PressuredFishing

Maybe im the wierdo, but with my clumsyness three pound baitcaster that is an all aluminum frame+ sideplates a all metal handle. I love low profile reels a ton but they sadly do not make anything this rugged anymore for bass fishing because everyone likes the lighter weights. Personally I have been fishing with this all metal conventional reel sized down for casting lures and its been amazing and has been my riprap reel because I fall alot on riprap.

I own more Lews than Shimano, but I like Shimano and Diawa more than lews by a mile and Ill explain why. 1st off Shimanos and Diawas are the only reels still made in a factory owned by themselves. This means they are NOT made by the Doyo or Banax factory. Abu garcias, Lews, quantum's, etc are made in the Doyo factory for the most part (occasionally being made in the Banax factory. The bonus of buying from Shimano or Diawa is you are buying from a reel made by that company, not a factory that put in the lowest bid to manufacture the product. What this means to me is that I am buying a reel that is made by shimano for shimano. Take a lews classic speed spool and a abu garcia black max, and look at the frames in comparison, while they are slightly different in their frame molding and peices, you can tell that they where made in the same factory. I'm not saying Doyo makes bad reels, as I fish with a lot of Doyo reels, I just feel like the tolerances of doyo reels are not great in comparison to the tolerances of shimano or diawa. At the end of the day if you put both in a pro's hand they will not have even a slight advantage over each other, other than less slop or noise in the reel or increased smoothness. However I am not a pro, I am just a consumer that wants the thing to last a few months longer than the other options on the market. ^^^^ this was a big innovation in my opinion that has increased the durability in many different reels across brands, the newer entry level reels hold up better than 200$ reels that will accasionally brackreel a littlebit under extreme tension.

Very interesting thanks for this info

What do you think of the 3 jig hooked a rigs with smaller fakes on the rig, any luck here in Cali with them or do you get alot of misses?

I love boat fishing but really bank angling is killer when fishing creek arms because bass boats can't get back there or when fishing structure lines that boats can't get into

Really anything between 2-6lbs. It really depends on how heavy of lures your going to throw, and secondly but not near as important the structure around and the size of fish 1/16th-1/64th=2lb 1/16th-1/8th=4lb (also sparse wood or rock that's snaggy) 1/8th-1/4-6lb (and rocky bottoms or woody bottoms) Also DO NOT use a small reel, use a standard size 25 if your using pflugers or size 20 if using any other brand. Using one of those tiny tiny pocket spinning reels has no pros, it takes up less line, and will have more "springy" line because the spool is smaller. For line type mono or coplymers are best for trout, braid is overhyped and will saw through stainless steel guides, which manuly reel guides are made of in the ultralight setting. Good quality lines (the best on the market) include izorline cxx premium, Maxima green coplymer, pline cxx. Berkley triline is the thinnest of diameters by a hair but is way weaker than these, I have tried it three times from three different packages and it's garbage out the box and breaks when tying knots lightly when on the reel for a month.

Line diameter makes the biggest difference, so 2-4lb is most important. Action of rod is most important, so ultralight is the best option as it can fling small baits with light line further than a light or med light. Carolina rigs on ultralights can work but you need to use weights lighter than 1/4th oz or you risk snapping your rod. Do not buy the bass pro shops ultralight rods, both versions the airstream and the other one has eyes becoming wiggly on the blank and they bend as well. Also they have stainless steel guides that get line divits that can cause line damage. On top of that they snapped for me. The okuma cellios is an amazing rod I own it, it has silicone aluminum oxide guides which is important on light line. Avoid buying on amazon as shipping is poorly packaged. Other good rods include the shimano sensilite, shakesphere Featherlight, and diawa presso. All of these rods are affordable and good for the price. You will have hard time finding rods especially here on West coast because of shipping crisis

This is kind of the same for me, if we get a warming trend it can be decent but I don't bother when it's 50-60 degree daytime temps, I'd rather just drown worms for panfish

Fly fishing rivers/native lakes for wild trout, Carryover trout, established trout, and native trout. (the stockers are stupid and are unpatternable because they have lived in a DFG tank their whole life) yyes I do love bass fishing a lot, but I am no way an expert in it. Yes I may be fairly good but I have not established a skill-set or specialty in bass fishing that is light years ahead of everyone else. My dads grandfather (sad story and I dont feel much about getting into it at the moment) but long story short he fly fished almost every day up on Montana and owned one of the very few properties landlocked in a national park when homesteading (he owned a large portion of the river as well). He tied his own flies and knew all the different insect hatches from mayfly hatches to scud Larve and marked them in a booklet for different times of the year. Sadly in the end dementia took him away from us and he "gave" the property and millions of dollars (modern day) in heavy equipment away to somebody that took advantage of him.

