Russ E

I own a few of both. They both feel the same in my hand. The SV is a little smoother. The main difference is the sv spool. It helps to alleviate backlashes. The SV is a great reel for pitching and skipping. In regards to the reels breaking, I own 5 very heavily used CT's and they are still going strong after four years.

I have only lived in Kansas for four years. Not sure what it was like before that, but the lakes I fish are pretty busy nearly everyday. Since private land is near impossible to hunt here, the public land gets an orange army invasion every deer season.

Welcome to the forum. Glad you are catching fish. This a 2 year old thread, but if you look at the fish he has posted it would be obvious he is joking. There are a few lakes around here where 2 to 3 dozen bass a day are common. Some of us are fortunate enough to catch multiple fish over 5 pounds every year, with an occasional 7 pound plus kicker. La Cygne has produced a few over 10 pounds.

^^^this. I had a trip last january, where the ramp was dry when I launched. When I went to load the boat, the ramp was solid ice. I had to throw a little sand on the ramp . It was still a little sketchy, even with the 4WD locked in. There was no rain that day. just water running off of boats as they were loading. I have also had to lock it in on a slimy ramp, on a local reservoir when the water level dropped suddenly.

The internal brakes are centrifugal brakes, they are springl loaded and drag on the drum at the beginning of the cast, when spool speed is highest. They don't help much towards the end of the cast. The outside brakes are usually linear magnets. they do most of the work at the end of the cast. In my opinion a reel that has both is the easiest to control. Budget reels that only have a linear magnetic braking system are the hardest to tune in. I no longer own any of this style My favorite braking system is the diawa magforce z. On the tatulas and fuego's. It is a centrifugal magnetic brake. Basically a hybrid of the two, but you only have one adjustment point.

I use a telescopic retreiver. Last time I used a plug knocker, I nearly put a hole in my boat, while trying to retreive a squarebill. it was in heavy brush and i could not get to it with the boat. when it broke free from the snag the squarebill and knocker hit my boat at a high rate of speed. after that I started using the telescopic retreiver.

If you are near a Cabelas or bass pro, go tryout all of the display models.. I ws there a month ago loking for a small crankbait reel. the abu's were ok, the pfluegers had a grinding feel. the two reels that impressed me were the diawa fuego and Diawa Regal 2500 xh. The fuego was $99.00. the Regal was on sale for $49.00. I bought the Regal. It is amazingly smooth for a $50.00 reel and has a 6.2 to 1 gear ratio.

Now that is not something you see everyday.

If you are talking about shawnee lake in Topeka, the only permit is for trout. If you are not keeping trout, you do not need the permit. Shawnee mission lake in Shawnee, requires a boating and fishing permit. if you are keeping trout a trout permit is also required

I would not permanently disable them. A couple months ago my trailer plug came unhooked on the interstate. I didn't notice it until I pulled into a gas station and tried to backup. the plug was shredded. I disabled them to backup to the pump and left them disabled the 10 miles home. normally I don't really notice the boat when stopping. With the brakes disabled it was a total different story. That was the last time I disabled the brakes.

A bait that suspends at 60-70 degrees will rise as it gets colder. from my experience husky jerks generally are slow risers even at warmer temps. I keep a pack of suspenstrips in my boat and add or remove according to water temp.

It has been 10 years since my last trip to Table Rock. It must have changed a lot in that time. back then if you were chasing spots 1-2 pound fish were the norm, but if you were after largemouth or smallmouth there were a lot of quality fish available .

Until this thread I have never heard of liver mush. It did not sound too appealing. Out of curiosity I had to do a google search. it still doesn't sound very appealing. Growing up in Iowa I have eaten a lot of pork, but there are certain parts of a pig that I prefer not to eat. If it appeals to you ,go for it. I will stick to the Iowa chops, pork butt, and bacon.

The fuego does not have the t wing. It is a nice reel for the price. It can often be bought for around $80,00

Cyber Monday sale has the pro qualifier 2 for $59.97

I agree. try it out. you may like it. Personally I use a 6foot 10inch medium power fast action rod for most jerkbaits.. on deeper diving jerkbaits I often use a medium power extra fast action rod, in the same length. any longer than 6ft. 10in. and I tend to slap the boat or water with the rod.. My problem with moderate action rods is it takes more rod action to get a jerkbait to work properly.

if you are patient , they go on sale for around $50.00. a couple times a year. I have an older pro qualifier and a newer pro qualifier II (with the blue spool and tension adjustment) they are both decent reels. the older model seems to be built a little better. one thing to keep in mind is it only has a 10 pound drag. It works fine for most applications, but not ideal anywhere you need to horse a big fish out of heavy cover.

A weightless super fluke is my go to bait. With that being said, I do not use it on a swim jig. It has very little action on its own. A paddletail, curly tail or craw style bait is what I use on swim jigs.

It depends on where you are fishing. I don't have power poles. I do have a Minn Kota Ultrex (I am a Minn Kota guy). I use spotlock a lot. One place it does not work well is in very shallow water. It stirs up the bottom while holding position. I am not sitting in shallow water very often, so it is usually not an issue for me. Winter is the one time of year power poles would be nice. I fish the heated discharge water at a power plant lake. The bass often hangout in super shallow warm water. I run the trolling motor as high as it will go without blowing out. If I do try to use spotlock it just stirs up mud.

Since your boat is a 2019,I would contact mercury if you plan on using sandwich style brackets. when I wanted to do that 2 years ago, Mercury said it would void the warranty.

A chatterbait already has a snap that you tie to. The only benefit a swivel would do is stop line twist. A chatterbait does not spin, so I don't see the point of adding another piece of unneeded hardware in front of the bait.

Might have to give that one a try. I am fairly new to the hard swimbait game. H2O are the only swimbaits I currently own. They do catch fish. This spring I caught a 5.4 lber on the largest H2O blugill swimbait and was hooked.

I agree with everyone else here. Suffix advance has become my go to mono. I have never had any issues with it.

I have several of them. They work well. I have caught bass up to 5 pounds on them, with no failures.