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If its anything like the Gen 2's it will. I believe they have the same breaking system and spool system as the Gen 2's. I have two of them. One is on a 7' Heavy Veritas. I throw Jigs in clear water with it. When its windy as heck, I turn 4 breaks on and turn the mag break to about 3-4ish. Rarely do I have to thumb the spool during the cast, maybe at the end just a tiny bit. I set the spool control knob just to where the side to side play is gone. Setting it like that for me, on windy days, creates almost no over runs.

When comes to dies, its like reels. Everyone has their favorite but all will get the job done. I prefer Dillon for handgun and Hornady for rifle. There are 3 basic rifle dies. The Full Length Sizing/depriming die, neck sizer only die and bullet seating dies. Full length dies must be used with any rifle cartridge that is fired from an auto loader or lever gun, ammo that is loaded from once fired brass from another weapon and brand new brass. Almost every reloader uses full length sizing dies. It gets the brass back down to factory specs. Neck sizing dies are for experienced reloaders only. It only resizes the neck of the case. You can only use brass fired from your weapon and your weapon only. This is what is called fire forming the brass. Basically what this does is swells the brass to your specific chamber allowing the ammo to be loaded and no play inside the chamber at all will happen. Honestly, I would wait until you get some rounds under your belt before attempting to neck size. You will also need a good case trimmer to trim the cases after each loading. I recommend the Lee Precision hand trimmer that uses the case length gauges. http://leeprecision.com/case-condtioning-combo.html and http://leeprecision.com/case-conditioning-tools/case-trimming-tools/case-length-gauge-holder/ You can put the chuck into your drill and they make the case length gauges for every caliber. Plus they are cheap and last for ever. When it comes to a powder measures, stay away from the cheap scoop type measures. Get a good scale or a quality powder meaure. The tube types from RCBS, Hornady and Lyman are good ones. Lee's suck. As for scales, a digital scale is the best, but a good balance beam scale will last a long time. As for presses, for progressive, I prefer Dillon Precision. They set the standard on everything reloading. If your going to get a Single Stage press I recommend the Hornady Lock n Load. Its like 150 bucks and you can buy the lock n load bushings for each die. You dont have to screw and un screw each and every die. http://www.hornady.com/store/Lock-N-Load-Classic-Loader/ Hope this helps some. Shoot me a PM or email if you have any other questions

I really like the Mistake flip n swim jig. I bought my first one by (pardon the pun) mistake meaning to get a different color. I threw a red smoke flaked Yum tube on it and it has caught more bass than all the other jigs combined

In the first part of August, we were told about a new jig coming out from North Star called the "Black Series". Not much was really told to us at first, other than they would be a great improvement, we would love them and have lots of action. Needless to say, it was a great marketing ploy as their facebook page and other forums kind went nutso. Then to top it off, they had a drawing to get a few sets of these in peoples hands. A few videos of them in action and some really good pre reviews came right after. After getting these jigs, all I can really say is, man it was worth the wait! Not to mention their Labor Day sale along with free shipping on orders of 25 dollars or more, really added to the pleasure. I got turned on to North Star about 3 months ago and have pleased ever since. Low cost and a great product that produces fish, is a hard combo to beat for under 4 bucks a jig. I don't know how they have done it, but they have. I tend to not get excited with new products or new fads, as most end up being, just that. A fad. After my first order of jigs, I knew these were not going to be a fad and were here to stay. I fish a lot of heavy cover and never cared much for the football head jigs that most every company produces. Granted, the football head jig is a great jig and produces, but for me and my limited fishing areas, it did not fit well. When I first read up on North Star, I was turned on to the Alien head jigs. These are made for Timber and heavy brush. The head is designed to provide cover for the knot and line. The head is wide enough that it will lie flat on the bottom, not roll and tilt the hook upward. My first order had nothing but Alien head jigs with the exception of a few swim jigs that were not offered with the Alien head. I was even more surprised when they arrived. The paint job on these jigs were amazing. No flaws, no runs, no chips and lots of glare from the paint jobs. I really like the skirts tied with wire. Rubber bands and fishing line have never held up much when pitching jigs in heavy cover, so the wire gives me that added longevity on my jigs. Lastly is the skirts. I have some expensive top quality jigs that feel like the skirts are made out of shower curtain. They don't last through many fish. The bass may not be picky when it comes to all this, but I am. If im going to spend money, I want it spent well. So after my initial purchase of jigs and being very satisfied, I had no problems ordering several of the Black Series jigs. I just had to wait. I placed my order first thing on September 1st at 4 o'clock in the morning. I wanted to get these here as fast as possible. I fish some very dirty stained water here in Central Oklahoma, so I decided to go with the following colors. Alimony, Bruise, Black n Blue and Insanity. I purchased 2 of each to try these out. When my package arrived, I was again blown away by the quality. Everything I had stated earlier about the quality of the jigs I had originally purchased, was backed up again with this order. Same great tuff finish, strong hooks and the skirt was better than was excepted. I use Mustad hooks about 90% of the time, so after reading that they used Mustad hooks on the Black Series, I was even more thrilled. The website listed these new jigs having an 88 strand skirt with living rubber added to them for extra flair. They were not kidding! These skirts are thick. I was able to hit the water the same say these arrived. I chose the Bruise, with a June Bug colored Rage Tail Craw from Strike King. I had a small pond near town to try with tiny bit of structure. This is a very small dirty pond, but holds some decent bass with some 4 and 5 pounders. I pitched this around some cat tails and let it hit the bottom. First jerk and bam!, the bass nailed it. These look electric moving in the water. Even with the smallest water movement, the skirt keeps moving like its alive. I pitched it to the same spot and again bam, it was nailed again. I ended up catching 4 bass from 1/2 pound to 2.3 pounds out of that spot. I moved over to some fallen timber and had the same good luck. Largest fish was just over 3 pounds. I was really excited the following week to get to use these at a lake near Chandler Oklahoma. This place looks like someone cut the tops off of every tree in a forest, then flooded the valley. There is so much structure there, you probably can't get a boat above 10 MPH without running into a tree. This is a tuff lake to fish as most of the cover is further from shore, and I don't have a boat. It does have a decent amount of timber you can reach from shore and some fishing docks, so to really test these jigs out, I hit the lake early for 3 days. I ended up having a great day. I landed over 12 fish with the biggest being 2.2 pounds. Not monsters, but it was a good day. I ended up loosing several of the jigs due to the heavy structure, but with the amount of fish I landed, it was well worth it. I also slipped on a tube and turned this into a swim jig as well. With the tail of the tube and the skirt on the jig, I can't even begin to tell you what it looks like. Almost like an Octopus in the water. All I know is, when the bass hit this combo, for smaller 1-2 pound bass, they were some of the nastiest and hardest hits I have ever had on a jig. North Star has once again produced some amazing quality jigs. I will be placing an order again very soon. They have a brand new jig called the Knock Out coming out in October. So far all they have told us is they will be a jig having the best qualities of the Pro, Premier and Black Series jigs in one. I am excited to try these out. In the mean time, give these new Black Series Jigs a shot. You wont be disappointed.

