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And now they are listed online. As of a week ago they were visible on the site but "not available online". Maybe they were just out of stock?

Not listed online and only two shad patterns in my local store. These might be being discontinued. I had a big egg years ago in the color pictured in the far left 2nd row and caught a bunch of fish on it. Lost it years ago and forgot about the lures until this thread. I bought one each of the two shad patterns they had at my local store and painted the sexy shad one black for night fishing. Added better hooks with little blades because why not.

You can find those too in like new condition with box and paperwork. There are certain Japanese sites you have to lurk but they come up for sale. Should be cheaper than trying to find the US version in similar condition I would think due to a weak yen.

You can find "calais" like new if you look for old antares dc. The calais is just the name they chose for the us version of the antares.

"I like my purses belts and shoes are black. Form over function. I don't care how things look. I won't buy things based on looks.. As long as they work. I won't buy flashy purses shoes or belts. I prefer black."

The "Be Sticky Trout"? Being nitpicky here but do they call them "BFS" or are you adding that on yourself? There is a tendency by anglers to call light or ultra light casting rods BFS instead of just spelling out that's its an UL casting rod. They just love to attach that acronym to rods that don't have them printed on the outside. I think this stems from a misunderstanding that "BFS" just means "casting light weights with a baitcaster" so any casting rod that can cast light weights gets the "BFS" tacked on by anglers. In my experience rods from Japan, including manufactures that have trout rod and salt rods, will only apply the BFS labeling to their bass lines.

If I wanted to shoot for crazy distance on a deep diving crank would the X setting offer me anything over a long casting centrifugal reel?

Neat but "moutain stream bait finesse" is not the same as "bait finesse system". I don't pretend to know what really defines BFS in Japan although there was a video going around in 2010 braking it down in Japanese and it basically was described as a way to present small jigs imitating grass shrimp to pressured bass in clear water on 7 lb flouro line. Skipping 1/16 to 1/8 oz jigs to the bank on light powered rods with strong backbones to pull the fish away from cover. The system being the bait, line rod and reel. Wish I could find that video. In any case that trout rod is interesting. I don't know a lot about jdm trout rod but that they do come in "area" and "stream" builds. Area being ment for stocked trout "areas" and are softer often glass rods with the stream rods being graphite rods for wild and maybe also stocked stream trout. I would hazzard a guess that the defining worlds on that "mountain stream bait finesse" rod is the word "stream" and that is shares nothing with what we would call a BFS rod and that the are very likely, complete opposites in terms of how they are built. From my experience a trout rod and a BFS are as different as a musky MH and a bass MH rod. Just completely different animals. It's possible, even probable that "bait finesse" predated BFS by quite a while dating back to maybe even before bass were even introduced to Japan with guys fishing round reels on bamboo rods for wild Japanese trout in the mountain streams. Bait finesse system could have come along later to specify a line rod and reel combination for finesse bass fishing in cover. Anyone who has ever thrown a bitsy bug or ned rig knows that they just get a lot of bites that bigger jigs will miss. The Japanese catching on to this and making specific rods, line and spools for reels seems very plausible.

Sounds a little like you do value looks after all.

Anyone have this rod? As a heavy its only rated up to 1 oz which seems weird. Most heavy rods are closer to 2oz. What's the realistic upper weight limit that can be used on this rod? I want to throw baits over an ounce like 1/2 and 3/4 oz chatterbaits which top out over an ounce with hardware and trailer. Also want to throw some smaller bluegill soft swimbaits around 1 oz too.

Have you refused to a buy a rod based on how it looks? Form over function right? I have this problem with vehicles. A minivan would be an ideal fishing and camping vehicle as well as a utility vehicle and daily with 25+ MPG but I can't do it. I just can't.

These have a shimano like svs. Pretty decent reels from all accounts. The bass pro one ran $80 and would drop to $60 sometimes. I handed one a few times and liked it but couldn't get past the back and red. Those awful knobs too. This savage gear one might make for a good frog reel for my lews hank parker rod. The silver would look good too. Just have to wait to get it under $100.

And people say guys who use bfs reels are funny. Egg beaters are on another level of weird.

If you have already cast or set the hook after the high stick and the rod didn't die right then and there then you are in the clear.

Yeah but the JDM has a shorty handle and no us warranty. When you're saving a hundred or more its a no brainer. $50 savings or maybe only $30 depending on shipping? Some of that is going to be eaten up by getting a 90 mil handle. I agree on the alphas but it has the same issue. No warranty and an 84 mil handle. It does get double pinion support, an SV spool and that sexy silver paint.

A typo and possible auto correct? I do a lot of those phone posting

You'll find out on the next cast or hookset following the high stick. If there has resy happened then you are golden.

Banax I think. The 100 version looks like the kistler, old bass pro bionic and zpi reels. I had the old 300 from the last gen as a bass pro revolution. The 300 and 400 of these might be good big bait reels. My old one cast swimbaits pretty good. I had to max out the centrifugal brake and also use the magnets but it had enough braking strength. I still have it somewhere.

I have been looking for a cheap spinning reel to use with a cheap ml spinning rod and have been looking at these cheap ali and amazon reels. After some looking is hard to pass on daiwa regal. I checked out a bunch of egg beaters at bass pro today and the regal lt is so smooth. The piscifun carbon x, trulinoya jaguar, kastking sharky, and seaknight reels were all on the short list but that regal is too nice.

Good to hear. Sounds like an awesome little reel for shooting jigs and plastics to targets. Basically a balck alphas tw with a 90 handle minus the double pinon support and SV spool. How does it skip?

Flick shakes using finesse worms, 4" senko. Floating trick worm, ned rigs and bitsy bugs.

The carriers are made from a fused material and there are up to 4 woven (poorly) into the final product. It's a real low density weave with few weaves per inch compared to a normal braid and it flattens out and unravels a bit even at the end as it wears. That gen spun thermally fused dyneema carriers are though stuff though. Abrasion that takes chunks out of normal braid and kills whole carriers will just fuzz up fireline original. X5 braid is a just a quality normal braid without the fused carriers but it is better woven and is way more round. The texture is sufficient to help cut though grass but its not the band saw that fireline is.

Split grips look cool. It's like asking what's the point of this appearance package on a truck. I don't know, it looks cool.

Rated properly unlike fireline original so a 14# fireline is like a 30# braid. 9 and 5 carrier line as opposed to a 4 carrier. Very well braided instead of that horrible braiding of fireline. It's my favorite braid. Fireline is still made from some special stuff that makes it hard to kill. If using spinning reels I would stick to fireline plus a leader for those shell beds west now has.

I have a Fogy that doesn't want to cooperate. Normally these have hard thump with an erratic action but one of mine is not thumping throughout the entite retrieve and will go silent on me as often as it is vibrating. I'm not fishing it too fast or too slow because I have 4 more of them and know how they work. These have a bigger blade and split ring on them compared to a normal chatterbait. What's the thing to tune here? Blade bending? Downsize split rings?