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@FishTank is right on. No one should fish 3/8 to 2oz on one rod. It’s too big of a range. I fish 2 to 5oz saltwater and 6 to 8oz on another rod. But 3/8 to 2oz is not possible by physics. You cannot fish .375oz to 2oz on one rod. That’s a max weight more than 5x the minimum weight. That is the equivalent of fishing 2 to 10oz on one rod. Anyone regularly fishing saltwater will tell you this is just not possible for most techniques. This isn’t about the bait monkey. It’s about the right tool for the task.

I have never used it, but you really can’t go wrong with the Curado.

Consider the Curado BFS. It’ll cast better and easier than anything DC, at a better price.

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@WRB is right it’s most likely the rigid rod. Low stretch line makes it worse. Ideally, IMO, you want a rod where it feels like the rod sets the hook automatically when they bite.

Tomorrow is 15 years to the day since I quit. I went cold turkey. But did try one cigarette about 2 years after. I took 2 puffs, it tasted terrible and I was like, nope. I’m done. Smoked 15 years. My wife was a heavy smoker, who quit 17 or 18 years ago and wound up with breast cancer at a very young age. The cigarettes may have had something to do with that. One of my friends just passed away less than a year ago from salivary cancer, that spread to his lungs. I assume it came from things like philly blunts, like the guy from the beastie boys. There are so many other toxins we’re exposed to. We don’t need any more. I know the doctor did a test for me and said my lung capacity is fine, but it feels like they don’t stretch as much as they used to. He said it could be the extra weight on my body as resistance compared to when I was younger and weighed less, but the PFT test was good. So I don’t know. Bottom line is smoking is bad. No one should be smoking now. But it’s hard to quit. Having seen a lot of addiction in a lot of people, I know cigarettes are the hardest thing to quit. You can’t be under the influence of drugs or alcohol all the time. It interferes with work, life, everything. Smoking does none of that. It doesn’t harm your job performance. You can still pay your bills. It doesn’t make you crazy so you fight with people or intoxicated so you pass out. Your wife isn’t going to leave you for smoking. You’re not going to get fired at work because of nicotine. Those things make other drugs easier to quit, IMO. No one ever hit “rock bottom” from cigarettes. Getting anywhere near rock bottom makes everything else easier to quit, at least if you ask me.

I don’t know. Never threw a frog. I tried one last time I was out. Casted it right off into the water in a backlash. On a spinning rod mind you. It was a sign. Go back to my usual methods.

All I’ll say is I usually land a fish that I get 2 turns of the handle on. And I rarely drop fish. But I do drop way more, really way more, LMB than anything else, by a very large margin. Though, most of the time it’s probably the wrong gear for the technique. I hate to say that because everyone’s gotten so technique specific crazy over the years. But it’s true, you need the right setup for the technique. For example, the last time I was out I dropped several fish on my soft BFS rig fishing senkos. You just don’t get through the plastic and fish’s lips fast enough unless you use a stiffer rod. I should have rigged my stiffer rod for them. I had it sitting there with me. Terrible mistake to make during a tournament, when I still didn’t switch over after dropping 3 fish, knowing exactly what the problem was.

For me, water clarity is the biggest factor. Low visibility water usually = easier to catch fish and more fish per day.

They make great reels. I beat the hell out of some of mine. They still work perfectly. In a lot of ways, which I can’t really explain, they are easier to cast than Daiwa and Shimano.

I think abu reels are great. And terribly underrated. In my opinion, this is because the internet reel gurus (on YouTube) and in the net media show abu no love. I can say that every single review of the abu mgxtreme2 is wrong and it is a great reel, that is not limited to only finesse fishing because of its wimpy drag. I have several Abu reels, and especially in saltwater, they are hard to beat. And I fish my mxgtreme in salt only, no problem.

Expensive reels are only nice to have for only one reason, IMO, weight. I have an Aldebaran and an Mgxtreme2. The two lightest reels there are. I like going as light as possible. Aside from the fact that there is no choice in the world to spend less if I wanted reels this light, they are NOT worth the price. Since I have no choice, I’m stuck with the price.

No. I can’t sign up. It’ll just make me buy more stuff that I really don’t need. They do look like good rods, though.

That’s what it all comes down to. I think the Trilene knot gets no love because most guys learned it off of a red box when they were 10. It was a good knot then. It’s a good knot now.

I don’t really know which do and which don’t. I know I have a bunch of them, because I use corrosionX 99% of the time.

That’s messed up. I usually get reels from abu, daiwa and shimano. I think they all come with oil.

❔❔❔doesn’t almost every reel come with oil ❔❔❔I have little bottles on my desk from just about every reel I can think I got in the past few years ❔❔❔

AFAIK Kistler now uses Toray carbon blanks. No comment on them, but the NFC blanks they used to use are awesome. I don’t think you could possibly buy any blank by NFC for less than $150 for the cheapest blanks they produce. I assume that this is why Kistler no longer uses them. If you bought anything NFC for less than $150, recently, not including tax and shipping, whoever sold it to you has no idea what the prices are now. You made out like a bandit ?

I know a lot of people swear by it, but I wouldn’t risk using the palomar knot. It is not compatible with all lines and it isn’t compatible with all lures. It is the only knot that is very likely to untie itself, cut into itself or get cut by the eye of a lure. That makes three likely failure areas. It is always presented as the easier alternative to everything. IMO, the Palomar knot is the best example of how machine testing knot strength does not equate to real world performance. From seeing this knot fail many different ways, I have zero confidence in it. I know how impressive it is when you pull it by hand right after tying it. But after an hour of fishing, good luck. You might slam so many fish every outing that you can lose a bunch here and there. But I often find myself fishing for things that I’m lucky to get one or two of. Especially under those circumstances, it’s just not worth the risk.

Nope. Got them on other things. Including black/blue flake senkos! I dropped 5 fish on the black/blue flake, including 2 that swam straight up and jumped, when they hit it sitting on the bottom, when I was untangling and rerigging my sons rod. After I got him back in the water, I tried the green pumpkin, by casting bouncing it around a little and letting it sit on the bottom until something bit. Nothing.

Google “Fly Fishing.”

Since were talking weightless plastics. All im gonna say is, again, at the lake I fished today, nothing would touch a green pumpkin Yamamoto brand genuine senko. I only even cracked open the bag because everyone always says “green pumpkin” “green pumpkin.” Maybe. Not around here, though.