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So I'm hoping you folks can help me out here. I'm looking for do-all jig. I know I know... arky! But it's not that simple. I have a lot of wood and a lot of rocky bottom on my reservoir. The problem is from now until November there's some amount of weeds growth literally everywhere, even if its only a little. A football jig comes up weed wrapped literally every time. So that's out. I have some and use them for dragging sand and rock but not for flipping. I tried a missile baits Ike flipout jig. it was ok at everything but it liked to get hung up frequently in brush piles. Less so in rocks but it still got bound up sometimes. Swim jigs fished like a flipping jig work, come through grass amazing but snagged often on rock and didn't like brush piles. My favorite jigs to date are the Jewel J-lock flipping jigs that i buy from tackle supply depot. They do grass ok, wood amazingly well, but I still get boxed up sometimes in old submerged rock walls. Any recommendations for jigs that might fare a little better? I was looking at the siebert ptich'n jigs. Maybe I'll get some to try but I'm open to suggestions.

These guys nailed it. If you're just gently casting or pitching you gotta become the brakes. They don't do much if the spool isn't spinning fast. Don't be afraid to give it a full send, as long as your brakes are up around 10. I gotta disagree with the guy who talks about turning the spool tension up. The magforce Z brakes do all the work, no need to have the spool tension sandbag your casting distance. All you need to do is make sure your casts are good form and not real whippy, and stop the spool when the bait touches down. Step 3... profit ?

My medium light spinning rig has a shimano sahara 2500. I bought the reel because it was during one of those weird ebay coupons that only work with certain retailers. I found the sahara and walked away with it for less than 60 shipped. Couldn't say no, been super happy with it.

I still palm the reel with my left too, but it's not that awkward. To be honest after this thread a fellow forum member made me an offer on my casitas. I sold it off, replaced it with my tatula SV and I couldn't be happier. I used the money to buy another new tatula.... my collection only has one shimano left ?

I got a set of these hooks last season. I found that I was missing a lot of fish on Texas rigs. I switched to regular vmc resin eye offset worm hooks and stopped missing fish. I tried them again earlier this year, started missing fish again. Maybe it's just me, but I can't make them hook up like the VMC hooks do

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I fish from a kayak so I'm forced to keep to 4 rigs. I run a 7'6" heavy fast that I use for jigs, chatter baits, frogs and flipping. I run a 7'5" medium heavy fast for bottom contact like finesse jigs, c-rigs and t-rigs, sometimes spinnerbaits and rarely chatterbaits, this is what I use for top water when I actually throw them. I run a 7'2" medium heavy fast for moving baits like cranks, small swim baits, squarebills, spinnerbaits. Last is a 7'3" medium light spinning rig with a 2500 Sahara for finesse stuff, lately flick shakes. The biggest difference for me was switching to daiwa tatula reels, makes it easy to get good casting distance with under-loaded rods. I've never had problems with trouble hooks on fast tip rods.

The Huk ones are plenty long, they are just a little narrow so they don't spread much at the bottom. I just double check that they're pulled down and that the back of my shirt collar is pulled up, never had an issue getting burned in strips like I did with my SA.

The live baby bluegill has been the best. @Burros the flat 75x and the MVMT 80x are both unique and they're fish catching machines. The crush 50x is really just a squarebill... I gotta agree with you. If you're going to make the same bait as everyone else and charge more you gotta step up the game a little. I'd still buy them to support the company tho. I've talked to them a few times, great service and great people to deal with.

I'm guessing if that was a factory second. I've bought a lot of baits from 6th sense and I've never seen anything like that come out of their shop. I'd even contact them directly and ask what's up. I've emailed them before, super nice people that are on their game.

Is that a pun? ??? Seriously though I've been talking a lot about getting an aluminum tiller bass boat this year if I can find something that works. That means I need at LEAST a few more combos to keep the decks full and plastics to keep the bins full.

