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A. Tharp B. Scroggins C. Hackney D. Rojas E. Benton The only ones I agonized over really were D and E...I was this close to taking Kriet in D and Brett Hite in E...so far it looks like those would have been, um, pretty good choices...

The size 30 pflueger supreme XT reel is not a big reel but the 25 is definitely small. The sizing is not really standard. In my experience, a size 30 pflueger approximates a 2000 class reel by other brands.

3-4" curly tail grub on a 1/8oz ball jighead.

Me too -- I actually wanted the bag and I can make use of it, but I wish I had known I could have waited a month and gotten these baits instead, lol.

I like pretty much any 4"-7" worm on a shakyhead, but the ones that have gotten the most duty in the last couple of years are: -Zoom trick worm -Biospawn plasmatail -Roboworm -Elaztech worms, the Strike King 3x and Z-man, which are basically the same thing, although I can't find the best color anymore: Pumpkin with green flake. I still have a pack of those, thank goodness, and since its elaztech, as long as I don't lose them I may never run out. As for other baits, I have used baby brush hogs, Biospawn vilecraw, Zoom ultravibe speed craw to good effect.

All I know with certainty is that I definitely can't win with a team that doesn't get the most points.

I believe my next rod will be a two-piece casting rod of some sort that I can stow away easily for travel as an all-purpose casting setup to complement a couple of 2-piece spinning setups I currently have. The M or MH St. Croix Premier looks about right, but I haven't shopped around much.

Lol...with the updated percentages, I see most people had the same ideas I had, with the exception of one bucket. I don't worry too much about having a unique team, I only worry about whether my guys are the best choice for the bucket.

Meanwhile, at his desk, Glenn leans back, wondering how long it will take for one of them to google "Circuit City"....

Yes, I will fish them anywhere, anytime. Usually weighted: -7"-10" ribbon tails on a regular texas rig. -4"-6" curly tails on shakyheads, sliders and other finesse heads, like this owner bullet ultrahead: I even still fish the 4-6" ones on an open hook jighead occasionally (the classic "jigworm") when the cover is limited to vegetation that isn't too heavy (cabbage especially), ripping them out of the weeds.

Ownership percent will change a lot in my experience, and may be mostly meaningless before the end of this week. Thanks to Cherokee, the guys I really had my eye on for O are now conveniently scattered across the buckets...

DeFoe, Ehrler, Mullins, Walker, Wheeler 1123 points 2241 rank 90.8% Last week in FLW I had 1, 2, 3 on my team: Rose, Thrift, Davis. First time picking the winner in either BASS or FLW, and I did it in both, in back to back weeks. EDIT: Ah, I see I never added myself to the league...I'm in now (but team name is "jorgaba" rather than my BR handle). Looks like I'm in 8th place.

I believe there is a rule that the name must give as little information as possible about what the rig is or how it's used.

And here's the part where I just have to ask: do we really need a new name for every microscopic variation on the theme of "plastic body on a jighead"?

How about using a casting bubble?

I bought some in bold bluegill. Put them in a bag and promptly forgot about them. Found them again when stowing my stuff away for winter. Wish I could tell you more, but I have soooooo many worms...

I don't need a long answer: It's fun and I've been addicted since age 8.

Send it in. They will likely just send you a comparable new generation model at no extra cost other than what you spent to ship the broken one. My experience:

15# & 30# PowerPro usually, with or without a leader Izorline XXX 6# leader, and sometimes mainline. Pline CXX 10# leader when I need more abrasion resistance. I don't use flouro.

I can't not open up something new when I get it home -- I always want to have a close look at wires, line-ties, paint jobs, snaps, split rings, hooks, skirts, blades, swivels, and other critical components right away. And then I want to replace, fix, or otherwise tweak anything that looks like it needs tweaking...and then I want to find it a nice home in one of my boxes.

Greenish stain: Something with chartreuse in it Brownish stain: Something with orange or red in it. Muddy: Black I love junebug in clear water with low light conditions (dawn, dusk, overcast), or for fishing just deeper than is visible from above in bright conditions.

Some brands show up in stores near me so I can handle them, others don't. Some brands I can get at a discount occasionally, others I can't. If I can have a look at it in person, like what I see, and I find a way to get it at a discount, I'm sold. It's probably just by accident of opportunity, but this has made me gravitate toward Berekley, Fenwick, St. Croix, an unmentionable number, Pflueger, Daiwa, & Lews. And since I am familiar with these brands and their features, I end up looking to these brands first when I'm in the market for something.

Why am i reminded of...

1. I assume I will use 3/8oz unless conditions dictate lighter or heavier. This is dictated largely by the consideration that a 3/8oz jig+trailer happens to "feel right" on my main jig rod. 2. I go lighter whenever I want: (A) a slower fall rate (with the same trailer), or (B) I want to avoid burying the jig too deeply in piles of grass, or other kinds of cover 3. I go heavier whenever I want (a) a faster fall rate with the same trailer, or (B) I want to move the jig faster while keeping it at the same depth So I guess the point is, it's not absolute water depth I worry about, but rather what speed I'm looking for and what cover I'm around.

I do not accept any of the arguments for any kind of universal practical advantage to holding/casting/reeling/retrieving baitcasters vs. spinning gear with different hands -- they all sound to me like rationalizations after the fact. The only consistent principle that makes any sense to me is that people have a hard time getting their non-dominant hand to do things it doesn't do very often. Did you learn how to hold a baitcaster and retrieve/work a bait/hookset with your left hand long ago despite being right-handed? Then your left hand will be comfortable with that, but probably not so comfortable trying to turn a reel. However, your dominant right hand will be much more adaptable. I taught my left how to reel a spinning reel years ago. My left learned this motion over many years. But my left simply cannot hold a rod and do anything with it properly. It never learned this. Now, my right, being my dominant hand, can do both -- it is my left that is the weak link. So I let the left do basically the one thing it has a lot of practice doing: turning the crank. This means reeling left in both spinning and casting. If I had learned to fish initially on a RH baitcaster, My left would be well-practiced at something else, and my preferences would be different. Some pros use consistent hands too: Chris Zaldain and David Walker are both right-handers who reel left for spinning and baitcasting. And Denny Brauer is left-handed but uses a RH retrieve on both.