kikstand454

i am terrified of looking into the quantum smoke. i saw a video on youtube by accident... and now im trying to avoid seeing it on sale at all costs. no ***..... you wont be getting my money.... not THIS week.....not next....(maybe the end of the month)

ditto. and id also suggest if you have weedy areas to think about trying to get some "mojo" style cylindical sinkers. they go through grass much cleaner than egg or bullet sinkers. 1/2oz to 10ft.... 3/4oz to 20ft.... 1oz deeper. lots and lots of c-rig info on this site. lots of threads about it and i think theres a sticky too.....

hmmmm... maybe this will mean that if i renew my subscription to bassmaster....i might actually get 12 issues instead of the 4 that i got this past year. id be upset but i only got like 2 from bassin and maybe 3 from maxim. either all subscriptions suck... or my mailman is a happy man.

yes to all of the above. and the answer to your next question..... cavitron. ;D

awesome!!!!

hahaha. here's a better question... if you took skeet or any of the other anglers and took away their internet, and their 80+mph boat and their chartplotting/side imaging and their graphite rods and 400 dollar reels and set them in a bass tracker with a 50horse and an old school flasher.... do you think they would fish any better than roland martin or hank parker? sports always grow more and more competetive as time goes by because technology makes it easier and levels the playing field. you have to compare the dominance of the sport at the time in order to veiw "greatness". and then take it with a grain of salt. the gretzky,ruth,jordan,petty, martins of the world will always be considered "the best"...but they dominated in an era when it was easier to dominate. everyone is better in sports these days than 30 years ago and so you have to grade it on a curve. but to discount the greatness of these competitors based on the fact that they couldnt compete today.... well thats just ignorant. and for the record... id put skeet somewhere in the 20's.

yeah...most any technique is do-able with a 7.1. but the real decision about what tech. you want to use it for should be based on torque... not speed. as said before... you can slow doan a fast reel... but you cant speed up a slow one. what you cant do with a faster reel is make it more powerful. you really should look at it more like the gears of a car or bicycle, where the more resistance you have... the lower the gear you want so the engine (you) works less. big honkin spinnerbaits or deep diving cranks esp. put alot of resistance on a rod. its easier on you to have a lower ratio to move that bait. just like you want to down shift to go up an incline. can you go up it in a higher gear? of course... but why would you want to? its ineffecient.

possible solutions- tooth pics/cardboard chips/silicone packs in your plano boxes. dont put your lures back in the box wet. spray regularly with kvd line and lure or similar corrosion inhibitor. and the number one way.... keep your plastics in the planos and go buy flambaeu boxes with ZERUST inserts for your terminal tackle and hard baits. they work awesome and dont cost that much. you can get them at walmart. i fish in saltwater constantly and this is the solution ive come up with as i was tired of constantly replacing expensive mirrolure and rapala hooks. i was changing 10 to 12 hooks and rings roughly every two months. now i only have to do one or two the whole year. brilliant. 8-)

the only place i seem to have any luck with pink is muddy flowing rivers with a pink paddle tail. *shrug* i do really well with pink zeros and trick worms in saltwater. speckled trout are stupid for them in dirty water.

well in general... i personally fish curly tail worms mostly on the bottom. t-rig. shallow or deep thats just what i feel confident doing with them. straight tail worms...to me thats a trick worm...i generally fish either on a shakey head or small t-rig around docks finesse style... or i carolina rig it out deep. deadly. paddletail worms are awesome in grassy areas. put a 3/16oz sinker on and t-rig it... and then fish it like you would a spinnerbait. you can cover serious water with this rig and if you come to a stump in the grass you can also let sink around it and fish it on the bottom too. thats in general though. all these lures and techniques are interchangeable. ive done well with a giant t-rigged paddletail worm and ive killed with swimming a trick worm over grass... so it is what it is. "color" isnt so much as important as "shade". water clarity and sunlight conditions should narrow down your color choices. (i.e. dark colors in murky water, natural greens and browns in clearer water) and then let the fish tell you what exact color is hot...like if your fishing dark colors... are the fish hitting junebug or black neon better? jmo

dont forget.. they also work great on a carolina rig. and on a jig head...and all the other things mentioned here. great bait.

