Dens228

I use a MegaBass Perfect Pitch with a Tatula Elite and get plenty of casting distance. Much further and I'd be worried about effective "setting the hook" distance. I do fish out of a kayak though and can get up close and personal to my target spot when needed.

Jackall Kaera..

Does a couple of yards of distance matter? I use whatever lb test meets my needs for the lure, conditions. Casting distance doesn't come into play in my decision making.

Go with 4.3. I use the Fat Swing myself.

Most of my braid is almost white after it's been on for a bit anyway.

I had my first live tourney of the year........perfect day. 95 degrees and no clouds...........hahah I managed one for the day and I made it count.

In my kayak bass tourney's trolling is not allowed.

An underspin works great in clear water........especially if there are a lot of shad . In my mind an underspin is like a finesse chatterbait.

I think the same as this...I was going to say JUST Bone and/or Loon.

What I'd give for some clouds tomorrow.

I currently have seven Orochi XX's in my arsenal and wouldn't hesitate to buy the Jerkbait rod. As it is now I use the Diablo Spec R but wouldn't be surprised if the jerkbait is hear by end of summer.

Boat captains!! LOL My son in law is a musky fisherman.......he trolls, and trolls, and trolls.......... I'm a bass fisherman, I work areas. When we go up to northern Wisconsin on his boat, troll, troll, troll. I always end up saying, "Take me to those d#$n weeds so I can catch a bass". He says ok, I get out my frog, and we troll by the weeds at 3 mph! HAHA Then I pull father in law rank and I take the bow by the trolling motor pedal even if it is his boat.

I'll throw a spinnerbait first if it's cloudy or windy, or murky water. Otherwise it's the swim jig.

The slightest change in a long bluff has a chance to hold fish. I slight change in angle, a small outcrop. I fish a lot of quarries, probably mostly quarries. On one there's a long bluff, starts about 10 feet above the water and drops to 12 feet below the water. I usually catch bass at various locations along the bluff, there's one spot where the bluff wall cuts back about a foot and continues on. THAT is where I catch the biggest bass along length. I have my best success casting a jig right into the wall just above the water line and letting it drop straight down. I use craw trailers with big claws to slow the drop. Most of the time the bass inhale it before it gets to the bottom. Watch your line...

How deep do they drop? Is there any other cover with them like weeds, overhanging brush etc???

I have side imaging so I can literally see the line out to the side including distance as I parallel it. I'm in a kayak so I can get pretty close or I can see what I'm looking for, paddle past, turn around and cast parallel to my target and reel it past. The beauty of reeling along the weedline is you can cover a lot of weedline with a cast. I usually stay about 10-20 feet off the weeds. Last summer me and a buddy we in our yaks fishing a new lake (to us) and it was owning us. I was paddling across the lake and almost in the middle when by pure accident I came across a thick row of tall weeds in 12 feet of water that stopped about 3 feet below the surface. Without electronics I would have never known they were there. I worked along the line with a crankbait and started catching bass. My buddy didn't have electronics so he followed a distance behind and caught them too.

I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. Seriously, I upped my electronics this year and my success has gone up quite a bit. I'm able to see things I would have passed right by, or I would spend hours working a long weedline or drop off where now I can concentrate on the best spots along the weedline. Without the Garmin it would be difficult. Especially on new water.

My Garmin.

For me..... When working a weedline I also like looking for differences along the weedline such as a slight outcrop of the line, or an indent in the line, or a small batch where other vegetation is mixed in, or a break, or near a steeper drop off. I'm sure you get what I'm saying. Currrently my favorite techniques are swimming a swim jig/chattebait/underspin along the edge of the weedline at various depths. The other one that is working for me right now, especially in clear water is to cast a pitching jig along the weeds and drag it parallel to the weeds along the bottom. And a surface bait like a Whopper Plopper or wake bait along the edge of the weeds on the surface. This has only really worked early morning before the sun breaks the trees or when it's cloudy/rainy.

I was a Lew's guy, but now my entire inventory is almost entirely converted to Daiwa.

Pitching jig Swim jig Popper squarebill Underspin Some terminal tackle Plastics such as stickbaits, craws, paddletails in a couple colors

I have a Garmin Ehhomap UHD 73sv.

I recently added side imaging to my kayak and I'm not giving it up for anything............so no! LOL

In the 6's.

I watch 99% of their video's but must have missed out on changing split rings. I do remember them talking about changing hooks. What is their reasoning for the split rings? I do know I prefer the oval to round but don't change them out.