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That's cool, your choices in rods and style of fishing are much different that mine. I don't generally cast frogs, I pitch them to cover, and holes, probably less that 20 yards 90% of the time but I can sling one 40 yards like blinking an eye. So what I don't like about a soft tip and frogs. It sucks to work the bait with the tip loading up every time you twitch the tip to make the frog walk, it feels soft and sloppy and makes me feel like I have to work much harder to impart the action I want on the bait. Hooksets, I do not understand why a soft tip if you are using braid, the purpose of braid is low stretch, it gives you fast strong hooksets and you counter act that with a soft tip flexing, remember we are trying to drive 2 large hooks into the fish and a soft tip just does not make sense. Again we fish very differently, I respects your opinions and thoughts.

Why you prefer the soft tip, what does it provide over a faster tip?

Do you get beans or rice with your burrito and which has less stretch.

Shimano Citica E model, they closed them out for around $80 dollars. I still think this may have been one of the best buys on a fantastic entry level reel.

I have yet to experience this. This may sound crazy, but I have line that has been on my reels since the Classic in Tulsa at Grand Lake, forget the year. I don't fish those setups that much but that line still has not shown signs of the "poof", I will be watching it close. Thanks for the info.

I like Daiwa, but my favorites were the early gen Revo reels.

What is this poof you speak of? I have this line on a few setups and have yet to experience it. I don't fish as much as you do, is it something that happens after a lot of use? I use about a 6ft leader with this line, the only thing that I have to check on is the joining knot it starts looking frayed when fished for a while in high abrasion situations. I fish the line mostly for the casting distance, but I also enjoy how thin it is comparably to other lines, good knot strength, little to no line stretch, very sensitive and great line manageability on spinning reels. Has been durable for me as well.

Because the newer reels sometimes have small shallow spools to aid in the casting of lighter baits it is not advisable to use gear ratio alone to determine the speed of a reel. Sometimes gear ratio's like 7.1:1 and 8.1:1 can be misleading in terms of reel speed with the lower gear ratio recovering more line due to the spool size. The better standard for reel speed is IPT, this will give you a range in Inches Per Turn of the handle, and give you a true idea of just how fast a reel is. Faster reels are good for a lot of the things mentioned in previous posts and I would add a buzz bait to that list, they help get the bait on top of the water quickly. However I do feel that a lot of the speed thing is just another tool of the marketing team to sell reels.

Without knowing your rod and line choice it is impossible to get the full picture. I will also say that 10lb mono is not what you would normally want for fishing a top water frog. Tell a little more about your setup and what you want to do with it, the kind of cover your fishing and someone will get you setup for success.

The bags the Zmann baits come in are very recognizable doubt you would have any problems keeping them seperated.

The GLoomis MBR 844 was the gold standard for fishing jigs not so long ago.

spinning or casting?

I have been using it over the last 4-5 years and have really been enjoying it. Just wondering if anyone else was still using it and what their experience has been.

Think about all the things that makes any lure highly sought after it is no longer made and the 1 common denominator they will all have is that they work.

Anyone using this line? Love to hear your experience.

I have a lot.

I suspect there are greater thickness variations in the line itself than the difference between the two advertised thicknesses. Hard to believe that .0001 would create enough real world variance in casting distance to be appreciably different. Especially when you add in the drag from entrapped sediment in the line ,the swelling of the line from being wet and inconsistent thickness from mfg practices. All anecdotal but seem logical.

I remember reading this some years ago, the thing that I got out out it was that correlation does not imply causation. These test measured where we ended up, not how we got there....

I assumed that it was just another name for the split ring.

What were they testing for? Looks like heavy line and leader material at first glance.

I have read this multiple times and still have not come to grips with what it actually means or how it relates to fishing line...... I guess I would have to ask what Nylon and FC are you using as a base line for comparison, and does that even apply to fishing.

I like watermelon red magic and green pumpkin magic.

Sorry to put words in your mouth. I would not use snap swivels in the moss, algae and mill foil I commonly fish frogs in, just a point for them to collect loose material.

I like the less stretch for the spinner and buzzbaits with braid, what I don't like is when the casted bait decided to tumble during the cast and becomes tangled in braided line. It's a real PITA.

Maybe I missed Roger but I think he may have been talking about adding a split ring and not a snap swivel. I agree a snap swivel is more likely than not to catch a bunch of junk during the retrieve that would make the fishing experience far less enjoyable. The snap ring does not suffer the same problem, and as mentioned by Roger some feel it helps increase action on the bait. My own personal experience is that a snap ring may improve action slightly for the person just starting out with fishing and walking a frog or while they are gaining the skills to manage slack line effectively a person more skilled and adept with frog fishing will not see the same gains.