Molay1292

Caught a ton of small mouth on them last year rigged on a shakey head, they have a lot of action and last a while.

I'm curious how you would know what any of the MLF contestants load in their boats?

The Ned rig does catch dinks, but you are very misguided if you believe that is all it will catch.

So what rod are you using?

Lucky Craft Tuna or Lucky Craft Soup?

I guess I am the other way around. I prefer the blue wraps. I like the polished unfinished blanks over the painted and cleared. No one uses the same color blue as the NRX and I find them very distinguishable among other rods. The green is the same all the way through the Shimano line and does not stand out at all.

Basically nothing, they are just very nice reels that enthusiast of fishing enjoy using.

I'll play your silly game

I could give a fork less

Interesting, how would you feel if you bought and paid for fried dumplings, but they brought you steamed?

Cool, if you use the same terms as that of the schematics, then the part with the foot is the side-plate and the portion that houses the gears and bearings the body. This all seems rather mis-leading.

The Shimano web-site advertises the FK as an all metal body and then go into detail about how much better it makes the reel. Are we 100% sure the body is not some form of metal alloy?

The LP is light, smooth and casts well. Not worth the retail price IMO, if you can pick one up lightly used they make a for a nice reel.

Hall of Fame is for great baseball players, not great people. It is a history of baseball's greatest players and their accomplishments. I think the guy that leads all of baseball in hits should have his place in the HOF, as well as the Red's HOF, the Big Red Machine would have been missing a major cog without Pete Rose.

TD Sol is a fantastic reel, buy yourself an alphas SV 105 spool and drop in it and you have yourself a real casting machine.

Not to argue, but I do have to disagree with this statement. I have several MG reels, some 15+ years old that still look fantastic. I can honestly say that none of the MG reels that I own show any unusual wear or corrosion. Anyone else?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Live minnow under a slip bobber is tough to beat.

A guy might ought to have a couple of jig setups if possible.

Two things I need to work on this year. First is boat positioning, the second is trusting my instinct. Sometimes I am fishing and I think to myself, self we should go try this spot or I see an area that looks promising and think I should stop and check that out. Well this year I am going to trust my instincts more.

Sounds familiar, I used to have a similar issue, too much tackle, too many choices. I called it paralysis by analysis, so what I did was just started taking a much smaller tackle bag with my confidence baits, and few others that I wanted to try or though may be productive. What I found was that often times just going smaller or slower was the ticket and those confidence baits worked well in all sizes. Good luck.

Care to share your thoughts on this? I have always used spinning reels where vertical bait presentation was important. I would be interested in how the TWS reduces the pendulum swing that you typically see with BC reels.

It slices, it dices, and makes jillions and jillions of fries. Ron P. could sell an iceberg to an Eskimo.

Are the cages in the Hawgtech bearings still made of plastic?

While MG is the lightest structural metal available, it has incredible dampening ability, as much as 10X greater than aluminum. They use it to mount very delicate electronic instruments in modern aircraft because it is so quiet. (as in no vibration) What I wonder about fishing reels is just how much MG is contained in the alloy the frames are made of. I would bet that it is not nearly as high as some would have you believe. The reason I mention this is that when you run dry ceramic bearings in a MG reel they almost always seem to be louder than in an AL reel.