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Cool. Follow up with a report once you've bagged some piggies.

Try it. You'll like it. Good for rapid fire short casts.

Then my advice is to bump it up some, and re-tie more often than you think you should. Simply making a knot in fluoro degrades it, plus shock at the knot from setting big hooks will get you if you don't make it a habit. This is something that will rarely if ever happen with good copoly or BG. You'll really be laying into them with that stick.

It's inexpensive enough to try and see. Most coplolys will have a faster sink rate though, but if diameter is similar it won't be drastic. You need to find a balance between swimbaits and flutter spoons. Different animals. Which type of bait you use more often than the other should determine what you ultimately choose. Hopefully you'll make it work for the type you use less. If not it's an inexpensive experiment.

One of the most surprising things about the 20lb BG is how unbelievably strong it is. I've snagged, wrapped it around my arm and shoulder, then leaned 220lbs of me into it with force, and it's hard to break. Just bends out hooks, or they shear off chunks of wood. Stupid strong after it's wet.

There is no right or wrong, but there's no upside whatsoever using braid to leader for heavy baits like these, IMO. Heavier baits cast quite far regardless of line type. If you must, then use a very long leader. When you backlash, and there's a good chance you will with braid, with a short leader you'll watch your bait go bye bye. Short leaders don't tolerate shock as well as longer ones. I stick with 20-30lb Big Game on Fast rods for the hook setting power and its stretch for delay. My brother uses BG on half of his swim bait rods, and Izorline XXX copoly on the other half.

I would go with 13, no doubt about it.

Just throwing this out there. If you're new to this, and especially when ripping a lipless through grass right under the surface, make sure you and anyone on your boat is wearing eye protection. You should be doing this regardless, but this type of bait is extra dangerous. A lipless casts like a bullet, but it'll come back at you like a bullet with nasty hooks attached. This might happen if you're bit on the rip, but miss, or just from ripping it and breaking free. It's about the scariest thing next to a jig flying back at your face.

Totally depends on which type of grass. Certain types, not a chance. Are you using a faster rod with braid? Sometimes this is the only thing that'll work.

Tatula 7' Medium Reaction.

I'm picturing you seated next to Mike Tyson on a commercial flight. "For the tenth time, Mike, the correct pronunciation is silly, not thilly".

I get fishing wood just thinking about fishing wood.

Nothing was "wrong" or inappropriate with your post, man. While well thought out, it was simply a serious response to my very unserious post.

Dude, my post is rhetorical nonsense. Yeesh. If there's an update available for your sense of humor program, just click "accept" and follow the prompts... SIL stands for either son in law or sister in law once context is provided, and I did. Didn't I? SIL noun INFORMAL 1. a person's sister-in-law. "I think you should tell your SIL that you found her comments upsetting" 2. a person's son-in-law. "my SIL lives in the UK with our DD and their son"

...and just about everywhere else. The impetus for this thread wasn't actually the MLF tourneys at St. Johns where many pros were breaking this sacred rule. Here's the story. I met a kid at a local lake about 5 years ago. He was pleasant and curious, so it was easy to give him tips. One outing I took a fish pic for him, then sent it to his phone which he'd left at home. It was a good fish, so a few days later I showed it to my SIL, and as it turns out the kid was one of his students. Small world. Fast forward 5 years later, and the kid still fishes there. I ran into him the other day as he was leaving. We exchanged the typical fishing courtesies, reports, news, etc, then he told me about a 3 pounder he caught "flipping", and where he'd caught it. I know every inch of this place, so I know he wasn't flipping at all. He was obviously pitching, but the last thing I was going to do was kill this kid's buzz over his catch with another schoolmaster lecture about the distinctions between the two. I know for a fact that I've been over this in the past with him and his pals, so I just let it go. It wouldn't change a thing. The world around him keeps calling pitching flipping, so that's what it'll be.

Glad to hear that, and thanks for not shooting the messenger.

You'd need to asks the "pros". John Cox called a pitch a flip earlier, so maybe he thinks so. I'm just a humble reporter.

For the record, I haven't done much flipping, and I've always called a pitch a "pitch", and will continue to do so, but I'm not going to spend a bit of my battery shoveling shiznit against the tide. It is what it is, and just an observation I've made.

Oh Tom. Tommy. I 'ain't bothered by nuthin'. Love you, man.

Having been laid up for the past few months, for the most part, I've watched a lot of pro tournaments wire to wire. Nearly every one of those guys call pitching "flipping" nowadays. Same thing on YooToob. This isn't going to change. So, for all of you crusty old sticklers and grammar knotzees who are offended by this, just give up when someone calls a pitch a flip. Instead of trying to correct them by re-telling the story about how the flip was actually invented by Flippy Flipperson back in nineteen hundred and Oh 6...blah blah blah, just have a nice bran muffin instead, then try to let it go. Pitching is flipping now, but at least flipping's still flipping, so that's good. Right? Right! ?

100%

If this isn't an issue for you with other reels, eh, then just send it packing. I cast way more than 100 times during a 5-6 hour session with at least half of those being full power bomb casts. Because I fish at night about the worst thing that happens on a normal cast is a few loose loops if I'm a little slow during splash down. Just a few loops to pull out. If I blew up a spool even once a night I'd go back to spinning reels.

I don't love my K. I really like the MGL 150.

If you haven't sent it yet I'd think twice. You might get it back the way you sent it in if they deem it "normal". You're better off sending it to a Daiwa authorized warranty repair center like The Tackle Trap. Way closer to you and they're Daiwa specialists that'll really try to fix your issue.

Dead Ned rig?