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If any of you guys have a source for some of those tiny swings heads, please shoot me a PM. Heck, I would take a lead on 1/16 shroom heads with #2-4 hooks as well. I have a bad feeling about how long my order from Gopher is taking and I have yet to find a good place to get smaller hooked heads from.

Ah, got you. Thanks for the info, I can't stand the palomar, so I will skip getting a second spool.

I wanted to try the X8 but for some dumb reason bought the 14lb, which is so thin I could sometimes close my eyes and not be able to tell if I had a strand of it between my fingers. It did cast a mile but I couldn't knot it in any sort of wind and my leader knots tended to break often enough that I scrapped it. I do still wanna give it a real go, what thickness did you go for?

I want to like them, and have caught a few fish on them, but I seem to have more luck with spinnerbaits and swimjigs.

Half a Zlinker, or one of the Zman leeches. I am also going to give the Producto Tournament Grub a try this year;

Looks like it! Very nice! I have been the dink-master for the last few days, but hope springs eternal.

I have been fishing this rig (but with a 1/0 stright shank) for the last two days, I must be young at heart. I think I am going to get some Slider heads to use next time though, the urge to start working it fast is too strong to resist when it is weightless.

You are like 2 hours from Susquehanna Fishing Tackle, which is like a little slice of bass-heaven. They should carry what you need. It's a long drive, but you will pass a lot of great water on the way there and back. Exactly. I think people get hung up on exact definitions. I fish the "Ned" on a weedless Owner Ultra/Decoy Nail Bomb head most of the time. Does it work as well as a short, open hooked head? Nope, but it works well enough and saves me time, money, and keeps more litter out of the water. While I know and believe this, I get all fussy if it isnt straight. Well, you gotta ask them quickly as once they peddle past you, they can't turn around to come back and answer!

I use the 3" ones the most for creek fishing and 5" ones for more normal stuff. I have never had any luck with the 4" ones, I can't seem to find a hook that gives them any action on a t-rig and for wacky, I have found that the 4" Ocho worm works a lot better.

Man, I have caught a pile of bass while dead sticking a Ned and they were all hooked on the side of the mouth, or just inside it. It makes sense that they could easily swallow such a small lure, but I have never seen it happen.

Do you know which model it is? I got it a year or two ago from some huge lot on eBay, and I don't remember the manufacturer and model. I think it's a Strike King maybe?

I was fishing a small pond the other day the only thing they would bite was a pink colored roboworm. I was fishing them on a Neko rig and a slider head. The neko was wining, I believe due to the tail having more action and being higher up In the water when retrieved quickly. As each worm became a little too ripped to hold Neko style, I would switch to a chicken rig, using the hook to bridge the weak spot where the Neko hook had pulled out a few times. It got hit pretty often, but the plastic would be ruined after a single good hit.

I am heading out to fish the canal for a day or so. Going to start at Swains and keep going north until I find fish. I have caught like ten bass in the last two days, but they were all under 12". The big ones have to be around somewhere, right?

Had a long, almost fruitless day yesterday in Charles county. Hit a few spots, everywhere was muddy and there was little signs of grass or pads. Managed a single dink on a WP 90 right at dusk in Myrtle Grove. Today I went to get my reservoir pass and fished the bank at Rocky Gorge for a bit. I was walking the bank throwing a lipless crank when I saw this dead shad. I thought "man, I have a lure that looks just like that" and tied it on. About three casts later, I got this fella; If I am only going to get one, this is it's a bad one to get.

Yea, I am regretting not picking one up. I want a heavy-ish reel with an SV spool for a 7'5" frog rod, an Alphas 150H at 8.11oz is too heavy (and too big for me to plam) and a Zillion SV feels too light at like 6.8oz.

I started looking at them the other day as well, but I can not find righty sv103 reels for anywhere near $200. I think I missed the boat.

Cant speak to 1, but as for 2, I have had some luck stepping up to like a 12-15lb floro leader on windy days and still caught fish. You want to use a loop knot to maximize the lure's action and I use a very short leader to keep the knot out of as many guides as possible, as the knot will be chunky.

