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I plan on using it for my lighter jigs when skipping docks or weightless flukes, senko worms, light Havoc Pit Boss rigs, and especially number 5 shad raps. My favorite little crankbaits.

Of course haha gotta keep em slick. Shimano reels are the fishing Eqv to Glock. Overlubing is possible and not good to do.

I only dislike toothy fish in my lake because I work a lot and can't afford my own bass boat being 16, I don't live on Oconee anymore so the electric only private lake and a 14 foot V hull boat is my limit. It's fun but nowhere near as fun as a big lake. And the tooth fish are just frustrating to catch, I don't kill them for fun, half is out of following what I've seen and half is for my safety. I understand some people like the tooth fish and yeah they're a good fight but I just don't like dealing with them. And if one were to take a lure I'd be so mad because I can't afford to lose frogs or shad raps due to them. Cool fish if it stays off my line.

I said I wouldn't kill anymore and I have learned something so y'all pike lovers can relax. And bass are a super fish they're the most awesome fish in the world and they don't have teeth. There is no pike pro circuit. They are pretty gnarly but I don't like catching them. Bass are the best.

Only toothed fish I have caught in the past 2 years was a 2.5 foot toothed jackfish or whatever, it ate my lure, and I was with my dad, I was instructed to kill it, killed it.

After reading and seeing bloody pictures about pike biting, why do ya'll defend them, I admitted I was wrong but they're pests, I don't fish for pike, and I have been taught by my dad that they don't belong in our lake, which is private, and I've always seen them being killed and heard about it, in a stocked manmade, the pike were not put in the lake, someone else did it. I will not kill anymore pike, but I guarantee if I'm at risk of getting cut up I will disregard the fish, if that means I carry a purse and tampons then so be it.

I am so exited to pick this thing up.. Ya'll have no idea.

Y'all know more than me about it. Looks like I will be changing my ways when dealing with the fiesty fishes. Fortunately they're pretty rare where I fish. I'm not getting cut over a fish that's for sure.

Ok well I fish a private lake 95% of the time because its in my community. Fun lake. But those toothy fish are problematic since they eat so much of the food that bass need. I've always been taught fishing since I was little that in the private lake anything with teeth dies. And it's easier to get a lure out of a dead fish. Not risking my safety to release a fish that I hate anyway.

3 Step process to quit smoking: Skoal, Grizzy, Copenhagen. 3x more nicotine than smoking per dip. So one good pinch = 3 cigs. And it doesn't affect your body anywhere as much as smoking.

I hate those things. I don't know if it's legal or not but I always kill them.

Zoom paddletail superflukes. Craw jigs are for imitating craws, and look nothing like a fish to me. My favorite part about the flukes as a swim jig trailer are A: The side to side wobble they give the bait B: The price C: Bluegill don't have claws for tails

I am slowly building my rod and reel arsenal on a minimum wage 4 day a week check. I have a Curado E, a Caenan, and now the Chronarch on the way, next is gonna be a 200E Chronarch.

First thing I do when I get a fish up to the boat, find my lure, if it's in his mouth where he can shake and hook me, it's a belly grab. That happens more with cranks and other treble hooked PITA's. But with a jig or worm whatever single hook, you are safe to lip, but get a firm hold on the lip and remove your hook.

I like Pline as far as a cheap fluoro. Powerpro is the obvious choice for braid, and I don't think mono can compete with the abrasion resistance.

I'm just starting to get the hang of jig fishing after trying for a month with 3-4 catches on a jig. Now it's coming together. My advice: Downsize, I like 1/8 to 1/4 jigs, with a chigger craw as a trailer. I don't try to hit the heaviest cover, but skipping docks, edges of coves, any place you can imagine a craw being. I like the "tap tap- sit" method that Glenn teaches, and sometimes I'll drag them. My jig catches have all been in coves and under docks, none in heavy cover. I also find it helps to palm your reel completely if you don't, and a rod that lets your hand touch a part of the blank like a split grip helps detect very subtle bites.

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An easy trick to remove rust from lightly rusted hooks is to put them in a glass of coke for a few hours. Remove, insert into container / spray with WD-40.

Very common for bass to "headbutt" them and then eat it. Do that to me pretty regularly with zoom horny toads which I let sink after they do that.

I just placed an order on my first chronarch and I did so at my local tackle shop. I did some research on the chronarch before ordering it, but I'm curious to one thing. Who has one and what do you think about it? I ordered mine because I can spool it up with lighter line and not use as much ie: 10lb or 8lb fluoro when I have to finesse pressured bass, and because I can throw light crankbaits like rapala 5's and such on it easier. What do ya'll use them for? I want to know what ya'll do so I can open up my options.

My golf swing coach is an avid fisherman, and swears by shimano (that's how I got hooked) and he was tuning up my Curado E for me and I watched as he casted a swim jig further than I ever had. I watched how the lightly thumbed the spool throughout the cast and once I learned how to do that, it was game on.

Learn to swim. It's easy. Probably the easiest thing to learn that a lot of people can't do. It's honestly easier than learning how to skip a jig with a baitcaster, and if you're buying a boat that's something you need to learn too.

Just grab a handful of bees and put them in your pocket. There's nothing that can imitate the fluttering of a bees wings because the bee sits relatively still on the water and a bait would be moving far too fast.

Well one time I was fishing and I backlashed my line on my favorite reel beyond repair, I had just put line of the same kind on a reel I don't use as much a day earlier, so I left it connected to said reel and spooled it on to my favorite reel. Worked fine.

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