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Sounds pretty much how I hold a reel as well. With my little baby mitts I'd need both hands to even hold A-Jays round reel! 😆

I run the line over my finger. It certainly doesn't hurt detecting strikes and the way I palm a reel it's almost natural to do so.

Might not be much help but I have the All 'Round mod fast and it's a great rod but I use braid on it and I knew I would be when I bought it. Kind of a longer weightless worm and the braid pretty much makes up for the slower tip. It really is my all around, only bringing one, do anything rod. It's a great 3/8 spinnerbait rod. Does well with just about anything though. T rigs, rattletraps, senkos, square bills, top water... You name it, as long as the rod can handle the weight, I've probably fished it on this rod. I've even frogged with it in light cover. Worked surprisingly well. If you plan on using/use nylon/fluorocarbon lines I would probably lean toward the fast rods like the all around fast or the head turner unless you fish a lot of treble hook lures. Then I would look at the mod fast rods. If you use braid the mod fast rods are really good and extremely versatile. If all that didn't confuse you more, I hear those Intenzas are pretty nice. 🙂 Lol

Maybe look at the Cashion Icon 7ft heavy worm and jig rod. It's a pretty stout rod with good sensitivity and 100% American made. The glue on the wraps aren't fantastic looking if that concerns you but after 2 years mine have held up fine. Another option might be the Falcon Bucoo Dragger 2. Your going to lose some sensitivity vs. a Cara or Expert but it's a 7ft 7 series rod. It has a lot of backbone. I bought mine as a poor man's eye crosser. Lol I use it for frogs and it will launch a 1/2 oz. 🐸 no problem. I've also fished 1/2 oz. spinnerbaits with a trailer and it handles them just fine as well.

4 is a medium, 5 is a lightish medium heavy, 6 is a light heavy, 7 is a stouter heavy. The actions run pretty true to what Falcon rates them. A mod fast is a mod fast and a fast is a fast. The Lowriders are very nice rods. Definitely one of, if not the best 130.00 rods on the market today as far as I'm concerned.

Also glad to hear things are starting to come back together for you and your family. I don't post as often as I used to either but it would be nice see you around a little more. I actually just broke out an old Fenwick venture for a reel I found. If memory serves me correctly, you used to speak well of them back in the day.

Yeah, crazy. Hardcore swim bait guys might change it every trip but I bet you could get away with every week but why waste $3.00 in Big Game line every week when you can waste $60.00 on a lure every month.🙄 Or maybe stop being lazy and check your line and retie your knots. It doesn't matter if a san diego jam is stronger than a Palomar if you never retie either of them.

If I were fishing a $60.00 bait I would be checking the line, knot, and snap every couple of casts and retying at least every hour. I don't care how much stretch big game has, casting a larger bait like that has to shock/be hard on the knot and probably the snap. Might go with a heavier snap too if I noticed the one I was using was showing signs of opening up. Then again I don't fish baits I can't afford to lose so I don't use $60.00 baits. I could be way off on what I would do.

It came on a 5'6 pistol grip bantam graphite C. Model Gc-1552. Medium action bass. Line 8-20 lure 3/16-7/8 rod, but the bottom guide is broke off. Might be a good time to learn to wrap a guide and give me a winter project. Right now it's on a 6' short handle medium action Fenwick Venture from the early 2000's. Actually the first decent bass rod I ever bought. It has a pretty close look and feel to it.

It definitely has brass bushings on the spool. I gave it a clean and fresh lube the night I got it. I really was surprised by how well it casts and it's relatively smooth for what it is and how basic it is. I'm not really into older fishing gear but I'm really glad I found it. I think it's super cool. As far as Goodwills go, you have to go a lot to find deals and get lucky. Prices can be all over the place. My wife and I enjoy thrifting and we have two decent ones pretty close. We stop in everytime we are by one. At least two-three times a week and the deals are still few and far between. One thing that is pretty consistent is clothes. Used clothes don't bother me and I can almost always find nice golf clothes cheap so I usually fish in Under Armour, Adidas, or Nike golf clothes. I figure golfers stand around a lot in the sun so the clothes should be similar to fishing clothes. I look fancy on the water. 😂

Are you sure your flipping? NM. Bass Rutten beat me to it. I actually prefer a shorter rod for pitching. I'm short and a bank beater. The shorter rods just seem to work better for me.

