fishwizzard

Try the Robos on the smallest Owner Ultra heads. They are so soft and thin that you give up little in the way of hooksets but gain weedless-ness and imho a better gliding swim due to the angle of the line tie.

Nice dude. My nephew is visiting next week and I had wanted to take him to the canal. He is becoming quite the little catfisherman so I wanted to give him a shot at the Potomac while also letting him try going for a bass. Sadly I think the rain is going to rule that out, hopefully somewhere around here will be fishable by midweek.

I used hula stickz a lot and had good luck with them but have moved back to the half zinker for open hook use and the trds for weedless use. The zlinkers need the surface area of the mushroom head to get a good glue bond and are too soft to stay rigged weedless for long. Honestly the zman plastics are not great for weedless rigging so when I need to go that route I am more likely to use the plastics and jigheads I posted earlier.

I have a Phenix 682, a Major Craft GEC 63ML, and a Loomis CR721. I rotate through them trying to find my idea light/medium light casting rod. I use them for small plastics and cranks when fishing more open areas. I still use a ML spinning combo for tighter quarters and smaller waters where casting distance is irrelevant. I have not had any real issues loosing fish on any of them once I made sure to use thinner hooks. Even though the CR721 can throw light jigs, I was never able to get good hook sets with it unless I picked jigs based on hook thickness. I was initially looking for two rods, one for plastics and one for small cranks, but I am starting to think that I can use a single rod for both.

I cannot get my head around how Loomis rates their rods. I have two from the same series, a CR721 IMX and a CR723 IMX and they both seem to cast best right around 3/8oz. The Light rod does not cast well near it's lower end and the Medium Heavy seems over-powered with a total lure weight over 1/2oz. One of them is going to end up as my senko rod, I just can't decide which.

It looks to me like a rage menace with part of the head trimmed to make it shorter.

I also have an sv105 that I fish with light 6-10lb line. I have found broken line when working out a backlash before. I agree that it is from loops that get in the line from previous casts. I had this happen a lot when I was fishing smaller rivers and trying to pitch light plastics into still pockets behind log jams. I would get a lot of loose line and if I wasn't on top of pulling them out I would end up with a broken line the first time I had a real backlash.

Got another early morning bass on a chatterbait. I am really getting some confidence with them now, they are really taking the place on spinnerbaits for me. I also saw this sign at Allen Pond. If they nuke the pond I am gonna be pretty ticked. I spent a little time casting around the shallow pads but didn't get a hit.

cgolf, that is an interesting collection of colors, I never hear much about guys using the white plastics with the Ned. I have a pack of pearl Hula Sticks I was going to try and use for schoolie striped bass and pickerel but I haven't gotten to it yet.

This is why I can't blind order a club sandwich without asking questions, people got some weird ideas about what one is these days. I am am bit Ned Rig/MWF believer. But I think it is more the retrieved then the exact lure. So long as the lure is more or less the same (very light jighead, small, buoyant plastic). I think if you are going with an open hook jighead the smaller the better, but I fish this little kit of tackle; Using the MWF retrieves and do pretty well when the fish want a slightly larger lure or I want to fish faster current.

That is odd, did he not try, or was it rejected?

DOA makes a range of short-shank jigheads from like 1/16 to 1oz.

That is something an OEM manufacturer would do though. But I imagine that the rest of the marketing package in their booth would make it pretty clear what was going on, it would eather be a "Wanna sell our awesome baits?" or "Wanna hire us to make your awsome baits?" type pitch, so I am sure the ICAST lawyers had more info then us to go on.

Huh, I have had one for about 6 months and it is still sharp as ever. Have you cut anything other than line with it? I ruined a different cutter by using it on fiber weedguards.

I have a Zillion SV TWS and I like it far less than I do the other Daiwa reels I own. It doesn't feel as sturdy or smooth as the other ones and is less comfortable to palm then an sv103 or sv105.

I got into bass fishing on the C&O canal around Potomac MD. It is a great bass fishery when the water is high and clear. It is so-so when it is high and stained and pretty awful when it is low. The canal is great as there is a huge amount of cover and structure to cast to, parts of it look like they were designed as largemouth habitat. The part from Swain's Lock up to Riley's Lock is a great place to start. The water level issue is a pain for me as I am like an hour plus away, but if you are close it is worth it to stop by to check. The recent rains will have it very muddy from runoff but in a day or so it should be good to go.

Oh, it would be, which is why I am not likely to buy it. In addition to issues of storage and general handling, the length of the butt section would mess with seated casting, especially when wearing a PFD. But, I think it would be good for a bunch of spots on some of the rivers around Annapolis, especially for schoolie stripers, and while I don't fish salt often enough to justify buying it, I would love to fish it for an afternoon.

Oh man, why do I click these threads, they have a discontinued Savvy 9'6" ML/F spinning rod that sounds like it would be a blast for fishing long stretches of riprap out of my kayak.

Hah, call the consulate and complain, maybe I can get a free trip over there for the trial, it would be fun to loose some lures on the other side of the Atlantic!

Yes, the bail snaps shut and your lure keeps flying. The lack of the wire means you have to manually move the line onto the roller after the cast. For lobbing a sonar out there it should not slow you down too much.

Neither of those options are out of the question, but my friend saw them too!

If you are going to use a cheap spinning reel, cut the bail wire off. I have sent a few heavy saltwater lures sailing to portugal when the bail on my surf reel snapped shut during the cast.

That describes every good spot I know of around here. Observed an odd thing the other day. I decided to hit the North Track of Pax Refuge and at one of the ponds I observed 3 different pairs of large bass sitting in very shallow open water right up at the bank in different spots around the pond. It was like 90 out and cloudless. I assume the spawn is long over and I was consistently catching other bass throwing lures way up under shaded cover and under pads, which is what I expected. When I noticed the shallow bass I would cast to them and they would hit the lure violently, but I was unable to hook any of them. Any idea what was going on?

I have a pair of Costas in the discontinued yellow lense and a pair of Smiths in their pink "ignitor" lenses. I got them both from online deal sites so nighter of them fit especially well, but I like them both a lot. I am still looking for a pair that actually fits me well, but I found that I really prefer lenses with high contrast and high light transmission. To me the main advantage of the more expensive glasses is the scratch resistance. I have like a dozen pairs of cheaper polarized glasses and they all have scratched super easily, while my two nice ones have had the same level of treatment and use and are still both completely clear.

The yak only weighs 50lbs, but the drive and seat have to be around half that added on top. It's a fun little boat.