Angry John

Used is not the popular answer but if you can find a medium 66mf avid its one heck of a versatile rod. Great for jerkbaits 1.5 squarebills and smaller top water.

The best time in your case is to fish a mid lake hump or rise. Are you running sonar?

The slower rod will keep them pinned better. My steez flexlight is amazing and is 7' medium. Not a fast rod at all.

Alphas are sold all over. Epay has the new sv. Older SOL reels have the same frame. I love the orange side plates!

I use YHB in 10 for most stuff except heavy cover where I use braid.

I use it as a jig trailer and with a bullet weight with a flipping hook. Green pumpkin is best for me.

I like the spro split rings and you can get bags of 50. Right off the site or epay your choice.

I use both the lines you just mentioned. They are both good, and function about the same for me. There might be better out there but these two were the end of my search.

I use 2000 or 20 size reels. They balance much better. If your using flouro then the larger spool may be nice.

P-line 100% and sniper are the two I like the best. Lots I haven't tried.

It to will pass. I will not be buying any tws reels.

I use an original lamiglas 735 excel. I want to give a mb perfect pitch a run at these applications.

I love my daiwa certate 2000. Waited a long time but I found a new one for 195 shipped. The advantage Sol and fuego are all tops in my book

You can get much nicer gear on the used market. You can find a daiwa Sol for about a hundred or less and pair it with a used avid 7' medium. This is what I use and its a great pair.

I think playing the fish is just fine. If you take some time to get in your catch it will not harm the fish at all. There are times you need to be quicker and smart. In the hot part of summer is not the time to take all day. Flipping them into the boat and then taking forever to let them go as you showboat for pictures or video is way more harmful IMO. The reel speed has no real impact on the health of the fish. Now matching your ratio will have an effect on properly boating a fish. The lower raito's help a lot with high resistance and large baits. Grinding in a hudd on a 7:1 or higher is not my idea of fun. +8:1 on jig rods are great and a good way to help keep your fast or xfast rod loaded. Just my opinion

I would say so but the rating for power and speed are different and so is length. I find it very versatile and it is one rod in my yak that always goes. I don't bring more than 3 and most times just 2. I run a 2000 daiwa spinning reel with my ml and its very nice.

I would take one of the side with cover removed

Big bite baits from tw are always perfect

Pictures help a lot

I have the mlxf and I use it for tubes small cranks for trout and as my dropshot rod. I had the 6'3" and it was a great river rod.

I would get a rc stx pro blue An LC pointer in ghost minnow A duo 100 in prism gill A duo 80 in neo pearl These work well and give you a good verity.

#4 would also be my choice but in 12

A shotgun is just as bad for shooting threw walls. 00 buck will go threw a wall and kill on the other side. The amount of bullets flying in the air that don't meet target is a big risk.

Top shelf would be the NFC blanks from Gary Loomis new sight.

Rapala makes some minnow type baits that are not huge or heavy that go deep. The tail dancers might be worth a look.