I generally get the best I can afford when the need arises. I got a lot going on normally with medical bills and such, sometimes I can afford to drop a few hundo if I need a rod or reel, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I can wait a bit to save up. On rods I consistently spend 130 to 150 or so but I have a soft spot for favorite fishing defender lunkers edition.

I feel like the OP is someone's wife trying to infect our community from the inside out with doubt and uncertainty. To you good woman I say NOT TODAY! Such treachery and sedition will not stand. ?

I swear by the MVMT 80x. They run shallow like has been said but I throw them right into wood cover on the shore. I fish from a kayak so I can get it back If I get it hooked but honestly it does pretty good coming free of cover. Even near the waters edge on steeper banks, I've caught more fish on a bg colored mvmt 80x this spring than every hard bait in my box combined last year. The only mystery is why I didn't grab some sooner. I throw the crush 50 and the flat 75 too, the mvmt is perfect right up on the bank tho. It's great too for those spots that look magnificent for square bills but they keep coming up choked with weeds... its easy to keep it up and out of the mess.

I've actually been having trouble this year finding a finesse bite. Weird, but true. A Texas rigged pumpkinseed power worm has been outfishing almost everything. I did however do some work this morning with a flick shake jig and pink trick worm rigged wacky.

OP do you cast with your left or right hand, and what hand do you reel with? I had a thing with a citica I where I would hit the latch when casting because I fish and reel right handed with right handed reels but cast with my left. In the casting position my left index finger would bump it.

I grabbed a BG 5000. Now i just need to wait for payday and find a surf rod ?

Daiwa has been a bit of an unsung hero for a bit now. The magforce brakes are just phenomenal and the build quality is there. It's been fairly recent that they have been doing some things different here to try to get some gusto back in their sales. One, dropping the price. And big time. Take your mainline reel, put a cheap finish on it and spare the chrome, price it to compete with throw aways like kastking and shishamo (not that either is necessarily bad) but it's paying off big time. Now we are all becoming aware that they're the great reels they are. Are they better than shimano? Meh, not necessarily. It's alot of personal preference. They make it pretty hard to make a bad choice, which is good for us, the principle demographic ?

I sell all my stuff on ebay. Gotta watch rod shipping though, it's savage expensive.

Not going to lie, I'm alot more accurate with a baitcaster for some reason. I can put a weightless senko wherever I need it, but if I try flinging it on a spinning rig I wind up hitting some old lady in the face on a bike 150 feet in the other direction causing her to swerve into traffic and causing a 35 car pile up. It's bad ? I need to practice more I suppose. I do enjoy fishing with both however.

Aaaaand another one bites the dust ?

Couple new jigs and trailers should be on my door step when I get home... I have a meeting in the morning which means I'll be hitting the watering hole as the sun gets high... should be flippin city in as deep a cover as I can find. Can't wait!

I honestly don't know what I'm chasing after, just trying to feed the monkey. I don't have any holes to fill in my arsenal, just chasing that next level of refinement and expanding the mess on the deck. Thank you so much for the responses!

Good god man, thank you! Now that I've seen that much of the collection side by side I'm shocked at how little difference in size there really is. I always thought that the steez was much smaller, not the same size as pre-CT frames. Now i think I want the Steez A, just what my wallet needs. Another hole. I'm curious about the zillion sv and steez sv... do they have that same over-braked feel that the tat SV has or is it more subtle? I don't know why it would be, but they love putting that SV spool on stuff. One last question for you daiwa die-hards, is the difference in hand between the CT size frame and pre-CT size frame significant? It doesnt look like it would be but looks can be deceiving. The nearest place I can put a daiwa in my hands is over an hour away. I want to be armed with all the info i can muster before I make the pilgrimage to window shop ?

That's awesome, thanks! Honestly from appearances the JDM Zillion HLC looked like the same size as the CT frame but it's hard to tell if they're not side by side. That's kind of a bummer, but not a shocker. I do love the current tat ct frame. I need to hit up my local bass pro to put the wider zillion frame in my hands to see how it feels.