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The lake I'm talking about is genuinely bad for bass and it's a big musky lake. Many articles have been written on it. Nobody will hold a bass tournament on it. It's in a constant state of "improving" but just doesn't. However if you want to have a chance to catch your PB musky, it's perfect.

I've spent $1,500 this winter so far to ensure I don't run into this problem again. Last year was tough. Even the simple things were sold out and backordered to hell.

I used to live by a big musky lake too and the bass fishing was also trash, and like your lake, no matter what they did, they couldn't improve it.

The Dirty Jigs Luke Clausen Finesse Jig is the best finesse jig I've ever used. I prefer it in the 5/16oz. It pairs well with a Baby Rage Craw, Baby Rage Bug, Baby Rage Menace, or even a Z-Man TRD CrawZ. If you want to go cheaper, the Strike King Bitsy Bug is really good. The package deal where you can buy a Bitsy Bug with 3 Baby Menaces for less than $3 at Walmart is a steal.

I think if you get a Dobyns you should like and prefer a softer tip. It's the reason I almost exclusively use their rods. There's a little variation in the different lines of rods, but generally they're a little softer than most other brands. I like this. Something between a F and a MF is my preferred and favorite actions and they accomplish this.

There's nothing I can't do with a Dobyns 735C, 704C, 703C, 702SF. I don't deep crank (squarebills and lipless only), and everything people would normally use a 3 power spinning rod for, I use the 3 power casting rod instead. It could really be that simple for me and I believe anyone unless you're getting into big swimbaits and deep heavy cranking.

You want the 704C or 734C Dobyns Fury. What you're seeing as MH (3 power) isn't going to be what you think it is.

I had 7 last night and I'm waking up to this being the first thing I'm reading. Funny. (Mistakes were made)

You really don't need to get too crazy with hooksets on bladed jigs and spinnerbaits with a Dobyns 4 power. Your standard solid hookset is plenty fine. Absolutely no reason to swing for the moon. Your post makes it sound like you need their mag heavy just to fish those baits appropriately and that's just not even close to true. Sorry if I'm reading you wrong. The 4 power is basically made for those baits. I also use their 3 power for the baits you mentioned, and I agree with you on the max weights you'll throw on the 3 and 4 power. It's even more complicated than that. For the 3 power, not all 1/2oz lures are equal. A 1/2oz lipless feels like it slightly overloads the rod but a 1/2oz 90 size Whopper Plopper feels perfect on it.

The worm, hook, and weight will usually be more than enough fish with your rod. Unless I'm going 1/8oz, I opt for MH regardless of what the rod says. And anyways, I'm usually pitching Texas rigs rather than bomb casting them. You generally want the stout MH to drive the hook through the plastic and through the mouth of the bass; and that doesn't even begin to touch the cover. You made a good choice (unless you got a Lightning rod because those are the specs of it; that rod's clear plastic reel seat with crack or shatter on you soon).

That was about paying taxes, not giving more to billionaires. He also said to not collect more money from people than necessary and was against a capitalistic system. Bible Jesus resembled Norwegian Socialism, not American Greed.

They truly are geniuses for getting the poors to feel offended on their behalf while they spit on them.

If I'm fishing a river from a bank and lose the last of something or something I really don't want to lose, I'll wade out for it if possible. I'll never go under water though, like in a lake.

Pitching Senkos along weed lines is what really started it all for me. I couldn't imagine not fishing them.

Spook I bought 2 last month though so that won't last too much longer

I think the biggest problem you have is treating that 3 power Sierra like a standard medium heavy. It excels between 1/4-3/8oz and essentially a M/MF.

Better to look at IPT rather than gear ratio.

Well if it isn't supposed to be in there, somebody transported it and released it.

I haven't done well with red baits in ponds, but I have done well with a hint of red. Like a red hook, for example. Something like a red lipless doesn't do well for me though.

$161 and some change is my weekly child support payment. That's huge to me also.

I think I've caught a bass on every bass technique that I've actually fished, but I don't think I'll ever pick up a spinnerbait again.

I share that thought with you. I've never caught a bass so big and so mean, in cover so gnarly, on a heavy rod with 20lb line and thought, "No way could this have been caught and landed on a medium heavy rod with 15lb line." But I do fish in the north. We truly fish for the "what if" and not for the "what is".

I would call it finding what works best for me where I live and fish and fine tuning it. I've never seen this as a limitation being that I've grown a lot over the past 4-5 years. I probably wouldn't even bother in Florida. Dragging bottom, hopping bottom, a slow swim retrieve, dead sticking: hardly ever worked for me. I cast it out and yo-yo it all the way back to me like a RES, only a very finesse-y version. It gets slammed.

You can build your own or have someone make you a custom and forever avoid them.