daiwaguy

11.4, it was a really slow day. We have tha BBB coming up down there this weekend and another tourney the weekend after that so I will report back with what info I have.

Cardinals. NL and Series champs. That is my prediction and I am sticking to it.

Since we talked about this I decided to throw one this weekend and had some decent sucess.

I use the shad colored ones because that is the primary food source in lakes I fish.. They run good and I have caught a few fish on them. I dont use swimbaits alot so I dont buy the Huds or Deps but when I feel like throwing one this is what I tie.

Mermaid eggs.

LOZ or Table Rock

The DSG in my area has a horrible selection of rods, ofcourse there is a BPS about 5 minutes down the road. No GM so I cannot comment on that so I completley agree with what Jon G posted above.

She should appreciate it. I bet it saves her from getting cut. The most dangerous utencil in a kitchen is a dull knife.

X2. And Flukes with long pauses in between jerks.

Beaver, 10" powerbait, Trick worm

Old stone and oil works good, I got an electric sharpener from the meat department at a local grocery store a year or two ago,they were replacing it,and man that sucker can sharpen a knife. Super sharp and super fast. I think they sold it to me for 20 bucks.

I tried twice to push it through and it was so deep it just wouldnt come out, thats when I decided to try and pull it with the pliers. When that didnt work I went with the line trick and after a few broken pieces of mono I went to yarn and it did the trick. It actually felt 100 percent back to normal yesterday.

I had a rod with a trigger that annoyed me once and I just got an old steak knife tip red hot and cut it down to about the size of my other rods that I dont notice the trigger on. Cut it off round and then sanded it with a strip of 800 grit sand paper till it wasnt rough and went bag over it with a strip of 1000 grit till smoth then polished it with some buffing compound and a dremel and you could barely tell it ever had trigger modification done to it.

Dont know where you are located maybe it was in this thread and I overlooked it but this weekend in Mid Missouri the Jerkbait bite was slow but one of the only bites you could find and it required a slowrod sweep and a 15-20 second pause.

Yes Sir.

Welcome!

All great suggestions. So many. I would say Mojo would be a looker, as well as Carbonlites. A buddy of mine has the new white BPS Bionic Blade and he really likes it I think it is only 60 or 70 bucks. But really for 100 dollars any well known rod maker is going to get you a nice rod.

This year is a 7'4" Tatula Frog Rod/ T3 Ballistic Xs w/ 65lb Samurai/ PP reg./Smackdown. Still experimenting till frog season starts, Back up: 7'4" Light and Tough Frog Rod/Viento 65lb PP reg. Love the walk the twitch switch gives a frog.

Anything T-rigged with tungsten gives me confidence.

My favorite fishing music is the birds. LOL that looks like something my wife would write. They are rather relaxing thought and keep me focused on the task at hand. I dont need to be dancing or head bobbing on the deck while fishing people would think I was "different".

Has anyone said Jig yet?

Zillion 100SHA. A little havier of a reel but I did not notice a balance issue.

RW has been raving about these rods for the last few months and this weekend at a tourney I was given the oppurtunity to give the DHC5-701CAMH a try. I tied a 1/2 ounce PB&J jig on it with a Zman Crawdadz trailer and it must have hit the sweet spot on that 7' MH rod because it was a perfect. Even though the Jig bite was not on I still really enjoyed the rod. I kept going back and forth between My Tatula and the Pinnacle and really enjoyed them both. Build quality and components were excellent sensetivity was great and so were the looks. I would keep this rod in mind for people shopping in this price range.

Thanks. It was really simple. I had a 2x6x8 lying around so I just propped it up on the baseboard in the garage and used a 1.5 inch paddle bit and went straight down on the angled board to hold the rod butt in place. The top is a 1x4x8 painted black that I put screwed into the studs and then got a fun noodle at Dollar Tree for $1. I cut the noodle in half and used some quick dry glue that the wife had for crafts. The holes in the base are 4" from center to center and the slits I cut in the noodle are every 4 inches. I stole the angled base design from the one Goose made. I had all these materials lying around and the noodle was the only thing I had to buy. You could honestly get by with mounting the noodle directly to the wall and just putting the rod butts on a 2x4 that is on the floor, but I liked the spacer between the noodle so the rods were perfectly parallel to the wall.

Yeah it was weird. I watched a dink run up and hit something on the surface and there were a bunch of shad shivering on the surface then they would dart down and slowly come back up. They did it over and over so I figured what the heck I had thrown everything else at them.