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Michael, You're a very educated angler and you have an excellent work history. I think you have a solid resume, but I think you should expand on your "affiliations" section. Keep everything you have written, but consider what I have to say. Your actual experience in the industry is your bread and butter. You've painted a clear picture of who you are, but you need to expand on your strengths as a promoter. I have never believed in the "cheesy" salesman tactics, but I do recommend and praise the products that I use because I have had personal success with them. I never approach a company that I don't believe in. Period. So, expand on your experiences with Extreme Lures and Ferguson-Keller. They have a basic understanding at this point, but make sure to include numbers, especially when it comes to sales and promotions. Do you speak at these events? How many consumers are present at these shows? How big was your audience? Were you able to bring success to these companies, no matter how insignificant it might seem? As you can tell, you just need to promote your ability at this point. You seem like a well-rounded individual with a passion to succeed - just prove it now

Quality-wise, Falcon makes a very good rod. I can't speak for that particular model's performance for that application. You should be fine with any major manufacturer's 6'7"-7'2" M-MH power, Fast or ExFast action rod.

Then stop posting - you've made your point, and defended it numerous occasions. I hope the guys I fish with and against do not share you're opinion. This is a hot issue for tournament fisherman, not retired guys fishing off piers or in canals in their spare time - I do not expect you to understand a tournament fisherman's perspective. There is sportsmanship on the line here, along with not an insignificant sum of cash. If you can't understand why breaking the rules isn't a big deal, then agree to disagree, and move on.

My friend gave me one, caught a small bass on the silver shiner yesterday. I also caught a few on a cordell, white and green I bought for 2 bucks....that tells me no need to spend an arm and a leg on these lures

I think over the years I have tried them all and now my retriever of choice is a 1oz lead weight on a paper clip that slides down your line and knocks the lure free. The others require too many hands to operate(rope, weight, spool or 10 ft pole with screw on attachment as well as your rod). And if the wind is blowing and you are trying not to run over your line with the trolling motor while staying in position, well you get the picture. My local BPS has the 1oz paper clip for around 2 bucks. And they work at any depth. For me, I prefer the K.I.S.S. method, keep it simple stupid.....................Al

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I have been skunked on probably every body of water I have ever fished including far north Canadian lakes. Never two days in a row. Stuff happens. A good skunk-in helps you appreciate what a rose really smell like.

DVT, that's so very true, as I found out this evening. I got the reel today, and tried it out on my local lake. Before I get down to a little mini-review, I got a couple of questions for those more familiar with Revos. #1. The reel makes a singing/ humming noise on every cast, started from the first cast. Is it because of the non-disengaging levelwind? I'd like to get rid of the hum, if possible. #2. There are six centrifugal brakes, alternating pitch and "non-pitch" brakes. If I wanted to set two brakes on, and four off, how do I do that? On a Shimano, I'd set the 12 and 6 o' clock brakes on, but if I did that here, I'd be setting one pitch and one non-pitch brake on. Okay, here's my little review. Revo Toro Winch 51, 4.6:1 gear ratio. When I took the side-plate off, I found that the gears on the palming side are literally drenched in grease. huh? I cleaned what I could with an earbud dipped in alcohol and spooled some old 15 lb test Yo-Zuri hybrid onto it. Mounted the reel on my Mattlures swimbait rod, and I took along one single 7" Osprey to the lake. I was not planning to fish, just test the reel. I set the spool tension pretty tight, much tighter than I'd on the Shimanos, set the three non-pitch brakes on, and made a tentative overhand cast. So far, so good; no tendency to over-run. So I successively lay on the next few casts. With minimal thumbing, the reel behaved very well. Not a single overrun! I'm impressed. So I turn one more brake off- I normally use two brakes only- and try out some more overhand casts. Pretty nice. I'm liking this reel. Casting distance was comparable to my Curado 301E, no problem there. Then I tried some skipping with the three pitch brakes on, and it skipped just fine. In fact, if I may say so, with a tight spool tension and 3 pitch brakes, the reel required no thumbing at all, and that's while skipping. Seems to be a winner. I played some more with the reel, trying different combination of brakes, and pitching a bit. Casting was consistent. Distance wasn't out of the world (a 100 feet max I'd say), but as I said, it's comparable to the Curado 301E, and that's no more than I hope for. I only wish that the next time I go fishing, the reel would cast as well. I'm loving the low-speed thing too. The reel picks up 22.5" of line per handle turn at full spool. I don't have to consciously reel super-slow any more. Now I can really slow-roll a hudd. Big bass, look out! I have to detach the whole sideplate to change brake settings, which is a minor inconvenience. But I can live with that if the reel casts like that. Retrieving, of course, is a moot point. I guess all Revos are silky-smooth on retrieves. To summarize, I'm not a Revo-convert, nor do I see myself becoming one. If Shimano made a low-speed 300 size LH reel, I would have bought that. But I'm glad I gave the Abu reel a chance. It seems to be a very good lo-profile swimbait reel.

Guess it would depend on the fishing. Waters and Woods is a show here in IL and WI that is filmed weekly 51 weeks a year. The show is always current. It's not edited like all the "mainstream" shows and it's a multi species show. Because it's multi species show he has the opportunity to call around to see what's biting where, and then travel wherever. He also always fishes with guides. Most shows are taped in 1 or 2 days depending on the fishing. Not a bad gig if you ask me.

You know the issue isn't whether you think Wellman cheated, the issue is whether you would turn someone in who has clearly broken a rule. You're already on record for stating twice that even though he broke the rule you wouldn't turn him in because you're not a snitch. Although now you keep trying to change the argument to that you don't think he cheated, and thus wouldn't turn him in; that has not and never was the point here, but of course you know that. You're just trying to do damage control.