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Bazoo's post in Baitcaster oiling/greasing info, Please! was marked as the answerHowdy.
I use Lews Speed oil made by Lucas, in a needle applicator bottle I got from Academy.
You don't have to do a complete disassembly in order to oil and grease your reels.
Remove the side plate, if it's dry you can just put a tiny drop on each bearing. If it's wet with oil, especially if its dirty oil, wipe it clean and then reoil.
There will be a bearing inside the sideplate, and one under the spool tension knob. Plus there is normally one on the spool shaft that stays with the spool.
Some reels have an access point to grease the gears, some do not. The ones with an access point is easy enough, remove the cover for it and use a small screwdriver or a toothpick to put some grease on the gear.
Those that don't have an access, such as my Abu Black Max, I remove the screws on the gear side, which allows the side to have about an 1/8" gap, which allows you to dab in some grease.
I've been using some gun grease I had, but I do have some synthetic I'll try next time I need to grease.
Once it's back together, put a couple drops on the worm gear that drives the line guide. I put a drop on either end, and one in the center.
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Bazoo's post in New to bass fishing... asking for help setting up the right rig was marked as the answerIf I was going to recommend lures for someone in Florida, but considering I've yet to fish Florida, but bass eat the same things everywhere, here we go:
Beetle Spin 1/4oz, black body
Popper
Topwater frog
Sqaurebill crankbait, H20X or KVD 1.5 in colors gold and red
Roostertail 1/4oz, in colors white and black
Size 3 Spro ball bearing swivel added to roostertail to reduce line twist
3/8oz jig, brown
Rage Bug for jig trailer, also useful as a texas rigged bait
3/8oz Spinnerbait in orange or bluegill type colors
Texas rig:
Bobber stop
1/8oz and 1/4oz bullet weight
3/0 offset wormhook
5" Senko in Green pumpkin 297
Berkley PowerWorm in plum or watermelon
Zoom Baby Brush Hog in Okeechobee craw or green pumpkin
Zoom Super Fluke (used weightless) junebug, watermelon red, white
Texas Rig is a system. Starting at the front, it's a bobber stop, a weight, a hook, a soft plastic. You can use just about any soft plastic. And likewise you can use any weight of weight. You can use smaller or larger hooks, but 3/0 will work for most things.
Some lures, like the texas rig, and the topwater frog, can be thrown into moderate to heavy vegetation. You can't throw it into cattails, but you can throw it into lilypads, heavy moss, heavy underwater plants. Those are the go to lures for working in "the slop".
You can pretty much throw the other lures anywhere you want as long as it's not super heavy vegetation. Spinnerbaits are more snag proof than others.
Squarebill crankbaits bounce of stuff instead of getting snagged, but you do lose them occasionally. Just learn to deal with losing lures.
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Bazoo's post in Up to my ears in softbaits was marked as the answerHowdy and welcome.
Sounds pretty awesome if you ask me.
I'd organize them into totes, then sub categorize them further. Each tote would be a style of lure, such as lizards, craw, worm. If there is sufficient of different types of worms I'd dedicate a tote just to each variety, such as ribbontail and trick worms. Gallon ziploc bags stuffed with bags of similar color/style plastics would be easy enough to sort through within the larger tote.
Use an index card in the ziploc bag to identify what each bag contains. Write on the index card in large letters with a sharpie LIZARD, WORM, ect, then in smaller letters in ink, details you might want to know quickly when filtering through that variety of plastic.
I'd also consider if I'd actually end up using a lot of it due to color and style, and probably make a swap/sell box.