CrankFate

Yes. I have done just that in several stores.

I use BC rods and reels 90% of the time. There is no reason not to use spinners, except stubbornness (at least in my case).

I will. Every time. How it fishes is the most important part. For that reason and the need for it to be under 4oz and good all around, I’d put Kistler back on the list. Just do not get anything with Kegan guides.

The best thing to do is go and see the reels in person. And bring the rod it’s going on. People try to help, but IMO, the reason for buy,sell, trade is because of buying things that didn’t work for what they’d be used for.

I see no reason anyone should be throwing 4oz to bass from the bank? Why are you throwing 4 oz to bass?

Never used a spook. Never will.

I was going to say 1.5” Gulp Jigging Grub in White. These were off the market for a while, but according to the Berkeley website—they’re back. These have got me bluegills into the 2lb range. Yes, they aren’t bass, but a pound and a half to two pound bluegill is an awesome fish to see. The bait monkey just commanded me to make an order.

Don’t get me started. I wear Soft Lens contacts. They get destroyed by the fumes from sunblock. One of the main reasons I leave in these conditions is they become plastic stickers that have to be scraped off my eyes after about 90 minutes of that.

When it’s so windy that my nose is running, I usually call it quits after about 1-2 hours of that. When it’s so cold and windy that my eyes are tearing and my nose is running, maybe an hour to an hour and a half, tops. Unless fish are biting. But they never bite on those days.

Patience.

They go as late as mid August. Believe it or not.

That stinks. Because it will become impossible to catch them, because they will literally farm baitfish so they rarely get hungry enough to reaction strike. Farming bait is a long process that takes patience. Once they develop the patience to keep large stocks of silver dollar sized bluegills, the fishing dies. Except for catching few extremely large fish. The smaller the lake the worse this becomes.

Yes, it is BS. I throw and drop my reels on the rocks and bang them up all the time. They do not break. All metal reels actually holds up worse. Plastic is an awesome material. Just like anything else. If it’s properly made it works better than metal. The old metal products feel silly now a days. I’ll never forget replacing the 300lb 30 year old all metal microwave And 3000lb all metal dishwasher that came with my house. It is an absolute sin to have been making products like that. Big, barely functional wastes of metal. No different than the cars that weighed 5,000+ pounds and got 5 MPG on the highway. Some of them are nice, and will last forever, but everything was just pure waste. Most of them were just garbage. I saw a car show at a local park few days ago when we were getting out of quarantine for a few hours. All I ever think is how you only see like 10 or 12 vintage car models at these things, because the other 100 models were so terrible.

I mainly use 7 speed BC reels. I don’t flip and don’t fish mats, frogs or cover. But I know what he means about high speed reels and vertical situations in cover. They slip far below the pounds rating on the drag in those situations.

^This. If anything, wait a year after it comes out and buy it when the price goes down. I dread resale value. For me, resale value means this reel stinks so bad that I dont even want it packed away in storage.

I don’t believe in “pressured” fisheries, unless people are taking fish home with them. If people are actually removing fish from the water, it makes it harder and harder to catch fish. Mainly because there are less of them. Otherwise, I do not believe in “pressured” lakes. More often than not, “pressured” probably means tons of people fish there and they’re not catching because they don’t know how to. I believe what some articles say about bass fishing. The professional bass fishermen on TV make bass fisheries look much stronger than they are. Because they are so much better than the average fisherman. The pros literally outfish everyone else (me included) 10 to 1 and 3lbs to 1. They make it look easier than it really is.

Where I am, it doesn’t matter. The fish are impossible to catch, so there’s rarely a problem with other people fishing. The biggest problem is the guys posting fake reports to draw people out to go fishing. Or worse, those that post pictures and reports for places they do not fish to intentionally draw as many people as possible to all the well known spots. Yes, the well known spots around here are really the best. This time of year is notorious for fake reports. Any bass report in my area that reports catches going back before this week, is almost certainly a fake report by someone who’s not really a fisherman and who is most likely laughing at all the fools who flock to all the known spots because of their false reports. No, you are definitely not out of line. There’s rarely a problem with other real fishermen who know what they’re doing. It’s all the morons that overrun every known spot with dull hook, rusted spinnerbaits, whenever someone posts a fake report on the internet that are the problem.

What they see is tough to know. I have never seen a color become a different color when it goes underwater, even in murky water. But I know in stained or murky, not clear water, gold flash can be more visible than silver flash or vice versa. Sometimes blue flash, green flash, pink flash or purple flash is more visible. At least to my eyes. But there’s also quite a few eye teaser illusions floating around the internet that prove that human eyes dont always see the color as what it really is in regular air. But I am sure (I think) that in under water situations where we are blind, the fish can still see to some degree. What they see is anyone’s guess.

Yes, the fish can see the line. But they don’t always care. I’ve seen them look at the line watch it go by and then roll their eyes at me when they see the fluorocarbon leader followed by the bait. Other times they just attack. I like line I can see for several applications. Especially when I’ll be fishing stop and go or let it fall. Plus, you can make your gear look cool with colors.

All I’m going to say is I almost always get laughed at for fishing a $500-650+ setup. Basically almost anywhere I go. I even get laughed at when I use more modest $300 setups. I don’t buy $500 rods. And I’ll never buy a steez, but I have a Tatula CT 100 that, with mods, cost at least as much as a steez. Yes, I have a problem. And yes, this site isn’t helping. Most expensive has to be a surf setup I use maybe 2-3x a year that has a $1000+ vintage Daiwa JDM bait runner style reel on it that was given to me by a friend as a gift. I still can’t believe there are really people out there that’ll buy expensive reels 10 at a time. They should ban the Internet.

Now is the perfect time to get a big 65-75” 4K TV and watch movies, netflix or Disney+ the prices are way down and the technology is way better. I’m currently in season two of Ozark, but have also picked up quite a few new movies on Blu-Ray from the RedBox kiosks.

It’s good enough to watch. I recommend it. Like everything Netflix, it starts off slow before it starts to. Get good.

I would take it off throw it out, buy something else and spool it on as thought as possible. If the braid is visibly serrated, visibly flat like glide dental floss or visibly braided like a braid in someone’s hair, it is never going to cast as good as something else smoother and rounder.

If it’s a pond and there are carp in the water, the carp activity always starts before the bass. The carp are very visible in the spring when everything starts waking up. No visible carp activity, no bass.