fishwizzard

I have been looking at the Avid AVC62MXF for jerkbaits, the shorter length appeals to me and I like the idea of the XF action for both jerks and tubes/small jigs the rest of the year.

That is nuts, did they both hit at once, or did one try to steal the lure from the other after it was hooked?

Oh god, that sounds like the most unpleasant thing ever. Actually, no, the most unpleasant thing ever would be the car ride home with the guy who wore his drysuit in the summer.

It's like a Power Bar, but instead of being like kinda gross taffy, it is more like a kinda gross cookie.

Kayak trolling for striped bass is a big deal where I live. There are some older guys I know who think nothing of spending 4-5 hours pedaling around. I am more of an "anchor up in a cove and catch a hundred perch" kinda guy, but they seem to do very well at it.

Your best bet is to find a demo day, or a find someone on a local forum who will let you demo their boat for a six pack or whatever. As for a stable, lighter yak, I have a Native Slayer 10. It is 10' long and ~35" wide and weighs around 60lb without the peddle drive or seat. It a great little yak, very stable. The only issues with it are, 1) Any kind of wind spins it all over, it is like a plastic bathtub, and 2) the width makes it a little tricky to load/unload and to get my cart strapped on. They are also pretty expensive, but are really nice to fish from.

Zoom Super - .285oz, or around 1/4 to 5/16 Yammie D-Shad - .358oz, or around 5/16 to 3/8 The SK one who's name I forget - .424oz, or just under 7/16 5" Senko - .345oz, or around 5/16 to 3/8

I am curious to see what happens to the prices on the old Royga 1016s and the SV variant they came out with a few years ago. They are both still around $300-400 on ebay.

I don't need that Ryoga, but I want that Ryoga.

If it is cold enough to want insulation, I will be in a drysuit, so all I need is a big floppy rain hat. I looked around for a standalone rain hood, but they are not common and the one I found would not fit my fat head. I am looking at getting a PFD with a built in hood for next season as the hat is annoying and I still get water on my neck if I wiggle around much. In the summer I just wear a rain hat and let myself get soaked if it is hot out or waders and a light hiking raincoat under the PFD if it is cooler, but that gets really hot and is never much fun.

I have used this things from Monar Hooks to try an idea like that; It works, but it is a PIA and using a sinker with a nice wide wire loop is far far easier. I have a small pile of the other insert weights that were posted and none of them work as well as a sinker. The only issue with the sinker is fit, but if you use a little megastrike as lube you can get them in some pretty tight tubes, it actually give them a cool gobie-like look.

It's purple and chartreuse that gets me, so the Trotters Craw gets my vote among the new colors.

Well, at the very least you have a nice rod with a good warranty, the remorse will fade with time and you will still have a great rod. Yea, I think I can find a home for it as a hiking/small water rod. I ended up (via USPS shenanigans) getting it NIB for like $60, which is crazy for any IMX rod. I used to have a Tsunami Tuff Tip L/F rod when I first started out fishing. It was around $30-50 and was great until I broke the tip trying to lift a ~1.5lb smallie 15' out of a canal. It worked far better for small plastics then the Premier I replaced it with. I have never heard much of the brand, but alot of the MD tackle shops carry it, so I guess it is more of a saltwater thing.

I used it for throwing 1/8 to 3/16 spinnerbaits/inline spinners at white perch and pickerel in the tidal rivers around here. It is a great rod for that, but I got hit with the BFS bug and how have a casting combo that does the same job, but is more fun to fish with. I want a UL/L spinning rod for tiny plastics like a 1/32oz Trout Slayer up to like a 3" senko (~3/16). The Premier was not great for that in my experience.

Oh, you know what, I have an St Ctrox Premier in L/F that I bought a few years ago but is too soft for what I want it for. I keep meaning to sell it, but it's not worth shipping. If you want to give it and the weird-o Loomis a spin, shoot me a PM. If you like the St Croix I would sell it for a very decent price. If you end up loving the Loomis we could work something out, but that little turd of a rod is so compelling to me for some reason, I really want to like it.

