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I've recently been getting deeply into finesse cranking ... I've been catching a lot more fish in pressured and clear water this winter this way. Even down to depths of 15ft with small but finely tuned baits . I've been testing out some of the newer baits (bling 55) and some of the older ones (shad rap) and the today my raid level cranks . These are the first horizontal swimming slow sinking crankbait . Though the bait sinks it is able to balance itself on its hooks and sit off of the bottom. I wanted to take it to a clear deep water resevoir but it didn't come in the mail until after my sons came home so paddle boat behind the house it was again today. At first glance the bait is extremely small and to the eye you'd think it was harder to cast than a #2 shad wrap, but you'd be wrong . Casts like a xr25 or better . Also the hooks are extremely small and have some full coating on them that I believe actually protects them. I was hesitant about the hooks but too hyped to throw the bait to change it . Plus I wanted to give it a fair shot . The bait does crank differently than any crankbait I've ever felt while reeling in. It does not come with a split ring , just line tie direct. It tracks straight though and the pause has a deadly shiny . Threw it for about 40 minutes and got one bite . It got slammed by lower 6lb fish. Needless to say now my son thinks he needs 25 dollar baits to catch fish like dad... Even though he was throwing a just as good bling 55 that I'd caught a 7lber on in the same spot couple days ago . Right now the water is still a little colder than the bass like it in va. But i will be definitely using this bait a lot more . Just at 25 dollars a bait it's hard to feel safe in anytbing but grass for me lol . But I definitely think this is a good bait and would recommend fellow members to give it a shot . I doubt many have something like it in your box . Since there was little info written about or on it before I bought mine I decided to try to share the wealth . Just don't fish against me with it:) Was thrown on a 7ft medium action duckett micro magic spinning rod . Stradic ci4+ , 8lb fireline original , 8lb Floro leader .

The most peacocks are in west broward now .. Like pines and Weston and parkland etc . I mostly use flukes or jerkbaits or shiners

Great fish on 8lb .. I recently caught the biggest fish I'd ever caught ON 8 LB line. the fight is more fun then bigger ones I caught on big braid

I fished my shad rap set up this afternoon for the first time . And I liked it . Caught fish with it .. It has such a faint wobble in the water . Took a while to get used to it verses other cranks I'd been used to. I use a duckett micro magic 7ft medium spinning rod with a stradic ci4+ 3000. 8lb fireline :.. And 8lb p-line sinsei fluorocarbon leader . Here were some results of messing around in the paddle boat behind the house I think I am going to be getting a medium light action rod for this technique though ... And the new ci4 hagane in 2500 size Funniest part of day was when I check my phone and see my son has already posted my fish as his on Instagram and his female followers swooning over him for it

Nice ...

The spots though idk why they appear I know that bodies of water with bass having them always have ALOT of bass

Bling 55 , I like the 6th sense crankbaits as well...

For teeth I'd rather have the Floro

I have every curado since b ... And I love the Ds still and am starting to want to part ways with my Es ... But what I love are my new scorpions and chronarch ci4 .... The newer reels all fish better to me but you get what you pay for if you know what I mean

Fire line original 6-8lb line

I like it a lot in salt water . I use it for my sons smaller spinning reels . But I find that I don't like it as much over time . I prefer fire line in small diameters and sunline braid for my punching and frogging. I don't flip with braid so

My oldest fresh water reel is a shimano stradic old school with the wood handle I've had since 99. My oldest saltwater real are probably my saltigas ... Which I can't believe are ten years old now

Amazing how a year later I find myself back on here ... I've been a xcalibur ***** lately ... I have such a love hate love relationship with this awesome thread

I use very small fire line and have good results

I don't see why you wouldn't want to. Braids works sooooooooooo much better when it has very small diameter backing .. I use 4lb test for back on almost all my reels .

Red eye shads and xr50s and xrk50s ... Seems like since there are less xr50s being thrown that they're actually getting bit better . I want to try the 6th sense baits as well however.

Use the heavy

Not to thread jack but are there any functional gains from adding a hawgtech handle ?

There are some nice JDM options at that price point ..

The line thrus kinda have THEYRE own way they're rigged and can't really be messed up in my experience ... But fish will mess them up surely

Throw a live bluegill in the middle of it and continue fishing another rof with a lure ... Whenever I want to see the size of fish in an area i let the bluegill investigate for me

I'm using my Curado ihg (7.2) but U honest think I wanna slow down to a 6.3 ... I wish I could borrow and try it out to see if it was noticeable difference enough for me to buy it but oh well

They came as 40 combos from Walmart about 10 years ago ...

8lb p line flouro sensei leader material

Nice ink man