Jmurphy87

We will see how they do for me in the morning after work tonight. They definitely seem well built.

Nothing special but some of my first fish of the year, I actually had my scale with me put completely forgot about it till I put the fish back into the water lol. The bigger one of the two came on a watermelon red fat ika, the smaller one came on a 1/16 oz Rapala original in clown.

I have definitely been meaning to try them out, I just finally got around to buying some. They look good for sure.

I finally got some more stuff, along with my license for this year. 3 spro lipless crankbaits 1 spro squarebill in a different pattern 2 spinnerbaits 2 dirty jigs California swim jigs 1 spool of 16lb fluorocarbon 1 pack of 1/8oz hair jigs Should be a good year I hope, I lost a decent bass 2 days ago ? but this early in the season here in Michigan I am definitely happy with my first bass being a good one.

Well I went to look at jigs and got off on a tangent lol, also if you are near the Kalamazoo area of Michigan. D&R sports center has the new expride B rods in stock, 7'11 xh, 7'3 xh, 7 something heavy and a couple more. Today's haul 1 duo realis onimasu, shadow tiger 1 pack megabass 1/16 screw head jigs 1 pack damiki pandla 1/16 jig heads 2 1/4 oz bucktail pro road runners 1 pack G finesse 3/32 tricky heads 1 pack owner ultrahead 1/16 1 pack zoom trick worms wat gold gltr 2 packs finesse worms, blk, wtrm red 1 pack hazedong shad 3' goby 1 pack spark shad purple haze.

I really haven't had the best luck with them, but I like to challenge myself at times. To learn where and when to use certain lures. I enjoy experimenting with different stuff and learning my skills and weaknesses and improving on them.

Some whopper ploppers and beast coast skirts.

I don't get much free time outside of work, that's my home away from home. So I invest heavily in what I enjoy and that happens to be fishing. I go whenever I get the free time and can afford to sacrifice sleep, my son will be a year old this year so I am going to enjoy him and try to help my other two kids along with my wife to learn some more about fishing.

I will second the tatula, there good reels for the money, the DC reels are nice I have one and use it occasionally. Although for the most part all of my other reels are non DC and I feel the extra money can help you get a higher quality reel or whatever else you need to go with.

Thank you and I will. I was waiting for my local shop to get them in, I was in the backroom picking out the rods I wanted that were not labeled or on the shelves yet. I was talking to the guy about rods and look down at the boxes he was unpacking and I saw the reels, that's when I knew that I was leaving with a new reel also.

Well I made it two days, this time consists of 1 megabass orochi xx perfect pitch 1 megabass orochi xx launcher 1 shimano Curado hg 150 mgl

In my area I would say D&R sports center, I haven't ventured too far from Allegan, Kalamazoo County. Although I did stop at sportmans warehouse in Lansing while making a car payment, they had quite a bit of different rods that I haven't seen around here yet.

At this point maybe king Kong lol.

I have been looking at these quite a bit, I noticed on one of the sites had a shallow spool for $110.00 I think.

I might use it a little for frogging, I am thinking that it might be ok for some light punching and some 1.5oz grass jigs. I thought about waiting for the new ones to be released, but I figured why not give it a try. I have noticed that the new Expride rods have a different action to them, although I don't go off of what it says until it's in my hands and I can compare it to other rods in the store.I was highly considering buying a p5 destroyer rod, the x-bites but it just felt a little softer than what I was looking for.

Thank you. Yes it is definitely on steroids.

Picked up the last of my stuff on my order 1 NRX+ 894c Jwr 7'5 heavy fast 1 shimano expride A 7'3 xhvy fast 1 metanium b hg reel 7.1 ratio 1 daiwa zillion sv tw g 7.1 ratio I should be good for a minute, or maybe a second. The monkey is strong lol.

Thank you. I have wanted to try the original nrx 894 but the only time I saw one local I didn't have the money. I recall hearing a lot about the 873 and legend glass rods being really good. It's been a little over a year since I saw one, so I had to grab it when I seen it this time. That brings my Loomis collection up to 5 rods now, 843 and 844mbr conquest, 894 JWR glx and now these two NRX+. It's slowly coming together. Now if only this ice would go to be able to test them out. Then add my last rod purchase before it iced up a st croix victory mh f I have five new rods to put through there paces. I am going to be very busy in a good way.

Four rods St croix legend glass 7'2 medium moderate St croix legend xtreme 7'4 heavy fast NRX+ 873c crr 7'3 med heavy fast NRX+ 854c Jwr 7'1 heavy fast Still have a couple reels to get tomorrow.

Some more Berkley max scent plastics 3 packs Lil general 1 pack Lil trooper 1 pack king tail 1 pack chigger craw Yep I might have enough max scent plastics to form my opinion on it this year, I have probably 50 or more other packs of maxscent assorted plastics lol.

That's understandable. Yeah I have taken my low profile reels apart to service them and have found out the hard way that you need a space that's flat and well lit with no holes in the floor lol. First time doing it on a reel my friend gave me and I lost a washer in between the deck boards. I stole some parts from a reel I wasn't using and now it works. Thanks for the heads up on the worm gears.

Thanks, I am sure that I will like it. I have been meaning to get another round reel for a while now. My last one I had was a Calcutta 400 on a musky rod, that started my appreciation of round reels.

1 Abu Garcia ambassadeur 5600 c4 1 picasso school-e-rig 2 packs 3/8 oz picasso smartmouth plus jig heads Tennessee shad color 1 pack 4.3 keitech swing fat impact Tennessee shad color 1 8 inch mag draft ayu color 1 swaver 200 in bluegill color 1 jackall gantarel Jr scale bass color 1 spool of maxima ultragreen one shot 20lb

5 packs of maxscent generals 1 pack of 3.5 maxscent tubes 2 packs powerbait speed boss worms 2 packs powerbait boss grub 1 pack 4.75 rage swimmer 1 10xd deep diver crankbait 1 duo realis pencil 100 1 pack maxscent kingtails 1 pack yum dingers 4 packs of fat ikas 1 pack speedboats 1 pack chompers salty sinker 3 packs of owner hooks 2 packs of gamakatsu hooks 1 pack of medium owner cps springs.

6 cloud 9c15 deep diver crankbaits 1 Norman dd22 crank 2 strike king hybrid hunters 1 pack speedworm in junebug 1 pack max scent tubes watermelon red 1 pack chompers in rootbeer green 1 pack swing impact fat keitech in bluegill flash 1 pack of owner beast hooks 6/0 weighted 1/4 oz.