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I’ve got a dobyns colt ml sight unseen off of Tw( I know not same rod ) and I should have gotten a medium. Rods kinda useless unless I’m in open water. Once in open water it is nice rod for ned, tubes, drop shot. I’m sure a couple steps abouve the colt would be even better. I bought it on line and now I won’t buy a rod with out touching it first

What I get for just skimming. Nice find any how

. I have a problem when it comes to buying cranks I always need new ones for some reason I start every trip throwing a crank. In hopes that the crank bite is on. If it is not that’s when I start throwing t-rigs, jigs, and what Ever else. That’s my idea of easy fishing. Cast, retrieve, and repeat

were you fishing those as a jerk bait or straight retrieve like a crank ?

I need one more reel and than I’m done buying rods for the year. Went to bps in Great Lakes crossing. It wasn’t a awe inspiring trip. Wanted a bass mojo heavy rod for flipping. They didn’t have any in heavy so I bought the bass-x in stead. Took. Took a bunch of money In case A higher end rod jumped and said buy me. The ones they had didn’t do it for me so I spent the rest on tackle. This one Makes 3 in a month; the carbon light combo, falcon clearance rod, and this st.croix. The next rod will be a medium spinnin out fit. time for money to be spent on the boat to get her ready for spring

One of my home made pbj 3/8 Arkie jigs and rage tail summer craw trailer. Brand new lake and was taking the L when I threw that combo together. Thought it was way to wacky to work. Pitch to a clump of pads. Boom new PB of 18 1/2 inches. Runner up is a bandit 300 root beer crank nailed a 17 1/2 smallie on. After catching many more on the bandit that day I went to m-57 surplus and bought them out

Oh heck yes large mouths like tubes. One of my favorite do nothing presentations. Cast, let it sink to the bottom, reel it back while maintaining bottom contact. Doesn’t hurt to twitch or kill it once in a while. Actually all things like tubes; walleye, northern pike, steel head and so on and so on. If the bottom is clear I use a tube jig. If there is weeds or trash around t-rig it. I always throw tubes on spinning gear this one and many others like it were caught on a 4 inch zoom green pumpkin tube doing what I described above.

Picked up a st.croix bass-x 7ft 4 inch heavy rod to day at bps in auburn hills. Kinda waisted my time going there. I wanted a bass mojo but, they did not have any heavy actions. Carbon light 7’8 heavy came in 2nd ( if tip was faster I’d would have bought it) 3rd place was the abu veritas . Not really a good selection of heavy rods. There were a couple more in the 150-180 range but, after picking them touching and playing with them. none jumped up and screamed by me. So I spent the rest on tackle. So Just in the last month I have bought the carbon light combo, the falcon mh square bill rod( Walmart clearance 40 bucks) and the bass-x. I just have to by a reel for the falcon. Unless I get a m 7ft spinning combo this summer I’m done buying rods and reels untill next year

Thanks. I will try that next time. I’ve got 2 qts of 90w sitting around from a old project and was thinking what I could do with it. I used Lucas reel oil this time but, I like doing studies on stuff like this.

I light to use my spinning rods for light weight t-rigging basically like 1/8-1/4 and under. All my tube fishing including t-ringing up to 1/2 ( havnt been heavier yet) is done on a spinning rod. Heavier than 1/4 with other stuff I’d rather use a bait caster. But, that is how I was justifying new rods though to the wife so shhhhh

The Pflueger supreme drag definitely needs to be up graded. I might send tackle trap a message or one of the other reel guys. After doing this exercise of tearing down 3 my 4 bait casters(. The carbon light is still new). i can now tell the difference between a $100 reel and a $120 dollar reel. Im not claiming to be a reel expert but, I do have back ground in quality and with working with a lot of engineers in drive Tran components. The reel that impressed me the most was actually the black maxx for its price point. A lot decent components in there. I was disappointed by the supreme. The supreme had the most plastic inside and wasn’t a fan of the engineering of it. Honestly if you took all the side plates off and put the black max next to the supreme You would think the supreme was the black max. only thing the supreme has going for it is the aluminum For the frame. I’m fairly certain that my black max, supreme, and accurist pt were made at the same plant. Just different Names, colors on the outside, some component make up. that quantum is preatty good bang for your buck for a flipping reel. Just got back from bps and playing around with a bunch of reels The accurist is One of better ones at the $100 mark imho. waiting on the new washer to come in for the accurist. Retainer clip came today. On to the spinning reels. Found out why my spinning accurist wasn’t performing like it should. Inside basically, turned into greasy soupy mess. Topside sbouvr the pinion was sandy also. Had to order a new drive gear because, I couldn’t get the handle to screw out