I too have been hunting around for a UL or L spinning rod with a Fast or XFast action. I ended up winning an ebay auction for a Loomis SJR 6400. It's a 5'4" rod listed as "Mag-Light" with a range of 1/64 - 1/8. I have no idea what is going on with it as I cannot get it to load with anything much under 1/8oz and it seems fine with lure up to around 1/4oz or more. It does have a nice tip and a ton of backbone, but it does not feel at all like the other, heavier XF rods I have handled. I honestly have no idea how I feel about it. It seems way too heavy for the little panfish jigs I wanted to throw with it, but it is so weird I want to figure out what it's good for. It feels like it will be a great little rod for small stream fishing with small t-rigged plastics, so I am going to give it a try for that once it warms up, but the experence has made me leery of blind-buying another UL/XF rod.

Right now it's 8lb neon Suffix to 12lb Invisix. I like a thick leader to keep the lure down a little more and for pickerel protection. I have tried various 6-8lb floros and was not super pleased with any of them, but I do use a 1000 sized reel on my ned combo. I am going to give some 6lb monos a go over the summer as I dislike the sound of a leader knot hitting the guides.

Man, that looks sharp as hell.

This is pretty much me. I saved up and bought a GLX MBR and the longer handle on it is killing me. I am going to fish it through until the spring to see if not having five layers on helps, but if not some on here is going to get a good deal on it used!

Very nice! I was all set to go out yesterday, but the wind here was strong enough to almost pull my rods out of my hand when carrying them to the car, so I gave up and drank eggnog in front of the fire instead.

That is the line I was using and how I would fish them, but once I stepped up to a 6 power MB and 15lb Sniper, I started making most all of my hooksets. Maybe it's true!

I will second that size 36 seems to fit trick worms very well, but I have started using heat shrink tubing and it is the best "worm saver" I have found yet. It is more fussy to get it on and shrunk w/o melting the worm a bit, but once it's on there, your hook is not going to leave that worm. I fish wacky worms on a baitcaster and every so often I get an unrecoverable backlash when the worm flies off the hook during a cast. I took an old ragged senko, stuck some heat shrink on it, and spent about 45 min casting it around my yard into various hard "targets". The hook never moved, even when the worm ripped in half right at the edge of the shrink. I bought a little pocket torch and it makes getting the heat shrink set in the wind really easy. I use 3/8" shrink for both senkos and trick worms. The trick worms are a little more heat resistant then the senkos, so it's still easy to get it shrunk down, although honestly you don't really need to shrink them much, if at all. The tubing is really tough for how thin it is and for senkos I will sometimes just slide it on and fish it like that.

I am not sold on a Loomis 3 power rod, or atleast the MBR line, being powerful enough for a Fat Ika. Or rather, I have never found a hook that will both fit the Ika and be made of thin enough wire that I could get good hooksets with a 3 power. It's frustrating as they cast/pitch an Ika very well, but I was having real issues this past summer with hooksets that went away once I moved to a more powerful rod. This was with it rigged "backwards" using an 4/0 Beast and 5/0 Riggin as my main two hooks, but I did try a few standard wire EWGs and they we not much better and gave far far worse plastic life. I will freely admit it might just be me being bad at hooksets

I took the sensible path and just removed the rear seat from my little crossover. I can fit a 6'6" rod fully in the back, everything else sticks up between the console and the passenger seat, which isnt ideal, but works well enough as I mostly drive/fish alone.

I have used a CR723 IMX and now a MBR 783 GLX as my "all around" bank fishing rods and I more or less feel the same. They may not be the best at any one thing but both are pretty great at everything I have tried them with. My nephew is going to get a E6X 783C MBR for Christmas tomorrow (my sister asked what a "good" rod for him would be, kid is gonna owe me) and from the little bit I got to play with it, the taper/power seems right in line with the GLX version.