TnRiver46

H20 express TWS has caught some nice striper and smallmouth for me

My buddy catches them on accident while casting magnum flukes on 2 oz jig heads for striper

I’ve got no clue what you mean i like backreel, it helps for diving smallmouth in deep water I’m not the only one, sorry if it makes people contrary. I’m not telling anyone not to use drag news flash: the drag is still set when you backreel

That’s a lot! I’m surprised the whole state isn’t underwater

I caught some bass on drop shot the first time I ever tried it, then again I have never tried it while bank fishing. I’ve seen a dock in a lot of your pics, maybe try dropping it straight down next to the dock posts?

Yeah man it’s a wild reverse hook set, all the rage

+1. We are the ones going against the flow, not following jumpers off a cliff.

I agree. If it helps you and me and hundreds of others, it's not "useless"

We are all well versed in your tactics by now haha

Money on the line, I doubt they are doing anything but trying to land it

Let's see how the hook set works with your free spinning drag

Thanks, I was beginning to think nobody watches pro fishing

You guys crack me up. Injured? Get real! Every single pro thumbs the spool when they have a bass over 2 lb or better bass on a treble hook bait. ALL OF THEM. Why? In order to not lose the fish. All the people on the forum trust drag but all the guys with money on the line don't??? They trust their instincts that are screaming "let him have more line"

Call it what you may and bust as many balls as you need, I can reel backwards faster than the drag can let line out. If you don't like back reel, why hang out in this thread??? Sure do see a lot of pros stripping drag off by hand , seems like they want more line out in those instances

That's your tale, I'm sitting on mine.... Loosen your drag enough to spin as fast as the rotor disengaged and you will catch zero fish I still have 2 knuckle buster baitcaster reels that the handle spins backwards when you cast

I would watch them while working on all my boats haha. Ole wheeler has caught many limits of 5 lb brown fish

How is a cheetah faster than an elephant? It just is. it only takes one time of forgetting to keep your hand on the reel handle to realize just how fast it can spin backwards

If you watch almost any professional, most of them disengage the spool on a baitcaster when a big fish is near the boat. I guess all those pros are just stupid for not trusting their drag? Maybe it's their outdated baitcasters? (Sarcasm)

Gotcha. I don't know if I've ever seen a pumpkinseed in person, I was just guessing from the red ear

I haven't seen anything yet

Prayers sent

I was scrolling through YouTube videos and saw this today....... not a video just a picture between all the videos sadly

Nice ones! I believe those are redear sunfish also known as shellcrackers

You may also fish however you please but I will keep backreeling/thumb barring. Obviously I’ve tried using drag before.........

I use backreel BECAUSE smallmouth are so fast, and I only use it on big ones not small ones.