Montanaro

Well I've got the rod...but still have the dilemma of which ratio. This rod is good for punching and swimbaits, would a 6to1 ratio work for 6 inch swimbaits and punching? 7 to 1 seems too fast.

Looks like tree sap.

7'4" heavy team daiwa s

Daiwa website for tatulas has a picture where it's slightly noticeable.

Floaters? As in terds?

Let me rephrase...above the rod in the reel seat.

Got a tatula spinning rod for xmas and noticed above the reel seat, two holes beside each other. Do they serve any purpose? Is it just for weight reduction?

This reel would be perfect for all the punching and pitching I do. Makes a big difference. I would, without a doubt, lose more fish with a 5 to 1 fishing those techniques.

I can confirm that cleaning and greasing the tatula makes a big difference. My tatula is smoother and faster than my tdz now!

Also consider length. Standard hooks snag swipping bass better. Short shank snag trees less.

Daiwa rcs knobs in blue for my tdz.

Got back my seibert jig a couple months ago that I lost after ice out. Still in good shape...may still be able to salvage the hook but it had some rust.

Rage chunk Or baby d bomb if I want more subtle action

Just use flouro with your usual poppers...it'll dive under water.

I'm looking into getting a couple hudd 68 weedless and I need help choosing a color. A couple of the lakes I fish have perch, one has trout, one has large gizzard. I usually don't ask about lure colors, but it seems to me that matching the hatch is more important with large swimbaits than other techniques. Would perch do an adequate job of bream imitation or even carp/small pike? Think I would have more success throwing that than gizzard color in a lake without shad? People say they use trout in lakes w/o and still catch bass.

I carry spro almost exclusively. Just looking at em I can tell their depth.

Buy suspend dots

The ponds around here that get stocked with trout are a hot bed for low functioning humans in the spring. People think I'm a moron because I'm not sitting on the dam with a catfish pole and red braid trying to catch stocked trout. Some even then I'm musky fishing and tell me I need to kill every one I catch cuz they be eat in the trout and the musky ain't natural here (despite it being a man made pond and the trout being the least natural fish in it.)

I'll give you 50 for it! If they had a bunch of em I'd have wrapped my arm around em and bought 200 worth and sold em on ebay.

I've used 7to1 tatula with shellcracker without issue. Yeah I had to slow down but I don't think 3 or 4 more ipt would make it much different. Just can't justify a dedicated setup for such an expensive technique

I'm planning on getting a heavy daiwa frog rod rated up to 2 oz for throwing g2 shellcracker, hudd 6" and punching light mats. I'm stuck trying to decide if I can get an 8:1 ratio and making it work with swimbaits or get a low ratio for swimbaits. If I split the difference with a 6 or 7:1 I'd not do either really well. Does anyone swimbait with higher ratios? Certainly they would help pick up slack from bass hitting swimbait from behind and pick up slack for a good hookset.

It's worth 40. I lost my 7' MH and would like a new one but tw only has rods I don't need.

Pretty good rod. A little thick and heavy. Caught some good fish on em. Xfast is more of a fast action though.

3 lobina rico blems from tw. Missed out last year! Those suckers fly off the tw shelves.

I put to on high and beat a boat to a small point of a small cove. The boat was still 200+ yards away...I caught a bass. Fair or foul?