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RW: Great article, thanks for taking the time to write it. I do have one question, you say to Fish 2 senkos, not excatly sure what you mean here. Could you explain please. Thanks

WOW!!!

Suffix Elite or Stren Original #4 or #6

Wonder if KVD Line & Lure would help?

The nearest Academy is 200 miles away.

I was looking at some Falcon rods (casting) at my local sporting goods store. I happen to be looking at the BuCoo line and the ones with the micro guides are I think $20 more. Why the micro guides are they worth the extra money and what are they suppose to give you over a standard guide rod?

How cool is that, wonder if the wife will let me put one in the loo

Been using mine to throw some cranks & top water and it has been doing fine for me. Personally I don't really have anything to compare it to other than my BP Megacast combo, of the 2 I like the Lews the best. Just bought a Tournament Pro to try on it.

http://www.academy.com But cheaper than $130 ;-)

They're $99.99 online

My guess is that you had to many friends and the system weeded some out for you.

Thanks guys, that's pretty much what I thought but figured I'd ask. I could see where it would make a difference on a spinning reel because of the diameter of the spool and the way it comes off, but with the baitcaster for the most part didn't make sense. You guys pretty much confirmed what I thought it was just a guide line for how much line it would hold at a given diameter. I have one spooled with #15 and the other with #17 & I have noticed it's a little harder to get a PO out of the reel with the #15 on it.

I keep couple of rods and some Plano 3700's with tackle in the back of my pickup. Been there all summer and I haven't seen any issues. The bed is covered with a tonneau cover. For the a rod holder I used 2 adjustable shower rods with the foam pipe insulation covering them. I secure them with the bunge cords that have the ball on the end. I'm in the midwest were we had to many 100+ days this summer and I have not seen any issues.

I have been looking at baitcast reels and am a little confused about the line capacity ratings. On a spinning reel there are normally 3 line weights that the reel is designed for like an ultra is #2/xxx #4/xxx #6/xxx but when looking at the specs for a baitcaster it seems that they only list one such as #12/xxx so does this mean that you should only use #12 line on the reel or a line with the diameter of #12 mono?

I was at Wally World and they had a Lews Laser MG on a Lews 7IM rod for $99 so I bought it and put some line on it and took it to the water to try it out. On the 1st cast I had a professional overrun after that I had no issues with it. I have been looking at Lews Tourament reels and don't know if I want to keep the combo and put the better Lews on the combo rod & use the Laser MG on one of my cheaper rods or take it back and get the Abu Garcia Veritas Casting Micro Guide for $70. From what I can tell the Lews rod is somewhere between a $60-$80 rod. So I guess my real question is how do Lews rods compare to others that are in the same price point.

Sorry I can't help I don't "Like Facebook" good luck with gettn' those jigs

Wish I could help but I don't have an Eagle Cuda, mine's an Eagle Fish Easy. Don't know if the transducer would be the same or not. Tell your son "Thank You for your Service"

Not a problem, thanks. I bid on a recondition one he had but got beat. The bad thing is he is also in Mo & he charges sales tax so that runs up the cost. I did however find a new one for $118 with free shipping so that makes it only about $20 more. In the mean time I put in an offer for a TP1SH which is the Tournament Pro, I think it basicly the same reel but about 2oz lighter & has 2 more bearings, we'll see how that goes. Thanks for the username much appreciated.

The username would be great, did see any for that price when I checked. Think the best price I can up with was $101 which still isn't bad. All the reviews I read on it were outstanding, don't think I found one person who didn't like it, which is strange, normally there are a few that find fault with something.

I have never tried this but have been told to hold the rod up and slide a used spark plug down the line. Seems feesable

Fine looking lad, where's his fishing pole I didn't see on in any of the pictures

Good looking fish, congrats

+1 great place for tinboat info

Those are Kool!

Where did you find the TS1SH for $85? Do you still like it?