Not sure about gammies but on owner packaging it says made in Japan, at least the ones I use.

ah okay I understand now

why do so many people wear bibs, I mean maybe its because im in SOCAL but i usually just wear sweatpants and a hoodie r something. do they keep you really warm in the winter?

Yeah those Lazer sharp series have actually become really good, I think I used to get 15 in a pack for 4 bucks, really good deal but now they are always out of stock. I wonder why mustards quality control has gone down so much?

Any 3/0 ewg brand, they work great.

Fly fishing for bass is very fun, and I have noticed in my heavily pressured lakes under the right conditions fly fishing can outperform conventional fishing, especially in clear water. The light Weightless natural looking flies skittered below the surface with long pauses is lethal in the warmer months, the materials breathe underwater and react to light current. It is an amazing technique. It's not for everybody, and you may not catch as many fish, but when the water you are fishing is heavily pressured and the conditions are right, it's lethal

Imho the skirt is just a bonus and adds extra action. If I wanted a naked profile I'd probably use a scrounger. I will however just use the skirt with no trailer if I'm burning it near the surface. Don't let me hold you back, give it a shot who knows.

Grubs, I am excited for grubs and hair jigs.

Yes this is a more educated way of what I was trying to say

This is my personal preference, you may like better things though Topwaters- .Zara spooks because they walk wider with a snap .For poppers I normally dont but if you want to try go for it. Crankbaits- .using snaps on cranks is nice to have because you can switch depth depending on your location by snapping on and off crankbaits, for instancing im fishing 5ft riprap, so I have a squarebill, but then it drops off onto a rock wall where I have 15 foot, I can tie on a deep diver. It can also be useful for color changes. Jerkbaits- It depends on the jerkbait, for instance my rapala floaters you can If you want to but a megabass vision 110 balences perfectly and the extra weight of the snap will make it sink. Finally your question about snaps with or without splitrings is explained very well by Mr. Glen in his video. Hope this helps, and If you have trouble for some reason tying knots because of a medical reason such as poor eyesight or hand eye coordination you can throw all of this information out the window and just fish with a snap or snap and swivel because its impossible to catch fish if your line is not in the water. also if this applies to you, you could even perhaps use a snap to attach hooks to your line if you have trouble tying knots, something I just thought about.

I used to love Bps, but they have pretty much gone to hell in a handbag in my honest opinion, everything is super expensive, they never have sales as listed above, and they carry their crappy lure brands over brands I ACTUALLY want. For instance they have their own large swimbaits under their "XPS" brand for 10 dollars but I would rather pay 15 for an actual r2s s waver. Instead of keitechs for 5.99 they have their off brand keitechs for 5.00. Id rather pay the extra buck for good colors. Then their reel selection is also manipulative and when you look at the details you will find the devil. For instance they do not sell any casting reels made by diawa or shimano in the 50-95 dollar range even though there are models such as the Shimano Caius or the Diawa CC80+ the CR80 (aka non doyo/banax factory made reels. This 100$ minimum is even applied to the Diawa Fuego casting reel which clocks in at 99.00. I believe the only 100$ minimum reel allowed is technically the 99.99 SLX, but I may be wrong. In my opinion I believe Basspro does this shady sales tactic because they know somebody new to fishing is not going to spend 100$ on a reel and they bait the new fisherman into buying their Johnny Morris reels. The saddest part is many people buying these reels on their website probably dont know better options like the Diawa CC80/Cr80 or the Shimano Caius exist because Basspro refuses to sell them. I have only made a few purchases from Tacklewarehouse but It makes my life so much easier because They have 10 times more options than BPS, they have amazing shipping (and cheap 6.50 shipping for orders under 50$) and they have a website GUI that is smooth and easy to navigate. I know some guys complain about tackle warehouse, but compared to BPS its an angel of relief. anyways hate to ruffle peoples feathers but that's just been my experience.

I agree I dont even know if it is completely possible because composite is graphite infused with eglass/fiberglass so it will usually have a slower action.

Social media is a negative breeding ground.

The higher carbon the blank e.g Im7 im8 etc etc or 24, 48 ton etc are usually weaker. Lower graphite rated rods or a composite is much much more durable. Take all of this for a grain of salt because there is no one size fits all rating, my lews im7 feels crisper and of higher modules than quantum rods that have im8 blanks. Not all rods are equally measured.

I hope I'm safe, first time making a big purchase on TW, rip

Ah interesting, I got the 1/8th for a good all around shallow water one. Awesome will check this out, I have never used a screw lock like these!