Wurming67

I got a few of the other Dobyns and love them think I'm gonna go ahead and order another one for flipping thanks for replies guys!!

It's like a baseball bat,I'm in pretty good physical condition and have a physical job but after flipping with that rod for half hour my arm was hurting.....

I just recently got into flipping and I purchased a Berkley shock lighting rod 7'6 heavy rated for 3/4 oz- 3 oz with a one ounce tungsten and creature baits and it's kicking my butt using it.My question is will a more expensive lighter rod say Dobyns fury be less painful or is that just the way flipping is supposed to be painful?Or am I just getting old and beat up?Thanks guys!!

Off the topic but since I've joined this forum I've become more diverse of a fishermen and a better fishermen,using baits and techniques I never did before so thank you !!!

where I fish shiners and shad are very prevelant so I'm thinking of testing out those color schemes from what I read those are at the top of the bass menu,I'm a power fishermen never enjoyed fishing slow baits never put much thought into colors and have done pretty good till I joined this forum now thinking about using different colors.

My preliminary findings so far are with soft plastic baits that are fast moving baits toads, swimbaits etc color wasn't a big factor,slower moving baits worm,senko etc color was a factor.

I live in Florida also,you have 3 perfect setups especially using braid here in the cabbage.Your spinning rod I would use for senko,your 7ft use as trig rod worms,creature bait and soft swimbaits,your 7'6 rod I would use for frogs and toads.Just my opinion. PS- on your 7'6 if you decide to make it a frog/ toad rod when it's time to change line I would recommend 50 or 65 lb braid on that one others are fine. Pss-Some bait suggestions that seem to work good here in Florida zoom uvibe worms,rage craws,gambler big eze swimbaits,Gambler cane toad,booyah pad crushers for frogs.

Which state do you live in?

I think it's awesome how 90 percent of the people responded to this thread to hear other prospectives,it's made me step out of my box and try something different I think that's what's awesome about this forum not the ones be littling people or bragging how great of a bass fishermen they are if you are that good you don't need to let everyone know join flw ,mlf or bassmasters and show us on TV how great you are.

I'm a pretty open minded guy I spent like a $100 on different colors of baits I have success with and going to apply those colors to water conditions and see if I notice a difference.Cant tell you guys what baits they are cause they were specially made for me once I win the bassmaster classic and sign a huge endorsement deal than I will reveal them,you guys are gonna have to keep buying the same baits as every other fishermen.

Lol!!! I've fished my whole life stained water and for the most part have used June bug and black and blue colors lately white has been working so I bought some other colors green pumpkins and watermelons to see what happens I'm no professional fishermen by any means I do it for strictly enjoyment and love being on the water I generally do pretty decent but I believe it's just finding them just my humble opinion.

What baffles me is how good white works and I generally fish stained water and sometimes clear water.Main reason I use it cause I can see the fish eat it easier. I just bought some baits I have really good success with in white and bought them in June bug and watermelon to test this theory.

Just because ?

I'm throwing white baits only from now on?

This thread has taken a direction I didn't expect that's sad.I was just curious if some of you threw a certain colored bait because you just have a ton of confidence in it or you throw a certain color bait because of a certain water condition.Thats all?????

My bad ,what I'm trying to say is do throw a certain color bait because you have confidence in that color or your throw a certain color because of the water is dark,stained,clear,murky etc..

yes if u think the color u choose is confidence u have in that color or.no it has to do with color of situation.....

I seem to good with white in clear or murky water .

I believe it's a confidence thing bass are predators living in the wild they have 3 functions survive,eat and reproduce they don't think about it or analalyze they react.Just my opinion I'm not an expert.

What are your thoughts on color? Do you think it's just a confidence thing or does it really apply to different water claritys?

Love the Daiwa tatula awesome reel,BP's qualifier 2 nice reel

I put the BPS 6.8:1 reel as my toad reel didn't think there was that much of a difference between 6.8 and 7.1 plus the quality of bps seems better than the Lew's carbon blue and put tatula 6.3 as my soft swimbait reel.Think it was right move?

Thanks for the reply! I was thinking needed more speed for toad,but after thinking about it the soft swimbait would be good with 6.3:1

Need your opinion.I have a BPS pro qualifier 2 that has a gear ratio of 6.8:1 on my soft body swim bait rod and a Daiwa tatula CT 6.3:1 on my toad rod both are on Dobyns fury rods ,I got two Inexpensive Lew's blue carbon reels7.3:1, I was thinking of switching them out to the Lew's cause of the higher speed,what would you do?

$1 Walmart spinner bait,get about 20 bass out of it or one mudfish ?