Clayton, I will drop some info later today. On my phone so it will take forever to type.

I'd like to grab 4-5 of the Abu reel covers but at 10 bucks a pop! Ouch

Congrats. The first is always the best.

Are you wanting an EWG hook with a keeper for worms? I use the Mustad Pin and the Trokar pin hooks For flipping I use the Trokar straight shank as it has the bait keeper as well

I have a bunch of them I bought off the forums a few months ago. I have had decent luck. Nothing over 3 pounds. With the small hook, your kinda limited on trailers that wont take up all the hook. I use the Rage Chunks with mine

I feel for the poor sap holding the camera lol. I waded up to my chest yesterday to free one and turned out to be a dink. Cold water + me = shrinkage lol

I had never used the Pitboss until last week. I was watching a you tube video on how to rig using a flipping hook. The guy was using the pit boss and having good luck. I found them at BP for 3 bucks for 8 and they stink to high heaven, soft and have great action. I may not be a complete replacement for Rage Craws, but they do work great. Plus they are dirt cheap!

Agreed. I do this for the same reasons I use crank baits that are 10 years old and beat to hell. Sometimes that one little thing thats different is what it takes for the bass to hit it.

I have the 7' M Micro as my top water rod. I love it. I am going to add a 5th soon. I really like the 7'3" MH. Big ole fat backbone. It will be a dedicated Texas Rig rod

Another good one

Thought these were funny.

I kinda feel bad man. I recommend the S and your having some serious issues

I second the Veritas. They can be found for 80 shipped on eBay too.

Central Kansas, Im thinking Quivera, Cheney? I had good success with black and blue with blue flake trailers when I lived there

Just match it to your jig. Something with dark green and brown will do

Crap man. I was just gonna ask you about the S and if yours was loud like mine was. Mine has quieted down big time. I put a small drop of milltec on the inside of the brass ring that the breaks ride against and it's quiet now.

If you suffer from CDO like me (actually OCD, the letters are in order) an hour picking a backlash is like 4 minutes to most lol

I had to go back to Academy for some Propane about an hour ago and its still there. I thought about buying it and trading it for a right hand model, but don't want the hassle.

As of today at 10am they had one NIB lefty Revo S Gen 2 on sale for 49.99. Manager said they just wanted to get rid of it. I can't use a left sonI thought I would pass the deal on. Store is in Edmond Oklahoma

Ether you got a bad spool of line or somewhere between your line guide and tip has a burn nick etc. #65 braid is like The line of the Gods man. I can flatten a thick flipping hook out with #50. So your either stronger than a god or there is a bur somewhere. Break out the q-tips and rub them in and around the line guide and guides

Snook is right. If you haven't yet, try braid with a mono or fluoro leader. I have one set up using Invizix 12# and so far (knock on wood) it's been great. Of course (knock on wood) I haven had a major overrun yet with it. This is my only fluoro set up. I have switched over to braid and elliminated about 99% of my problems