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This one is easy... YES

I really do need to work the dark sleeper into my river fishing next year, great idea.

The OSP Mylar Minnow has been around for a few years in the JDM world. TW just started carrying them. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/OSP_Mylar_Minnow_5pk/descpage-OMYMIN.html These things are SICK.. they are expensive though.

Here guys.. put together a quick review & walk through of the rain suit:

I feel like the Dobyns Fury has booted this rod out of the $100-ish price point discussion totally over the years. I've owned both Fury's and Vertias in the past and the Fury was a much more lively & fun to use stick. The vertias was STIFF and felt cheap in comparison. Plus you know.. all the breakage with the Abu stuff.

That entirely depends on where you live and what your idea of cold is. The coat/bibs are NOT insulated but it's not a lightweight rain jacket. It's gore-tex so it's got some meat to it, gore-tex blocks the wind. I was just using them fishing in the rain/cold in October weather (45-50 degrees) in northern Minnesota. I wore regular pants under the bibs, and a long sleeve shirt & a quality midlayer under the jacket and I was perfectly warm. I should make a quick video review.

I'm 6'2 and I wear a 36" pant and the Large bibs fit awesome. Simms is pretty true to size.

I have this suit and it's fantastic. Looks cool too.

You have excellent taste. I'll probably pickup a mini crooked river someday. I'm currently rocking a bugout.

I like the Crooked River more! Custom one?

Sent you a PM. Got a few questions for you!

True.. but it's worth the drive! Haha You can smash smallies RIGHT until ice up north. Heck some guys bust the ice out if the ramps to go out.

TONS of 2 to 3.5 lb fish, with the occasional 4+ showing up. Depths were all over the map. They were on top of the rocks, to the sides of the rocks. They definitely were up on the reefs & rock points.

I've not been fishing for largies in several weeks, BUT we just did return from a "trip up north" to fish smallmouth last weekend. We hit a pretty big glacial lake about 3.5 hours north of the cities. It was a blast even though the weather on Saturday was garbage. We caught a ton of smallmouth, some walleyes, and some largies. The top techniques were: - 3/8 oz football jig w/ a X-zone muscle back finesse craw - 3/8 oz mustad football head open hook w/ a Z-Man Turbo CrawZ (AWESOME dragging bait) - Biospawn Exoswim 3.25" swimbait (feider shad color) on a 1/4oz goldeneye swimbait head - Various ned rigs I'll be honest.. after sept 1st I'm usually 100% smallmouth mode. Why fish for largies when smallies put on the feed bag in 40-50 degree water temps?

They restock from time to time, you can shoot SO a email and ask them an ETA.

GO BIG! I actually like the 3000 Tatula LT's with the wide/shallow spool (not deep) because you get a slighlty bigger spool which should give you a little extra casting distance. The 3000's have the same body as a 2500, just a bigger spool/bail. A LOT of pro's use 4000 size reels for that extra casing distance and more powerful drag. I honestly would never go with a 2000 for bass fishing on any setup. These reels are so light you'll not be able to tell the difference in weight between the sizes. If you want to cast far, you gotta go bigger.

What's your budget?

I run 10lb braid to 8lb fluoro on ALL my spinning setups because I really like to drive home a hookset on finnese fishing.. don't have to worry about popping knots haha.

I'll 2nd your thoughts on the GLX casting rods not being "wow" in the sensitivity department. I used a 893c all year and it didn't blow me away for the price point. It's wasn't $400 good. The GLX casting reel seat was fine in my hands, but the trigger is very large and narrow and I could totally see it fatiguing some people. It's a unique reel seat that's for sure. I also used a GLX 852S spinning rod for over a year and used it quite a bit. It was VERY sensitive and powerful and I really did enjoy using it. However, I did replace it recently with Conquest 842S because I wanted to try something different. GLX spinning rods are definitely winners and you can find them for sub $300 pretty easily.

I have a FMJ and I run 40lb super slick V2 braid. I think straight braid on this rod delivers maximum sensitivity. I know you're looking for fluorocarbon suggestions but you might want to try braid and see it how it feels. Especially if you're fishing grass with it.

My new flipping combo! Lew's Hypermag and a Destroyer Bunker Buster. It's obscenely light for a 7'7" heavy

No, the new Legend tournament bass generation is still as tip heavy as the old. I had several from each generation.

I've owned Avid Xs and Legend Bass and I'll admit I didn't feel a tremendous step up in quality or sensitivity for the extra money of the Legend Bass. Not enough to wow me at least. You do take a HUGE step backwards with balance on Legend Bass rods. They are ridiculously tip heavy. Avid Xs are much better in that department because of the micro guides. I honestly have sold most of my Legend Bass rods because I literally got fatigued fishing them all day. I have some Legend X rods and the balance is amazing, but they also have torzite and the blanks are way lighter. I'd really recommend either going with the Avid X or jumping up to Legend X. Unless you like super tip heavy rods.

I get wind knots now and then as well, and I fish a lot a 7' medium spinning rods + 3000 size reels + 10lb braid + 8lb fluoro leader. I've learned that my knots mostly result in 'bad management' of my line AFTER a cast. I've been able to reduce wind knots by doing a few things: - Always flip the bail by hand, gently after a cast. That hard 'snap' of the bail tripping, with slack line, can actually cause a wind knot at the spool. I try to never turn the handle to engage the bail anymore. - After a cast I lift the tip of the rod get some slack out of the line before i start reeling anything in. The goal is to get a tight wind on the spool. Honestly I think most wind knots happen AFTER the cast because of slack line around the spool. IMHO they can be easily avoided, but we often don't "look down" after a cast to see the state of our line and if it's being wound back on the spool tightly. We just cast, snap the bail, and start reeling.

My buddy ordered one and they shipped him a complete different model. He got a 705C glass xp!