must.....have....rage....shrimp... now. one bait.....and i can catch bass and reds and speck trout....lol... its like a snaggless sally!!! lol

i was just wondering where is a good place to buy blades for chatterbait style lures. i recently saw a great little suggestion in a bassmaster magazine about changing old spinnerbaits into chatterbaits and it sounds fun. just cant find where to get any. suggestions? thanx!

typically it means that the rear portion of the rod handle slides up into the rod so you can make it shorter so it fits in a rod locker. im looking into a crank rod too... and i may be going with the bps cranking stick with the telescoping handle.

i pitch and flip and work most "bootom" lures with a lh reel. in fact when i got my first baitcaster, i got a lh reel with the thought process that i had been using spinning reels for so long now that reeling left wouldnt be a problem, and it seemed silly to change hands. however most of us first started out fishing with spincasters (zebco 33 etc.) and they were rh retreive. so lh reels feel weird. i use right handed reels for "moving" lures such as spinnerbaits and cranks etc. i feel that my actual REELING is more smooth and consistant with my rigtht hand. these presentations tend to benifit from that. t-riggin and flipping a jig tend to benifit more form being able to engage the reel immediately and by having your dominate hand on the rod for more poweful hooksets. those are my reasons for having both. p.s. not to mention LH reels are routinely much much cheaper on sale and esp on close out. i saw last night a LH revo winch on sale on ebay nib for 110 dollars. the right hand ones were 180 something.

fwiw i learned to baitcast by flipping in my living room. i think it was a good idea, short accurate casts learning to feather my spool. that being said.... i was a much more proficient backlash picker before i was a baitcast caster. lol. i still get them time to time... even the elite pros do. itll happen. just take your time and itll all come to ya. sounds like youre taking to it just fine.

it is a great rod for cranking. i used it for a long time until i lost it overboard and then had an abugarcia crank rod fall into my lap. the ugly stick lite is a great rod all around and i still use them exclusively/religiously for saltwater. the fiberglass action doesnt really work too well for some or most bass techniques.... or id use them for that too. the ugly stick lite pro is the way to go.

hey this is what i use for shakeyheads. just rig them weedless. they work just as well as anything else. and they are way cheaper. http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_10204998_100010006_100000000_100010000_100-10-6

hey i want some rage shrimp!!! where are they? i dont see them on the site.

yeah.... id get either the pure poison or the booyah boogie bait. chatterbaits have bad components and are ridiculously overpriced.

as an afterthought to this great advice...the lures that are new to you or that you dont have as much confidence in like you mentioned with the senko... you should try and throw them when you know you have the fish located and active. i know its hard to set down a lure that you are catching fish on but throwing a lure you dont know or beleive in at no fish/inactive fish is a sure way to never use it again. fish your spinner and find those one pounders and then switch to a t-rig plastic or a suspending jerkbait or something and see if you can get the bigger fish around them.

what i would do is throw a paddletail. texas rig a paddletail worm (zoom speedworm,ultravibe,gambler flappin tail etc.) on a 3/16oz weight and fan cast the entire flat paying close attention to any points or gaps. run it just above the weeds then just below the surface. find out what they want. paddletails are awesome esp in the summer and from what i gather from this forum and other places alot of people dont throw them so itll be new to your fish. 8-)

and for the record....imho the steez series is the biggest fleecing the fishing industry ever had. they dont seem any nicer or better built than any other high end rod and reel.... yet they are nearly twice as much sometimes. pffffffffffft. after fishing both for two hours... i prefer the cumara to the steez. there i said it.

daddyodo, this is a GREAT first baitcaster. for starters.... its brakes actually work. you can almost set it and forget it once you get the hang of it. just today i was throwing a 3/8oz jig with it and then went to a 3/16oz beaver and never touched the thing until i needed to cast it instead of pitching it. you will love it! at 25 bucks i HAVE to get at least two.

good post! the accurist pt is a casting beast!