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not for me but again, check the diameter. The note above for pline cxx is a good reminder. It is listed as 12, but will be more similar to 14-15 of others. I don’t like it because it’s stiff and holds a lot of memory, but that wasn’t the question. For the lures you noted, I’m throwing them around cover. I fish 14 lb for some lures (the plopper sometimes) and that’s about the edge for me.

Generally speaking braid is especially limp and Fluoro is especially stiff. There are some exceptions, but that’s usually the case. Monofilament nylon can be stiff like fluoro but it can also be almost as limp as braid depending on diameter and brand/model. If distance is the goal then braid’s the route. That said, casting the lures the OP has mentioned isn’t a difficult ask and all three line types should be fine for distance.

15-17 lb mono (0.14-0.18" diameter) of your choice. I have suffix elite 17 lb on mine for all of that and its a good line. Supernatural 17 would be a good one also. Go by diameter not stated strength and you'll be fine.

That would be nice. now back to the original question, anyone have a good holder that works in places where you have to carry and display?

that’s lipless crankbait territory then.

No, it works just fine. Just size the hook so it’s not hooked too far back and hurting the action.

I assume paper tags are still available. That said I’d love to have an app like that here. We have to report deer through the online system anyway (or call).

bigger vs smaller presentaion to the fish for one. A 1/2 oz buzzbait can be a quite big bait. A 1/4 can be quite compact. It depends a little on if you have a specific brand/lure in mind, but sometimes the fish want a big bait and sometimes they don't. If you find them hitting but not eating, swap to a smaller one. Retrieve speed can be an influence if both weights have the same blade size. Often a heavier buzzbait will have a bigger blade to help it stay up at slower speed. You can swap a bigger blade onto a smaller bait if you want to run it even slower.

this is pretty much me too. Bladed jigs for below that 7-8’ depth mean either going slower or going heavier and both have consequences. It just gets harder to fish them deeper than that. Also, any place that has grass (new, old, thin, dying, etc) will get the bladed jig because of the single hook. It gets annoying clearing the trebles of a crankbait. The main exception for me is in the spring, when I throw a lipless crankbait side by side with a bladed jig.

its funny, I picked up the pitchin stick in the bucoo sr line last year. I fished it a bunch but I only liked it as a pitching rod and not the versatile rod that everyone loves that blank design for. I got the expert version this spring and my perspective changed on both. I think the difference was the reel for me. When I put just a little bit better reel on it the rod was alive. I went back to the pitchin stick with a different reel and it was the same. It’s a great blank design and once you dial it in for you and what you want, it’s a great rod. i also have the amistad expert and it’s a great rod if you want a quite heavy pitchin stick. A slightly lighter power rod that I called a slightly lighter amistad with the head turner tip is the heavy jig rod in the cara. I’ve only just got it, but I think it’s exactly what I was looking for.

A pair of falcon experts is my choice. The 6’10” head turner for one. The 6’10” drop shot if you need a spinning rod. Not much you can’t do with those two and that’s exactly $400

because that’s the rod I have. in all seriousness, for fishing a generic pond I want to throw 1/4-3/8 oz baits normally, sometimes weightless plastics. Also being in tighter cover usually limits casting a little so a shorter rod is a good thing for me. I fished a 6’6” for years and that works too. I have a great 6’10” that does those things so…

and the answer in one, though I’d be 6’10” for me.

we can print at home and I carry duplicates in the truck and elsewhere. However we have to display them visibly while hunting or fishing. The green printed ones are also waterproof so if they get damp it doesn’t really hurt them. I just need something to hold it

i have the regular mgx2 (not the extreme) which is the ivcb-iv with four blocks inside. I don’t prefer that one. The ivcb-6 in the current STX is far better. In the 4 you can’t chose to lock down any blocks. I have to keep the brakes on max at all times to not backlash anything I’m casting. I have to add more thumb or spool tension to keep it in control. The STX I don’t thumb, I don’t add spool tension, and I don’t backlash.