Pumpkin Zoom swamp crawler. Either wacky or t-rigged with light weight

This is my largest river smallie out of the Shiawassee River ( guys down south might call it a creek) the river averages 30-50 yards across maximum avg depth is probably 3-4 feet ( not counting holes)so no power boats . Actually I’m fairly positive I’ve caught this fish twice, 2nd time I took this pic. I think it was spring of 2016. I had wadded about a half mile Down river from the park to bend. The bend in the river that had a nice deep run in the middle and on the opposite side from where I was casting the opposite side was deep, quiet, with vegetation. Using a J-7 jointed silver belly black back rapala ( which, early April-mid June it slays smallies). I casted to the opposite Side a couple times finally I got it really close to the vegetation and she nailed. This smallie put up. Nice fight. I’m 6ft4 and was in over knee deep water and I swear she jumped level with my eyes 2 times. im not sure how long she was but, that J-7 is caught next to her in the net for comparison. Ive neglected the Shiawassee river since getting my boat. Thinking this year I need to bust out the canoe Again and give her hell.

They do not make a carbontex washer set for my accurist or Pflueger supreme bait casters . However, I could buy a sheet of it and make my own. I have a stock washer on the way for the accurist . I may wait to upgrade it over the summer if it works fine after I put it back together. Seeings how there are no kits to upgrade either the accurist or the supreme. If I chose to do bearings I would have to get the bearing dia Od+Id+Width and one of the companies would have generic sized bearings that I need? go figure you can buy a up grade kit for my black max for 17 bucks. I don’t know if it’s worth doing? Opinions on that ?

I’m trying to save them all haha. Helps with the rod collection when you can save some money once in a while.

They had been there for a while. At least last August. There were also 4-5 Black and yellow skeet Reese rods that were marked down to 50 bucks. I bought a all yellow skeet Reese rod last March for 45 dollars. these rodsThan disappeared to make way for Christmas clearance and than reappeared this week

I will look into that

No the selection is getting worse. I bought a skeet Reese crank rod last winter 50 bucks on clearance from Walmart. Currently the Owosso Walmart has 4 skeet Reese rods ( black and yellow ones) and 1 more falcon in the clearance section. After that they have halo’s and lighting rods for fifty bucks. I bought a lighting shock rod 2 years ago for my 2nd ever bait caster . but, I’m ready to up grade with a the higher end heavy rod I was talking about in the first post. The lighting rod works fine but, it’s the only rod I’ve ever owned that hurts my hands when I set hard on a fish. Walmart does have some decent bait casters. Pro max for 70 bucks and 2 Lews reels in $75-$80 dollar range. Also , some lews spinning reels. the rest is junk though

Bait monkey has gotten me for 2. A BPS carbon light my 7ft 2.0 combo. A falcon Jason Christie 6’8 square bill/spinner bait rod for 40 bucks on clearance at Walmart. I still want a nice heavy pitching/flipping rod in the 1 1/2-2oz range. I could use another spinning rod. That carbon light 2.0 spinning rod felt really good. Gander outdoors had another one I really liked

I don’t think it needs to be right on the bottom. However, I would say within bottom 1/2 half of the river 75% of the time.

I’ve caught more river/creek smallies than you can shake a stick at on Green pumpkin tube. I buy zoom but, any should work. Since it’s a Pool I would imagine lots of snags at the bottom so I would t-rig it. Tube jig will work but, might get hung up a lot. All you do is cast them out and slowly reel it in. You Need enough weight for it to tick off the bottom as you bring it in and maybe kill it once in a while Kill it. . Size 7 jointed and non-jointed rapala’s work good. The jointed seem to work better in cooler water. Ned rig will work well but, you will loose a lot to snags. Best success for me is to some how get situated down stream a bit and cast ned rig up stream. The current should push ned rig into pool. Only reel fast enough to keep slack out of line and help the ned if it gets caught up.

Ordered from mikes reel repair. Also had to get a bearing retAiner ring as it when across the room

I will order it in the morning. Is that caused from not loosening up the drag During long periods of not using the reel ?

In my diagram it is washer #53 trip ratchet washer pa111-01. In your schematic #41