MN Fisher

If I wasn't on a budget, I'd give Smackdown a try - but as it's twice the price of 832 or Power Pro...I'll stick with those two for now. Though I am considering going all 832...seems to be easier to tie than the PP and limper.

I've never been impressed with telescoping rods. Add to that, the Compass is a 'super-budget' rod with a low number of guides. I'd rather pay some extra and go with a Diawa Ardito-TR...better rod and breaks down into several sections. I have a couple two-piece rods and the days of the metal ferule joining them are gone...the blank-ferule they use now-days keeps the sensitivity all the way down the length. A good multi-use rod is the Ardito-TR 70MHF-SC - 7'0" MH/F - comes with two different handles so you can switch the one rod from Spinning to Baitcasting. 6 pieces (2 handles, 4 for the rest) so it breaks down very compact. Put it in a tube just large enough and it might even fit in your check-in bag.

I've got a stock of Owner ST-36 just in case. I did replace the supplied trebles on one set of lures - 5-pack of Cabelas square bills - the front hooks were arranged in a 'T' shape instead of a triangle when looking from underneath.

The stiffer backbone of the MH is where the power in the hook-set happens. Fast action just means it hits the backbone sooner than a Moderate action does.

You do realize that 7'3 is 87"...a 78" tube will be too short to fit that one-piece rod. 78" is only 6'6"

Long pig - it's what's for dinner.

Let me toss more confusion in there. I toss bladed jigs mainly on my MH/F - I want more power and the faster action for setting that big, single hook...though I'll occasionally toss them on my MH/M spinning rig.

Whether it's Power Pro or Sufix 832 - the only knot I use for main-line to leader is the double-uni.

Those and add shallow, lipped cranks to that - I use my MH/M spinning rig for Rapala Jointed Shallow Shad-Raps and DT-4s in addition to the above listed techniques.

Gah - that's what my '01 Silverado with a 5.3L V-8/4-speed auto gets city...about 18 highway.

I know - truck before my current Silverado was a 1998 WT-1500. V-6, 5-speed manual...rated at 27mpg highway - trip from MN to MA I got 28.4mpg. Why don't they have manuals in trucks anymore?

Happy B-Day, youngin' (I'm 61 in 2 months) I know - wish I still had the Cuda.

Oh ya - caught a number of bass on #3-#5 Mepps Comets.

Pic is not of mine - dad got this used in 1976 for me for $900 when I got my license...he preferred to spend that instead of me possibly 'dinging' his brand-new Chrysler Newport or mom's brand-new Pontiac Ventura. 1973 Cuda - heck of a car for a high-schooler...though one of my classmates got a new Porsche Turbo Carrera for his 16th b-day

Well, to be fair - my sonar is just a Hook 2-4 without GPS...my Tablet runs I-Boating's contour mapping program to give me the same as sonar units with maps/GPS.

I just track everything in Excel - and have a copy on my Galaxy Tablet that's with me in the canoe...can always look it up there. No fancy gadgets, no stickers.

I do weightless Senko either on my M/F spinning rig with 10# Mono or my ML/F finesse rig with 6# mono.

Now he's going to work to beat dad's PB...

I dunno about that - I use an Aird-X MH/F for chatters, spinners and buzzbaits myself.

Great item...outside the budget of some of us though.

I would say direct from Dobyns...but a check of their site shows all Kadens as being 'Out of stock'.

Spinnerbait or Swim-Jig with a semi-bulky trailer (Berkley Pit Boss is my current fav there).

Can we say 'Ooops'?

Can I make it to 10? Berkley Pit Boss BPS Stick-O Missile D'Stroyer R.I. Skinny Dipper Z-Man Finnese TRD Z-Man TRD HogZ Zoom Ultra Vibe Chunk Zoom Super Fluke Umm...nope - only 8

I run budget rigs - so here's what I use... Pflueger Trion-30 on a Diawa Aird-X 6'6" M/F - under $100 total. Add a spool of 8# Sufix Elite and it's still under $100. I use this for single flukes, donky-rigs and light, soft swimbaits (1/8oz jig head)