CrankFate

Best advice I’d give people is don’t tell anyone about your fishing, because my house was literally burglarized a few years back and the only thing they took were a lifetime of old pictures and the film that came with them.

Had 3 follows (not chases) today. But the weird thing is there are hundreds of just free fry swimming around, so a lot of fish are all spawned out already. Which makes no sense.

well if anything it adds to my opinion on high end rods. Great products aren’t always the most expensive ones. I think this is more true with rods than just about anything else.

Makes you wonder if Loomis sold his staff to Shimano along with the name.

This poor fool. Totally raked over the coals and thrown over the barrel off of one single rod.

This is terrible. There are plankton spores suspended in animation waiting for their opportunity to be brought to life by that grease. I’d become an environmentalist and toss it into the water next outing.

I always think they make tip heavy rods because if you play the odds, the reel that will go on any rod is probably too heavy. So only people who have light, expensive reels will ever notice. Either that, or too short rear grips.

What is wrong with this person? I’d laugh and put it back on the rack and go buy two better rods with that money.

I once got 35% of a set of Boca bearings.

No, I haven’t seen too many of them. I do look at rods I consider to be a waste of money in the store from time to time. I’ve never seen anything wrapped so badly that wasn’t a St. Croix, but they have drastically improved in recent times and don’t sell anything like that anymore. I’m still not convinced. Because the 2 or 3 I’ve seen in the stores (since they don’t keep many of them on display) weren’t like that. I still thought they would snap if I threw a hard cast that hooked onto the brush behind me, like I did last weekend, so I stick to more durable feeling options. I drop my rods on the rocks and set hooks like a horse into the rocks. High end rods are made for carpeted decks, IMO.

Not because it’s Shimano, but because their $100 rods are never that crappy. It looks more like someone bought the blank and tried to wrap it themselves and did a bad job. Or they just bought a bootleg. I know there can be major variations from rod to rod on the rack in the store, but I’ve never seen a Shimano rod like that. I know there is a lot of now that it’s not American it’s not good going around the Internet. But this picture is why I never buy rods at discount prices, I stick to real dealers. I believe that there are a lot of bootlegs out there, especially as the price goes up.

I have to call this one out. I don’t believe in high end rods, because they are just about being expensive. But no way in the world a rod wrapped like that would ever make it to market from a factory owned by Shimano. I have many Shimano rods in many price points. None are wrapped like this. No way.

They can’t possibly have clout. If they had clout, there would be at least a dozen guys on this site that don’t fish for largemouth bass, following all of his posts to disagree with him, so he looks like a jerk. Unfortunately, that’s how it works now.

Tatula CT for somewhere around $500.00-550.00, maybe more.

I crossed over to only finesse fishing for all species and all applications between 1991 and 1992.

The magnitude of the relationship between trolling me from 2 years is not smooth.

Pressure is the nice way of saying lots of people who are probably not throwing the right things. The amount of anglers means almost nothing. You can argue all you want. If your argument is pressure is stopping you from catching fish, you missed the point. You tubers post videos of themselves catching fish over and over and over in the same spots. Over and over again. But the pressure doesn’t apply. Why? I never, ever consider the number of anglers in my equation for how to catch fish. The only thing that matters is how many fish there are, where they are and what they’ll eat. And maybe reaction bites. It is harder to say find out what those fish will bite, than it is to say you’re doing it wrong, because I have no idea what those fish you’re talking about in Chicago want to eat. I think it’s more about pressured people, than it is about pressured fish.

Please explain how or why finesse fishing works in pressured water? Because pressure has nothing to do with the size of the forage. Your disagreement proves what I am saying.

My advice is pressure only counts if people know what they are doing and actually catch fish. No matter how many people know of a place. No matter how many people cast hooks into the water. None of it matters, unless they actually catch many fish. If no one catches anything, that eliminates pressure as the problem. Just like millions of fishermen not catching fish will ever reduce the fish stocks, fish can’t be pressured by not getting caught. More likely than not, everyone is following the same advice. And that advice doesn’t apply. To get scientific, as Einstein once said, people who read too much develop lazy habits. Then he wrote his own book to say that they were just wrong, because they all read the same books. This is the best fishing advice there is when the assumption is that “fishing pressure” is the problem. When everyone holds the same wrong belief, they all get the same bad result. In this thread, everyone is all in agreement. And everyone is agreeing in the bad result. That is the problem. It is obvious to anyone who knows that when this happens the problem is probably the advice. Please note here, that I am not knocking anyone’s advice. What I mean to say is not try something different. Try to find out what the fish are doing that’s different than what applies elsewhere.

I quite enjoy it. No matter how terrible. Can someone close this thread?

The best advice I can give here is never get the ugly stick, unless you’re fishing saltwater.

I don’t know anything about chronarch. Basically falls right in the middle of the two price points I ever shop in.

The internet.

People who are worrying about what pushes people’s buttons while fishing. If that’s the case. Give up the hobby. Stick to the internet and collect rods and reels.