Firstoutfisher

Anyone here have experience with mounting to inflatables? Sweet looking rig. The mapping is my biggest draw to garmin think I’m going to go for SI.

Done a lot of research and think I may end up getting a garmin echomap if they go on steep sale this black friday like last year. Now I just need to figure out a mounting solution for transducer and finder that will work for my yak.

Daiwa rebellion has a 6’10 mh/f

l will probably run my yak without a fish finder for a while. I know I definitely want one in the future and figured I should start looking now. To make matters even more complicated my yak is an inflatable. A bote lono aero with apex pedal drive to be specific. So that means If I want to deflate it whatever mounting I use has to be easily removable. It also means I won't be able to drill or cut the kayak. As far as I know there are no accessories that will easily mount to it so I will probably have to do some custom work to get a transducer mount.

Are there specific fish finders that work better for Kayaks? Just got a new fishing kayak and want to outfit it with a finder and I am unsure of what I should be looking for. Obviously I need to find some way to mount the transducer. Aside from that what should I look out for?

Megabass cyclone?

I may make a trip down to BPS next weekend and feel some up.

Sweet,I watched some videos on the nose hooked fluke. Never actually fished a fluke so I am looking forward to trying this tonight.

Just casting out past the shad and swimming it through? I’m going to go out with my ima suspending lipless tonight and see how that works. Other idea is small paddle tail swimbait or floating jerk bait like mentioned above. Baitfish are crazy active and bass are busting left and right. Not much luck with the plopper, popmax or WTD

When the shad are schooling and active and bass are feeding up but you can't get a bite on topwater lures or bass aren't fully taking them. What do you use in lieu of topwaters or as a follow up bait to fish high in the water column?

I’m looking for a lower profile reel. I have very small hands and palming any of my existing reels can start to be uncomfortable and fatiguing after long too water sessions. Unfortunately I have no local stores where I can go to compare sizes in person. I’m currently using a ‘17 tatula sv tw so I know it needs to be smaller than that. My problem is, most of the reels that are marketed as being smaller are designed for throwing finesse baits. So essentially I need something that is capable with 3/8-3/4oz baits but small. Any suggestions?

Okuma has a new line called the voyager rod. They look very promising. Good components for the cost. Although you won’t find any feedback on them. Okuma isn’t very popular and the rods just came out.

Been eying these ever since they were announced. Even had one on back order then cancelled because it kept getting pushed back. Seems like a great price/value. Which model did you get? Looking forward to hearing about it.

Wanted this and the triple illusion but wasn't able to snag either one. Very Nice looking bait

Just picked up a NRX842s over the holiday. Got it as an all around spinning setup. I am aware the rod is designed to be used with jigs and soft plastics. For people who have experience with this rod how accurate is the 1/8 oz to 3/8 oz rating? What is the sweet spot for the rod? What techniques and lures/baits is it ideal for and what is it capable of? I was planning on using it for small finesse swim baits, weightless soft plastics, jika rigs, and maybe heavy ned rigs or shaky heads. I should note I was also considering using it for finesse jigs but have 0 experience with jigs and am completely baffled by the array of variations plus trailers.

Ended up getting a loomis NRX 842 spinning and a megabass otomat on sale and went well under my budget my only concern is the 842 might be too light and the otomat too slow in the action for these two to cover the wide range of baits I want to use

Phenix M1 with the 20% TW sale

Sweet I was actually just looking at these. Any recommendation for a casting rod to pair with it in lieu of the megabass

Nov 15, 2020 12:20 pm I figured with black friday coming up it would be the perfect time to purchase my first couple higher end rod/reels. I'm a bank/kayak angler and currently own 6 bass specific combos with most of my rods and reels falling around the $100 price point. However I'm not completely in love with any of my gear. I find myself taking 2 combos with me most of the time with my maximum being 3. So I decided I want to try and get 2 high end versatile rods, one spinning and one baitcaster and try to stick to those two combos for all of my fishing. I am only 5'8 and have a preference for shorter rods and cork but both of those things are negotiable. My budget is around $500 per rod. I mostly use walking topwaters, popmax, vision 110, weightless plastics, shakyhead, jika rig, square bills and lipless cranks, soft plastic swim baits (keitech, spark shad etc.) and small hardbody swim baits(less than 1 ounce) I think I've pretty well got my baitcaster narrowed down to the megabass p5 destroyer cyclone. Haven't got a reel picked out yet but I'm leaning towards the steez SV TW. However I am still completely undecided on what spinning rig to pair with this to achieve the greatest versatility. I've looked at numerous offerings from megabass, shimano and daiwa online. Not sure if I should go with a medium light spinning rod or medium. The steez ags looks appealing with it's wide weight range but is pushing the budget.

Does anyone know if anywhere does sales on megabass?

Just recently picked up a Daiwa Tatula SV TWS on sale for $100 and it casts like a dream. However I don't currently have a rod to pair it with. Looking for a final rod to round out my collection. I was thinking of a medium casting in the 6'6" to 6'10" range to use for topwater, walking baits, poppers, ploppers etc. but I'm open to suggestions for a good rod to round out the collection. My budget is around $200. Currently I have: Shimano SLX glass 7' MM w/ 6:3:1 SLX Shimano SLX MH 7' fast w/ 7:1:1 SLX Dobyns Fury 703sf 7' medium spinning w/ Daiwa Tatula LT 3000 Lews Custom Pro 6'10 ML spinning w/ Okuma RTX 25 Daiwa AirdX 7' Heavy w/ 7.5:1 lews superduty G speed spool

How do you rig the senko when using this technique? I beleive that was never mentioned in the original post.