CrankFate

Agreed. 5-6lbs is the max you’d ever possibly need. The only time I ever lost a nice fish was when I tried the drag on lockdown. Never again.

I usually open it and grease/oil to my liking. Possibly add carbontex drags and new ball bearings. Maybe even lightly polish the spool shaft or other things.

Season starting so slow, no pics to post. Bass usually become catchable around now. Did a trip in saltwater and still have nothing to report but one dink, at least it was on my new Kistler KLX, which will be more versatile than expected. The only luck so far has been at the trusty old catfish hole.

My wife was there. So she saw it. And there’s a Disney bass guide that saw it and weighed it. It’s all well and good, but I never caught a 10+ trophy fish, of any kind, that I set out to intentionally catch. I was just looking to catch a bunch of LMB in one trip, because they are extremely hard to come by here. Couldn’t even get that right. Caught only one that day.

Or “memory”

Possible the plate under the main gear is not seated properly (# 76). No way to know without opening it. In rarer cases, the main gear shaft sleeve could be unseated (# 81). It’s also possible that #’s 83-90 are not oriented properly. Or worse yet the antireverse is shot. I have only seen that happen on $18 Chinese baitcasters in saltwater.

I caught bass between 7 and 14 pounds and I stink at bass fishing. For the fish I fish for more often and are much better at catching, where 10 pounds is a true trophy, I’ve never got anything over 6 or 8 pounds. If you knew where I caught the bass in my avatar, it was not close to 10, but you still wouldn’t believe it, either. That said. 80-90% of 10 pound fish that you hear about were closer to 5 or 6 pounds. I carry a digital scale with me, but didn’t have it with me when I got the fish in my avatar last summer, and I didn’t have film in the camera when I got my PB, which weighed on the guide’s scale as 14lbs 2 or 3oz. So you never know, at least 1 out of 100 stories about 10’s are actually true.

Tiny guides are waste. Especially on any rod that’s not tiny. You are in luck, though. Lower priced rods usually have bigger guides. Tiny guides will destroy casting with almost all braid to leader applications.

Whenever I see the documentary on the Rocky movies they always say how Sylvester Stallone was at like 2% BF. He wasn’t as lean as anyone on that stage. BTW, congrats on the pro card!

I lift and it’s a bodybuilding routine, focused on functional strength. But lean for me is about triple the BF and more realistically 5-7x the BF, because down that lean the measurements are off, I doubt 5 or 5.5 is accurate you guys are closer to 2-3%

Just fish whenever you can and catch what you can catch. You WILL improve the numbers and size of the fish you catch. IMO, when it comes to catching PB fish you just need to have the skill to not lose it when it takes your hook. That comes from fishing as much as your life allows.

I can’t even remember the last time I saw a Sizzler. Never ate at one, either. I go with Texas Roadhouse. All around great place to eat. I must’ve eaten at 15-20 locations when I had to travel 90% of the time. I even bought their stock.

Some places the fish are hard to catch. Some places there are big almost impossible to catch fish.

At around midnight to one am in water where there are lights and fish looking up, top waters and weightless worms can be deadly.

There are at least 2 types of bass. One group is unphased by anything and might even feed in the wakes of boats. The other group is highly secretive, easily spooked nervous bass that can be observed feeding inches from the shore—they disappear instantly upon seeing people. You can’t catch these fish if they even think you are there.

41 years. Mainly saltwater, but I was sent to the Midwest all summer, every summer as a kid.

I did that the first time I was buying, even after putting money down. Got out of it and got the money back. They never even took the listing down, let alone mention any problem. Wound up sitting out the whole bubble that started right after that and waited until the crash, when the new super strict, post bubble underwriting criteria went into effect, driving prices to record lows. So don’t sweat it. You’re going to be better off.

I like the UPF shirts because avoiding all that extra sun prevents the wrinkly reddish brownish spotted redneck arms and skin that runs in my family.

If you use quality bearings you will notice a difference with every bearing you add or upgrade.

Get a JDM telescopic rod. These are better than a normal multi piece rod. And they make these down to small extreme finesse sizes that don’t exist anywhere else. I’m sure you can find them if you search hard enough.

That’s too bad. I have just enough facial hair that I still have to shave and so I cut myself on my neck whenever I’m in a hurry.........

The sleeves fit good. I wear underarmour, Reebok, Nike and no name stretch shirts for the sun. The SA sleeves feel like they won’t get stretched out like the low quality cheap shirts. The only downsides are the color is not as vivid as it should be and they’re almost too tight on my upper arm.

I once got hooked in my index finger trying to untangle a bunch of idiots lines. I just gritted my teeth and pulled it right out as quick as I could.

Not many bass where we were. Small catfish only. But we were looking for the giant carp. No luck. Kids had 20-25 cats.

Well, the catfish Love them! I give them ?? But I got arrested for bank robbery while I was fishing ? The arm sleeves are one of the best things I’ve seen, because it’s easier than a full under Armour shirt. I just hope they stay in business for a long time, because I’ll be buying the sleeves forever.