that's is expected. I don't know what the breaking point is but it's way higher then it rated. It is really tuff line.

That's usually how I get down with it. For me it is SUPER deadly when it's the dead of summer and bites get tuff. It always seem to produce some fish and good ones at that.

I agree with RW on the 15# yozuri for leaders. I use either that or izorline for leaders. They are pretty much the same line and work equally as good for me. As a bonus a spool of izorline is really cheap. It's like $8 for 300 yards of top notch line. I think once yozuri cost about the same but now the price has gone up.

It's is the newest line they have out currently if you we're meaning it was like last years model. I got to use it for a bit today and its not a bad rod at all. It for sure isn't a LDC rod and that is what I picked back up and used but it should make a pretty good backup rod.

Yes sir

Thanks and keep chucking!!!!

I would think for some reason the line your using for a leader is bad. In theory it should break at the knot I think. Maybe your line got compromised from wrapping on something and it weakened it in that area. Maybe your eye in messed up on the top of the rod and it is marking up your line from casting?

I am a big fan of the split shot c-rig on spinning gear. I like to use a zoom trick worm or something similar and slowly drag it. I have had amazing success with it in the dead of summer when the fishing is tuff. It is light enough to usually rest on top of submerged weeds.

Personally I do like a upward sweep at like a 45 as hard as I can for top hooks. For me personally I have the best luck on weedless style huds doing a normal kind of sweep I guess. I pretend I am trying to pull it out of there mouth. Switching to this method has greatly increased my hookups on the weedless versions.

I guess my post was misunderstood for the most part except by papajoe22. I am pretty sure no one on here is casting with junk on the baits. I was basically asking if depending on the situation if people consider the cast ruined if they can't clear there bait and to what extent.

So I have kind of always wondered when and how much does it matter. Like say you just have a piece stuck on the side of a lipless for example. Would you say the cast is ruined? Or say some junk on a jig when fishing grass. How much does it really matter when it is buried in the crap on the bottom? I know I have caught plenty of fish with weeds on my baits so it makes me wonder when is the point that they won't it it.

So I got one of these for $60 it is there swimbait model 7' 9" I think and 1-4oz. Does any one fish these and how are they and more specifically this model if you have used it. I mean for $60 that's a great deal and I can't wait to try it out. I am just wondering how they are or maybe what rods they are comparable to.