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Two things can be true at the same time. I think there is definitely a rise in importance of social media influencers in all markets. And they're making more and more money out of it from sponsorship deals as a result. But I don't see it taking away from fishing tournaments. If anything, it's adding to it. Fishing is growing really fast right now. There's no reason that growth just has to be one directional. If anything, I'd say that social media influencers are doing more harm to the magazine industry than the professional tournament circuits.

These reels seem to change over time. It probably needs a good tear down, cleaning, and lubrication. I've got one, and they're not strictly consistent with their brake settings. I'm often going through what your describing. Like I'll be throwing 3/8 oz. T-rigs one day, and then tie go weightless wack rig and I'll have to change the brakes. But then when I go back to the 3/8 oz. T-rigs, and the old brake settings I used last time don't work right, so I have to figure out some new settings. The good news is, once I get it dialed in, I don't have to touch it again until something changes. I think it's just the nature of the beast. Perhaps not all six centrifugal brakes are identical, or some get worn with use and others don't. Over time, you'll learn how to dial it in as you get used to it. So you'll kind of know where to set it when you make a change, and if it doesn't work like you think it should, it's usually just one quick change to get it back to doing what it's supposed to be doing. The more you fiddle with it, the more you'll get to know it. And the more you get to know it, the less you'll fiddle with it.

And the website was created on Sept. 15, 2021. That's 27 days ago. They likely didn't do much to build that website. There are templates these places will use that look nice, but the same template is repeated over thousands of fake websites. And they'll just steal pictures and text from other sites, so they don't really take much time and money to develop. If you notice, they pulled a lot from Daiwa's actual website. But they got some obvious things wrong, like the banner for reels is above the rods, and the banner for rods is above their lures. Just a bad cut and past job from someone who didn't speak English. In fact, you can tell they ripped it right off of Daiwa's US page. They even copied over the errors on the original US Daiwa page. From the Tatula 200 description on both sites: "The Daiwa Tatula 200 Baitcast Reel is the answer too many heavier tackle demands. " Should have said "to" not "too".

Find a local print shop. Printing is my job, and we do stuff like that all of the time for people on our digital press. Six small stickers would probably be a sheet or two of sticker stock. Maybe $10ish, if we had the adhesive paper leftover from a previous job (which we usually do). Online printing is questionable at best. They specialize in doing everything as cheaply as possible, because their business model is small profits, but tons and tons of jobs. They will cut every corner they can find, because it's the only way they can stay in business. They aim to make a profit off of everyone. A small, local print shop can afford to put some time and decent materials into it, because a job like the one you're asking for isn't going to make them any money anyway. They'll do small jobs like that for cost and exposure. Word of mouth and all of that. They're more interested in building relationships. However, if you want good ones that'll last a long time, you're going to probably want a traditional press, spot color printed sticker, which will jack up the price considerably (unless you're buying in bulk, in which case, it'll be cheaper). So my advice would be to just get the cheaper digital ones, and replace them yearly.

If a bass is anything like me, it's not a matter of how fast you CAN move. It's a matter of how fast you're willing to move. A cheeseburger running by me at 5mph is too fast to catch. There are other cheeseburgers out there, and most don't run. A thick stack of $100 bills running by me at 20mph is going to see an old man pull a hamstring and then become the fasted one-legged creature on the face of the earth.

I use a diamond file and an Arkansas stone. The diamond file is for restoring a point and the Arkansas stone for finishing. The diamond file is probably around 400-600 grit and the Arkansas stone is around 800-1,000. Both are small, and easily fit in my tackle bag.

White bass, whipers and stripers, for sure. Trolling is big with them. Lots of people troll for black bass as well. It's not popular, because it's not legal in tournaments. But it works and is an art unto itself. I do it because it sure beats doing nothing when I'm trying to cross a mile or more of water in my kayak at a 3mph top speed. Though I don't bring along rods specifically for trolling.

I seem to own mostly Cabela's Mean Eyes. Low cost is important to me for a blade bait, as they seem to get hung up often, and I don't want to sweat losing one. Colors are black, chartreuse, white, or silver, depending on water clarity and sun. I think my favorite way to fish them is to rip them off the bottom and let them fall on a semi-slack line. Kind of a mix between a spoon and a lipless crankbait. But there's hardly a wrong way to fish them.

It's probably for trolling.

