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thanks for the replies guys. i appreciate it

hey guys. up until this point i have only used braid on one of my setups for thick weeds. it was 50lb moss green bps brand. i had it backed with mono and used a three foot flouro leader. i bought two spools this winter and i want to expand my use of it. i bought another 50lb spool in moss green and a hi vis yellow spool in 15lb that i want to use on my spinning reel. i switched and both spools are spiderwire. my question is this, how to you guys load it up on your line? do you all use backing on your setups, both bc and spinning? any specifics on how you guys do it would be appreciated. i also watched a vid of amart and he said he backs his flouro with braid which sounded odd to me. in it he said he gets another 20 yds on his cast with it and it also eliminated a lot of his backlashes. has anyone tried this application of it? thanks guys, curious to hear what you all do.

well i bought a 200yd spool of 17 pound flourocarbon and im gonna go get some braid tomorrow. im gonna spool a reel with each to try it. hopefully it works well and ill keep you posted. thanks

thanks for the help guys, ill let you know how i feel about it after i try it.

hey guys, ive fished mono for my line exclusively since ive started fishing. i usually use 12 lb test, it seems to work all around for the fishing i do. i did alot of fishing at a pond by me this year that is gridlocked with heavy weeds. i caught some great fish this year and lost some great fish this year. as a result i wanted to try fishing with braid. if im pitching 3/4oz jigs or brush hawgs with a slip sinker, what pound test would be best for fishing heavier cover?

charlie moores show is about as informative as watching the animal planet with no volume. with that said.....i love the guy. as much as i dont want to like his show sometimes i cant turn away. i think that is a really really cool story about you almost buying his boat. as a side note to the celtics bandwagon. i would like to inform you that up in the northeast there wasnt the bandwagon there is now for a simple reason. i ,like many other people i know, only had one way to make danny ainge and the celtics owner make the team better. dont buy retail products or tickets. i think after four years of watching aweful basketball on tv.....they got the point.

holy crap that things a monster!

whats the deal with these, i saw them using them on a fishing show cant remember which one. do they have coffee inpregnated in the bait much like salt in other soft plastics?

im sure this has been talked about, but i couldnt find anything with the search for jig hooksets. this is my first year trying jigs and after reading aloooot of material over the past couple weeks, i tried fishing with a jig yesterday. it worked out really well, they were biting it constantly. the problem was everytime i went to set the hook the jig would pop out of their mouth. i know some people cut off the weed guard, so my question is, what does this do from a standpoint of hanging up the jig in weeds and timber? if anyone has any tricks that help with the hookset im all ears, thanks guys.

hey guys, i was down at bps this weekend and i picked up two new baitcast combos. they were 65 each. for anyone who went for the sale, its a bill dance quantum combo. i broke one of them out yesterday and it seemed really smooth and my casts were going pretty far. i was kind of shocked how well it seemed for the money. has anyone had any problems with these reels?

they all look the same to me so i was thinking about it, is there any way to visually tell whether a bass is male or female or a marker or something that will tip you off?

d**n that is one huuuuuuge bass!!!!

i was wondering the same thing and figured there had to be something like that. glad someone posted what it was. thanks.

well said, the site runs fine on my computer

at any point during the year i always have a texas rigged baby brush hawg in the holster ready to fire.

hey, thanks alot for posting those. those two pretty much answered all the questions i had left after the initial reading i had done. i appreciate it very much

ive only had one baitcaster, which i bought about five years ago. took me a while to learn how to use. i learned by trial and error pretty much. now that i have read up on using them properly i feel a little more confused. i guess it would be from just learning the reel and not knowing the proper terminology for the parts. i think i understand the braking systems from the tutorial from reelmech. pretty well. what exactly is the function of the bearings and what makes having more better? are they somehow involved with the brakes? i think i paid 80$ for mine as a combo from bps. its a mega tournament real with a one piece metal frame and has four bearings and it works well for me. i have a few spinning reels but i seem to like my bc better. any explanations on the bearings are much appreciated.

wow, thanks everyone for the warm reception, i plan on learning a lot from this site and i look forward to talking to you all in the future. thanks

this may be a stupid question, but im just trying to learn. i dont do much fishing on bigger lakes. occasionally ill go to a buddys place on a lake in nh or maine. what i was wondering is this, is there any way to find points and flats in a lake without using a depthfinder? i dont own a boat much less a depthfinder and depthfinders from what ive been reading is still like japenese to me. i guess the easy way to ask this question is, if you guys were in a row boat or canoe, how would u guys approach finding bass?

hey everybody, im scott and im new to the forum. im from the boston area and went to school in nc. ive spent almost all of my time fishing smaller ponds from the banks. ive only been fishing at big lakes off a boat a few times with little success. i feel at home around weed beds and lily pads, conversely, feeling lost in deeper water. i joined this forum to learn and hopefully take my bass fishing to the next level. maybe start getting out on some of the bigger lakes around mass and nh. ive already been reading a ton of the posts and theyve helped me learn alot. with that said im sure you guys will be hearing from me in the future.