NYWayfarer

Those new Biospawn Exoswims might be worth looking at. If they are made of the same material as the Exosticks they should last awhile. I have seen someone use them on YouTube and the action of the tail is fantastic.

Some of my local waters were stocked yesterday. I caught 3 brook trout after dinner last night. Not bad for a short 1 hour fishing trip.

I have rigged them where the hook point is on the top of the worm. IMO this gives the worm the max tail shimmy on the drop through the water column.

Visited the upper Hudson River near exit 20 of the Northway on Saturday. Fished from shore. Slow jerkbait and Dragging and deadsticking a Carolina rigged Zoom Trick worm. Nothing. Water temps were in the high thirties. I went to a local pond on Sunday. I saw schools of Sunfish and a few Pickerel. Dangled a jig in front of them for close to an hour without anything other than a nibble. An hour of sight fishing sunnies, this is how desperate I am for the first fish of 2018!

I agree it depends on the model. With some research you will find the exclusive reel is the same model as a reel already in the company's line-up with a different paint job. I have seen this with Lew's and Pflueger.

Great advice! I agree with all of this it is spot on. Try to use the lightest clear line you can get away with. I use 4lb P-Line Florokote. I drop down to 2lb from time to time. Ultra-light or light action rod with a size 1000 reel.

Who loves ya baby! The man that made bald cool, Telly. I still have a full head of hair. I get a haircut once a month. Wash it, a dab of Brylcreem and comb and I am ready to go. Hair styles and shaving are becoming a thing of the past it seems. Most guys around here prefer chin and head stubble. Everyone looks the same.

KVD L&L or Reel Snot make Big Game line memory virtually disappear. Just remember to treat the line the night before you go fishing.

Nothing is better than a Crown Royal bag, nothing!!!!! Seriously I thought I was the only one who did this until your post. Great excuse to buy a bottle because you need a reel cover. A little tip from me. Different flavors of Crown have different color bags. For example Crown Royal Maple has a brown bag rather than the regular purple. Helps differentiate your reels.

I agree, it wasn’t complicated...until I dropped it while it was open. I still haven’t found all the parts

I bought the 6’6” light action Calamus rod for Trout fishing. Specifically for throwing 1/8 oz Leland Trout Cranks. Just a a heads up, if you are a member of the Kastking inner circle your discount was more than the 10% offered here and on Facebook/YouTube.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info! Keep up up the great work. I love your products. Best bang for the buck out there!

If you have done basic maintenance (oil spool bearings and worm gear) you should be fine. If I feel it necessary to open the other side to get at the gears that’s when I would consider sending it away for a deep cleaning. When I tried it myself it didn’t go so well. Lucky it was a reel that cost less than $50

I was looking at the Calamus line for trout fishing. I wish they had some of the longer rods with one piece blanks. I am also confused as they are marketing this as their ultralight line of rods but the have medium and medium heavy rods in the line up.

When all else fails I go to live bait. Nightcrawler or shiner. If they aren't eating live stuff it wasn't meant to be.

Fantastic deal!! That's the Dick's exclusive Mach Crush rod. Note the difference in colors from the regular rod, on the exclusive version the orange and black colors are reversed. I actually like this version better.

Methinks you answered your own question.

Can you give me an example of a sub $60 reel with this feature? I have a lot of BC reels that cost $100 and under from Daiwa, Pflueger, Quantum, Abu Garcia, Kastking and *** and none of them come with a cast control, spool tension knob that has a clickable adjustment.

Some of the higher cost baitcasters have features not available on your less expensive ones. After all a cheaper made reel has to sacrifice something to get the cost that low. For example my Revo has a cast control knob that clicks with every adjustment. My cheap casters don't and it is a feature I am finding it hard to live without. Makes dialing in the fall rate of a bait so much easier and accurate IMO. I have yet to see this feature available on a reel less than $150 Does it make me a better fisherman...maybe. It gives me a certain amount of confidence that what I am doing is correct. I will cast better and accuracy will improve. I would say that makes me a better fisherman.

I have only had one charge me at a local pond once, glad I was holding a rod. A quick whip crack to it's neck made it retreat. Not to hard as I didn't want to damage my rod, or the Gander (in that order) At work is a different story. We have a drainage pond next to our building which Geese flock to. They poop everywhere and people track it into the office on the bottom of their nice shoes. I shoo any Geese I see close to the doors away. Plenty of times the Ganders will display, hiss and charge. My briefcase comes in handy then. Makes me feel like one of those wrestlers that won the Money in the Bank pay per view.

You can cut the "claws" off the Rage Baby Menace and it will resemble a Z-Man TRD. I do this with my beat up Berkley Powerbait Power worms and it works.

I use fluorocarbon hybrid line (Kastking Fluorokote, P-Line Fluoroclear) 12# line for most of my baitcasters. I fish in extremely clear water and it seems to be the best line for the job when it comes to weightless Senkos type baits. I do have one high speed baitcaster that I run 30# braid on for pitching plastics around cover. I don't do weightless plastics with that on though.

You could have told your boss you had a great catfish bait and thrown a Ned rig. I have caught Cats and Smallies on it, More Smallies though. To use your analogy, you would still be drinking Bud light but it would have had a shot of Jim Beam dropped into it.

I have a Pelican sit-in Kayak and it is low to the water. I can't imagine fishing lower than that until I read your review. Belly-boats look like fun but I imagine I would have all the same issues with them after my first trip as well.

I was hoping that there was a meeting between the company involved and Glenn at the Bassmaster Classic to kiss and make up. Sadly it seems this was not the case.