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from what i hear both are excellent reels and in the same "class" so to speak. if it were me personally, i'd get the curado cuz i love shimano (citicas rock!) and the 60 dollar rebate is awesome.

thats cool with me. what exactly are you writing though?

i live in st. marys county and so does bassinwill301 anybody else live down here? if so, where do u fish?

also, when you store rods, make sure they are either upright in a rack or laying on the floor flat. dont prop them in a corner cuz if they are bent for long periods, they will keep the bend.

good thinkin

i sent out for a strike king catalog once and got a letter back saying that they were out of catalogs, and included in the package was a bag of 3x iguanas for free! anyway, texas rig (w/ nose weight) would be good for spawn beds (look like salamander eatin eggs) and for other times carolina would be good since the lure floats it look like a slamander just crusin'. ive used them for a jig trailer once.

ok thanks ;D

nice cranks...looks like somebody likes bandits : lol a foot loose would be a nice addition.

haha i know what photoshynthesis is and i know that brown grass is dead, but why is that bad for bass? they can still hide in it right? or is it because the oxygen levels are lower around dead grass or what?

thats a pretty dam small bigfoot. looks more like a chimp to me. maybe some kid stole the chimp from a zoo and put it in the woods for a quick snapshot. lol. or maybe some kid dressed up like a chimp. or maybe its just a good photoshopped pic.

i read on reelmech's site that you should remove the reels from the rods to relieve stress on the reel seat to keep it so it is always tight fitting (it will get streched out if you leave it tight for long periods of time and will eventually be loose). so i think im gonna do that.

you guys got balls (or a big wallet) to be tampering with lucky crafts! lol ;D this is so ironic that you started this thread because before i got on today i modded my frog to get better hookups and was gonna make a thread of it. well i guess i'll post it here. this is a snagproof tournement frog...known for a bad reputation of hookups. i removed the double hook and put on a single hook, hoping for better hook up ratios...i'll let you guys know how it does when summer rolls around :

bluegill is a good color. its very realistic on rap's and it fits the profile of dt's very nicely. i'd also pick up a silver one (w/ shad spot).

thanks for all the resonses guys. this is wonderful. i think the next time i fish there i will go up that west arm and fish around the bends...since ive never fished up that way. why is greener grass better than brown grass?

ok thanks. darn, the only powerplant round here uses water from the chesapeake bay.

north arm is shallow (10 at the mouth and probably 1 way up there) and there is a big ole stump field at the mouth of it. from about the middle on up there are fluffly weeds underwater that go maybe midway up the water column. ive never been up the west arm, but i havent seen any stumps and it looks shallow and weedy.

hey Will glad to see a st. marys boy! the fish in my avatar is 7lbs and i caught it in st. charles (waldorf)....secret spot...cant tell how do you make out at st. marys lake? anyway, to answer the specifics that i should have included... boat: 12' leaky jon, no electronics/way to locate structure veggies: lots of fluffy underwater grass (hydrilla maybe?) and tons of fields of stumps. time: any time i can/feel like it....not winter though strengths: shallow crankbaits, weightless plastics baitfish: i have no idea...will says bluegill minows and craws...i guess thats right...i know all of them are in there but idk if they are primary forage or what.

haha looks like a koi! but yea ive caught a few fish here and there w/ black spots...nothin as serious as that. all of the fish were big and fought nicely.

hi guys, biggest lake i hav access to is St. Mary's Lake, 250 acres. i hate fishing there cuz its so big i feel like i have no chance. but something makes me like it, cuz it has features not typical of small ponds, like dropoffs, points, ledges, creekbeds etc. i have no clue where any of these are, but hey, at least it has em. this pic might not tell you much, but its the only pic i have of it. here is a link to the DNR page for the lake. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/recreational/stmaryslake.html thanks for any input.

ive heard the term powerplant lake come up recently and i dont know what it is. what is a powerplant lake and why do the fish pre spawn in the middle of the winter there???

im just curous, ive heard that when you get replicas, they take a form (or whatever its called) off the shelf that is whatever weight your fish was....they dont customize it or anything. is this true?

get the 200 if you got big hands get the 100 if you got smaller hands and dont like holding big heavy reels. get a 7'MH..probably the best all around for jigs! happy buying

killin' em as always, craig! good job out there. it is interseting how you catch such monsteres out of this creek. you should tell us about the creek...

sweet dude!!! what an awesome first year!! got some tru hawgs there!

HAH! not nearly enough for what i was invisioning....that thing actualy has quite few appendages...only 8 :-/ but no i havent used them. dont like the style or the yamamoto (kinami) brand. i see em at my local walmart all the time though.