Hi all in PA when I lived there a hunting license was an odd size and we had big holders with heavy safety pins. A fishing license was similar. Having moved to NJ, we have the green 3.5”x2.5” printed ones on a big roll. I still haven’t found a holder that fits them and has a small safety pin to clip onto my hat (we have to display here). anyone have a favorite holder? I actually want one for hunting that I can pin on my hat like a fishing license. I’m minimizing my archery setup and putting it on my hat would be ideal.

the ivcb-6 in the current revo stx might be my favorite system on the market. It’s very very good. Shame they aren’t taking it forward. The ivcb-4 isn’t as good to me.

what he said maybe he’s never fished one or paid attention to one?

Nope. It doesn’t run the same time as the rest of the house so there is no issue there. Plus our well has good pressure. Our house sits in the middle and the yard is broken up into a couple areas. It’s about 14000 sqft total with 3 areas of 4k and pretty square and then 4 smaller areas. It means you can’t just put in a big line of powerful sprayers and get everything in one.

I have 26 zones and 3-8 heads per zone... Its a large cake.

I think that's a good choice. The schrooms micro finesse jig is basically a skirted ned rig when it comes to hook. A medium would be a good shout.

No, 25 yards is an average cast and what I'll be doing much of the time. That's not to say that I don't fish them longer. A bomb cast is a two hand full out overhead cast pushing out 40 yards or so. I'd never consider 25 yards a bomb cast and I'd never cast that distance overhead anyway. That's a sidearm or roll cast. Maybe I'm missing something here or not articulating well enough. I understand how centrifugal brakes work- the faster the spool spins the more force pushing the brakes outward. I still see the diawa brakes handling the sudden spool speeds better than the shimano brakes (and the abu infini and IVCB systems). Maybe I'm not pushing the same distance or light enough lures to see it. So as to have the same vocabulary, what are you talking about for distance casting (distance, rod type, and lure) when talking about setting up for distance casting? I have no problems sending a 3/8 DT-6 to 40 yards on a 7' MH/MF rod. Red eye shads go further on the same setup (1/2 oz) but of course they would. That's about the max I will cast and the lures I commonly cast that far. A buzzbait I can cast 35-40 and do at times, but try to limit it to less.

I fished a lot of ultalight stuff growing up, usually in streams and rivers. we lived right along a major river and all of the feeder streams had smallmouth for at least the first mile, often first couple miles, from spring floods. Similar up north we'd fish a lot of the headwater rivers of the susquehanna in the summer for smallmouth. Inline spinners and grubs as noted are great. Two real winners were the 3" sluggo rigged texas weightless and walked under the surface and the miniature zara spook that is only 2" long. That little clear spook caught a lot of stream bass. I still have the 5' fenwick fiberglass ultralight with an original garcia cardinal on it in the basement. I put some fresh line on it this spring intending to wade for smallies this summer. separately, I also love an ultralight for trout, though that's a 7'6" with 4 lb that will cast a naked single egg about as far as you want and certainly further than you should.

I'm afraid your assumptions aren't quite right. While I do fish from a kayak all of the time, I'm standing all of the time and treating it like any other boat. I've made about 6 sitting casts in the past 18 months. Also, depending where I'm fishing and time of year, I can be pitching short, casting mid, or bombing casts. In the spring I tend to bomb and overhead cast a lot more since grass isn't the issue and I'm covering water. When I say bomb, I'm throwing crankbaits like DT and OG series in the 35-40 yard range across flats and points. Similar for chatterbaits that time of year, though they wouldn't fall in the wind catching bucket since they are nearly an ounce total weight with lots of soft plastic. Summer time long casts are normally ploppers (very aerodynamic) and buzzbaits (not aerodynamic). So I do and have fished both shimano (chronarch MGL, not met yet) and Zillion with long casts and less than aerodynamic baits. I'll stick to my position that if you're casting hard and really putting a lot of force into it (especially with a fast or very fast actioned rod) then the zillion can handle the start up acceleration better. If you're using a slightly slower casting action or rod with a little more moderate fast action and not putting the same acceleration on the spool, then both are the same.

thanks. Mine is also tank and can do that pressure. In talking to the guy the first time, he said it wasn't as much the pressure as the total sustained volume that was more important. Same for blowing out the pool lines. I think I must not have done something right.