Cody0707

There is a lake where I like to fish. This lake has a large amount of small bass. Most around a pound. The largest fish I have caught out of the Lake was about 5 pounds. I am looking for an ultra light setup that won't break the bank that will make catching these little fish fun and more of a fight. Budget $150 or less.

Marriage life and soon to be family life has me wondering how much time others get to squeeze in for fishing. How much time a week do you make it out on the water? How much time do you need to make it out on the water before the trip is worth it? For me I get to fish about once a week for about 5 hours a week. I want to be out on the water for at least 2 hours. If I cannot get 2 hours out of a trip then I usually wont go.

I'm not very experienced with baitcaters and my first good reel is a Shimano Curado 51e. I am in love with this reel. I am a beginner and I can still cast light baits and cast into the wind if need be. I love this reel. It is so smooth.

I put my curado 51e on a redbone 7' medium action rod. This is a dual purpose setup for me. I use it for bass fishing and will be using it for trout and Redfish also. I also looked at St croix and Shimano rods.

My Curado 51e arrived today. I put 12lb mono line on and threw around a buzzbait that I practice with. I love this reel so far. I'm going to keep it and just get a separate spinning reel. Thanks for all the help.

I actually grew up in south Florida fishing grouper with only Penn reels. It's good to know Penn is still one of the more dominant companies. After doing a search on several other forums it seems like Shimano is still a recommended brand just no where near what BR forum members recommend. On other forums it seems to shift more to Penn. Quantum and Daiwa are also recommended.

I know this topic is beat to death but what would you do in my situation? I get 40% off 2 pairs of Maui Jim's every year. With the discount the pair I want will be $110. I would order these straight from Maui Jim. The Costa's I want will be with the 580p lens and would cost $110 from Ebay. Should I go with the Maui Jim's due to knowing they will be real over the possible fake Ebay Costa's? This will be my first pair of sunglasses over $20.

I am sure you are correct. How do you keep slack line out if your using a texas rig or something of that nature or does it not matter once the bail is closed? Sooner or later your going to have to reel in slack line.

I went fishing today using my cheap Shimano Syncopate 2500. I had it correctly spooled up with 10lb power pro. I was fishing texas rig, poppers, and a Rapala. About half way through fishing I got a huge knot in the line discovered while I was casting and hung up on the rod. Cut the knot out. ABout 2 cast later I had to do the same thing all over again. Is this do to a cheap reel, rod, or both? If this is something I continuously have to deal with then I will take the baitcaster and just get really use to what it can do in saltwater.

I guess I should sell my nib curado 51e and get a stradic then. I don't think I would need larger than a 2500 as I will be fishing flats in a kayak. If I hook on to something bigger I'll just hang on and go for a ride. Thanks for the help.

If you could only have 1 of these to do all of your fishing to include some light saltwater which would it be?

Has anyone used or read about using a Curado 50e in saltwater? Do you think this rod could pull double duty for Snook, trout, and reds?

Can you point me to a website that has this deal?

I'm glad you shot me straight. I took the rod and reel back today. I found a store around here that sells Shimano reels so I got to put hands on them. After playing with the Shimano reels I am glad I did the return. Do you all think it would be better to pay a little more and get the Saros F or should I stick with the Symetre?

Went to Walmart and they had a Pflueger President 6935 combo for $80. So I picked up this combo and put 20lb power pro on it. Do you think this will be a good setup do all general purpose fishing? I bought some 12lb fluorocarbon line to use for leader and secured it to the braid using a double uni knot.