Got you, I was thinking of someone with outdoor space. I went out this morning to try them out. Both are pretty hard for me to cast with any real accuracy, but after an hour or so I could at least hit a weed line at 40-50'. The 68 has an amazing action on a super slow retrieve, I really wish I had made it out to this spot within a few days of the last trout stocking. It runs through sparse pads very well, but I think less expensive lure like a RI Big Dipper might be a more practical option for that presentation. I think it's real value is going to be running open areas, once I get more skilled in casting it. I didn't get any attention from fish on it, but had a rather large turtle follow it for a few retrieves. I have a bad feeling that this lure is going to meet it's end to a snapper. The gill was less impressive at first, with little action at low speed and only a very subtle one at a quick retrieve. But after running it through a group of actual gills and scattering them, it does like very very much like a scared gill just hauling butt away. It also skips very well and I quickly improved my close range accuracy with it. It seems much less weedless then the 68, both the actual hook and the more prominent fins. I think this one will see more use than the 68, as sunfish of that size are very common in most of the spots I fish. Because I use my frog rod to throw these, I am going to need to get a second spool so I can swap out while fishing. I can see carrying it to use when I find a spot of clear water in the summer while out frogging. Now I just need to think up a way to carry them when hiking. I can only carry a single 3600 box in my pack, and that gill is big. I am thinking something like a thick and semi rigid plastic envelope maybe?

I second the vote for a small tube of silicone caulk. A dot in each corner should hold pretty well, or you could squeeze a small amount to the track if you really want it locked in there. Either one would still be removable if you wanted to later.

Are you looking for indoor storagw or would outdoor work?

My spinning reels do, but my casting reels just have capacity per pound.

I strongly wish that more reels were marked with capasity per line diameter, not the absurd "pound test as diameter" stuff.

What belt pack do you have? I currently have a medium sized sling that fits a single 3600 box and maybe 3-4 bags of plastics and a handfull of hard baits, and a small chest pouch that holds a small 5-slot plano, 1-2 bags of plastics, and maybe 3-4 hard baits. I use the sling for short trips where I will be close to my car and the chest pack in conjunction with a small hiking day pack when I am going several miles.

Actually I also want a plastic needle-like applicator tip too, like a tiny caulk tube tip. I wanna be able to get the scent way up into tubes and biffle bugs.

It has started. Bought a cheap Basszone 100mm handle for my Zilllon SV to see if I like longer handles. The knobs it came with are kinda awful feeling, but I cant get the sim stack right to fit my factory knobs. I have them close but there is still some side to side play. I was thinking about getting some SLP non-coated cork knobs in any case, I assume they will come with some shims? If not, what size and thickness am I looking to buy? My calipers are MIA at the moment. The rod is a CR723, I bought the combo to get myself to give jigs a try. Secondary uses are chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, and light frogging/pitching for spots where my longer combos are too cumbersome. I do a lot of hike-in fishing and wanted a short rod for that. I spent last season in a finesse rut so I wanted to shake things up a bit. Right now I am running 11lb Invizx but when it is done I am going to switch to 30lb J-Braid as a backer under about a cast and a half of 12lb Shooter floro. I still backlash often enough that it would be a waste of money to use more expensive line, but I want the added sensitivity of a good floro to help me learn jigs. The use of braid as backer is to allow me, if I am several miles from my car, to fish through a bad backlash that ruins all my main line. I always carry a small spool of leader, so I can finish out the day and respool when I get home. This also happened; I got some cheap finesse knobs to dress up my PX68. I have know idea if I will like them, but they were cheap enough to try. The reel has a DYI spool and Air BFS bearings installed as well. I have it on a Kuying Teton 6' UL rod. This combo is a blast, with 4lb mono, it will throw a 1/16oz trout spinner as far as my 6'6" UL spinning combo. However, my skill is not yet really up to it, so I have moved up to 1/8oz spinners until I train my thumb a little more. I have only caught a few stocker trout with it so far, but plan to use it for panfish and perch this season as well.