I stink at fishing

welcome to the forum. You should check out a place called Whip poor will lodge. It is in Northern Ontario My friends and I go every year.

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whatever you do dont get a penn captiva I have had 3 of them break on me after one day of use.

IMO I never used one but I feel they put KVD's name on a low quality setup . I have no respect for pros that put there name on things they dont even use themselves. It misleads people

I was reading in a magazine that swimming a tube is very effective on presured smallies in clear water. Sometimes you gotta change it up to get the fish curious again.

I use a diawa zillion with a left hand retrieve . I think most of the diawas and shimanos you can get in left or right hand retrieve.

diawa L&T offers a few split grip rods in your price range.

actualy You get a 5 year warenty on the L&T I don't know where you got that info from, not from Daiwa web site. Since I own a few hight end Daiwa reels I keep in touch with them frecuently. Only the Cielo, Tierra and Steez metioning a Limited Life Time Warranty, there is not such a thing for the L&T....I contacted them before I bougth my swimbait set and I was told this very clearly, that they will only covered 1 year......Go ahead and take your chances and let us know. http://www.daiwa.com/Rod/freshwater.aspx The tag that came on both my L&T rods said 5 year limited warranty

actualy You get a 5 year warenty on the L&T

I would say BPS extreme rod or a daiwa light & tough are the best bet for a nice rod without going over $200

I have a diawa light & tough topwater rod its a 6ft medium action and I love it!

I like to tie everything directly to the lure. I think it helps the lure performance and its good practice for tying knots.

I have a BPS extreme rod and casting reel and I Like them alot . For the money BPS makes a great product

we used to rig shinners on a bobber setup for non moving water.

Thanks for all the help guys ! I will definitly take Reel Mech's advice.

Thanks

I bought a daiwa zillion (JDM) and the manual is in japaneese . It has some drawings in the maintenance section so I could pretty much figure it out . The drawing shows the bearing being lubed with the little bottle of oil that came with the reel but where the level wind is it looks like they are spraying some sort of lube . Anyone know what kind of spray this is? I dont want to cause dammage to my new reel.

You beat me to it Bream Master!

I did not like it at all

I wish I could read my manual but I got the japaneese version and its all in japaneese.

I orderd a zillion reel from them on a saturday it was at my door by wednesday. I was very happy with the shipping time.

I like skitter walks