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Thanks! Info much appreciated. I do have a regular 110, although my jerkbait lineup consists mostly of Lucky Crafts. I will have to mostly wait till next Spring. Absolutely nothing up shallow in the few reservoirs I fish. Maybe I can try it out in my uni's pond though where I caught a few on a Silent Pointer on Sunday.

Don't overthink stuff. 6.x:1 should work for everything. Slow down or speed up your reeling speed as and when needed. My 200 size stock Curados fish everything from 1/4 oz to 1.5 ozs; all but one has 6.x:1 gears, one is a 7.2:1.

Just got one as a part of a lot. How is it different from the regular 110, other than the folding lip, that is? The megabass website seems to claim it's a suspending bait rather than a slow-floater.. Thanks,

I like the XCaliburs. One knockers 50 size. Others work too.

What do you want to know? Obviously it's not the latest or the greatest. Kinda heavy too. But works well for what I use it for- small treble hook baits, dropshots, blade baits. Usually with braid + leader, sometimes with fluoro.

Reliable casting. If anything, I like the SVS better than the old VBS. Still got 5 VBS Shimanos though. I doubt other qualities are all that different in $100+ reels.

Deak, he's trying! The fourth pic is pretty all right if you ask me. Let us know if you stick any fish on them BigBill.

The E's, G's and the I's are sort of similar in size. Now the old B's and the D's; they are huge.

What power Crankin Stick? I have a maroon 7'6" medium power (casting rod) I fish small jerkbaits/ topwaters and dropshots on; either Powerpro + mono leader or Tatsu. Casts light baits great (down to 1/4 oz), and no problems with sensitivity either. (I have an NRX, a Helium3 and a Dobyns Champion to compare against btw...) P.S. I hardly ever throw lipped cranks (I do fish jerkbaits and liplesses a lot), but I think you might want to look at fast action rods in addition to *crankbait* rods.

I'm not sure I agree with you on the maximum depth part. I cast it out, crank it down, and that's where it stays for the most part (suspending/ slowrisers). I don't have too many problems working the rod at at angle to my side either. Fishing off a tiny plastic boat that's not too stable- I learnt some new tricks to fish jerkbaits with a 7.5 footer while mostly sitting down. Braid or fluoro helps, but IMO not essential. Here are a few of the many bites I got this fall. Not giants of course, but should illustrate my point. 7'6" Kistler or a 7'5" Loomis or a 7'6" BPS. Can't recall which fish were caught on which. Too bad I don't have any rods shorter than the Loomis. If I did, maybe I would have seen Smalljaw's point!

what weight swim jig?

Loomis backbounce rods (BBR) are popular; don't know if your lamiglas is similar.

... because your baits have rusty hooks? JK, nice fish!

Do you want a heavier power or a faster action (or both)?

Help much appreciated. Thanks fellas. At least now I've confirmed where *not* to spend (a lot of) time, at least. Like this? http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/77657-ok-after-all-is-said-done-here%C2%92s-my-favorite-structure/

We tried Wayne. That's where we concentrated most of our efforts. We must be doing something extraordinarily wrong if we are fishing the right locations but can't buy bites.

Could use a little help with a tiny local lake- all of 50 acres. A fair number of laydowns in the water. Flooded timber in a couple of coves. Baitfish consists of sunfish, including crappies. There are huge crappie schools we mark all the time. Caught a few and they were mostly small; between 5-10 inches. Water is pretty stained, lake is very fertile. We spend most of our time in the lower half of the main lake these days. Fished fast, slow, on the bottom, off the bottom, close to the shore, off shore; didn't matter. Caught a grand total of two bass over 25 hours of fishing. Surface temp was ~49 yesterday. At this point, I don't even want to catch a lunker or a limit. I would like to catch a few bass here and there though. Thanks guys, anything helps.

Less than 1/2 oz weight. Subtract all forces opposing the downward fall. Bass doesn't weigh anything. Neutral buoyancy.

No bliss with gliss, eh? 5 power sb rod/ 300 size reel/ 15-20# (usdm) mono or copoly should serve you well.

Why?

Haven't perused the whole post yet. Sorry about that. Anyway, this chap Galileo dropped dropped a bunch of different things (with different masses/ weights) from the top of a tower and (tried to) prove(d) that the (falling) speed is not a function of the mass. Which is easy to see if you inspect the laws of motion under Newtonian physics (constant acceleration/ v = u + ft etc). All other things being identical, the volume of a 1/2 oz jig is larger than that of a 1/4 oz jig. Buoyancy is a function of the volume, and friction is proportional to velocity, yada yada. Long time back I tried to work this deal out, mathematically, with a bunch of assumptions (of course). I forget what I actually derived, but I think it's what the consensus is. That is, a heavier jig falls faster. Not sure what pulleys and the other stuff have to do with jigs.

Find out where Tony is fishing!

Yes. Riddle me this. Why would a 1/2 oz jig sink faster than a 1/4 oz jig (same trailer)?

Thanks Andy, yeah that's probably it. Did a little googling, and apparently Gary Dobyns seems to confirm that a parabolic rod never shuts off. **I asked him what the true definition of a parabolic bending rod was. "It's a rod that has a slow bend or action throughout the rod. When you load a true parabolic rod, the whole rod bends back close to the handle and even into the handle. Parabolic rods are not very popular today and Dobyns Rods doesn’t make any.** (from Ultimate Bass).

Do parabolic rods ever *shut off*? I.E. Should an ideal parabolic rod even have a backbone?