Fishinthefish

If you're talking about texas rig, they're completely different. Obvious pro to a t rig is that it's weedless, pro to shakey head is that it's thrown less. Both are ideal in different situations and not particularly comparable.

The orochi is a 40 ton carbon rod, GM has an elite series rod with 40 ton for 130 bucks made by 13, its the *** black

Does anyone have any experience using this spinning reel? How was it? I can't find many reviews on it from this site.

St croix, bass tournament rod. You'll never be disappointed with this rods action or sensitivity.

Three max, usually a worm, a tube, and a spinnerbait or a swimbait.

I was limiting myself more so much for just the sake of n it being new brands I'm looking to try and I don't want to commit a bunch of money to a brand if I didn't like it any more than I liked zoom.

Balance increases sensitivity more so than lightweight does. Just remember, the light rod will feel a lot heavier out of balance after a few hours than a perfectly balanced rod and reel.

I already ordered 300 in tackle since january, I'm trying to budget myself on swimbaits since they're not a full confidence bait yet, which is something I'm trying to change this year. I've already got all of the terminal I need, I just need to pick some actual baits.

White chatter bait, white spinnerbait, white biospawn craw, white biospawn prostix, white soft body swim bait, and tons and tons of bottles of jjs magic

You get to make a tackle purchase from TW with 100 dollars. I'm going to be buying it for myself and picking the one post that I like the most. I have too many worms, grubs, craws, and most other soft plastics, plenty of terminal tackle, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, and lipless crank baits. You also have 10 full bottles of JJ's magic. You're light on soft plastic swimbaits, and looking to try a new brand because you're not happy with zoom(considering keitech). The majority of your fishing is in stained water, and shallower than 15 ft of water

Pbj for me, I don't understand the poll though. Same lake on two different days, one pre rain, one post rain and I'll want the pbj and prerain, and black and blue post rain but that'sjust because of visability

Never put the word elephant in the same sentence as your significant other either, I left an argument once almost believing that I actually called her an elephant and was thoroughly confused.

In your neck of the woods the main thing for color is sun position and water clarity. Clear sunny skies, clear water I'll go lighter, over cast or dark skies I go dark. As far as when to throw it, I wait until the bass are shallow and active. Usually summer time when they're up tight near vegetation but still actively feeding. As far as what to use and when, I just throw what I like. I've found no way to fully define what top waters the bass want based on conditions, sometimes they want a slpw jitterbug, sometimes they want a popper raced, popped, and paused. Sometimes swimming a biospawn vile craw across the top does more than enough just like that.

My wife trapped me once, same sort of thing. Luckily I caught it before I was out of cell service. I called and had flowers sent to her, ever since then she never gives me a hard about going when she tells me I can go she doesn't give me a hard time.

Yeah I'm looking at a few rods and reels. Not sure the wife is okay with the idea.

Lipless crank, or a seibert jig. Or I go home if it's too bad

My goal is to find more people to fish with. I've lived in north west Illinois for four or five years now and hardly know anybody. I'm origionally from New York. So I might have to bite the bullet and join a bass club or something.

Either that or he's talking about swimbaits with built in hooks vs swim baits with hooks you rig yourself? I have no idea.

I catch anything from bass, small, large, and stripers, salmon, walleye, pike on Bills Rat l traps. I'm not exact opposite of you, I have no confidence in soft bodied rattlers.

I use zoom, honestly not too happy with them. It's about the only product by them I don't like. This year I'm planning on trying out some keitech though. Heard great things from multiple places.

One thing no one mentioned, how old is the braid on your reel? If it's old, say three or more years and depending on the quality of the company, and the storage this could be another big problem. Line goes back just like everything else. Other than that the rest of the posts are spot on. You either have something in your water cutting your line be it fish, rocks, or mussels. Or you have a weak link in the chain, first check your line age, second examine your knots, do research and relearn to tie them, and third tie on a leader of flouro or hybrid. Do those three things and your problems will go away.

I have a healthy smoothie I keep on ice, i use it throughout the course of my every day life to skip meals to save calories. Other than that I bring water, and some type of energy drink if it's going to be an early trip or a late trip with little to no sleep.

My wife and kids, other than that. Come hell or high water I'm down to fish

I usually bring my over the ear earbuds and run the cord up through my shirt and have one earbud in and the other clipped to my shirt so I can still carry on a conversation, hear fish jump etc. Your surroundings are too important in my opinion to completely drown everything out.

I set my drag to 50% of the line strength of the line that I have on for hooksets (or rough guess of that at least). On my go to rod, I have 22lb worth of drag, but only 30lb braid test on it. So I set the drag for between 12-17 pounds of drag that I hand test the strength of. I'm never worried about drag per technique because a hook set is a hookset, it's more so in the rod matching the type of hook and bait you're using than the drag being set properly, unless it's too loose. Just my amateur opinion.