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^i have a cardiff without drag clicker. Any tips?

Start by NOT throwing the sunfish

Christie craws here

Ninja works great

I use a eagle claw 3way swivel and a owner cps spring. The basstrix style tail kicks a lot more water and noise than the teckel imo. It also runs more consistent, my teckel requires a pop to get the tail running, after that it switches from spinning counter clockwise to spinning clockwise mid return killing the action sometimes. My homemade one spins the same direction everytime and does not require a pop to start spinning

I bought an original teckel and i also made my own using a 3-way swivel and a shadilicious tail. The verdict is my homemade lure runs a lot better than the teckel. I think its the tail that made the difference

Most of my combos are $80 rods paired to $100 reels. I have never felt ive needed more and i do really good in local tourneys. Ive had more expensive setups but never felt an advantage do i settled on the $100 mark.

i made one using a pad crasher, eagle claw 3 say swivel, split ring a owner cps keeper. i used a shadilicious tail and work awesome at any speed. probably not the most cost effective but works if you have trouble finding teckel tails

lews wont dissapoint, i have most of the reels in their lineup and i usually have them on deck

shock is decent, the best at that price

i had that one, ripped after 1 use

lews superduty widespool, it is everything you are looking for

i am very patient, i usually throw senkos, keitechs and frogs all day. sometimes ill venture out to whopper ploppers, jigs and the occational spinnerbait but not often. its hard for me to change baits when my senko/frog pattern works so well

i just use a regular magellan back pack from academy, $20. i keep- 1 plano hook and sinker box 1 plano full with topwaters 1 plano full with reaction type lures and jigs and in the smaller compartment i keep all my soft plastics

dont feel too bad, i lost a big one today at lake austin. got a hit on the wp 110 and one of the trebles got on a branch. i had a fish on one hook and a tree on the other. the tree won

the new zoom frogs look like they are worth a try

cliffs- RIP orange stix i dont think they will be missed around here

shimano and lews have taken care of me and within a few weeks i had my new rods. i expect the same from diawa, although im not sure warranty covers a broken rip due to user error

a mh f will be optimal but id bump up to 50lb braid. i use a 7ft medium heavy lews tp1 stick. seems perfect to me

i have 6 of them. none of them have ever broken. no guides have ever been damaged. well worth the asking price. maybe he got a bad one?

lews mach 1 combo will serve you well

all lefty here. tried righties but couldnt get used to em

although i disagree most people on here think diawa>shimano

go with 15 or 20lb braid and you will have less problems

any abu garcia medium heavy will frog well