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Many of you might have noticed this, but with braided line, I often find that if I have my drag set to 4 or 5lbs on 6lb braid, it digs in, if I have 20lb braid on a spinning reel, after 8lbs of drag it starts to dig in, even on 65lb braid, if I just hooked into a 4lb bass, half a tree, and some grass my line digs in , so I end up fishing the same drag settings as the mono diameter equivalent. I am generally not worried about this, but expecially with spinning, I start to panic if you are fishing a thin 10lb braid, set your drag too tight, and your line snaps because the fish cannot actually pull line due to it dug into itself and snaps the line. Even nylon does this too if you really try to squeeze every lb of strength it offers out of it. I've tried winding it on super tight but maybe more people have this issue, would love to hear your experiences.

I don't know, slx xt and tatula are hard to beat, if they brought it down to 100 even perhaps, but slx and tatula are hard to beat. Right now I'm set on casting reels,

Thanks so much excellent info! Thanks so much Tom!!! You have taught me so much and turned me into that guy that threw a senko to hope for a random bite and praying to catching many by learning specialized techniques, bass behavior; and patterns! One question I did have for you is you mentioned bass in Castaic have not moved up yet after this really rainy year we have had, why do you think this is? I tried fishing some of the lakes and they have come up a ton, and fish also seem to be in their same holding areas

Super weird I'd never throw 10+ lb nylon on spinning except on my Size 6000 sw spinning reel and super heavy rod

So last year was my first pretty successfull pre spawn fishing pattern, but I would like to ask if there is anything you guys do different Pre frontal conditions or cloudy windy Chop =spinnerbait or moving baits Blue bird sky day- bottom contact, flipping, perhaps a glide bait Post frontal. Flipping, bottom contact Any other suggestions would be appreciated

I have a somewhat old revo stx, It is a good reel, was actually my very first casting reel and was what I practiced on alot. Centrifugal micro adjustment reel, although now i actually perfer magnet breaking reels because they arent as noisy. I have now retired it because I feel as though shimano and diawas even caius and cc80, or tatula and slx, or even curado just feel smother and more refined. Hindsight 2020 If I knew what I know now I'd only buy shimano and diawa reels.

I can fish 1 16th oz with 4" straight tail worm on my diawa tatula 100ct if that helps but it's not accurate or far compared to using a dedicated bfs reel.

I only saw it in the store, but liked the diawa arid x when I picked it up

Thanks!

I know floods can spread fish around for what that's worth, once every 100 years there can be a massive one, or even smaller ones can flush the fish down seasonal creeks, not here in socal maybe, but where rain is a thing yeah!

Thanks!

I had the same issues, some frogs don't like to walk, I'm no pro and tried the loop knot but it seemed to catch grass more than normal knots.. ended up just being because it was just a bad quality frog

Nice thanks!

That's actually really a good thing to know I appreciate you telling me that! I'll take a look at it in the store so thank-you for that!

Looking for any insight on this rod, blank, handle, guides, and weight for anyone that has used it thanks

Glad I grabbed a few you reccomended before they discontinued, you taught me the splitshot rig and they work really well for thay like you said.

Yeah I was really hoping for the lemon or clear

The owner hard baits, the zip n ziggy and their minnow bait

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Greetings, sending love from a worse state!

Nope I'm full, the one thing I wanted has been sold out on TW for almost 8 months so... yeah

Nice job friend!

Bulldog1935 has an exquisite reel collection!

thanks! Yeah most of the lakes have deep rock and wood from what I've experienced, there is just one tiny reservoir near me that is similar to the standing timber in SV thats blocked off by rhe boyes, but has much dirtier water and a quarter of it is clay flat bank tapering with featureless bottom. There was a tournament and everyone flipped the wood and fished rockpiles deeper and had good success, but one that fished the lifeless mud clay bank won 2nd. It was like you said, part of a large riverbed inlet that gets alot of runoff.

That's what I was thinking as well