MN Fisher

Of those two - Zoom Chunk, but I use it rarely My favorite is a Berkley Pit Boss on a swim jig, Berkley Chigger Craw on a bottom-hopper...though I got some Rage Craws I'll be trying this year

I'm the odd-ball - 12# YZH

That would be my thought as well.

I've got several older lures I still use - all these are 30+ years old. Rapala Original Floating 07 - Silver/Black Rapala Original Floating 11 - Blue/Silver Rapala Countdown 09 - Flourescent Red/Gold Mepps Aglia #2 - bare treble Mepps Aglia #2 - feathered treble Mepps Comet #2 - Shad Mepps Comet #3 - Shad

(looks at his 40 percentile - sighs and shuffles off with his head down)

You're talking over by Maynards?

Ya - the one between Crystal Bay and North Arm is 90% clear, the one between Crystal Bay and West Arm by Fletchers is clear with the area just outside the east entrance to Fletcher's docks also opening up. Visited with my dad yesterday for his 87th b-day (he lives in Golden Valley) and took Old Crystal Bay road up from 51 since the Tanager Bridge is closed for rebuilding...so passed over those two on the way there and back.

We're in the same boat - quick snow, quick warm-up...and a couple of the channels have cleared already and that can't but help the melt on the rest of the lake.

Frame, spool and main gearing on both is identical - so yes, the Tatula CT spools will fit the Fuego CT.

It's not like they hibernate - they're feeding, just not as aggressively as during high-summer.

Probably the same system that dumped 3" on us yesterday. Gonna melt fast though.

I don't think Rapala is using much tungsten other than for their VMC weights yet. (Terminator and VMC are owned by Rapala)

I'm sticking with what I got...

The few tungsten spinnerbaits I have are Eco Pro.

Oh I trust tungsten - changed over all my worm-weights to it. Just don't trust cheap tungsten. Good tungsten should be 97% tungsten with 3% nickel/iron or nickel/copper...cheap tungsten has less tungsten and with higher amounts of other cheap metals that degrade the alloy - less dense, less resistance to corrosion, etc. Tungsten carbide is great for drills, lousy for weights as it's brittle. Tungsten-steel is another one great for drills and building materials, but is less than 20% tungsten.

Shouldn't take too long.

I wouldn't trust them. Tungsten is more expensive for two main reasons. 1: It's cost to mine/refine is much higher than lead - raw lead ingots run about $7/kilo ($3/lb) where-as tungsten runs $30/kilo ($13/lb) 2: It's harder to work - you need higher temps to melt (6000f for tungsten, 600f for lead) so you need more specialize equipment to melt/mold the tungsten which has a higher cost...which is passed on in the final product price. A third item is import costs - 95% of the worlds tungsten is mined in China, Vietnam and Russia. (2017 figures)

Unless you work to prevent that. Safety caps are a god-send to me.

Ya, next year I'll probably put a shim in it. It is only a $45 reel that I got for $30.

Refute that with visual evidence - 70yds of 20# Sufix 832 (.009") on top of 100yds of 6#mono (.010") on my RZT-3000...all nice and neat.

Same frame, same spool, same main gears. Only thing the Tatula CT has over the Fuego CT is the T-Wing and bearings in the handle knobs...otherwise they're identical reels.

Since mine is my flip/pitch/frog rig, I'm running 8.1:1 For jigs/topwaters/swimbaits I'd go with the 7.3:1

^ This. I'm comfortable with a 7'0" for pretty much everything, so that's what I have.

Same one I have on my Aird-X heavy - Fuego CT.

I think my yellow/black grub is in a box...somewhere...maybe. I put Mr Twister single-tails on my beetle-spin heads...color varies.