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Dont do a bobber stop. The fish need to be able to pull the bait a bit. They'll feel the weight if a stop is there. Lob the whole thing, watch a video on how guys cast big swimbaits, it's the same sort of motion. A long rod definitely helps too.

4 Vision 110's for 75 shipped a good deal, compared to what is out there today?

I drag Champlain/Vermont. Lots of sandstone and granite on the bottom up here. Line: Seaguar Abrazx 20lb Swivel: Spro 50lb Bead: don't care, glass can break, plastic does fine, either work. Weight: 5/8 or 1oz Phenix finesse (more gravel weedy bottom) or Phenix Rockcrawler in the same weights when it gets boney on the bottom. 5/8 for light wind 10 to 20ft. 1 oz for winds over 10mph or 20+ ft. Tried tungsten and it was almost too much going on in the rocks. Leader: Mono 12-17lb either Suffix Siege, YZH or Big Game whatever I grab first. Length is 2-6ft (seriously) Hook: Offset worm or straight shank only

Dobyns Colt ~$64 @ tw during the sale. Fishes identically to the Fury. Berkeley Lightning Rod Shock is good in the medium power for $40 on sale.

It'll work, watch the ipt with a reel that big.

Jigging lakers the hot technique is a 6" Keitech and 1oz head thrown in 80-100 ft and stroked 10-30 ft off the bottom. Rainbows, Browns, Brookies: Rooster Tails, Mepps, Panther Martin's (in that order deepest running to shallowest). 65 and 78 sized Pointers Hair jig like Feider fishes 3" and thin senkos Split shot rigged tiny tubes.

1. Slow Roll 2. Count 6 handle turns the a long pull of the rod 3. 4 turns and a couple twitches 4. Fish like a spook

A used boat that routinely went 80+... nope too much wear and tear for me to want to worry about things going wrong. Look at a Basscat in that price range. Fast but fishable.

For the same $ the Garmin unit in the same sale is a faster unit. Now if you were talking the Ti2, then that thing is awesome for the $. It's a HDS gen3 with more compatability and a plastic screen.

599 for black Friday starts the Wednesday before Thanksgiving at bps.

Ecosystem dependent. Up here after the thaw there's an Alewife die off and Perch spawn. Too much subsurface food. Around 50 degrees we start getting spook fish.

Avid on up 68mxf St Croix spinning rods Daiwa Tatula 72mhr is just so good at so much The NFC MB807 blank is the cats meow in much the same way as the Tatula, just lighter, longer & more sensitive. Uribe M1 is a mindblowingly good 100 rod that does so much.

I just looked at the navionics of your area. Couple things jump to kind: *Not a lot of water that isn't a river, there's Kerr and the Roanoke reservoirs but not a lot else... could be that the waters have been pressured to an extreme (so it's not you...). *The rivers could be tidal, and those can be a pita to figure out for even super experienced anglers. I would join a club, there should be a ton in your area. You can watch youtube and read until the cows come home, but fishing with a person that knows how to do something is waaaaaaaaaaaaa(catch breath) aaaaaaaaaay better.

Jerks, cranks and topwater = Super Natural or YZ hybrid. Jigs(shallow) = braid, braid to fluoro or fluoro. Jigs (deep) = fluro. Moving Single hooks = fluoro. Frogs, flipping = braid. Spinning gear... braid or braid to fluoro UNLESS it's windy then it's straight fluoro.

Try 1/8 & 1/4 too

Personally: 58ft on Champlain and St Lawrence. Close Friends got a school in 74ft on Champlain. Deepest I've seen/hear of: several in the 100-120ft range annually from Laker jiggers.

Bottle Shrimp Magdrafts

Hook on keeper. Hair clip on weight.

Fed Ex just dropped off a 69mlxf St Croix Avid casting rod today. It feels a lot like the spinning equivalent so far. Backyard testing... bombs an 1/8 oz ds weight. The GLX 842 is super nice. Phenix has a more moderate taper for sure.

Read up on the current ownership of Powell. It makes me sick. Go St Croix

Great question

A watermelon gold flake fluke is a great imitation or even the swimming fluke in that color. Keitech Swing Impact Fat in ProStaff Special or Sungill. Their Perch colors are otherwise too cartoonish.

3/8oz. 11 times out of 10.

Love Super Natural for jerkbaits

Reels: Daiwa TD-Z Daiwa Zillion HSLA 4x Daiwa Fuego HL 4x Daiwa Fuego CT Cabelas Prodigy Shimano Citica E ABU Royal Express Shimano Saros 1000 2x Shimano Sienna Shimano Saros 2500 2x Daiwa BG 2000 Daiwa Capricorn 2000 Rods: 3x OG Daiwa Tatulas (72MHR, 72HF, 76MHF) 2x Phenix Recon (766, 804) 3x Uribe Riverside (S1, M1, M2) NFC custom 807 NFC custom 663 Falcon Bucoo Micro 66MHF Lamiglas Excel2 735 Denali Attax 76XHF Rainshadow 70MLF custom Megabass Orocchi 611 DS BPS Extreme 68MXF BPS Bionic Blade 70MHF St Croix Mojo 70MHM Fenwick Silverhawk 70MLF 13 Omen Green 77MLF