To be fair, we're a bit color blind too. We only see a tiny fraction of the spectrum of available colors. There are other species that can see far more colors than we can, like the famous example of the mantis shrimp. And not even all humans see color the same way. We all share the same red and blue receptors, but there are two green receptors we can have. A few people (superchromats or tetrachromats, who are mostly women) have both green receptors and can see more colors than most. Bass are likely to be similar to tritanopes, as they only have red and green receptors. Also, it's possible to see UV and near IR light. UV light can be detected by our eyes, but our lenses block most of it out. People who have had their lenses replaced (and the replacement lenses don't have UV filters), as well as some people with genetic issues can see UV light pretty well. It's a appears as a light violet color to use. The aqueous humor (fluid in our eye balls) filters out near IR light. However, if you got to a pitch black room, let your eyes adjust to the darkness, and look at a bright IR light, like the light on a remote control, you can see the color. It comes out as a dark orange to us. Which brings up another point. It's possible for our eyes to see these two extra colors, but when we do, our brains don't interpret them as a whole new color. They interpret them as a familiar color. Now let's look at magenta. Magenta doesn't exist in the color spectrum. There's no wavelength for magenta. Yet we see it. How? Well, our brains don't see light as a spectrum, but rather as a wheel. And magenta is the color our brains choose to complete the wheel. So when we see magenta, what we're actually seeing is two colors at once, both on the far ends of the spectrum. Our brains don't know what to do with that, so they invented the color magenta for us to make sense of it. We can't even say for sure that two people see colors the same way. For example, there are cultures that can't even see the color blue (the Himba tribe in Namibia as an example), despite the fact that they have blue receptors in their eyes! Blue, in nature, is very rare, outside of the clear sky. And to them, blue is the color of nothingness. If you show them the color blue on a piece of paper or screen, they'll see it as green. Though they have the capability to see blue, they never trained their brains to recognize blue independently, so they can't distinguish it from other colors. Think that's weird? Well blue and indigo are very distinct colors with distinct lines on the color spectrum (remember ROY G. BIV). Yet to our eyes, we see them as both shades of blue, not as two separate colors, like we do all of the other colors of the rainbow. Why? Because we don't teach kids that there's a difference between indigo and blue. So we grow up processing the two colors very much the same, even though our eyes don't see them as that similar. So, the point of all of this is to suggest that there's no way of knowing how bass see color, even if we can know what colors they could theoretically see. So they might see huge differences in subtle shades of red, and no differences in all of the greens and yellows. There's behavioral evidence to suggest they see chanteuse as white and blue as black. But they may just see certain shades of blues as black and others as green, and may just react to chartreuse and all bright colors as white. So we'll never know if color matters, or just contrast. Their eyes might see color, but their brains may not. So all I can suggest for the color question is, if one color ain't working, try something else. But don't get too caught up in it. At best, you're just throwing darts in the dark when it comes to color.

I can't say for sure that they're the same, but I believe Abu's low profile baitcasters are made by Doyo, who also makes reels for Lew's, Bass Pro, and a few other brands. They're probably not identical, as there are tons of parts they might mix and match between all of the reels they make. But I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't very similar.

Snaps as well. My crankbait and topwater rods both get baits switched out pretty often and snaps save time and line. Plus with those lure's treble hooks, snaps make it a lot easier to pull the lure off and store the rod with out lures getting hung up on things or having to deal with loose line.

In September afternoons I do. The bass bite usually shuts down around here that time of year. So your best bet it to downsize, target panfish, and hope to get lucky and hook a bass by "accident". If nothing else, catching panfish sure beats not catching bass.

Or you could just get a regular 12v battery charger and pull the batteries and charge them in the room at night. Probably not my first choice, but it would be a pretty failsafe backup plan.

It's my preferred brand of braid. The Gore fiber strand also helps the line sink better than other braids. I generally prefer it to Power Pro and other brands I've tried. However, Power Pro seems to keep its color better.

Abu's spinning reels, round reels, and rods are for the most part, excellent. And while I don't think their low profile baitcasters are bad by any means, I think they're usually a bit more expensive than their competitor's for models of similar quality. And while Lew's reels strike the value balance a little better, I still have a hard time recommending them over the likes of Daiwa, Shimano, or even something like a Bass-Pro/Johnny Morris brand reel.

Sometimes. A moderate-fast action will bend deeper into the rod, so you'll get more whip out of it during the cast. This CAN lead to longer casts. BUT, all of that depends on lots of other things, like how heavy the lure is and how fast you accelerate the rod during cast. On the opposite end, a moderate-fast action rod can also take away distance on a cast, versus a fast action. It's possible to overload the rod, either by using too heavy of a lure, or too fast of a cast, and cause the rod to not be able to snap back in time. In which case, it'll have more of a noodly action than a whipping action on the cast. And in that scenario, a fast action rod will cast further because less of it will bend, so it won't need as much time to recover. It's all a balancing act.

