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Most of their rods are good, some are excellent, some are just ok, and some are trash. The issue with house brand sticks is that while the model name may remain the same, the rods usually change year to year, and often not for the better, particularly those other than top of the line ones, which are aimed at a price point. I have some old Extremes that are fantastic rods, been happy with the bionic blades, and some of their salt water rods. The reels are average for their price points for the most part.

You know those aren't real trout, and you can't use them for almondine, right? Love the 70s kitchen.

I tell people most professional LMB anglers are not professional because most don't make $ at it. The sales pitch thing comes with the territory, I know in our case, when you get entry fees, electronics, rods, fuel, clothing, tackle, outboard bonus $, and a little cash, it makes it hard to say, "oh yeah, those products we use, they actually suck", or something to that effect.

Yeah, but whose xf?

LOL

Nope, I have a poling skiff. I am looking for a place, and your area is in the running. I gotta pick your brain sometime. I'm liking Boone.

LOL. Ok, in that case, if I ever went kayak fishing, I'd absolutely leave the dolly in the truck...

I feel click baited by the same age as the owner's daughter thing, good story though.

If Barnes and Nobles sold rods, you'd find them in the fiction section, most in the comedy isle...

Same, but any of those rods will work.

I'm absolutely sure I'm not going kayak fishing...

I caught a bass today in 39 degree water, pocket in the ice really, with a moving bait, biases are for mere mortals...

Crankbait rod as an all around is almost as silly as, well, a crankbait rod for all around. I would do spinning as an all around rod, but a BC will work as well, a 6'6" to 7' rod in Medium/fast or mod/fast will work. There is tons of suitable ones out there. If ever I lost my mind and ended up fishing in a yak, I'd probably take 2 rods.

Oh man, something else I thought I invented. I do very much the same thing, but I put the jig on a tying vise.

Walmart used to sell unpainted ones for little $.

I'm looking for a #19 in mint or uncirculated condition to tape on my FF....

Braid is a better choice. I'm gonna market JDM sacrificial anodes for jigs....

Let me know when and where, I'll bring bourbon and wine....

It's not you, you are being targeted by marketing professionals with analytics that Phillip Morris could have only dreamed of. Pharma is the concern, too many lures won't ruin your liver, or leave you twitching uncontrollably.

Yeah, it's a feel thing. I wrap it around about 6 times snuggly, then snug the tags and twist 4 times. after a while you get a feel for it. Most of the craft stores have a good selection of copper wire.

Because LMB guys will pay for it, and believe in "magic" lures that work at the exclusion of all others.

If you are asking will fish not bite it because of the braid being more visible, then that's not a thing. I don't use braid on anything with trebles because braid tangles on hooks, ( in clear water just as bad as in dirty water). I don't see an advantage with braid for squarebill under most conditions. I throw squarebills on heavy mono most of the time.

Brings back memories, one of my first combos was from trading in one of those "books" you'd fill with the stamps you got from gas stations. It was spinning with a solid fiberglass white 2 piece rod with a metal ferrule, and came with the reel attached, and some basic tackle, bobber, hooks, snap swivels and the like on a cardboard backed blister pack/shrink wrap plastic. I had to talk mom to let me get it instead of a kitchen appliance or the such. Times were tight, and we were 4 boys on dad's salary, so it was not a small thing, but she said yes.

Man, woman, person, camera, TV...

'67 or '68, started fishing from shore in the Pacific, wrasses, smelt, halibut, white bass mostly, plus some pits and quarries for carp and cichlids. Fished Long Island salt from '69-71' flounder, bluefish, weakfish, striped bass, porgies, blackfish and black sea bass mostly. Moved to the Catskills, where I fished for trout in the streams, and anything that swam in the ponds and lakes. Caught LMB, SMB, pickerel, yellow perch, and sunfish. Got the surf bug, and did that for about 3 years, when I met a good friend who's dad ran a headboat, and his older brother commercial fished, kinda like when toto pulled back the curtain in Oz. I've never considered myself a bass angler, I will fish for anything with fins and gills.