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The Tiny NetBait Paca Chunk, SK Baby Rage Craws and SK Baby Rage bugs are all pretty good.

Yeah, this is generally my understanding as the differences as well, although I do not have any experience with a 745C. The 744C is probably 80/20 or slightly less and the tip is fairly stiff. It's a solid choice for 3/8oz or 1/2oz jigs and will have no problem with lighter cover. Some people throw 3/4oz football jigs on it, and while I haven't tried it it doesn't seem too unreasonable considering how well it handles 1/2oz jigs.

I would go with the wood ceiling racks, probably the dual directions if you have the room. I bought one for my porch, but haven't got around to installing it yet as I'm hoping to move stuff around at some point.

Line conditioner just helps reduce memory. I've never noticed it affecting abrasion resistance. As for a line, I would suggest looking at Daiwa J-Fluoro Samurai, which you can pick up a spool for around $25 on ebay right now. I used it on several reels this past year with no issues and I have Invizx, Tatsu and Shooter on other reels and I think it handles the best of the lot. I cannot comment on longevity other than no problems yet.

I have little experience with Lews to be honest so I can't really provide any decent input, other than with the Fury you know what to expect.

I would look at a Daiwa with a SV spool. If you don't want to drop big bucks on a reel, the new Tatula SV is really good. And if you do, the Steez SV is absolutely exceptional.

A lot of rods rated up to 1.5oz need at least 1/2oz or even more to cast well. Some rods do well. Rods like the Dobyns 735C can handle up to 1.5oz but can cast 1/4oz with a little bit of a struggle but will cast 3/8oz quite well. I had a 7'1" Daiwa Tatula H/F and that wasn't much worse. Unfortunately the replacement arrived in pieces and I opted not to order another one as I got a MH-H so I didn't have that much of a need for it. Yup. I usually assume I can cast at the lower end but with difficulty. The higher end is more often manageable than the lower end, but even then sometimes it's not quite ideal either.

I've been using Sunline SX1 12# for a few years. It's as fat as most 15# braid but does very well in terms of abrasion resistance for braid.

Lake Dunmore in Salisbury VT. I got robbed when I was there but that's a stunningly beautiful lake. Difficult fishing, but they have giants.

This is true, but also once fluorocarbon stretches, it stays stretched where mono recoils. That said, I generally treat mono and fluorocarbon the same as far as stretch is concerned, so I'll want a slightly stiffer rod for the same presentations than as if I was using braid (primarily for presentations that fall inbetween two rods)

I'm seriously thinking of doing it the week after Thanksgiving. Maybe 12/2? Then we can talk about what we got on Black Friday - assuming there are even any specials this year that have something in stock. I don't have a lot of time these days between my kid playing hockey, wedding planning and everything else either. At least I will have that week off, so I can get things done during the day.

Hey guys, So I've been super busy with real life and haven't got a chance to even think about scheduling anything. But we're overdue for our next zoom call. I can do Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, next Tuesday or something after thanksgiving which might be easier for everyone. Let me know what works for you guys.

This time of year, I normally have luck with jerkbaits, rattletraps, 1/4oz poppers, slow rolled spinnerbaits (usually a colorado blade) inline spinners, small soft plastics and finesse jigs but I tend to use more moving baits.

Yeah, I was just trying to differentiate. There are usually three rods I use for a T-Rig, but #1 maybe up to 80% the time. #1) Most situations including some cover I will use my Daiwa Tatula Elite 7' M-MH/XF/ #2) If the weeds start to get a bit thicker I may use my 6'10" MH/F Daiwa Tatula which has a little more backbone to it or my 7'5" Daiwa Steez MH-H/F if I am not using it for something else. #3) Punching: My Daiwa Tatula 7'6" flipping stick. I too don't have a lot of opportunities for punching, and even sometimes when I'm on the same lake I opt to throw a frog and target other weedlines instead.

The Tour Versatile is more inline with what you want for weeds and heavier weights unless you're punching.

^9. I never really listened to Whiskey Myers, but they are pretty good. Here's a fun one

Not to bad. I can usually paddle and maintain similar speeds on my kids topwater 120, and I can get it up to around 5.5 but that gets tiring fairly quick. I was thinking the pedal version might be a little faster.

Hello and welcome from Western Massachusetts

Honestly, at this point it's not about the money. I make decent money as it is, at least until my employer ceases to exist, which is going to happen and I'm starting to get the feeling that may be sooner rather then later. I guess if I had more money, I would have a bass boat, but I probably could as it stands now too I just have been so happy with the kayak that I haven't really thought about it too much lately. I have had several ideas that I could have completely made bank on, long before anyone else thought of them and they hit the market. But I never had the connections to make that happen without selling my ideas to a larger company and hoping they don't just jack my idea (even though I'd be sure to patent it first but that only goes so far). ...and that's the only reason that I let it get this far.

How fast can you get your Sportsman up to? Any idea?

If you like the Megabass Orochi, why not go with the Diablo Spec-R? IMO the difference in length is close enough to 7', unless you preferred under 7'

It's about time I give these a try. I keep hearing good things, and I like most of my Megabass lures a lot (other than the price tag lol)

I would try to use it a little bit at a time here and there and learn a little more each time. Maybe when you're doing select tasks such as browsing the forums or putting together your Tackle Warehouse order and so forth. My mom generally learned to use Opera and Chrome and believe me if she can figure it out, you can too. Alright I wasn't sure. I use it to test pages I make one I got them working on Webkit and that's about it.

Yeah, unfortunately you will have to import passwords for security purposes as they are stored encrypted in most modern browsers (not sure if Firefox or Safari ever encrypted them, they didn't for years!).

Not at all. They all have an address bar and that works the same. Bookmarks work differently. Opera has regular bookmarks and then a speed dial, so you can put sites like Bassresource.com on your startup page and have a permanent shortcut to it and you can add several dozen, which is one of the things I like about Opera. Many browsers will let you import favorites on or after install via a wizard, and some through the bookmarks menu. But really I'd say try it before you worry about that. Your Safari favorites will still exist they take up very little space. Firefox would be my last choice between the three options to be honest. It's slow and the Mozilla engine is generally inferior to the webkit engine (which most browsers use, including Safari they just use a real old version of it)