PressuredFishing

Yeah big news! Hearing good things about it

Small places don't carry as much, it's good to support them in the beginning but now I really fish niche baits, colors, tackle equiptment, etc that even many online retailers don't carry like TW. Plus bigger online retailers have bigger sales. P.S (online shopping is also alot less overwhelming of a experience expecially with strides in shipping speed and cost over the past 40 years.)

That's tough fishing pressure, I keep complaining to dfg saying they don't pay their licenses, but I guess that's discrimination at its finest

I'm sorry the market has overwhelmed you, it tends to overcomplicate things and push false narratives and counterintuitive information. All the line sizes you listed sound reasonable, generally line size in U.S Is usually chosen for hook gauge more than strength, excluding fishing heavy cover, hard to set a flipping jig on .009inch line even with a stout rod. Mono should be fine, I used zebco omniflex in 12lb and still do and it's a entry level reliable line. (P.S) if you are very overwhelmed, Perhaps to help you out a little, specialize on plastic fishing the most, it's the most versatile lure choice out there and can catch fish 365 24/7 no matter the situation. More bass have been caught on plastics than any other technique. It will also teach and hone your bite detection, weight choice, give you a basic understanding of depth, color, water column, and it's cheap when broken off.

Yup, I pretty much gave up on finding good usdm jigs, picked up japanese jigs that I love with lighter wire hooks, I'll also just use a punch skirt with a owner j light hook for a "jig profile". Ive concluded lighter line and lighter gauge hooks with lighter lure weight prevents fish from shaking off or throwing a bait. To put it bluntly, I would have more confidence landing a 10lb bass on a mosquito hook with 6lb line compared to a swimbait with 56x stout trebles on 50lb braid or 20lb mono.

A diawa tatula lt jdm, and quite a few light game toys. Will take some pictures once it arrives, i don't like to blow a ton on fishing equiptment; but I got 150$ dollars worth of tackle for 80$ and the reel was 130$ out the door, 210 total I'd pay 210 including tax on the reel alone so, I ain't complaining

Yes

Depends on the gauge wire of the hook. No industry standard, just remember "ThE PrOs" like to overpower the fish and jet ski them in, even on finesse equiptment, so everything "ThE prOs" influence the market to be power overkill oriented.

Keep an open mind in the fall I think people try to hold onto summer techniques.

Plastics

Classic glidebait story, jumped shook and spat the hook, then broke the thing by flinging it 10 feet into the air and on a riprap bank.........

bps used to have a much larger selection but now they are hard to find any brand with decent components, I loved them for cqb fishing with lots of overhead cover, stream fishing, Ive even got a few pistol grip spinning rods (minus the trigger). its very similar to fencing, a bent hilt allows for tighter swings, and different angles that become useful in small creeks where not alot of room is present. ,expecially for bfs or spinning. They are making a comeback in japan big time, but not here in the U.S because we listen to "ThE PrOS"

In california we get jabbed 64$ a year for a license and many lakes are 10$ a day plus a 20$ boat launch fee not including 5$ salt addition, tags for salmon, or 21$ for a double rod permit, all to fish all dried up resavoirs that used to have nice fish but have been managed eh, to say the very least.

Monofilament is mote forgiving knot wise, manageability, cost, durability, and versatility. Medium spinning will work for both species and panfish

K.I.S.S, everyone here has gone down the rabbit hole, i wont overwhelm you. a soft plastic with a variety of weights and hook styles is all an angler needs to catch bass. If you have a medium action spinning rod your fine, medium heavy casting setup is nice but not ideal Get soft plastic worms of some sort, you can swim them hop them, and drag them Start with monofilament no matter what they say Diameter is more important than lb test .008-.009 inch is good for spinning .012-.015 is good for casting Dark blues and purples are good for muddy Green brown are good for clear White or flashy good for active fish Ewg in 3/0 worm hook size will cover all your worm sizes, if little grass invest in mosquito hooks. Catch 10 bass using this technique, then let me know how it worked and we can go from there Worming is core to bass fishing and is the most versatile technique, a worm can catch all types of fish in all types of inviornments all times of year, it may not be the best for every circumstance but it will be your best versatility lute Stay far away from jigs for now

Micro a rig? Interesting idea,

That one's a winner!

Yeah you will be fine taking the c clip off but do it in a zip block bag or something because they go flying like springs

You can swim any jig, it doesn't have to be a swimjig that's marketing. Grass jigs are very similar head shape, or just use an arkie or something, really it's just one has Google eyes one doesnt

Baitfish+semiclearwater +wood=spinnerbait Muddied water+grass+bluegill=chatterbait Clear water+heavygrass+wood+ bluegill=swimming a jig This is over generalized, and take it with a truckload fullof salt because the exception is many times equally common to the rule, expecially in bass fishing. Just ask about winter topwater fishing over 50 feet of water in 38 degree water temperature

Welcome from socal.

Doesn't bug me, eating bass doesn't either because bass are a very common sport fish, bring up fish like the pasific coho salmon in norcal and that's a different story

Get the shimano, I've owned almost every reel brand you can think of, they are all fine but shimano and diawas are on different levels. I own retail 200+ outsourced manufactured reels and the 40$ diawa or shimano is better. Id sell my 200$ for a 70$ shimano or diawa the difference is that huge. They are just built different.

I don't know, seems as though hookup ratio improved tremendously after completely removing weed gaurd and fishing exposed, I also think that sense full size arkie style jigs have assadine heavy gauge hooks plays a role on my mh 10lb nylon setup. Eye angle may play some role, I also don't fish jigs a ton anymore compared to using a punch skirt for profile. The easy solution was fishing heavier low stretch line+heavier rod but I refuse to continue to fish light submergant grass and wood cover with over 15lbs, the bass fishing industry needs to get itself under control on the overkill equiptment and tackle.

I don't like weed gaurd hooks/lures, imo hookup ratio isn't good compared to worm hook. Worm hook is like 95%, jig is maybe 65%. Removing weed gaurd all together makes the hookup ratio much better even over a worm hook. The only reason I will fish a jig is for the skirted profile, and I'm already finding loopholes around that. Also the one small advantage to weed gaurdjig hooks over worm hooks is they seem to do much better around wood, often times worm hooks will come out of plastic and catch into wood, or branches pull worm down the shank of the hook and expose the point. Other than that I'm fishing exposed or using loopholes like a punch skirt because I can choose the hook size and gauge amd weightI want instead of the "pros like"