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Mine I throw 8 inch hides, ospreys, top shelf magnums and a few times I've thrown a cal reservoir lures 14 inch swimbait no problem

I use my 766 flip for punching, flipping, pitching and throwing huddlestons

if you do Im interested to purchase it if its a lefty

i have a tournament pro, bb1 and tournament mg and love all of them more than any reel ive used including chronarchs,curados revo winch, revo stx.theyre insanely smooth and can cast a mile for me,they also have an amazing pricepoint

ill take a few megabass and luckycraft off your hands if you would like since theyre on a pegboard, LOL

the only cranks i use are speed traps and lucky craft pointers and a few megabass vision 110s

i use a bb1 for flipping and punching and a TP for flipping/pitching in7:1:1 and a tournament mg for cranks and spinnerbaits

Hand poured straight tail 4 inch worms, I have a whole Plano box devoted to one specific color and probably a good 400 worms in it, then two other Plano 3700s with some misc colored hand pours, I probably have easily over 800 worms right now stockpiled in my boxes, and had to special order that many since I bought the whole stock at the local tackle shop, sadly I like using them that much it cost me a tournament win since there were three teams that caught six lbers on senkos and I refused to put away the finesse worm, but I ended up catching a good 20+ bass instead of one 6lber with a few dinks, at least I was culling fish non stop, too add to that I can't stop buying hand tied jigs and dobyns rods, I bought my first in December and now I own 4 of them

If you're from Cali have you ever heard of keeper custom worms or pro worms, they make the best hand pours on the market IMO, I use their reapers along with iovino ones and occasionally the vibragrub, as for jig trailers spotted bass seem to love them more than pork trailers for me.

Pre spawn in muddy water a few days ago was the ticket to me winning a tournament on fire tiger

May I ask what brand reapers you bought, where you bought them

I absolutely love them on a Texas rig, darter head or the best way for me is the split shot rig/Carolina, I fish them pretty often and I also flip with the 4-6 inch reapers

I've felt both m1 and recon 2and go with the recon all the way, btw it floats in the water if you drop it.

I personally like dobyns more than loomis, they also have a better price point and have an amazing warranty

Ha I just realized that as well that he's looking at bps, IMO try tw, they're amazing at packing rods to prevent damage and sometimes cheaper than other places

I'm not trying to get him to buy a champ unless its on sale then jump on that deal but why not spend an extra 20-30 for a quality phenix rod

IMO I dislike my crucial and mojo bass but I love my dobyns champion, if I were you look id into a phenix recon 2 or a m1, they are the best bang for your buck, I use my friends all the time and love them and would be my main choice of rod if I weren't stuck on dobyns rods, also look into a dobyns savvy and powells aren't bad either

I've caught 14 inch bass on my lunker punker and I've caught bass 9 inches on my super spook

I'm in a similar situation as you but ill be fishing the ca state championship and im winning the local hs tournaments often, I'm not looking for sponsors but I do always promote my dobyns rods since IMO they're the best, I even like them more than all the loomis rods besides their nrx

I like it to sit lower in the rear so would a 1/8 work or should I do 3/16, I prefer to try to get right the first time and not have to experiment with weights, I'm probably going to use white pine pre turned bodies to see if I like even using home made ones first, the are 5.5 inches long

I'm going to try to make 5-7 inch spooks on a lathe just like the heddon Zara spook, what wood is good to use and also what is a good size weight to add to the rear of the bait, I'm open to any tips and advise thanks.

Definitely not too big, I wish they actually made a bigger one, I went to a private club one time full of Florida strains and caught 8 bass over 5 lbs and probably 10+ that were under 5lbs all on the super spook my largest that day was 7lbs and DON'T remove any trebles, if anything replace them with sharper better quality ones.

When I throw one its either a huddleston or a top shelf magnum in any water clarity during the fall and winter coming into early spring when they stock trout in the local lakes. As for a place to fish them I throw them on points and river mouths where I find lots of rainbows breaking the surface jumping but I slow roll it on the bottom. By the way you may want to specify what type of swimbaits and the size and weight. the kind I throw such as hudds are a bit different than say 3-5 inch soft hollow bodies and hard bodied swimbaits like Roman mades and mattlures.

for that range I'd definitely look into a dobyns champion on sale or the phenix recon, they're both amazing rods

For cheap reels I've got an old pflueger asaro and its still going very strong and smooth after 5 years and I haven't had to take it apart once at all