JohnMcD

Thanks guy!

I really like the invisX I use it on my baitcasters as well and have never had a problem with it. the only issue is that it is expensive, but no where near the gama line, which is 40 bucks for 100 yards.

Shad Shapes and Cross Tails.

15lb powerpro with 5lb gama touch leader for drop shot and spy baiting 8lb invisX for everything else no main line

Drop shot is always the go to, that or a Spro 15 ft diver in chartruese blue back

Its ousidde your range but for the money the shimano stradic Ci4+ is the best spinning real ive ever run. well worth the money IMHO.

Hey guys, Been lurking the forums for awhile now and finally decided to join. Ive been fishing for most of my life and even did te whole college fishing thing for the FLW, while i was in school. I won a tourney on champlain, been to two regional championships and a national championship. Fish all around looking to get into fishing in NJ been here a year and rarely get out while im down here for work. Tight lines, John

Ive fished against the guys form VT and they have a huge club and are of the top clubs in FLW for a reason. They have smaller club points tournaments to determine who gets to fish the big ones. I only have experience wiht the FLW after fishing with SUNY Plattsburgh on there club team and the FLW are now requiring everyone who fishes provides their own boat due to loss of FLW sponsors.

New to the boards actually signed up to post instead of just lurking when I came across this post. Ive been on both sides of this situation being that I fished for the college FLW series and have been quite successful doing it, making it to a national championship and winning a qualifying tourney. Since I was fishing on a team I always got put on the trolling motor, which means a good deal of my time was positioning the boat so my co-angler and I would have a good opportunity to catch fish. I am on the side that every co-angler should offer up some cash for the boater and it should be factored into the co-anglers cost for deciding if he is going to fish a tourny or not. But in my time of being a co-angler since I graduated college and started fishing local tournaments I would say my experience has been about 50-50. The one that sticks out to me is my second tournament ever fishing as a co-angler my boater would pull up on a spot and then tell me that I wasnt allowed to cast near a certain boat or a certain island point until he has had the best chance of catching that bass that was there. And I can understand where he is coming from by doing this because he spent the money and time to come out and do the scouting and find the spots. But I could never in my mind do that to a co-angler especially after that being done to me. Granted we both caught our limits but there was still a lttle bit of resentment for me because of this. The good half some of the tournaments i get paired with a guy that had no idea about where to fish and we both would end up skunking or only catch 1 or 2 fish, but in my mind they were a good guy's to be paired with since they were such great guy's. But my advice for people that are looking to be a co-angler its all a game of chance in the smaller club tournaments/TBFs luck of the draw in the boater selection. Dont let getting a bad draw in an inexperienced boater ruin it for you, even on the worst days your still out fishing on a nice bass boat instead of being stuck on shore or not even worse working. But my co-angler career is over I am saving up for a bass boat so I never have to deal with any of it because if im paying my money to fish a tourny i want all the responsibility of my finish to be completely on my shoulders, not on the luck that my boater did his homework and knows how to catch fish.