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when you fart in a small room it always smells longer than when you do outside. sorry that was kind of rude but in all seriousness leave them in the bag and spray some gulp nightcrawler in there to let saturate. whats wrong with keeping them in a bag? clip them to a notebook binder and youre good to go

Spool size has nothing to do with backlashing or casting distance. Throw the weights that are listed on the rod and you should be fine. MH/F you really probably shouldnt throw any line LIGHTER than 12lb or 3/8 oz. Daiwa Tatula ct is a great reel and its nearly impossible to backlash with the t wing system implemented. Could probably find at a local Dicks sporting goods. MH/F should be just fine to flip or launch your soft plastics around. Medium/fast is setup better for niche fishing--depending where you are. I wouldnt recommend m/f if you are flipping in thick brush or thick milfoil

7 inch green pumpkin finesse worm on a shaky head

They work some what here in east TN. I will throw them out if i see a smallie come up to eat a nymph. 1/16th VMC marabou hair jig up north is a killer when they wont eat anything else.

i missed the whole "build" word in your statement. my bad!!

i concur lol

Dont use a circle hook on a wacky rig, they are too small to fit around the jawbone of a 4+lb bass. VMC neko hook #2 is the best route to take IMO. To me the best way to fish a wacky rig is popping the slack in your line—more or less the way you fish a drop shot. You’re not trying to make your worm wiggle because it does that by itself while falling... lift your rod tip a few times with slack in the line and when you feel the weight of worm, stop what you’re doing and let it fall on a slack line.

shoutout to august for being the worst fishing month BY FAR here in the south. personally cant wait for fall to hurry up and get here

Irod genesis 2 7'4 medium finesse swimmer. in my opinion the absolute best drop shot/finesse swimbait rod on the market. 2500 pfleuger supreme on there and you're ready to feel a fish fart from 10 feet away, and the outfit weighs like 4 ounces.

i have a ghost, you need to make sure your puck location is in a spot with zero interference. Bow of the boat seems to be the best place for it. If your bowmount offset & TMC calibration havent been done it will bounce around. Also you should recalibrate if you recently installed a software update. I tried several different puck locations and this was the one one that held me in place. Keep in mind that the spot lock will always rotate the boat to face into the wind or against the current

it's worth the jump buddy--I dont have personal experience with their customer service but have only heard great things. I ordered mine from tacklewarehouse, the 7'4 medium finesse i bought is actually made for small swimbaits but it works GREAT bombing ned rig & d/s

I'm definitely a st croix guy with the majority of my spinning rods, except the ol drop shot. I recently purchased a 7'4 medium finesse IROD genesis II and all i can say is WOW. i typically throw a 3/16 DS weight and this thing can launch an absolute mile as well as button them up. I usually roll with a 1/o or 2/o gamakatsu ss/ds hook with about a 15 inch leader. Not to mention this entire outfit(pfleuger supreme 2500) weighs about 2 ounces. I went to experiment on smallies up river with @TnRiver46 last weekend(i feel like he's given me a segment in a tv show "experimenting smallmouth with jeremy" LOL) and i dont think i missed/lost a single fish out of around 15

ive been using on 12 lb pline tactical fluoro. it gets down around 5 ft occasionally. The action is great but i'm not able to rip it through grass like i do a 1.5. Caught 4 fish in 5 casts sunday morning on it fishing an offshore hump. Really good crankbait for rock/rip rap areas, not so great for soft bottom or grassy areas

had to let my co-angler off the boat for a couple minutes last weekend on nickajack LOL

yes sir! 3/16 oz stupid rigged. throw the 3+inch zoom green pumpkin on bluffs. hold on because they will break your arm

hey man i used to have some problems with this until i started using actual fluorocarbon leader line. Bend over the side of the boat and tie your palomar in the water, if you are breaking at the knot you are either burning the line while tying, setting the hook way too hard, or have a bad spool of line.

pfleuger supreme, 6'8 st croix mojo m/f, 10lb powerpro/10lb fluoro leader, 3/16 oz shakyheadz some sort of zman plastic based on the time of year

post a pic from navionics of the area you are trying to fish and it will be much easier to explain

a few. on the spinning side i have a few pfleuger supremes on st croix mojo rods. All 10 lb braid-10 lb fluoro leader. Throw a 3/16 shaky head on one, 1/6th ned on another, another 3/16 shaky head, and a 3/16 stupid tube

Hit the marinas when the sun is high, doesn’t look like there are many on that lake which should be beneficial. Finesse worm or fattyz on a 3/16 shaky head should do the trick

what are you smoking? the mojo rod is very much so worth the 120 bucks or whatever they retail at these days how hard are you hammering them? You should just have to reel in and lean on these fish with light wire hooks. by definition "fast" action means the rod bends at the tip, moderate bends around the middle, and slow action bends in the lower 1/3rd of the blank

what's the name of the lake? find a marina and finesse the slips.

shaky head finesse worm/big trd on a ned big crankbait big jig and about 8 other things that sit on my deck but those are typically the first 3 that end up in the water

jig--pure poision 3/8 pro model flipping jigs. skip like a champ and durable as they come, routinely catch 50-60 fish before i retire one. really hard to get these guys hung up bladed jig--3/8 jackhammer w rage swimmer or keitech paddletail. speaks for itself crankbait--dt-6, bandit 200 series, spro little john, shad rap, 6xd. all dependant on time of year and the action the fish want plastics--zman anything, 3/16th shaky headz. really any ball jighead with a collar works great and keeps your plastics standing up

hook size and the differences in the method you hookset on a baitcaster vs spinning reel. texas rig is heavy wire hook you need to hammer them. shaky heads are typically light wire and all you need to do is reel tight and lean into them. that's why i use one or the other