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The only bladed jigs I care to throw anymore is Mike's. I always have one tied on and have had some super productive days with them.

I haven’t had any issues with sensitivity with my Dobyns rods. However, all my bottom contact techniques use the HP series and the rest I use the XP series. The main thing that attracted me to Dobyns was their warranty and customer service.

I always rig them with a Moaner Swimbait hook and it works for me. I think the most important thing is making sure you have them rigged perfectly straight.

A DC735 is going to be a pretty stout rod for what you are wanting to use it for. Most people use that rod as a frog rod. I use DX744 rods for jigs and texas rigs and a DX743 for lighter stuff. A DC744 is probably what you are looking for. It would be excellent for jigs, texas rigs and toads. I prefer using my DC734 for moving baits like spinnerbaits, chatterbaits and buzz baits but it works for jigs and texas rigs too. Best advice would be to call or email Dobyns and tell them what you are looking for. They are great at answering questions about their rods and love talking about them.

Wasn’t planning on switching to Sniper FC quite yet, but a 1200 yard spool of 16lb for $80 was too hard to pass up when I realized the “PLAYFUL15” code was still working for ALF.

It is the 24 rod holder. Holds 12 rods with the reels attached since you have to space them out. It is the exact one 78staff linked. Can’t remember the brand, but it doesn’t have any markings on it anyway. One of the reasons I ordered it since I did not want any logos showing on it. The auction site also has some with different color foam.

I picked one of them up last year from Amazon except different name brand. Got mine free with Amazon credit. What I found out while looking online was that specific rod rack seems to go by a lot of different names. Same rack, just rebranded. It is light, but works fine for it’s purpose.

This is what I use as well. Great jig...

What is sensitive to someone else might feel like a dead weight to you. Personally, my jig rod is a Dobyns Extreme DX745. But a buddy has the Champion DC744 and he loves it.

Dobyns responded to me multiple times relatively quickly when I inquired about their rods. Gary and Richard both took the time to explain their rods and their preferred uses in a detailed way that answered all the questions I had. If you need an answer quickly, a phone call is probably your best option. I don’t own any Sierra rods, but have heard they are similar to the Champions and better than the Savvy series they replaced. They should be a bump up from the Fury series for sure.

I normally take Powerade and water with me. If I drink a bottle of Powerade first, I drink a bottle of water next. Powerade is good for rehydration, but it will also make you dehydrate much faster so it is better to alternate it with water. Bananas is an excellent source of potassium and light on your stomach.

Having handled several Burmese Pythons in the 15 foot range, I would say it would be impossible without having someone nearby to help. You would normally need to start unwrapping from the tail and that poor woman was likely ambushed. Most of my friends that worked with large pythons made sure to always have someone nearby in case of emergency when handling these reptiles. I've handled some as small as 13 foot that made me feel a little uneasy just by the sheer amount of muscle and constriction I felt while they were just hanging out on my shoulders.

I can't imagine how terrifying that had to be for the poor woman. As someone that had quite a few pythons and boas at one time, I know all too well about it.

That's crazy and I was a little skeptical at first. Most of these stories end up being fake, but I did a little research and came across the video that goes with this article. Pretty gruesome video and I was surprised it was allowed on YouTube. That's a huge python and it's rare to see them. From what I gathered from the article, it sounds like she might have been out at night since she was carrying a flashlight.

Sorry to hear about this. This happens way too often nowadays and it's very sad.

I never lie to my wife about going fishing. Her best friend got me into bass fishing and most of the time, I am fishing with one of her friends anyway. I don't even lie about the rods and reels and tackle I buy often. She always tell me that as long as the bills are paid, she doesn't care. Trust is very important to a relationship, so why risk losing it in the first place.

Pretty sure that is only for returns to Dobyns. It automatically puts Dobyns’ address on the label when printed. Otherwise they would be losing a lot of money with people printing labels to ship somewhere else.

It would only matter if you tried to profit from the sale of them.

It is enforceable. If you infringe on any patents Z Man owns, you will most likely end up with a cease and desist letter. They have sued several companies for litigation and won. It’s pretty simple though, don’t use their blade design and don’t label them with the chatterbait name and you should be in the clear. If you aren’t trying to sale them, then none of this likely matters.

They don’t call them chatterbaits. They call them bladed jigs and also use a different blade design since Z Man has a patent on the coffin blade.

You can get a lot of pretty good reels in that range on the auction site. Lew's Tournament Pro and Shimano Curado K come to mind. I recently switched from the Lew's because I wanted to try something different. I decided to go with the Tatula SV103 and those things are pretty smooth right out of the box.

Welcome and glad to see another fellow from MS.

Might want to check out Van's Sporting Goods. They have a pretty huge selection of hunting and fishing stuff. It's real close to the Bass Pro in Pearl. Being on the MS/LA line would probably put you about an hour from me, so that would be about a two hour drive.

Chatterbaits are often referred to as bladed jigs.

I just recently sold all my rods and reels locally because I wanted to change brands. My plan was to sell my rods and keep my reels. I had all kinds of ridculous offers and even had people trying to buy my rod holder as well. But the main one was everyone wanting me to include all the Lew’s Tournament Pros with them as well. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of shipping multiple rods and was about to just keep all my setups when a guy messaged me with an $800 offer for all the rods and reels. I kindly messaged him back and explained the reels were worth that alone and couldn’t do it. Probably took him about ten seconds to message me back with a $1200 offer. I countered with $1300 and he even offered to come pick them up but I decided to meet him half way. I think it is natural for most people to offer something ridiculous to gauge how motivated you are to sell. I see people all the time sell stuff way below it’s value. Any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I took a little less than I wanted, but would have probably had to take even less to ship them all to different buyers and then hope the rods made it without getting damaged. I found out someone had stolen all his rods out of his boat.