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When I was a little kid to about Senior in highschool I was obsessed with fishing. My uncle would take me to small local bass tournaments and I loved it. We had a pond in our backyard also and I lived out there. Soon after my hunting obsession took over and there were plenty of years where I fished very little. Fast forward to about 3 years ago and I started taking my daughter out to catch bluegills and channel cat. We had a couple great days fishing from the bank and all the sudden the fire started getting lit again. Just a couple months later I bought a used bass boat and jumped in head first. It's been a lot of fun accumulating new gear and learning new techniques. It's a whole other challenge that I enjoy. My hunting obsession is still there so I usually quit fishing sometime in October and start focusing on hunting until about March when I'm done chasing coyotes. My wife rolls her eyes now because my hobbies now go 365 days out of the gear haha

I don't have any experience but I've heard good things on the Team Ark J110SP. $9.99 on tackle warehouse

I have the expride 7'2" Medium/F. Bought it in late summer early fall (along with a 7'2" MH/F) and fished with it a handful of times. I use it for weightless senkos, lighter to medium texas rings (mostly worms) & 3/8-1/2oz spinnerbaits. So far I really like it. It should get a good workout this year.

Trey Harpel 110 TR Jerkbait Savage Gear Battletek 6'10" M Curado 71 mgl ZMan TRD Phenix Feather 7'1" L Curado BFS These 2 Combos caught the most fish for me last year

T-Rigged Junebug 7.5" Yum Ribbontail... first time fishing the lake. 21" & 5.3# I believe

Good stuff, thanks dude!

I’m throwing braid to leader on both of my Curado BFS reels and it has been great and never worry about having too little of line. I would think a Curado 70 would work great also though…

That's one I haven't spent a lot of time doing and need to give it more attention. Next year is a new year

I used to hate throwing ned rigs & didn't care for watching ned rig fishing... just couldn't get excited about it at all. Finally made myself do it a lot this year. Now it's one of my confidence baits. Close to half of my big fish this year has come off the Deadly Nedly. I think part of the new found love is using BFS gear.

I can only hope one of these happens to me!

Thank you! Thanks Glenn! That was the answer I didn’t want to hear but figured that was probably the remedy. I’ll get the strap to finish out this year then I’ll take it easy until spring. I really wanted to up my winter fishing this year but probably best I give it a rest.

My tennis elbow is really starting to bother me lately. By the time I’m heading back to the ramp it’s killing me. It seems to effect me the most when I’m doing a lot of flipping and pitching. Is there anything out there you guys are doing to remedy the pain??

Thanks! So looking forward to using them this weekend.

I just upgraded a couple rods and couldn't be happier with my decision. They just showed up today so of course on my lunch break I had to slap the reels on them. WOW do these things feel good! They're replacing a couple Dobyns Furys (704 & 733). From what I've been told the Furys seem to be 1 power lighter then their rating with a little more moderate action then most. I was just going to get 1 Expride for now, the 7'2" MH/F, and see how it compared and then choose between a 7'2" M/F or 7'2" H/F but i took a risk and ordered the other as the 7'2"M/F and just my initial thoughts I'm glad I did. The Dobyns medhvy still feels less powerful then the Expride medium. I'm headed to Grand this weekend so I'll be able to do some thorough testing. My intentions are: The 7'2" MH/F - main texas rig rod The 7'2" M/F - spinnerbait/senko rod Love the look of those Scorpions on there! ?

I just ordered 2 Exprides myself!... Like a kid at Christmas! I went with the 7'2" M/F and the 7'2" MH/F They'll be replacing my Dobyns Furys ?

I ended up getting the Curado BFS and got to try the new ML Feather/Curado combo today. Ended up throwing a 3/16 Skitter Pop with 15lb power pro. This thing was sending absolute bombs! Ended up loosing the first fish due to my drag being set too loose when I set the hook. But ended up catching one 15” smallie. The rod and reel handled it perfect. Really wanted to try a lightweight finesse Texas rig but just kept the skitter pop tied on. Bonus was I caught my PB smallmouth on the L Feather rigged with the Ned. After about 9:30-10:00 the bite went dead. Fun morning though testing out the new rod.

What line are you running on your Curado BFS/Feather ML rig?

Was looking at that yesterday!

My Feather light is very fun! I throw Ned rigs, 2.75” tubes, 2-2.3” keitechs. Usually with 1/8 oz weight or less. I even livescoped crappie this spring with it. Was a blast! Wanting to use the ML for 3/16- 3/8 range

checking them out now, thanks

This is exactly how I thought it was going to go. 3 responses, all different haha

I have the Feather Light paired with a Curado BFS and absolutely love the combo. Thought the Feather ML would be a great fun addition so I just pulled the trigger today. Trying to figure out what reel I should pair it with. Pretty much have it narrowed down to 3 reels. Planning on spooling it up with 15lb Power pro or 832. *Curado/Scorpion/SLX BFS *Curado/Scorpion 71 *Aldebaran 31 What’s everyone using in their Feather ML?

I've got a 150mgl on my chatterbait rod. I'm using 15lb but I don't see any reason 17 or 20 wouldn't work. Oh yeah, it throws a chatterbait a mile!

I have the Phenix Feather light and absolutely love it. For what I do I thinks it’s about perfect as I heard the Dobyns were pretty whippey. I love it so much I’m contemplating getting another. It handles larger fish extremely well. Landed a 20lb Flathead at our city d**n when I was throwing a little 2.5” Keitech for whitebass. It took about an hour to land him but it was a very large fish. This was a 2.75” tube w/ 1/8oz jighead. 10lb power pro w/ 8lb invisix leader. What reel do you have paired with the ML feather?? I’m contemplating getting this rod but not sure if a 70mgl would suit the rod better than a BFS reel.