Nebraska Bassin

My Chronarch was a bit of an impulse purchase. I planned all along to pick up a Revo STX, had it in my mind that I'd be an Abu Garcia guy from now on, took a look at a Chronarch, and grabbed it. I have a bad tendency to do that. I'll plan to pick up one thing (right now I'm thinking my next rod will be a Loomis GL2), see something else, and for no reason whatsoever buy that instead (watch me end up with a St. Croix or Dobyns now LOL).

That's similar to how I tie mine. Main line first until snug, then tag, then I'll pull on both just to make sure. I leave almost no tag on mine and I've never had one pull off. I use Sufix Performance Braid.

That's awesome! Above all else, just try not to make him look too bad on his own show. J/K

I had that happen on one particular cast over the weekend. We were fishing Lake Sharpe over the weekend, I was throwing a perch colored Frenzy and wasn't having much luck. Had a bad cast and got an overrun, and had a smallmouth hammer it while I was bailing the line out. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to set the hook so the bass got away. I tried letting it sink awhile a few more times but never got another strike on the Frenzy.

I never use a leader, but I do use the Alberto knot to tie mono backing to braid, and it works very well.

I've probably been fishing off and on for about 20 years now, and I'm 25. This is the first season in which I've really taken fishing seriously though.

Better give 'er one more try.

Congrats, guys!

Agreed. Wonder how long it'll be before "Huck the Fuskers" shirts are available in Ohio like they used to be in Colorado back when we owned the Buffs. Seriously, though, helluva catch! Here's to many more like that one.

X2 I actually enjoy fishing new lakes just because it's fun to find out where the bass are (or aren't, as the case may be ).

I have a Cabela's Denny Brauer bag that I use now, it has several two-compartment zippered bags that I put my plastics in (I leave them in the original package and just pull the package out when I'm using that particular bait) and several one-compartment bags in the back that I use for spinnerbaits. Nice bag back in the day, but time has taken its toll on it, I had to do some work to keep the binder rings from coming apart, and some of the zippers on the dual-compartment bags came apart. Good tackle bag if you can find one and take care of it, though.

I saw an ad for the Micro Magic on Tackle Warehouse's website and thought it looked like a pretty nice rod for the price. I'm thinking that if I find a good reel to pair up with my Loomis rod, I might get a mid-level (price-wise) rod to pair up with my Rojo, and the Duckett Micro Magic caught my attention. It will be used for pretty much everything, since I plan to use that rig for everything but T-rigging when I'm fishing for the big bass, but it'll be my go-to combo if I go farm pond hopping for smaller bass, too. I'd be using 14 pound mono on it, with a pretty wide variety of lure weights (as low as 1/8oz. for Texas rigging, but I'd throw heavier cranks with it if I had to). Does anyone have any reviews of the rod in general and/or know if it would provide a good application for what I'd be doing with it, or should I look elsewhere?

All-Star makes some pretty nice rods that can be found at that price, if you don't mind going used.

Caught the bass in my avatar on a t-rigged tequila sunrise colored Cabela's AquaGlow beaver tail grub. Second biggest catch (same lake, in fact very close to the same location as the one in my avatar, and exactly one year to the day before I caught that one) was on a t-rigged purple original Zipper worm. Didn't get an opportunity to weigh either of them, but judging from a similar-sized fish that my brother caught, I'd estimate the one in my avatar at about 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 pounds. Second biggest just a shade under 5.

Sam, if you have a moment to forward it my way, I'd love to read it as well.