Fishinthefish

They are on backorder at the moment unfortunately. We had to shut down for about 5 months due to covid19 and the wildfires last year. We are working as fast as we can to get caught back up Tyler. You should start seeing them more readily available in the next few months. Best regards This is an email sent to me by gloomis about their nrx rods being out of stock globally. I reached out last week to confirm they had no intention of canceling the line.

I set my drag by hand, and dependent on application. I'm may set the hook with the same strength on a weightless worm texas rigged, and a jig in some slop, but I don't want the hook to pull the worm and fish up to eye level on me.

I can't decide which one. Does anyone have any experience with both/either of these?

I've heard that as well, I interpreted it as you picked a lure that worked so keep fishing it lol.

I use JJ's Magic, personally I'm not entirely sold on the smell attracting more fish, and I rarely need them to hold on longer because hook sets are free. The reason I use JJ's is because it's a dye as well, so I can add colors to my soft plastics to change them to be just different enough than what is typically thrown to the fish by people who all throw the same couple of brands as me in the same areas I do. I believe more in the color difference than I do in the smell difference.

This functions literally the exact same as a bullet weighted texas rig unpegged. I have no idea why this is everywhere recently.

I run 3/0 and 4/0 on anything under 6" anything over 6 gets a 5/0 ewg

Ive had great success with hobby train oil. Runs better than reel oil and kitchen oil in my opinion.

That line is Mono. Mono has memory issues and is hell on the water when using and lure that spins. Adding a swivel to new line if you want to use mono will remove a good majority of the line twist. Changing from mono to braid with a mono or flouro leader and a swivel will also drastically help reduce line twist and any form of memory problems. My suggestion would be a diawa J braid or a power pro 20lb test to a 6lb flouro or mono leader with a swivel that has a bearing. Personally I completely ignore all ratings for line on a rod. Dont be abusive and yank 65lb braid with a medium rod or similiar abusive tendencies and you should be fine for the most part. Having a different size line on a rod than the recommended test is not going to cause the issues youre experiencing. For future knowledge if you use flouro or mono lines and leave them spooled for a good bit of time I suggest buying line conditioner, tying your line to a tree in the yard spray the line and walk it off while keepingyour thumb on the spool or drag light enough to pull without stretching the line but still keeping it tight. Doing this three or four times before a trip will help remove memory and line twist. Some will still exist though, that is the unfortunste trade off with mono and flouro lines and why I exclusively use braid unless its a crankbait rod for debth.

I am right handed. I fish only left handed retreive reels. Holding the rod with my dominate hand made more sense and is more comfortable to me. Especially when fighting heavy hitters like King Salmon on bass rigs with 20lb braid to make the fight harder and longer.

Backpack. Three rods. Medium to medium heavy setup for soft pladtics baby jigs baby spinnerbaits with a fast or ex fadt tip. Heavy rod for bigger jigs spinnerbaits top waters and swim baits. Crankin stick.

You could always contact Mike at Delaware valley tackle. Hes a site sponsor and I can personally vouch for. He may ship to Cananda as he is out of New York. He has shipped to Illinois and Georgia for me.

Yeah I apologize. Ive owned an IMX a long time ago. But I have used a friends imx pro on a few trips and I was underwhelmed that was the rod I have been refering to in my review(the pro). I do have to ask, have you considered a custom rod? In that price point Mike could make you one hell of a cranking stick over at DVT? Thats not far off from what my rainshadow eternity jig and spinnerbait rod cost me.

Ive used at least one rod in the imx glx and rnx lineup. I love the nrx, feel the diffetence between the glx and nrx is neglegible at best so I also love that rod. But when I pick up the IMX series rods for the price point i just feel underwhelmed. I cant put my finger on what the exact one thing it is but believe its the balance between weight and sensitivity.

Champion extreme Dx 704c or dx 705c depending on weights youre looking to fish would be my choice. I dont like the imx lineup from g loomis.