Lucky6

Arguably bottom contact is where higher end pays off the most in conventional bass fishing... But to each their own. One of my most expensive setups is a Douglas Sky G Fly rod paired with a Lamson Force reel - 7.5 ounces fully loaded with Rio Tech. Trout line and articulates line finer than any other wand I have ever cast, while radiating sensitive sub surface strikes - mostly use this for trout but it is fun for wooly buggers to bass as well.

I second the conquest 905... rod is incredibly powerful for big heavy jig n pig big rigs... rated 3/4 to 3 ounces. It throws half ounce jigs with trailers just fine as well. For socal this rod can be used for stripers, halibut as well, or pike / musky up north. Such a versatile rod, feel like it is the best rod on the planet for swimming the huddleston 68 as well as most single hook applications near its weight range. Paired mine up with a calcutta conquest 201xg running 50lb braid, this rig can handle giant fish ?

Any idea when you will have more maulers in stock? Any specific 7/8 or 1 ounce jig head recommendations to pair for this beefy pig/jig?

Pond hoppin' driving and shore fishing from one pond to another, left my tackle box outside at one of the locations. Drove to the next pond realized I left my tackle box, turned around but alas... by the time I got back it was gone... Poof! Several hundred dollars worth of Bass goodies gone lol. Oops, I thought this thread was one of irony... I guess one time I did something pretty clever. As fishing instructor at a "camp" a kid snagged his favorite lure on the bottom and started going hysterical thinking he wasn't going to be able to get it back... I climbed over to the other side of the cove and cast a seperate line at his, snagging it back from the opposite direction, freeing the snag. God you should have seen that kid and his friends smiling, laughing and praising me as a hero! Made my day saving that kids lure.

Awesome pics! You have some great years ahead of you fishin' with your daughter, enjoy every minute of it!

Haha, those commercials sold me early on, but when I looked back years later at many different fishing forums it appears most people mocked the banjo minnow as a piece of junk that didn't catch fish. I find it funny looking back at what I would characterize as the best fishing lure ever made (when I was a kid) to today looking back and seeing that others joked about it as a hunk of junk. Just goes to show that many folks have different experiences - how does the saying go? one mans trash is another mans something or other... Thank you for all the warm welcomes. T

Figured I'd introduce myself. Been fishin' since probably before I could walk with my dad starting me off right early on. Originally from the northeast and grew up fishin CT / NH lakes rivers ocean, you name it. Ice fishin, fly fishin, and good old American Bass Fishin' When I was 9 I saw ads for the banjo minnow and it was my favorite lure. The slow twitch crippled minnow retrieve landed me a bunch of bass. My dad caught the biggest bass i have ever seen with a banjo minnow- it pulled our canoe around and i swear it could have been near a state record. Barely fit in our big net! We let her go after lots of hootin and hollerin and pictures! One of, if not the best days of my life! Anyhow, im a bit older now and recently moved to Nevada. My gear has stepped up a bit since the good ol days of youth fishing the banjo minnow, but truth be told there are times i miss fishin' durin' the simple days of a younger world. Henry David Thoreau said; "Many go fishing their whole lives without realizing it's not the fish that they're after." I am certainly after the fish... but fishing provides us so much more than that in the process. Nice to meet you all, Names Frank