CrankFate

You can’t catch fish if you don’t go fishing.

The Ceramic lightning bearings are just right for the metanium. The difference is tremendous. If you are casting over 1/2oz, you don’t need them, though.

Get Boca Ceramic Lightnings for the whole reel. They’re better.

The problem is most likely the rod. Until you have a rod that properly absorbs the power in the way you swing the rod, so that it slingshots the weight properly, you will get little help from the reel. Unfortunately, the only way to know what will work best for you is feeling what is off in the cast for yourself. Usually, you have to go through several rods to get one that will work for what your doing. It’s useless to listen to other people’s choices. That’s what gets you selling off the rods in the BST. Once you have the right rod, you just need to find out if you need more or less line on your spool, more or less brakes, more or less spool tension, thinner or thicker line, etc, etc, etc. The worst thing to do for this problem IMO, is just ask other people what’s wrong. The best way to fix this, is to start with the advice of others and then feel what is going wrong in the cast. It’s almost always a too stiff or too soft rod. Or a rod that flexes to close to the tip or too far down from the tip. In my opinion 1 to 3 ounces is the easiest weight to cast and is the easiest weight to get the “feel” of what is going wrong. Try a few rods and keep doing it. Before you know it you’ll get the feel and figure it out.

I don’t have any advice that is better than what was already said. The only thing I’ll say is if they are blowing up your frogs, keep throwing the frogs!!!

That’s true. I meant on a baitcaster.

No. Get a Tatula and upgrade the bearings. They’re the same reel.

Revo Inshore. Add carbontex drags. Greased for smooth, ungreased for more power.

^This. Unless you have a reel that holds 300 yards of 50lb braid or more, there’s no reason to go so heavy. 20-30lb braid will pull through just about anything. There is rarely a need for more than 20lb test,IMO.

I would recommend filling your spool with as much line as possible. Finesse fishing works better with a full spool.

Yeah, all you need is a spool filled to 1/3 or less. Then it does that halfway through every cast. Happened to me last week. Forgot my line level was low. Remind me next time to remember to fill every spool to the top before going away. Even the spinners were low and casting to the end every cast. Terrible.

Spent the whole day at it today. The big bass we saw foraging were gone. Wound up with nice bluegill action with some to 8oz. I got a 2lb carp and a 2-3lb catfish, that I dropped on the swing. We searched Seneca lake on the bank with no luck. My wife said to stop at a small body of water a few minutes from the hotel. She was right. Good thing we did. I finally broke the curse and caught the fish below—my first green pumpkin Senko fish in green pumpkin stained water. That is a 1lb 1oz fish, believe it or not. I only got a few all about that size all on GP senkos. Was dying though, because my reel had 1/3 a spool of line on it and kept nesting up halfway through each cast. And I could only cast 100’ max. My son did a little better.

Up in the finger lakes NY region. Got 11 lake trout Monday and a 6” SMB, wife got a fat 3lb SMB and a big fat about 25” laker. Kids caught some perch, lake trout, pickeral and fat rock bass (Skaneateles). The guide said it was a terrible day. Following day (Keuka) I got the skunk, but the wife landed a pickeral that was about 36” and my oldest son got one about 28” - I got a tiny perch, youngest son had a decent SMB. Basically, my wife caught all the biggest fish and I am an expert at pulling not so big fish off the bottom of any water. We we found a few nice LMB on Seneca lake that we’ll try to land from the bank. The problem is we couldn’t find a guide that specializes in bass. And the LMB are way harder to find with electronics.

Somethings off, it should be even easier with the thin braid. 1/2 oz is plenty heavy.

I never had a warranty or replacement issue with a rod or reel. In general, I think warranty is the last factor to ever consider. Good products almost never need warranty service. I know car manufacturers intentionally sell defects, so warranty might matter more with things like that, but rods and reels? I don’t even think about warranty. And don’t even get get me started on the $120 my wife paid for a warranty service on the HVAC system gas pressure sensor that wasn’t designed for dips in gas pressure When it was supposed to be covered, when they fixed it when I wasn’t home.

They’re both great brands. I give the edge to Shimano, for one reason only. Mechanical friction brakes. The way I cast, magnets are just not sufficient. A mechanical brake, IMO, handles very hard, high rpm casts better. Otherwise, Daiwa is not worse and might work better when I’m not casting as hard.

Yes. Disappointed with the eyes. The hooks could also be stronger.

I don’t know. I have seen carp spawning at all different times. In all different places. I don’t think you can tell much about the time carp spawn. I have seen them spawn at this time, too.

Any animal with a central nervous system feels pain. I’m not a tree hugger at all, but anything smart enough to have fear definitely has pain. But physics matters, too. If we fell off of a skyscraper, we’d die and it would be painful. But if we throw an ant or a beetle off of a skyscraper it would probably survive and not be in pain. When you drop a fish the size of a bass, it’s probably not going to get hurt because of the shape of its body and the physics of its size and weight.

I know they do eat the BG, but I think they prefer other foods. I never get anything on GP senkos.

I have several abus. They can hold up to hard fishing with no maintenance. The corrosion resistant bearings need no maintenance. Lews reels are variations on abus. I have no idea what the insides of Lews look like, but if it’s anything like the better abus, they have to be good.

Revo Mgxtreme2. Get Carbontex Drags (dry) and this reel can do almost everything.

d**n, I agree with a lot of the disagrees here. Here are my Big disagrees. -Very expensive rods are better / Stiff sensitive graphite catches more fish. -Braid is harder to cast. -Straight braid will slip. -Bass stop biting when it gets very hot. -Bass go deep when it’s very hot. -Bass like to eat bluegills. -Green Pumpkin Senkos.

I was not allowed to fish, but my 11 year old son won biggest fish (boys) at the local 4th of July kids fishing contest. With a bluegill, not a bass.

I think the CT palms better, but the 100 feels more solid.