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I’ve seen some teally nice hand pour stick baits and flukes and ribbon tails and such on a Facebook group I’m in. Guy is knowledgeable of the process and makes some great colors at great prices. I was curious if anyone goes this route vs mass produced baits? Just thinking of supporting small business and saving some money

Entirely possible. Always used fins windtamer on spinning rods. ( used to inshore fish a lot when I lived in Florida) baitcasters have always gotten 30-40 pound original powerpro. I agree there is some seriosuly nice braid out there now

I just looked that up and watched some videos. Wow! That is a nice rod for the money. I had a Procyon spinning rod from them 15 years ago and it was wonderful. Thank you for the help!!

Could not agree more I’ll just replace the line a few times a year. No big deal at all

So I have 2 carbonlite 2.0 combos. A Med and MH. They fish wonderful sensitive cast great and are smooth. I can’t stand the white personally. And not sold on the grips. I’ve had them a couple years now. With the sale going on I was considering picking up another medium heavy combo. Orrrrr going Shimano slx and a dobyns fury 7’ heavy. I’m an avid pond and bank fisherman. So there is some demolishing return lol. But things my only hobby. What is everyone’s thoughts?

Oh for sure that’s all we frog fished with in Florida was braid. Not sure what Iowa will have to offer for summer water conditions yet lol. I’ll probably have to get another set up to frog fish

So today was the first outing switching from 40 pound braid to 12 pound suffix elite mono on my bp carbonlite 2.0 medium combo. I feel I got better casting distance with the mono. Backlashes are non existent with the brakes set correctly. I was throwing a 3/4 ounce rapala xrap. Which I have always thrown on that combo. I know it’s rated to 5/8 but with braid it worked well. I definitely need to throw that on a medium heavy now. The mono did have some stretch. But the one fish I managed to land today hookset and feel was wonderful. I will be probably swapping my medium heavy over to mono as well. Only reason I’d keep braid on it is to throw a frog this summer. But honestly I’ll probably throw that on mono too lol

See this is kinda what I was looking for. I knew there were some folks out there. When I lived in Florida since gambler was right there. Soooo many of us basically foshed gambler baits the selection was gigantic at tackle shops and honestly they made a version of every bait that just caught fish. Ya could mix baits in bags and not worry about scent or dislike plastics or salt. It was just easy

Thanks so much guys. I’ll check out the suggestions. Honestly it was late and didn’t think about the extra weight of the trailer on baits. Duh.

I’m wanting another bait caster set up to go with my carbonate 2.0 combos. And I’m looking at the 7’ dobyns fury. I mostly Throw soft plastics, T rigs up to 1/4 weight. Finesse spinner baits 5/16 ounce. And mini max chatter baits 3/8-1/2 ounce. I’m asking a lot of one rod I know but would you guys probably go with a 703 or 704?? Thanks!!

I’ve never fished the reaction innovations. But anytime I fish a beaver style bait. I always split the tails. I generally want the most action the bait will offer.

That’s really what I may end up doing several of similar color baits but different styles in one row and such. I basically only fish some kind of watermelon reddish and black and blue or June bug. So I basically group flukes, ribbon tails and stick baits of similar color in a bag anyway

Yes it is

But you get a free tackle warehouse sticker!!!! lol seriosuly I’ve been playing with my cart on line for three days lol

Man these are great goals!!

Love it! Glad to hear ya have a solid plan. Moving baits is certainly in my plan. As well as learning a whole new water system in another part of the country. I’ll be surprised if I catch anything since I moved to Iowa from Florida lol

So true and well said. Love it Always have been interested in molding my own baits. Maybe one day I’ll give it a try or find some hand poured to try.

Well said lol

I’ll have to try that this year I planned to get away from large trailers and go more subtle like a small fluke. But I’ll try no trailer!!

Haha well said

Same here. Definitely a goal. I haven’t caught one on a bladed jig ever lol

One thing I need to work on is honestly trying to present baits well and trying to pay closer attention to what I did when I caught a fish so I can repeat the exact same retrieve

Aweosme! Glad to hear that.

Excellent! I knew this would be a fun topic lol

Anyone use one brand only of soft plastics? I was thinking how nice it would be to use a couple colors of one brand. And just mix their flukes, ribbon tails, stick baits and such together in a bag. Really cut down on clutter and a million bags lol