CroakHunter

I'm in! $10 for fish 5-8lbs 10% of any tourney winnings $50 for a fish over 8lbs Wish I would've read this thread a long time ago.

After 7 months of not having any "mommy and daddy" time. We finally snuck out of the house and had a good meal and a few cold ones.

Limited tackle for sure for me. I have 2-3 colors of everything and I feel like that's all I need. Natural, black, white. Now that I have expanded my arsenal to 14 rods I sometimes forget how I did it with just 2 or 3

I've heard dobyns sells pre-paid packing labels for rods does anyone know if it's true?

I'd love to see that. Also id love to see them fish patoka. Because it would be a dink fest, until someone got lucky and dialed in a super weird pattern and landed a few 6-8lbers

I second the cxx. My favorite way to fish is to pitch to the nastiest lay downs/wood cover and I use 17lb cxx as leader material for that application and have had 6lb+ fish wrap me up and the line held great. 1 side note to cxx is it is a bit larger in diameter than other lines.

Most quality mono has the same or less stretch than fluoro. I say go copoly or mono

I wouldn't replace the aird, it's a good rod. Especially for what you have it designated for. Why not add an inexpensive Berkley lightning shock 7ft mh for throwing spinnerbaits and chatterbaits, and swimjigs? Not sure if you throw those baits but they are some of my favorites and don't require a super expensive rod to have fun with them Edit: the shock rods are a moderate fast action so they are good for some cranking as well. Especially with quality mono or fluoro that has some controlled stretch.

Bought some of their suspending jerkbaits last year. Was less than impressed. None suspended or even tried to. All sank tail down. Came with decent hooks and good color schemes though

I feel like the reel is the least important aspect of frogging. Something with a 7+ gear ratio would do fine. I personally use a curado 200ihg

Check out the fuego line of rods. They beat a lot of $100 rods in my opinion. No experience with the perigee rod.

Now I'm in need of some help. Yesterday while fishing a lipless I noticed that when I had a steady retrieve, the bait was rolling over in its side. I wasn't burning the bait in, just a little bit faster than slow rolling. I was using 15lb mono, 1/2 ounce red eye shad, tied with double san-Diego jam knot. First time I'd tied this knot on a moving bait so could it be that the knot/tag ends were too big coupled with the fact that 15lb mono is pretty heavy line?

Full cork Split winn grips Split cork Split eva-don't like those only have 1 rod with these

Hollow body frogs. They catch giant bass, you get to use powerful equipment, and they catch big fish...but I despise Fishing topwater. Idk what it is that I don't like about it butbi just don't enjoy it as much as the next guy

Read every post of the "jig" thread pinned at the top of one of the forum pages. Be a line feeler and watcher. Don't be scared to drag, hop, swim, yo-yo, twitch, and dead stick the same jig on the same piece of cover. Different fish want different retrieves

I'm gonna fish some of these bad indiana lakes one of these days and be completely humbled. Lol

Click on menu, then fishing articles, scroll down a little bit and there is a whole library of articles with seasonal patterns as the subject.

As mentioned even a small 3 inch deep 2x2 square depression in the bottom of the pond could hold many fish. Focus on bottom baits trying to find structure or hidden cover. Also focus on shade lines of there are any

My favorite rod is a daiwa fuego $70. Followed by my falcon Bucoo sr $100. And then my lews tp-1 speed stick $100. Have handle the veritas, and while they are nice I don't feel like they beat any of the rods I listed for the price. Especially the fuego

Is your name Matt or ace?

H20 express makes a prop bait that is similar as well as ima I believe.

So technically they got angler why not lure shy? Becuaee that's what I've noticed

I could handle 2. 7'3 heavy, 8.1:1 reel, 65lb braid 7'0 heavy, 8.1:1 reel, 50lb braid

Why does he need to have a disability to own a crossbow?

Imo it would be a good setup to practice starting out with Because of the length of the length of the rod you won't hit the ground/boat with the tip of the rod and the 12# mono will handle well. But as far as being a good technique to actually go out and pitch with it is less than ideal. Dave's advice on a rod 7' or longer and a higher gear ratio are spot on for pitching. Like he said, pitching is a target oriented cast, not a cast that is retrieved for a long way. So you want to pitch to the target, work the lure in the strikesone, which usually isn't very big, and then get your bait in quickly to make another target oriented pitch, whether that's the same target or a new one. If you are happy with the 6'6 length of rod is definitely suggest going up to a medium heavy and using 15lb mono Or fluoro or 30-50lb braid.