Fishinthefish

Check the spool, if it seems aligned right take it back immediately.

Tatsu has been great on my casting rigs. There is still a memory issue and I doubt that will ever fully go away however when I don't fish often, I use line conditioner, tie it to a tree branch and walk it off a few times and this drastically helps memory. Regardless of this, and the improvements, still do this day I use braid to flouro leader with everything except my crank baits. On those I use straight flouro purely to help with how deep my cranks dive. That's the only situation that flouro becomes worth the headachr over braid to me.

It's cheaper to drink, er I mean fish alone. I don't generally offer to take people whom don't have their own setups. Mainly because I don't have the patience to teach, or explain, or tie knots for other people.

6 350-500 rods, 2 150-200 dollar rods.

"How much of a discount will you give us on your reels in bulk to put them in our top ten?" Here is our top ten list of reels which we recently got a great discount on.

I've never had power pro bleed on me. It fades, that's about it.

I usuallt find minnows in tackle shops the easiest to catch. Cheapest too.

20lb braid, 12lb flouro leader.

You CAN use a stick from the woods to fish with. This answer comes down to your budget, short and long term. Also, what you can live with. Is your budget short term able to buy two rods? Is your budget long term about to buy two rods? If your answer to both of those is no, then yes you can cover both jigs and frogs with a medium heavy, or a heavy, fast action rod of your length preference. If you answered yes. Then you'll almost certainly be better off buying rods that are rated more closely for the specific type of fishing you'd like to use them for.

Shimano.

The core is without a doubt hands down ten thousand times the better reel. There was just recently a thread about this, same general consensus

When I ordered my rod from DVT, I got picture updates, and a text message making sure I recieved the rod the day he was told I would.

I keep everything in an origional bag, and purchased a bag meant to carry plano boxes I don't remember of which size but I took all of the planos out, organized them by type, and put folder dividers between them so I know where craws end and worms start etc.

Tungsten I use inserts, lead I carry a small needle nose pocket file that slides into most weight sizes and file it back a bit after use.

Peanut butter jelly, pink worms on a shakey head.

Robos, biospawn plasma

As of talking to my wife last night, i will be for sure replacing every single one of my rods and night be sending my core in for a cleaning etc.

I do, the only leaders I use are flouro leaders which will sink, and drag the top end of the lure down messing up the presentation. Braid floats.

My full opinion as to why you can save money, and get the same or better quality if you're willing to wait about a month for a rod from DVT. Take the extra 200 and buy yourself some tackle. I have two NRX rods, one was just retired and the other will be retired from DVT over winter.

Find stickups, find lay downs, find cover, shaded areas, go to the side of the bank that you can fish with the wind to your back so the cooler bottom water is churning up and the hotter water is being pushed away from you. Throw texas rigs into the lay downs and stick ups, throw ned rigs as close to them as possible, hit holes in any weed beds, or hydrilla areas you can find. Fish slow, fish smaller.

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I'd like to start off by saying that I'm a pain in the ass and thank Mike for so graciously catering to that pain in the assness. I received my first rod order from Mike today, and as an impatient man I couldn't wait to take it out on the water immediately. I went out and only caught a small dink before the lake closed(sun up to sun down lake unfortunately is the only solid producer within 20 minute driver after work today). The rod's I've experienced before always were solid, as far as buying Loomis, St Croix, Kistler and the other brands I used to use years ago. The rod I purchased from Mike was absolutely air light, sensitive to the point that I could of probably felt single blades of grass had the water not been over run by hydrilla. The alignment was perfect, and the handle length was the best I've ever managed. This thing looks absolutely beautiful, I'll upload the pictures I took to another site and edit the post with them later since they are all 4mb pictures and downsizing will ruin the quality of the hard work Mike clearly put into this rod. The inscription was phenomenally done and much better than I expected it to be. All in all, I spent approximately 320 dollars on a medium, fast-exfast rod for soft plastics and ned rigs that did it phenomenally. With the quality of this product, the customer service behind the business, and the thoroughness/attention to detail of Mike if I was going to buy a rod similar to this rod at retail I wouldn't be surprised or felt taken advantage of for a rod in, or above the NRX price range of 550 retail. From this point forward I'll be slowly replacing all of my rods with DVT rods. Thank you Mike for all of your hard work, and quality work. Please, don't hesitate to place an order with this man. You won't be disappointed, I surely was not.

I'm a huge st croix fan, after the mojo series until the newest mojo was released. If I was going towards the lower end of st croix I'd take the Fenwick over it personally.

I personally think you can get away with throwing a frog on the bigger rod easier than you will with pulling bass out of thick cover. With that said this is entirely a personal preference decision. I use jigs significantly more than a frog. I'd go with the bigger one first.

2x for natural colored keitech swimbaits.