Fishinthefish

Thank you I hope I do. And for the record I'm a shimano guy too. I'll be getting a core 101mg to pair with an extreme series st croix.

In my opinion they're like a value meal at McDonald's. Which is all fine and well when you're under a budget and hungry as hell. Right up until someone hands you a st croix steak. Let's you taste it, then sends you back home with your value meal. At that point you meet the bait monkey. Except he's whsipering away hundreds of dollars.

For 220 I would use a Duckett Magic pro at 160 retail probably cheaper shopping around. I cannot say enough good things about this rod. Light weight and versatile with good sensitivity thrown into the mix I think this rod is highly under rated I'n the sub 200 range. After checking out eBay myself in the past i got mine for 130. Which brings me to the pflueger presidential. At a 60 dollar price tag retail this reel can compete well up into the 150 dollar class for spinners. Smooth with a solid drag and it looks pretty to boot. All in all a good setup.

I know it's so nice that's why I had hopes of even in the north finding what I want. I've caught two just under 7 lbs out of there.cicjust had a dream of maybe a fat prespawner throwing me into the double digit club. Thanks anyway.

I apologize I realize my post was a little vague. My price range is between 500-1200 dollars.vthe biggest must is easy portability. I would also be highly interested in the ability to stand and have a small gas or electric thrust motor since rowing a nardical mile or two solo does not seem like a ton of fun. The reason I wouldn't buy a Jon boat is no storage or ability to pull a trailer. I would be willing to go a little more expensive for the right boat/dinghies/pontoon. Oh and swivel seat would be a dream

I apologize for saying buzzbait. I have no intention of throwing those on a casting reel. I have a spinning reel for those. Im looking at throwing max and on a very rare occasion up to 1/2 oz. normally I'll be throwing either weightless 3/0 to 5/0 hooks with a worm on other creature on them and at times the creature will have a small cylinder weight on it.

Man after my own heart. I had the rod, and reel but at different times. Unfortunately one is at the bottom of Lake Michigan, the other disappeared one day.

I'd probably take a MH G Loomis NRX with Fast action, super light weight, super reliable, super sensitive, super expensive. As far as reel, there is so many different directions to go. I love the Shimano Core, I find it difficult personally to actually enjoy the more expensive reel setups in comparison. It's just a quality product, so I would most likely go with the 101 lefty core.

For 60 bucks I bought a Pflueger President spinning reel, mostly for trout/salmon and the occasion catfish outing. It handles fantastically, I've never had any issues and is easily the smoothest reel for the dollar I've ever bought.

Hello, hello. I'm looking and interested in buying a pedal/paddle pontoon single person boat. Obviously for fishing purposes, I would be interested in one with the option for an outboard attachment for a trolling motor. I'd really like to hear from the community on best buys, things to look at when buying, questions to ask myself before buying. Things to look for in quality, etc. I am completely new to this idea, and would really like to buy one for when the summer tempts start warming up the water (since having your feet in cold water all day does not sound fun and even if you get some water waders you got waves to deal with). Please feel free to point me in the right direction however you can, any and all insight is welcome. Sadly I do not have the parking space for a Jon boat or I would get one of those instead.

Good afternoon, evening, morning. Which ever it happens to be while you're reading this. I'd like to ask for anyone, who happens to know anything about recent years of Lake Delavan in Wisconsin any information they have about some of the largest bass they've seen, or heard from a trust worthy source pulled out of the water? Last year I caught myself a 6 1/2 pounder by the closed down karaoke restaurant from right under the dock on the point. Anyone here happen to have any knowledge of if I'm going to be able to pull a real 10-14 pound hog out of this water?

I have a Veritas sitting in my closet, two broken guides on it. I honestly can say I'd prefer to throw with a Duckett Magic Pro in that price range. You can usually get them for 90-120 dollars if you shop around.

I've used them, mostly during heavy baitfish feeding times like he said. I've actually used the salt water ones when we ran out of the fresh water ones. I can't say it if it was just the timing, dumb luck or the truth. But I caught more fish on the salt water version of this bait.

Good afternoon. I'll get started by telling you a little about how I fish, before I ask your opinions on what I'm considering starting to fish with. The majority of my spring is cat fishin', I don't own my own boat so shore fishing for pre-spawn and spawn bass isn't always the easiest thing especially on the Fox River in Illinois. I normally use artificial big boy leeches, down off a power plant lake in southern Illinois that has a warming/cooling side to it so it's nice for many, or huge cat fish. But what I'm particularly interested in is my new bass rod I'm looking to get, as well as a bait casting reel. I've fished with bait casters before I'm not new to them, but what I am new is to buying them. So below I'm going to post the rod and reel that I'm looking into buying, my price range is between 200-270 dollars per item. I fish primarily artificial light weight gear, small jigs, buzz bait's on a rare occasion with heavy emphasis on worms. Shaky head worms, weightless sinking works for top water, split shot weighted Texas rigs for bumping the bottom. So, without wasting anymore time here we go. The Pflueger Patriarch, I can only fish lefty so no XL option for me model number: PAT71LHLPX http://www.pfluegerfishing.com/Pflueger%C2%AE-Patriarch%C2%AE-Low-Profile-Reel/1315401,default,pd.html The St Croix Legend Tournament Bass fishing rod, casting obviously. I'm looking at a medium/extra fast action option. http://stcroixrods.com/products/freshwater/legend-tournament-bass/

I'm new to the forum, mine went and died out on me. I'm out here in Elgin, 'bout ten minutes from the Fox. Gimmie a holler if anyone wants to hook up this year for some fishin'.

How y'all doin'? My name is Tyler, I'm from Upstate New York originally. Now I fish out of Illinois, near the Fox River primarily, and in Wisconsin on Lake Delavan and Lake Michigan. I'm huge into fishing, just recently go around to joining the forums. Though I primarily sport fish for bass from May until November I do also enjoy fishing just in general, for just about anything as long as when it comes in it's over two or three pounds. Nice to meet y'all hope to see you on the water.