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Not many left of her species.

S-Waver and the aforementioned shine glide.

Well you are as big as Yoda...

Guys are still fishing smaller waters (Shelburne Pond, Iroquois, Waterbury, Arrowhead) the same way they were this "Summer".

LOL dude I just got 21 OLD Poes cranks in great shape and was pumped... then I was like, WHY? I hate cranks. Jigs always work man. So to Appease the little guy from Maine... Jigs, just throw everything out and throw a black jig at all times.

Fished Champlain all weekend in a TBF semi final. Smallies were 18-43ft. Eating alewifes. The green jerks were as deep as 30ft. Fished the weekend before smallies were 25-50ft... 70-80 degrees in the day and 50's at night are slowing down the fall temperature drop. Upsize and slow down.

There are a couple phases of the "Fall" bite. For ease of explanation there's pre and post turnover. On most ponds it's not a big deal because there isn't too much depth (20ft isn't that deep...). On Champlain or Winni or Candlewood, turnover can be maddening. Big lakes turn over in sections... For example on Champlain the Inland Sea might turn over but Malletts Bay (separated by a sandbar from the Sea) might turn over 2 weeks later. The signs above for turnover are gospel. Pre Turn Over look for them to pick off the easier/most numerous baits. For example Champlain's young of the year Alewives are everywhere now (0-50 ft) and are an inch or 2 long (It's early Fall bite right now). The bass are gorging themselves right now (it's gross, they tail dance at the boat throwing up alewives all over you). I'm currently dropshotting tiny crappie sized bass assassins and Carolina Rigging Speedcraws. After turnover they start to key on larger more dense food (Bigger Alewives, Perch, etc). It's less energy expelled but more gained to whack one 6" Perch than to gulp through a bait ball a few times for a mouthful of Alewife babies. After turnover bigger slower baits work. 4-6" Swimbaits, big spooks, big spinnerbaits, 100-120mm Jerkbaits. Another consideration is light spectrum and duration of daylight. The shorter the days and more yellow/gold the light the more pressured they are to put on winter weight, that's a biological response and not something they can control. Bait wise... There are no magic bullets, I've offered suggestions but those are just what I throw first because it's what I have found to work... I've crushed them in October in Ticonderoga with a black frog. I've spybaited monster Smallies 2' down in 30'. Spooks in 2ft waves can bring a 20lb bag. Just put something that looks like easy calories in front of them and you'll get them. Once the water get's to the 40's they are moved out to their winter haunts and you are into jigging silver buddies.

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Carolina Rig 1/0 offset worm hook.

I'll echo that the Ultrex will eat up batteries on long spot locked days. However personally I would buy an Ultrex before I went anchors. I'd get 12ft talons next. I've seen them hold in 11.5ft.

I'm a long leader guy (20ft of 7lb Gamma attached to some 10lb Braid). Just have way fewer line twist issues, that was my biggest problems with drop shotting. Go to drop on an Arch and have a line loop catch around a guide and the cluster that followed. 3/8-3/4 oz. The number of times you get bit when a bait buzzes by the face of a fish is amazing. Light weights take to long to hit bottom, lift easier in rough water and aren't as accurate in my opinion.

Type R with an extra bearing. NOT a CT model.

Just add a band to the hub where you can attach a rattle.

what are you planning to do with it? Frog/Flip? Drop Shot? Swimbait?

If you are a Co-Angler and are not throwing a Carolina Rig, then you are hurting yourself. As for Drop Shots, just pitch off the side and barely move it, just keep it tight.

Occam's Razor (ie simplest solution is always better) Ninja. There are a ton of guys up here that swear by them.

One bearing? dollars to donuts it's under the drive shaft.

I have the 766 Recon and an 804 (MH) Recon. The 4 power Recon will be too soft for jigs 3/4oz up. I use my 804 for swimbaits, chatterbaits and LONG Bombing Ikas (like Pumpkin chunkin'). I like a rod with a bit slower than "fast" action for moving single hooks (tapers like Dobyns, Phenix, Lamiglas, Megabass have). The 766 is a great jig/flip/frog rod, so is the 7'9" (796). A 715 might be the ticket for you as well. A 7'4" St Croix Heavy is a beast for power (feels more powerful than my 766 when playing around with it.) The Perfect Pitch is hard to argue against. I've never heard anything close to negative about that rod. I wish St. Croix made a 7'+ rod in what would be equivalent to a Heavy Medium Heavy (in their power scale) fast.

Refurbed MacBook Air can be had for ~$600. but they don't seem to measure up featurewise to Asus/Acer/HP/Dell/etc...

My wife is going back to school for her masters. We currently have a bunch of phones, tablets and one small laptop (not very powerful). I figure someone here knows enough to help push us in the right direction. She's taking on line courses, the computer will be solely for that for the next 1.5 years. If this were Bass fishing I'd say Daiwa or Shimano, sadly they aren't options here. She is looking at spending around (preferably less than) $600. Like Ultrabooks, but that isn't a nessecity. If not a 2 in1, it doesn't need to have a touch screen. Pentium I-5 processor 8gb 12-14" screen She's looked at: Lenovo Yoga 710 Asus Zenbook Any help would be awesome!!! Thanks guys!

I've been pleasantly surprised by the Savage Gear popping frog.

That unit is battery powered hieroglyphics. With lots of shortcomings. A portable Helix 5 or HDS 5 while it costs more will be way better in terms of reliability and performance. In a canoe with that post hanging down it will cause all sorts of drag and catch debris in the water OR you have install it whenever you stop. The D cell batteries go dead pretty quickly.

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I was the co in a tournament where my boater was tossing a Super Spook into a 15mph wind and walking it up the 2ft waves. He weighed in 21lbs of Smallies. Tears were rolling down our faces with how hard we were laughing at just how absurd it was. That day taught me the that there is never a time when a top water will not work. Just find the right one for the conditions.

You have a deck or a porch? Store under that.