Glaucus

If they ever made laws getting rid of fishing I wouldn't be law abiding

Lew's Speed Spool, Shimano SLX, Daiwa Fuego but it's bigger

A dink who had no business trying to eat that 5 inch plastic with a 4/0 hook

My girlfriend says she knows of a little mom and pop tackle shop in a small town close to me so I'm going to give that a shot. If I could at the very least get my hands on some select colors of Little Dippers that would be great. It's all I ask at this point really. It's a complete joke that I haven't been able to get my hands on Flukes or Senkos around here in colors that I like. Everything is picked over with just a few bags of odd ball colors left that I would have zero confidence in and that I've never seen anyone using. Maybe those will be fish catchers if you really think a out it. Who knows.

95% of my jigs bites come off black and blue. I can fish the same jig and trailer in a different color (green pumpkin, for example) in the same spot and get nothing. But I switch to black and blue and it's game on. This is the case on every body of water I have fished from Illinois to Indiana. The thing that really boggles my mind a little is that this is regardless of water clarity. From crystal clear (where it would make the least sense) to murky (where it would make sense). I have no experienced this phenomenon with other baits. Just jigs. They want it in black and blue. Of course none of us really knows what the fish are thinking so this will all be theories.

I guess I'm an elitist in the sense that bass fishing only feels right with artificial lures.

Never lol. If it ain't artificial, it ain't a sport, and I'm not here for it haha. I'd rather take chicken livers for catfish than fish with worms and get 50 gills and 99/100 annoyance.

It was a Daiwa Aird-X MH/F rod with 12LB Big Game, but that's changing tomorrow. I had a bad experience with a couple of Fury rods last year and sold them all out of frustration, but I have missed my 3 power. My awesome girlfriend, knowing this, ordered me one. I'm going to strip the 12LB Big Game and put 10LB YZH on my Speed Spool with the Fury 703C. So I'll list that and my best baits so far this year which haven't changed. Dobyns Fury 703C Lew's Speed Spool LFS 6.8:1 Yo-Zuri Hybrid 10LB Dirty Jigs Finesse Jig 5/16oz Strike King Baby Rage Craw Trailer Zoom Super Fluke (new confidence bait for me this season) 3/0 Gammy EWG 5" Senko T-Rig or Wacky (Yes, I've been throwing a Senko Wacky on casting gear this year with slightly heavier line than is used on spinning gear. I haven't noticed a difference in bites and it's more enjoyable.) 3/0 Gammy EWG - 1/0 Gammy Octopus Circle

I need a lot of hard baits and soft plastics as my stash has dwindled down quite a bit so far this season. Walmart has been out of everything. Dick's is out of everything. The nearest Bass Pro is over 2 hours away. And our trusty Tackle Warehouse is out of soooooooo much stuff that won't be available again in some cases until August. What's a guy to do?

The best explanation of DC reels that I've seen is that they're not a replacement for the thumb but an assistant. I see no purpose in them either. An experienced angler has good thumb control and an inexperienced angler won't learn much on a DC reel. Pointless.

I used sleeves lol

I'm in the middle. I don't go out targeting dinks and I don't go out targeting trophies. My approach is to catch as many quality bass as possible.

I started on the Silver Max years ago and still use one. I've never had a problem with the graphite frame. When I was a teenager I used to play Magic: The Gathering. Some guys had $600+ decks and each of the cards was in absolutely perfect condition. They wouldn't touch a card that had even the slightest dinged corner, regardless of the fact that it "played" just the same as the same card in perfect condition. Moral of the story? Some guys are just happy to fish and won't find a problem with most things. Other guys have too much money to spend and will notice a slightly dinged corner of a card and refuse to touch it regardless of functionality.

It's me. I'm guys.

I keep my reels so loose that I can't let anyone else use them without me tightening them down because I rely on my thumb a lot. My spool tension knob is extremely loose. With proper casting technique and an educated thumb it's the best way in my opinion. So many people try to overhand bomb cast as hard as they can, like they're swinging an axe or something. You don't have to cast hard like that.

Eagles are great and Lightnings are poorly built, and nobody says Aird-X rods are cheap (best of it's class by most accounts, by a large margin) and yet you say "most"? Just call it what it is. It's basically Berkley sucking as far as build quality.

If you're bank fishing you have more than double what is necessary or practical and need nothing else.

Strip it for new because I don't use line as expensive as a mid tier rod or reel.

Every product ever goes on sale. Can't think of a single item I haven't seen cheaper in the future because of a sale. If I wanted it, I bought, I have it, and it doesn't matter.

I like the Fuego, but I have tiny Burger King commercial hands and that tank is kind of cumbersome. I've been enjoying the Speed Spool a lot more this season.

It's more sensitive than an Eagle but definitely not as well built. Daiwa Aird-X are the best.

The Fenwick Eagle at $60 is one of the best budget rods. Daiwa Aird-X > Fenwick Eagle = Berkley Lightning (spinning Eagle, casting Lightning) >>>>> Cane Pole >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Abu Vengeance

I hated the spinning rods but the casting rods were fine. The 6'6" versions are stouter and faster than their 7'+ siblings. The 4 power is the best all around power when you're talking about the typical 7' all around bass rod. But the 6'6" 4 power is super fast and like a broomstick, more like a 5 power. Terrible for treble baits which wouldn't make it an all around rod. But then the 3 power 6'6" rod is great for trebles and t-rigs and spinnerbaits but awful for jigs and chatterbaits at 3/8oz with a trailer and up. Trade offs have to be made. I'd just get the 704C honestly and be good with throwing basically everything. As a bank beater myself I preferred the shorter rods for carrying and travel and accuracy, but at the same time I always found myself at some point wishing the rod was longer. This season it's been primarily 7' rods and accuracy hasn't been impacted at all and I rarely find the longer rod to be a burden and never wish it was 6'6" anymore.

I caught 9 today and the boy caught 7. Nothing truly big, but this was special. His first spinnerbait bass. He had been catching them on Wacky Rigs but he wanted to try something different. He picked the bait and the color he wanted: a purple spinnerbait. Tied it on and got 'em.

I'm a strong swimmer and have mostly always fished shallow ponds and rivers fit for wading. I guess it depends on who you are and where you fish whether you'll even consider it or not.