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Look at the eye of your hooks. Sometimes we buy a pack that has a bit of slag at the end of the wire that forms the rounded eye and that's enough to break light line on hookset.

No problem. You just put a drop where you want to and it stays there. It doesn't get into the eye. Then you freeze it with the UV ray.

I use Loon UV liquid. (FLOW)

I like 50 pound Power Pro

I had that same motor on a Ranger 363 ( about the same lenght as your boat) and use a Mercury Lazer prop in 23 P.

For me, and I believe where I live (North), for both largemouth and smallmouth, over 5 pound is big.

Lots of Shimano colors above

I also fish ultra clear water and more often than not a spinnerbait retrieved rapidly will work. Other suggestions would be a small senko type lure, a soft jerkbait, a spybait and a scat type bait

I can fish deep, but I don't like to. Bass from deep water have to be fizzed and I don't like doing it. Twenty feet deep is not very deep for me. That's the lenght of the boat. My limit for bass is about 30 feet. I've fished jigs for walleyes down to 60 feet and for lake trout down to 100 feet and it's relatively easy.

Shimano G. Loomis

I like the EWG. Hook point is closer to weedguard so weedguard doesn't have to bend as much. I feel you get a better hookset. I have never straightenend the hook on a fish so EWG's are strong enough. I use large plastics so there is more point exposed with EWG's.

Jackall Rhythm Wave

Yes, I was serious about that !

I tried straight flipping hooks but have gone back to EWG. Some like the ''beffy look'' but you can get the same wire diameter in some EWG's. I use hooks with regular diameter wire and I have never straightened one. I feel that I can get better action from a bait with a EWG. The bait movement is more horizontal, not always at an angle. I put up with flipping hooks only if I'm fishing the heaviest wood cover more vertically.

Maybe one day there will be braided fluorocarbon ???

I also like Mizmo.

I use a jig and fluoro in real clear water and like it better than mono or braid. I fish jigs along cattails or reed lines and I want a direct line from the tip to the jig. With mono that floats or braid with a leader, you get an hinge effect that I don't like. I want a direct line from tip to jig. A lot of the fish you don't even feel them when they take the jig. The water is so clear you see them with the lure in their mouth and a lot of times there was absolutely no pull or mouvement of the line.

Depends on the type of gauges you have. With Smartcraft gauges probably not, because they are precise. With other types, yes. I have mine for RPM. A regular tach is not very precise ... most of the time.

I use the same type of trailer on jigs. I make my own from components bought on line. They look like ''Dirty Jigs'' swimming jigs- Always use 3/8oz so I get the same feeling during the retrieve . I don't use the really big trailers.

Not spawing, they do that in June and later. Probably feeding on mayfly nymphs that rise to the surface.

From top to bottom: Heddon One Knocker Spy bait - Jackall 1/2 oz jig with craw trailer.

I would also vote for the Stradic. I've got some (the white ones) going back 30 years I think, and some MG 's and they are still ticking really well.

Shimano Chronarch MG 50

Take a look at Shimano's new Outlier Swimbaits rods.

I use heavy weights like 3/8 or 1/2 oz. I like to get to the bottom fast and I fish rivers mostly. Once on the bottom, there is no difference between a 1/4 or a 1/2 oz weight, except you get better control with the last one.