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Yes. And if that doesn't work, try this.

Psycho Doc's psycho trout likes to slide this way and then swim that way. Pretty neat, huh? 2013 Bass-a-Thon special color.

Whatever else you might or might not do, stay in touch with your bait. (not applicable to swim jigs, kinda hard to not stay in touch with those)

Finally caught one over 16" from this reservoir. Stats for this year- excluding this fish- are as follows. Maximum: 15" Average: 14" Minimum: 13" Standard Deviation: Very very low!

Pretty cool man!

Wow! Congrats.

How loose is the spool tension knob?

Tackle center. 50% off.

Did you land the fish though?

A few things that might be useful. 1. The Helium3 is reputed to be as good as the GLX. I won't know since I never had a GLX. The Helium3 is *almost* as sensitive as the NRX (in my hands). I do know since I have both. The last time I looked at a fishing rod while fishing was.... never. 2. The most highly regarded NRX-es seem to be the 7'5" JWR ones (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). My Helium3 (7'6" light MH/ fast) is more versatile than my NRX 893 JWR. 3. I'd lose the braid and spool on some premium fluoro if I were you. 4. How long do you think you'll fish your new purchase? Used high-end rods hold their value pretty well. You can buy an used NRX for 350 bucks, use (not abuse) it for 2 years, sell it, and lose maybe only $40 for shipping and paypal fees. If you buy a new $300 rod (say), you'll lose maybe a hundred bucks. Probably even worse for custom builds. Good luck.

My 3/8 oz Cavitron (no trailer, no trailer hook) weighs 18.7 grams. 5/8 oz = 17.7 grams approximately. With that rod you're pretty much limited to 1/4 oz or lighter buzzers.

Real men lip those babies.

Helium3, in addition to the suggestions above. A lot of rod for the money. Also, braid + recoil guides maybe a little noisy (NRX). EDIT: I haven't fished a Champion Extreme, but I have nothing but good things to say about my Champion (it's an 867). Braid for me is a liability for bottom bouncing baits. With a good copoly or fluoro, you should be able to feel everything you need to feel. A clean rocky bottom feels different from sand or mud. Wood transmits differently than a boulder. Even a clean brush should feel different from a brush covered with algae.

There's an LH Curado I on Ebay for 97 shipped right now.

Seaguar Invizx and Sufix Elite, respectively.

Small swimbaits.

Another Curado joins the fleet.

You can salvage the treble and probably the jighead too! You can recycle the plastic as well.

Yes. Labor day.

So what's the final question again? There's a bunch of them in the original post and I haven't kept track of which ones got answered.

Buy this. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/161457-curado-200b/

Please explain how a crankbait or a rattle trap or a chatterbait is similar to a *vibrating/swimming* baitfish (other than the general shape, that is).

For a start, (Hard) Structure: the bottom of the reservoir. More accurately, a distinguishable part of the bottom (a piece of structure starts somewhere and ends somewhere). Cover: anything that has settled on or grows on the bottom etc. Cover doesn't have to be on the bottom, and structure doesn't need to be related to depth changes always (soft structures).

P.S. Try a scrounger.

My head hurts.