andrew_t_moran

These look great! I've always been so enamored with Northstar that I've never really given Siebert a shot but these colors are awesome. Think it's time to place my first order!

HUGE fan of the Black Series. Not had much time with the newer Southpaw on the water but it catches fish and seems to come through grass pretty well. Some of the best jigs on the market, for sure!

Dunno if you're still in the market or not but I love my Oakley RadarLocks. They have interchangeable lenses. Not completely necessary but for a guy like me who likes to golf AND fish, I just switch to my G30 colored lenses on the course and use the HDPolarized lenses for everything else. Super comfortable and very lightweight. They're worth checking out!

Awesome - thanks! And very interesting - so in this case you would jig using a spinning rod? I've never used a jig on a spinning setup before. MH action, probably?

Think a big swing in the creek or main river channel up against the shore and you have a rocky bluff wall (lots of these on Cumberland and Dale Hollow). You could be a boat's length from the wall and be in 25+ feet of water. How do you like to fish this during the different times of the year? And...GO!

How's the fishing? Ended up pushing back my annual trip up there over a month to the middle of July to allow the vegetation to rebound from the ice a bit more...

Most of the time it's pretty open water with no real heavy cover so much more like a T-rig. The body of water you see in my profile picture is the lake I'm on most often - and almost always from shore. It is a long, thin neighborhood retention pond. Thanks for your help!

I'm really trying to commit to jig fishing this year - haven't had too much success with them but I know they can really bring in some great fish. So let me ask you all - what type of line do you use while jig fishing and why? I've heard arguments both ways - fluoro has better slack-line sensitivity and the invisibility factor but braid is has more sensitivity on a semi-slack line with zero-stretch. Right now I've got a 4-5' fluoro leader on braid hoping to get the best of both worlds but is that really the best solution? Thanks for your help and thoughts!

1/2 oz. NorthStar Custom Baits Knockout Flippin' Jig in Alimony or Green Pumpkin Candy

Just one heavy rod for me - a 7' Grandt Payara. That thing is incredible. Use it for jigs (> 1/2 oz) because you can feel EVERYTHING on that rod. Also a great rod for topwater frogs. Also, I have a MH Veritas, which I also consider a H rod because that line is so stout. I use that one for pitching/flipping heavy cover because it is lighter in weight and has a bit more spring in the tip for that application.

Caught my first yesterday out of Lake Lemon near Unionville, IN. She was caught on a 7' H Grandt Payara Rod + 7.1:1 Lew's SuperDuty with a NorthStar Custom Baits Black Series Jig and a Rage Tail Craw trailer.

Too much...

x4. Couldn't agree more. If I had to choose one rod as my all-around it'd be by 7' MH Duckett MicroMagic. Seems like you either love or hate these rods. They work for me and I couldn't be happier so far. Let us know what you settle on!