Bass Rutten

The only thing worse than the bait monkey are the delivery gorillas.

Yes, unnecessary. My St Croix med/fast (utility rod) handles 3/8 quite well, and on the rare occasion I use 1/2oz, my Kistler mh gets called into duty. If they were confidence baits I threw often then I'd for sure put together a dedicated outfit for them. Applies to both chatters and spinners.

I did my fair share of c-rigging in and around vegetation when I lived in Florida. I used braid to a rod length of copoly (12lb yzh) leader, with a cylidrical tungsten weight 12-15 inches from the lure held in place by 1, sometimes 2, bobber stops depending on weight, typically 1/4 or 3/8oz, occasionally using 1/2 oz in deeper water. Most hits seemed to come at the very end of the cast or not very far from where the bait entered the water.

Well I kept digging and figured it out. It is in fact a Roadrunner, it's the long discontinued Aaron Martens rollin' runner. Bummer that I can't get more, something about this design, perhaps the flat eye, does well in current. It fishes very snag free in a rocky stretch of river I fish.

Can anyone identify the manufacturer of this 1/4oz underspin? It's not on TW

Looks like it'd be great on a Carolina rig.

Suck it up buttercups, time to learn the FG knot!

@2earlye I'd play around with lure distance from the rod tip, lengthen the distance between tip and lure up until *just before you notice it begins to affect your release timing. It should smooth out startup jerkiness a bit especially with a fast action rod, avoiding straight overhead casting helps too.

Once you go electric you ain't going back!

Just picked up these two beauties... Never thought I’d buy an Abu Garcia rod let alone two 2-piece bait finesse ones, but various members posts convinced me. I wasn’t aware the 7'3" med-light model was a solid tip when I made the purchase (first one for me), and so far it feels great with cranks, swimbaits, and underspins from 1/8-3/8oz, which was my intent. Got it paired up with a bf tuned Alphas 800 and 6lb yo-zuri hybrid, straight up bombs wiggle warts, not too shabby with a #5 shad rap too. The second, and more intriguing one for my style of fishing, is the light power 6’9” version (tubular tip). Outstanding for smaller 3/16 and 1/4oz jerkbaits. I see this one also getting use for ned rigs, flickshake, and mid-strolling. Got it paired up with my SS Air TW and 6lb Invisx fluoro, but braid is likely in its future as the sensitivity is not bad, but not amazing either. This rod/reel combo weighs in at 7.7 ounces total, like a feather in hand, and well balanced to boot. Gratuitous pics...

What's even more baffling is my ss air lists 6lb capacity as 50yds, but the 8lb capacity as...umm 50yds

In '96ish I seen the first G3 tour with Satriani, Vai, and Johnson at the Aragon, amazing show and venue, and yeah the security was "loose", it was affectionately known as the Aragon Brawlroom.

👆 8.5, half point bonus for telecaster use. Today I learned the Black Crowes released an album last month...

Not silly at all, pretty cool actually, congrats!

Are you saying you insert the toothpick to through the eye of the hook to pin the knot/line to keep it in the same position on the line tie? If so how well does it actually work and stay in place?