Chris W

A word of warning it is very addicting tying jigs.

If you are wire tying, tie the first go round a little loose and you can separate the colors by hand a little better. You can use 24 gauge wire and have a smaller bundle around the neck, if you do that it will get more flare out of the skirt. Looks good for your first one though. It does get addicting though.

Green Pumpkin/blue, Plum Apple, June Bug are my favorite 3 colors mostly for stained water.

The spro's are harder to walk than some of the other frogs it seems like to me. I put a great big split ring on my spro frogs and they are much easier to walk. Spro actually makes some just for the frog. Braid makes it easier also.

I am 99% sure it it wood also. I believe that they went to a fiberglass transom on the 400 series of boats.

It is probably in a bind and will not shift. I had the same thing happen on a stratos. It was from making too big of a turn. If there is anyway to reroute it so it is straighter it works much better.

I am afraid to count them but I am sure it is well over 100.

Green Pumpkin/Blue and Black/Blue/Chart. are my 2 favorite colors.

I have had several telescoping rods for 10 or 15 years with no trouble out of them. Just take care of it and it will last a long time.

The power pole is better than the Talon. In my opinion I have a talon on my aluminum boat and wish I would have gotten a power pole. How much room in your back storage compartment is the biggest deciding factor in which one you will buy. Also you do not need 2 of either of them I only have one on each boat. But if it is windy you will have some sway in the front of the boat with only one. You do not realize how nice they are to have until you have one.

You are better off buying your jigheads and tying your own skirts IMO.

I used to live in the Nashville area and fished for them quite a bit. I have caught some good ones there over the years up to about 6lbs. And for the most part KevO is right from about 4 corners up to the Dam is a little better for small mouth. We used to do real good with red hair jigs at night for them, and if the moon was full a purple/red spinnerbait fished about 12 to 15 foot deep. I have not fished Percy in several years now but it used to be a really good lake.

I do not have any but my fishing partner bought about 10 of them last year and I have fished with them some. He really likes them and from the little I fished with them, I did too. I cannot speak to their longevity but they do seem to be a good rod for the money they are fairly light and had good sensitivity. If I was looking for a rod in that price range I would not hesitate to buy one.

I went last week I cannot remember the water temp exactly but it seems like it was around 70. We have had some cold nights since then so it may have went down some more since then. Fishing has been ok nothing great but it should start getting better anytime now. Give me a shout before you come and I will try to have you an updated report.

I use them year round. In the late fall, early spring and winter I use a pork trailer usually and Uncle Josh U2 split tail. When the water is over about 55 degrees I switch to plastic, either a zoom twin tail or creepy crawler or a swimming chunk. These are one of the best smallmouth baits I have ever used.