Catch and Grease

Nice find!

Nice, That is a big ole' bass!

I don't fish heavy swimbaits but I can tell you even with lures 1/2oz-1oz if you backlash with braid and your line suddenly stops it can snap and send your lure to oblivion, I've had it happen to 50lb braid with a KVD 2.5 so it can certainly happen to a 1-3oz swimbait and 40lb braid

MH/F casting rod and a 6.4 or higher baitcaster...

It was to nice to not go fishing today, 80° cloudy and windy. I was losing confidence and was only able to get a dink on a swim jig, then I decided I'd try a jerkbait I got for Christmas and started killing em' on it!

Great jigs! A huge pickerel cut my last seibert swim jig off, cut through my 20lb C21 like it was butter... Gotta get me some more when I can!

I was far from a natural.... I used to think that the only two lures you needed were a ribbon-tail worm and a rapala jerkbait, I was probably right haha

Shimano Stella and a G. Loomis NRX.

I got cut by a catfish's spike once and nothing happened, I was ready for the pain that everybody talked about to set in but after a few minutes nothing even happened it was just a cut haha Dunno if its different for each kind of catfish but the one that cut me didn't have some kind of painful poison or whatever people say...

Nice, sounds like a good time out!

Trickworms!

Squarebills and lipless crankbaits

Nice!

With the chain pickerel cruising under the mats here I lose tungsten weights like crazy when flipping grass and pads...

Nice fish!

A lure retriever... I lost mine somehow, didn't notice until today, guess I need to buy a new one haha

Nice fish! I bet you were shaken up after that situation haha!

The H2O maxim reel is pretty good too, its 50$ but I recently saw it on sale for 30$.

bowfin are pretty fun to catch!

I think only some newts are poisonous to bass and the poisonous ones are in California, Could be completely wrong though.

I close the bail by hand and keep the spool about an 1/8th of an inch from full.

I didn't know this, figured it worked on fluorocarbons too.

I'll check the roller and make sure it is working properly when I get home, and ya I'm probably gonna do what DarrenM mentioned and tie a long FC leader. Thanks guys

I fish everything from trick worms to ole' monsters and where I fish the visibility isn't very good, heck bass have no problem finding the 5 inch trickworms on my dropshots...

I don't see why you couldn't use 12lb line on the reel if the manufacturer reccomends that size line on their reel.