MIbassyaker

I'm right handed and use left handed casters, and left hand retrieve on spinning. This means I hold right, crank/retrieve left always, no switching, spinning and casting. My left hand can do the one thing it learned how to do on a spinning reel when I was a kid: turn the handle. But it has never learned how to cast, work a bait, do a hookset, or fight a fish.

Is there any word on whether or when a lefty version of the President will come out?

I hook up with EWGs better than regular offsets on everything but the thinnest plastics. But I don't use a massive hookset either, and it's almost always at an angle, or even to the side.

If its the plastic fish grips, I bet it will get free. I have found If you clamp them closed for an extended period of time, the plastic deforms slightly to where it doesn't hold itself closed. Then after leaving them open for a while, it goes back to normal. After a couple close calls, I started keeping my grips leashed. EDIT: Ah, nevermind -- you said it was the rapala grips. They may not have this quirk.

It's not a split grip I believe I have seen a short M/F caster in the St. Croix premier line while browsing somewhere -- 6' maybe? EDIT: yup, there it is, PC60MF: http://stcroixrods.com/products/freshwater/premier-casting And it's not the one with the pistol grip.

Ah! Gotcha! I do occasionally move reels around at home. although every time I buy a reel or a rod, I am unable to rest until I get a suitable long-term partner for it.

It's not what I would do, as I don't see how the marginal benefit of bringing fewer reels would offset the time-cost of swapping them around on the water and retying every time. But I can't argue at all with the advice to "do what works for you". That's almost always the right answer.

I prefer "concentrated"

And now I will reveal the reason I asked them about the warranty claim. I bought an Aetos on the summer clearance sale for $95 in August. I had it for a month, was able to fish with it 5 times before breaking 2 inches off the tip when I accidentally bumped it against the edge of a table while changing line. Cursed a bit, and then contacted Fenwick about the warranty policy. I sent it in, telling them I hit it on a table, feeling a little better due to the 45% discount I was going to get. Today, a tube shows up on my doorstep unannounced. Inside was a comparable model of the just-released new-generation Aetos: Now maybe the tip really did break because of a manufacturer's defect. Or maybe they just felt sorry for me that I'd only had the previous one a month. I don't know. But I wasn't expecting this. So there you have it: A thing that can happen when you make a warranty claim to Fenwick.

Yes, I have a story. I got one in an MTB over a year ago. Had no idea what to do with it. I noticed it was very light. It said on the package that it sinks slowly. So I knew I could not fish it like a regular jig. The one I got was white with black mottling on the back, reminded me of a crappie. I put a white fluke on there as a trailer. Now it really looked like a crappie. I threw it in a plano box and forgot about it. 2 weeks later, I'm out on a lake. It's been 3 hours. Nothing. No topwater bite. no texas rig bite. no keitech bite. No wacky senko bite! On a whim I pulled out the zero gravity jig with the fluke and tied it on, started working it like a soft jerkbait but REALLY slow...let it fall, jerk, jerk...let it fall some more.....Bam! got hit on the first cast. And the next three casts. Turns out the only thing they wanted was something with the bulky profile of a jig, but with the action of a dying baitfish. Maybe it looked like a dying crappie. dunno, but it worked. By then I had to go, though. went home and immediately put together a small TW order to get a few more. Perfect example of a bait I didn't know I needed until I had one. I don't fish them often, but they're absolutely worth having - -you never know when you'll need it, and even when you do need it, you won't know it until you try it.

Anything 3/8 to 1/2oz, trebles or an open single hook that would benefit from target casting, squeezing a lure into tight areas around docks and such. I bet it would be good for skipping a wacky rigged senko. I have been using a 6'4" M-XF Aetos for hard topwaters around that size, poppers, walkers, propbaits, even a whopper plopper 90. It also works well for floating minnow-style crankbaits and underspins.

If you can wait for black friday, it's worth it, especially if you want to spend a few hundred. TW does a 20% off most items, and the ones that don't get discounted online you can usually call and get the discount.

I don't know what it is, but there is something about the texas rig that just teaches you about bass. I was fishing long before I got into bass. But before I learned how to fish a texas rigged worm, I really could not shake the feeling that most of the bass I caught were by accident. I believe they probably were. But once I got used to using a texas rig, I stopped getting skunked so often. It taught me how to observe, how to watch and feel. I started looking at cover and depth and clarity and conditions much more closely. I started being able to tell much more clearly the difference between a strike and bumping or hanging in cover. I started being able to anticipate better where and when I'd be most likely to get bit. And It taught me how to properly set the hook. I'm definitely not a bass fishing expert, but if there is any single thing that has made me a more successful and more confident angler, it has been learning how to use a texas rig, no question.

If you're going to keep it moving, I would think any floating minnow would do the job -- rapala, rebel, bomber, smithwick, et al. If you want a suspender, the smithwick suspending rogue always seems to stay shallower than I want it to. But I'm terrible at jerkbaits.

The only one of these issues I've experienced is the tail not spinning immediately. As far as i can tell, it happens because the fin is not quite big enough to catch much water until the nose is pointed slightly upward, which is why holding the rod tip up helps. What I do is cast, let it sit for a second. Then I pop it in place with the rod tip pointed up a couple of times at the start of the retrieve to get the line off the water, take in any slack quickly and start retrieving just before the line all falls back on to the water. This seems to get the fin moving right away, and sometimes I'll get hit immediately after the first pop, before the actual retrieve.

When I moved to Michigan, it took awhile to figure out what people meant by "dogfish", and why I would get momentary looks of confusion if I ever said "bowfin". And then I discovered a choupique, or shoepick in the south is also the same thing. But definitely not the same as an eelpout, or bourbot, which my father in law visiting from Minnesota thought it kinda looked like, But I knew "speck" and "slab" already, so I could at least talk about crappie.

Lol. I am endlessly amused at how politically correct it has become to complain about political correctness...

Wacky rigged senko for me, too. Also: --keitech fat impact on a fish-head spin. --two Rage tail baits -- the cut-r worm and the rage shad --and...if memory serves... a hula popper.

Dawn buzzbait fish from a week ago; best of 4 on an otherwise slow morning, about 2 3/4 lb: Unfortunately it might end up being my last until spring. I rarely get to fish oct through mar, even when there is open water. and the way this fall is shaping up, finding time for another outing before dec is unlikely to happen except by accident.

Ouch!! There you have it, newbies -- even the Big Dogs get a whiff of the skunk sometimes. Ajay's old stitching thread is actually an epic, gripping read, despite it's relative fishlessness (relative of course, given it is still fishier than this thread). I liked it so much I bookmarked it:

Depends upon whether you're fishing for right-handed or left-handed bass...

Yes, but you have to go up a level in price. the size 30 president for instance is a 5.1 gr with 25.2" IPT. The size 30 supreme is 6.2 ratio with 31.8" IPT. http://www.pfluegerfishing.com/pflueger-reels-spinning-reels/pflueger-president-spinning-reel/1280293.html http://www.pfluegerfishing.com/pflueger-reels-spinning-reels/pflueger-supreme-spinning-reel/1347902.html

Is the silent version lighter? could that be the reason?

Here's a couple of Fall morning Michigan largemouth: The bait: 3/8oz Megastrike Cavitron Buzzbait, black blade, black skirt.

Comparable I would assume means same value. So, either the same model rod if its available, or something else in the same line, or something at approximately the same price point in a new line. It would cost you over $20 just to send it in though, so a local repair is almost certainly the better deal.