I do this too, from time to time. I'll bring a rod to work with me so I can get some fishing in on my lunch break, and sometimes will only have a single spinnerbait with me. And when the regular spinnerbait retrieve isn't working, I'll often try to fish it like a jig and pitch it into cover. Occasionally that works.

There a lake near me that looks amazing. Tons of timber and vegetation. It was designed to be a trophy largemouth lake, but right after they flooded it the virus struck and the white bass, crappie, and catfish took over. They stock it with largemouth every year, but it's a terrible lake for them. They can't get a foothold in that ecosystem. But there's some in there, somewhere. I fish it on holiday weekends because I'm in a kayak and the other lakes can get dangerously crowded with drunk boaters and this lake is never crowded despite being a 15 minute drive from OKC. I've gotten one bite there, and didn't manage to land that one. The game warden thinks I'm crazy for even trying. Keeps telling me to target catfish. One day I'll figure it out though.

Straight mono. I have problems with braid getting fouled in the hooks sometimes on topwaters. It's the only rod I still use mono on.

I'd pass. If you don't want to purchase two pairs of glasses, then having your only set be polarized is a bad idea. LCD screens are polarized and don't work with polarized glasses when viewed at certain angles. And those screens are everywhere these days. If you had a second, unpolarized pair to switch between as needed, it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

The easiest way to do it is to get a holder for your transducer and screen, mount that to the accessory track, and run a wire to the battery somewhere on board. YakAttack, Scotty, Railblaza, RAM, lots of companies make transducer arm mounts and fish finder screen mounts. Sometimes you can find both in the same unit. If you look online at various videos and pictures, you'll get the general idea. You may or may not want a waterproof battery case to keep the battery dry. I have one, but rarely use it because the same technology that keeps the battery acid from leaking out also keep the lake water from leaking in. But they're handy in salt water because salt is very corrosive. Not much to it, really. Just positive to positive and negative to negative. There's also an inline fuse you'll need to install, but a lot of fish finders come with those, and instructions on how to do it all.

I just use a 30 watt soldering iron, a cheap one that I bought specially for plastics since it'll ruin any soldering iron you use. What exactly are you needing help with? It's pretty easy to do. Well, it's easy to do it so it works. Doing it so it looks like new is pretty difficult. You can also use make your own glue to glue it back together. Just take some small scraps of that bucket and place them in a jar of acetone and let it sit for a day or two. The acetone will melt the plastic. Try to balance the mixture so you get a nice, thick goo. Then apply the goo into the crack. The acetone in the mixture will melt the kayak a bit, and when it evaporates, the plastic in the kayak and patch will harden as one piece. I actually prefer the soldering iron method, as it's easier to control and quicker, but there are some instances where the chemical method is better. I'd avoid glues and epoxies. HDPE has a very low surface energy, which means very few adhesives will bond to it, long term.

To be fair, I was saying that side scan isn't AS important. I wasn't saying that it didn't work or it wasn't useful. Like I said, I have and use side scan on my fish finder in my kayak. I was just suggesting that in a kayak, you typically have a lot less of the lake available to you to fish, so you don't often have the luxury of being as picky about your spots as you would in a full sized bass boat, where it's no big deal to cover 10, 20, 30 miles of shoreline in a day. In a kayak, you tend to pick apart the spots available to you much more thoroughly, and might spend more time on spots that are less inviting than you would if you had access to more of the lake. So I use it. But if I needed to save money or wanted a more elegant transducer mounting solution, I could go without it, and I don't think it would effect the way I fish much, if I'm being honest with myself. In a power boat, it's a must-have. In a kayak, it's a welcomed luxury. That's my point.

Abu Garcia has a Winch spinning rod that a ML- moderate fast action. And Abu's are usually a bit stouter than advertised, so I'd guess that ML fishes closer to a true medium than a true medium-light. The big downside is it's only available in 7'2", so it's just a hair longer than your requirements. They also have a medium power Veritas Winch 7' spinning rod that's a moderate action. But again, with their rating systems, that's going to be a bit closer to a medium-heavy than a true medium. And the Veritas rods have those white EVA grips that will get, and stay dirty, if that matters to you. Otherwise I really like them, especially for the money.