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I know the reason they didn't do it in the 70s, is because the small parts would keep getting lost in the shag carpeting, and folks kept stepping on them with the platform shoes... (Sorry, still hard to seriously talk FFs after the "electromagnetic wave range" they operate at thing)

Buy $30 less in lures and get the Daiwa.

The marks on that crank tells me that whatever he is doing with whatever he's doing it with is working. A 20 ft diver with 20 fluoro will get down to the tops of the trees he was describing me thinks... Flathead if I had to guess...

Cherrywood sucks. Get the Aird-X.

You absolutely can cast lures over the range, quite a bit so if you know what you are doing. You can apply more force when fighting a fish, again, if you know what you are doing, because you load the rod in a steady fashion lower down the blank where more of the power lives. When you cast most lures with most rods, you are loading the rod much more dynamically and usually higher up where the diminished diameter has less strength, and often a stress riser can be found there on rods with fast and X fast actions. STOP READING, GO FISHING.

Also a Korean Silstar, Still fish 3 of them. The guts are interchangeable with the Pinnacles of that era.

What are you wearing?

No, a cat MH is much heavier than a bass MH, and it will be a lower modulus or composite with a slower action, larger diameter blank. The emphasis is on flinging bait and or fighting fish. Get yourself a Daiwa Aird-X, around $50, less if you can wait for a sale.

Either works, once it starts to tear I flip them over, and then I go vertical, fish don't care.

If I hit the lotto, I'm hiring 25-30 year olds in bikinis to load the gear, drive the truck, and run the boat, I might even get a little fishing in... ?

That's essentially a Daiwa Advantage, my current frog and inshore salt reel. The look I got last week when I cut off a pad crasher, tied on a 7/0 hook and sent down a livelined 8" bait, Striped bass for dinner. Yup, they came out with 3 or 4 models their first year, Made by Silstar.

Pinnacle Matrix II, and it's many Silstar Korean clones. Still fishing them today.

A 7'6" med moderate rod is not a versatile rod, but maybe it's perfect for what you will be using it for, the only person who knows is....

Same.

While it's never a bad idea to throw things that imitate or represent the forage species, bass will eat most any critter it encounters. We used to use killies (I think folks call them mummichogs and other things), goldfish, and fiddler crabs sometimes, and they all worked well, even though most bass never run across them where we fished them. I'm sure they don't run across 5" nightcrawlers often either, and they will eat that when they won't eat most other things. If I see guys chucking spinnerbaits in the water, I'm blaming you...

Objection, non responsive.

I do something similar, hope the wife doesn't find out...

Using metric cranks in TX? I'm calling the Lake Police...

Dancer!

That would be my guess too. Inspect the wire and other side terminal, and if you have the slack, cut off an inch and crimp a new terminal, also check the connector, as it may also have been compromised, and it will most likely require a few passes with emery cloth to reveal bare metal, or maybe more, while you are in there check all the connectors. I gotta do the sequencers on my air handler before the heating season, same idea, more voltage...

I've liked every BC Dobyns rod I've fished, haven't loved any of them. I haven't found any of their spinning ones I like.

Match the power of the rod to the size of the spoon, and line, and something not too fast, the reel, anything from 6-7 something. Jigging a spoon does not require a really specific rod the way trolling or casting one do.

Wrong. Only the ones that bring them to a gunfight...

I usually use 80 or heavier for tarpon, snook I go 30-50 depending on the size. I've started using 40 for pike, and don't loose many, do have to retie more often than I like though.

Did they have enough Grey Poupon?...