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Agreed. Love to throw a frog, but don't catch many on it.

How do you guys like to catch your fish? For me I love to fish a jig. They always produce for me, and I have tons of confidence in them.

I don't own one, so I can't comment. The Tournament Pro can cast weightless senkos pretty darn good, though.

Well what kind of baits are you going to be throwing? I have a Tournament Pro and its a great reel for light lures. BB-1 Pro was designed for heavier lures

This program gives you a nice link to download the picture from though

Bass are resilient fish, but I also try not to put them on the ground. Nice fish!

There's a program I use to screenshot the computer screen. It's called lightshot. All you have to do is press prntscr on your keyboard, and go over the area you want to screenshot.

I've had horrible luck the past week. Hooked a goose on Friday lol. Then tonight I went fishing with some lipless cranks. A backlash in my braid digs in so much I have to cut it out. Then 30 minutes later I have to retie because the line got severely tangled around the trebles. Then I lose the bait later. After that I tie on an Arashi wake bait, and the split ring falls apart on me. Went home after that.

Hooked a goose at night. Threw my buzzbait, the thing comes flying out of nowhere and gets tangled up in my line midair. He skids across the water causing my buzzbait to follow. He starts freaking out and gets caught in my buzzbait. I try to get it out by tugging gently but it didn't work. I clipped the line and it flew away. Hopefully didn't cause too much damage

If they had defects brand new I would stray away from Abu from now. Plenty of other good choices.

Also practice thumbing your spool. Prevents lots of backlashes

Look on e bay.... $109 for a 7 ft MH

Around 150 you can get a Tournament Pro or a Curado if you look hard enough. The rod is pretty much subjective.

I hope it doesn't get discontinued. Awesome fishing line for the price

Yes. Spinnerbaits if they aren't short striking I'll leave a trailer hook off if that's what you mean. If I want to create a larger profile I'll put on a soft plastic trailer on it. With spinners, its common to fish them without any trailers. For jigs I have caught fish on them without a plastic trailer, but I usually like to throw one on to decrease the rate of fall. Also it gives it a bigger profile. For chatterbaits I always throw on a soft plastic trailer.

3/0 EWG rigged weightless. I fish these very slowly. Cast it out and and I count to around 10 before I make any twitches. When I do twitch, its only small pops, I don't sent the bait flying through the water. After that I usually experiment with how many pops and the amount of time I pause.

No brainer right there!

Alberto knot for leaders.. I don't tie mono to mono but I'll use the alberto to tie braid onto my braid backing.

Like the above poster said, look on ebay.. Search "duckett micro"

LUCKY...

I own the older model Powell Diesel 7 ft MH Moderate fast rod. It works great for rattle traps, squarebills, even spinnerbaits.

What fall bite? In Indiana it goes from Summer to Winter

The goose came in as soon as my lure hit the water, so my line was still in mid air.... Didn't end too well

Was fishing at night, a goose flies out of nowhere, gets tangled in my line, then as he lands in the water my buzzbait goes flying with him. About 30 yards out, he starts flapping like crazy as I try to get my buzzbait back... I assume he gets hooked onto it because I tried to tug on the line, but my bait doesn't free itself. Well I didn't know what to do, so I just cut the line before the hook could severly puncture it. He flies away soon after I cut the line, and I lose my Cavitron. Darn.

Is it just me or does anyone else do this? I never deep crank so there's no need for the 5.x:1's. With a 7.1:1 I feel that if I want to fish something slower, reel slower. If a fish is coming at me, I have a better chance of not letting him get slack in the line.