ironbjorn

My first mother in law was a saint but she had a bat crap crazy daughter. My current (or soon to be I should say) mother in law is the devil but her daughter is a saint. Just can't win em all

It would work

Your ability to cast them with the light line and light weights.

Yes, but the top waters and cranks for river and creek smallies are best on spinning gear too. It's worth noting that I HATE spinning gear but on the water types for what and for where that I mentioned require it

It's more accurate, giving you more control, and the palmability factor is the very shiny cherry on top. And educated thumb makes casting gear so comfortable that you'll never want to pick up spinning gear again until you realize how many fish you're not catching in my aforementioned water types.

You'll enjoy the functionality of the casting gear is what I mean. The practicality of spinning gear throwing finesse baits for maximum productivity is what's more fun because you'll catch fish.

And that's what my aim is; not against the worker. These employees need to fulfill their rage and tank the industries.

You're on point except for chatterbaits. They belong on the 704. 3/8oz + trailer will overload the 703 and it feels like poop. Lipless at 1/4oz on the 703 and 1/2oz on the 704. A Dobyns 3 power says MH but behaves like a M and a 4 power says H but behaves like a MH.

My answer is and will forever be, a living wage. It's happening and will continue to happen and will absolutely happen in full force within the decade. I'm not against these workers. I'm for them. I wish that they would be so disgruntled that none of them would work for a week and nobody would take the jobs to tank the industries and force change.

I make it a point not to tip food servers or delivery drivers, or anything like that. I do this because the sleezy owner/boss/corporation should be paying a living wage instead of expecting the customer to purchase the product AND pay employee wages. Tip culture in America is cancerous and unique and needs to die. HOWEVER, guides, carpenters, roofers, plumbers, or whoever else is of skilled work, not expecting me to pay their wages, providing outstanding service, doing an excellent job, always gets slid a pretty penny. I see this as a massive difference where a job well done by a skilled professional is worth the thanks in coin, but the expectation that I'll pay unskilled workers who hate their jobs so that Mr. Corvette "I can't pay living wages because I buy big houses and fancy cars" doesn't have to can go right to hell.

Moderate fast, actually. Whether the rod says it or behaves like it is all the same.

If you're fishing for river and creek smallies, Great Lake or other clear northern lake smallies, or northern LMB out of ponds, you'll enjoy using casting gear more, but you'll have more fun and be far more productive with spinning gear. I see so many people up here in Indiana fishing public park ponds with casting gear wondering why they're getting skunked it's unbelievable.

They truly do get it everywhere. It's amazing.

This probably isn't going to answer your question, but I'm increasingly finding them more difficult to use in the sense of their productivity vs spinning gear. With the heavily pressured water these days and the effectiveness of finesse presentations, it's getting harder and harder to pick up casting gear.

Take the head of the worm and slide it into the hook point until it reaches a little less than half way to the bend of the hook, at which point you will bring the hook point out of the worm. Then slide the worm up and over the eye. Next take the body of the worm and straighten it. Bring it directly over the hook point, but do not penetrate it yet. Look at where the bend of the hook underneath the hook point meets the worm. Right about there is where you want to slightly bend the worm and penetrate it with the hook. Then skin hook the outside of the worm to make it weedless. I'll provide pictures of me doing it. Note, do this with the hook tied to the line, otherwise you won't be able to take it due to the worm covering the eye.

That will work, but this reminds me of myself when I was a novice many moons ago. I'd take some right ideas and butcher them, sometimes productively and sometimes miserably. You're on point with the worms. Instead of using ball head jigs for them, get some bullet weights in 3/16-1/4oz and Gamakatsu EWG hooks in 4/0 and Texas Rig the worm. (Note: Some people don't like using EWG hooks for thinner plastics, while others use EWGs for everything. I'm in the everything camp. It's the most universal hook, in my opinion.)

Dobyns Fury 735C

Craws and ribbon tail worms swim well with good results. If you can still get the Pit Boss (last I heard they stopped making them, this might not be true, or maybe they've changed their mind) it swims great and also works as a great soft plastic top water.

It's pointless to me, but nobody needs permission to fish the gear that they own the way that they want to fish it.

The Senko was originally designed with the intent of being a soft plastic jerkbait.

Would you let your grandmother get scammed too if she wasn't certain something wasn't legit? No, it's absolutely not best to let someone get scammed and lose money when all you have to do is point some things out.

Where do you live that you're scared of releasing bass around people? Surely can't be America? In America it's common practice and most prefer it, and if someone has a problem with it and wants to be confrontational, it could lead to something they wish it didn't. Almost nobody but PETA freaks do that here. And absolutely nobody else will have access taken from them for being a conservationalist. Sport fishermen are protected.

I once saw a catfish hanging from fishing line from a tree. I'm not going to pretend to understand, but whoever was responsible is a sorry excuse for a human being.

Right. I get why he does that. What doesn't make sense is there's time to devote to that but absolutely no time to type a few answers once in awhile. And as I said, he owes no explanation of how he uses his time.

I personally get all that. He's busy. He also doesn't owe us anything. I enjoy his YouTube content. But that's where the disconnect comes in for me. You're all giving him the excuse of being too busy, but as I said, it takes significantly more time to create, edit, and upload videos to YouTube, which he's been doing regularly. Why he has time to give advice the long way and not the short way (here) doesn't make any sense to me. Nobody can make that make sense to me. But here's the other thing: he doesn't owe any of us an explanation. I'm personally not upset by it at all. I personally understand the busy factor. I just can't make it make sense to me that there's time for YouTube though.