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What is the best crankbait rod i can get for around 100. i can go lower but dont want to go much higher.

well i guess there is one way i make enough money for a supply of lures and if i save it all i can buy some rods/reels. i sell flies. i got a fly tying kit and a bunch of materials a year and a couple months ago and ive become excellent at tying flies. i dont even fly fish though, so i sell the flies. i usually get people that look thru my photobucket "flies ive tied" album and like something and they ask to order some. think i'll put that link in my sig here, cuz i make alot of bass flies that you dont need to be able to fly fish to use. but anyway yeah, that gets me some bucks. nothing major tho (usually...)

my powerpro chips the blades on fingernail clippers :-?

i use a single edged razor blade...sharper than the trapezoid shaped ones used for cutting cardboard. have been using the same razor for months and is pretty dull now but still cuts it no prob.

haha true. im just trying to see the options and what works best. i think i'll look into the falcon rod some more b/c i do throw stick baits ALOT. how does it handle small jigs and stuff (below 1/2oz.)? anyone know where i can get a little more info about the falcon weightless plastic rod than the one sentence thats on their website?

use a shad swimbait instead of the trout. take a look at the hud's shad swimbaits. shad are everywhere.

SWEET! i like the spare change one. sadly i have no ideas of my own.

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For every problem there is a solution if you only bother think to find a solution or ask for a solution to the problem. Use a toothpick Rig your worm, insert a toothpick into the bait, in through the hook eye all the way to the other side and clip away the excess wood, the bait won 't slide. In my case mother nature has been generous and has supplied us southern fishermen with all kinds of thorny plants so we actually don 't have to worry much about not carrying toothpicks, they are there, all you need is to harvest a few . I prefer huizache thorns over toothpicks. ;D wow thats a very good idea! im usually pretty innovative but i dont think i would have thought about that. still seems like too much of hassle though, when i can use ewg's with yum dingers instead of yamamotos.

yeah now that i think of it a friend reccomended me use a wide gap bass fly hook (for fly tying) for gycb senkos cuz they are very fragile. i did but i found it annoying tht the worm slid down often. i stick w/ my EWG's

i figured one of the pins was deformed. thats good that you've located the problem. i would send it back, get a new one, and if the new one sucks too, then send it back and get a different reel. ive got an old ambassaduer 5500C and it only has two brake weights...i thought that was weird. i've never seen a ree with only two weights

the tiwtchin bar does take in up to 20" of line. if you press it gently then it will only take up a few inches of line. but if you press it hard and fast then it can take in upto 20. my friend has one of these reels adn i spend like an hour playing with it ;D but it all depends on how quickly/hard you press the bar as to how much line it takes in.

dude ive looked everywhere for an avid. ive called every tackleshop i know of but nobody carries them. ive been to dicks several times and all they had were triumphs and premiers. it sucks...

well i wasnt really looking for suggestions to start, i had kinda narrowed it down to those two rods in the start, and just wanted to see if anyone had used them and liked them.

aww did i really? i knew that...i must have just not been typing right. what i meant to say was so the line comes out the back end.

ok thanks for all the input guys. i appriciate it. crestliner, that it the reason these particular no-knot clips caught my eye, cuz they werent big and bulky like the speed clips. but i'll see wat they have at the store and pick up a pack.

k thanks guys.

dont worry...i still like to walk

no i dont just want a purdy rod, and i dont have the money to blow on a purdy rod. and how is that steez affordable? ;D what i want is a light, sensative rod, with no foregrip (weight and sensitivity) and a split rear grip (weight) and those combined make for a purdy rod, but i dont want it becuse its pretty.

yea twitchin bar quickly pull in up to 20" of line. this is used for if you want to hop a jig or worm or crawl something on the botom. its supposed to be easy convienent one handed operation.

VIBRATION IS GOOD! you definitley want to feel the vibrations. that lets you know whats going on down there. if you feel strong vibrations then you know everything is going well...if they vibrations start to feel mushy, then you probably picked up a leaf or a piece of grass or something that killed the action. now you can rip you bait hard to rip off the tag-a-long. that triggers strikes sometimes

ive got a Daiwa Procaster 6+1 (casting reel) and its pretty good. not the best of things, but its not bad for the price. a prime example of you get what you pay for. berkley lightnin rods (casting or spinning) are good for under 100. my dad and i work jigs and plastics on oursno prob. ugly stik...not so much. okuma stratus ST-30(spinning reel) i got it for 40 bucks at dicks. it was my first and only bass sized spinning reel. its not bad at all. pretty darn smooth. dont remember how many bearings. this isnt a well known reel...i googled it and came up with nothing. its' never given me any trouble, except for the time i dropped it on cement adn it landed on the bail, so it wouldnt open right and the handle hit the bail. i bent it back in shape and now the reel works just as good as before the fall. AbuGarcia Cardinal 500 on berkley lightning rod (spinning combo) this is what my dad got for about 60 dollars at dicks. seperate they are great products and just as great when combined! good value for the price. never let him down....except when he casts, the two piece for frequently seperates, sending the top half flying into the water...maybe its just a bad rod, or maybe all of them are like that. pflueger trion GX combo (UL spinning) got the rod and reel for 40 or 50 at dicks. hasnt let me down yet. the same thing happened to the reel that happened to my other spinnign reel. bent it back and its just as good now.

The_Conceited_Redneck had a good point. you mentioned that you werent using any brakes at all. well if you arent using them, then take them out! my only thought would be that either the brake weight or the pin that it is on or both are somehow deformed. you should take those two brake weights off and inspect them closely for differences. and do the same for the pins. maybe the hole on those brake weights are slightly too big for the pin so they slide up. did your reel come with replacement brake weights? if it did just swap out all the brake weights and try again.

so on one of my most often fished lakes...in the evenings, i will see about a 3 or 4 foot wide school of shad just start jumping like crazy about 100 feet away. so i will go over there, and when i get there, the shad have moved to the exact same spot that i just came from. its very annoying. what should i do?

HOPEFULLY!!! that pond is dangerously low, the deepest is about 3.5feet...the pond is probably 4 or 5 feet low. so i dont know how well it will hold out over the winter (most likely will freeze over) and i dont know how (or where) the spawn will be because all of the spawning beds are now on land.