That's pretty cool that it got that close but at the same time, fishing will never be the same. All my 2 pound fish will be 2 pounds instead of 4. 😂 Gonna have to go find a 1/2 scale ruler now, actually I wonder how it would do without a measurement?

Found this at Goodwill yesterday with a Shimano pistol grip rod for $5.50. Cleaned it last night and had it out in the yard playing with it today. Works way better than I thought it would. Also grabbed an Abu black max on a Gander Mountain rod for the same price. Not to bad for $11.00.

Some people eat other people, does that make all people cannibals? Just because some rabid beaver eats a fish, that doesn't mean all beavers do (I have no idea if beavers can actually get rabies). I do know I catch bass in areas where beavers exist and beaver homes can make pretty good bass homes. ∆ Ask Winona, she might know. ∆ Your most likely over 40 if you get that. 😂

Around me this is the correct answer 98.9% of the time.

Probably this one. Found him about a month ago stuck on the end of a line hanging from a tree that someone broke off. Had to climb down a small cliff and wade out knee deep to rescue him. Little fish but I thought it was cool that I was able to save him.

If you want or don't mind a shorter rod, Falcon Bucoo BRC 7-17 Carolina Lizard Dragger 2. 7 foot heavy fast. 3/8- 1.25oz rated. Fuji guides and reel seat for $100.00 and a 5 year warranty. Short and light enough to not beat you up and powerful (7 power rod) enough to move fish. It'll launch a 1/2 oz. frog surprisingly far. It's my poor man's eye crosser lol and it's pretty versatile. I bought it to be a frog rod but it fishes spinner baits and t rigs pretty well. Probably fish a Carolina rig pretty good too, but I've never tried. With braid the sensitivity is good.

ATG's are the 'ish. Pretty much all I wear as well. Comfy, durable, relatively inexpensive, and available everywhere. Target, Walmart, Goodwill...

Have you tried the rod you have? I have the lowrider 6'10" m shakey head rod and have no problem fishing flukes with braid.

I use the trilene knot for all line to lure connections. Mono/copolymer gets 5-6 wraps, fluorocarbon gets 6-7 wraps, braid gets 8-9 wraps. Works fine for me.

Raybestos element 3 hybrid. Semi metallic/ceramic hybrid. The coated rotors seem pretty good too. Only had them for a little over a month but their quite, minimal dusting, pretty inexpensive, and they grab. So far the rotors have no rust. Opinions might change after a winter with them though. No experience with the akebonos that Greb suggested but they where on my short list and they come highly rated as well.

Pitching Stick/Head Turner. A smidge faster, a touch stouter, and 2 inches shorter 😆.

Wrong Gary. Gary Loomis NFC blanks that Kistler was using and not Gary Dobyns blanks. At least that's what I'm guessing.

I've never used a Dobyns rod and I hear they're pretty good but I think your going to have to step up to a Sierra to get Lowrider performance. The reason I say this is go back to around 2016-17, the Fury was about $110 and the Sierra was around $140. Back then when you asked for $100 rod it was the fury vs bucoo vs bass x vs inferno. Want a $150 rod? Sierra vs lowrider vs mojo. Prices changed and the rods are still the same. I think if your used to lowriders and get a fury you'll probably wish you got something else. I might be way off but that's how I look at it.

Not the flavor of the month, not going to see them all over YouTube. They certainly have a following with people who fish though. It's been years since I was on any other forums but they used to always have people who used and recommended them. I believe dollar for dollar they are one of the best rods on the market. At their price points it's hard to find a rod that provides as much value between quality, warranty, and customer service. I love my falcon rods.