thinkingredneck

Yo zuri hybrid, Mustad mono, maxima Cameleon are all tough and have worked for me.

Probably works a lot like pink does.

St. Croix is my favorite BC. I bought some used American Rodsmith, Ozark rods thatare pretty good. I have a Lamiglass I like. It is a beast in cover. I use an Abu spinning, some BPS that are okay. I hate to admit it, but my Ugly Stick, is my favorite spinning rod.

Beetle spin, H &H spinnerbait

I have the Fenwick in spinning. I cannot hit the wall from inside the barn with it. Just cannot control it. I have a tourney special BC by BPS that I carry in a rod tube. Not perfect, but gets it done. I have St Croix one piece and will buy St Croix from now on. Their service is amazing.

If you catch fish on it, it is the right way. If you read Ned's blog, he is constantly trying non-zman baits on his Midwest Finesse rig.

I see a lot of skin mounts in antique stores. Remember that someone will have to deal with all of your stuff one day (pardon the pun.)

Thanks

Spoons are an old classic. I have caught crappie, bass, trout, Salmon, bluefish, and mackerel on them.

I have 3, 2 BC and one spinning that my wife found while walking the dog. It must have fallen off someon's truck. They are a good, solid, tough rod. Still use them. The one piece is more sensitive than the two piece, for what that is worth. The two piece is my travel rod. I agree about the lightening shock. It is a better rod for the money IMHO.

So do you go up a hook size from treble to single, to keep the action right?

I have used the double hook with screw in pin. I think mine were Ribbit brand from Academy. They are a bit heavy and $$, but work well and always work upright. I have had EWG hooks flip over, but not sure how much that matters.

Mine would rather dig in the d÷=% yard, and wants me to dig too. I keep telling her we are getting old and need a maintenence free type yard. So I dig. She still won't fish.

I have caught one fishing it like a jerkbait. Maybe I am messing up fishing it like any other worm. Probably not slow enough

Are you replacing with octopus hooks, J hooks, Siwash? When I lived in the Pacific NW, a lot of guys used Siwash hooks on spoons for Steelhead and Salmon. I thought I read in an earlier post that someone had used circle hooks on spoons for bass with good results. The photo looks sort of circle, but not quite. I think I will change some out. Please let me know how you are doing this. I hate treble hooks for all of the above stated reasons.

If you use clip on, especially ones from your optometrist, don't put them in your shirt pocket on the way home and leave them in the shirt. Mine got scratched up in the washer after one trip. Expensive mistake.

Lightning rod shock is a great rod for the money.

Yes

Something to cover top, middle and bottom of water column. 1. Top: popper, Jitterbugs, frogs, toads, spooks, buzzbaits, weightless floating worms, etc 2. Middle: swimbaits, spinnerbait, crank bait, grubs, swimming worms (U vibe), etc 3. Bottom: worms, jigs, grubs, Senko, etc Or you could just go midwest finesse, but not with a BC combo. Don't buy everything. Learn a few techniques. I àm partial to plastic baits. IMHO you can start with some offset round worm hooks and some trickworms, U vibe worms and floating worms. You only need a few colors. I am partial to Junebug and dark colors on bottom, white on mid column. Not sure color matters on top. Of course, I now have boxes of all kinds of crap. I think the most easily overlooked thing starting out is to match your gear with your technique. Read all of the articles and watch the videos. Walmart usually carries some zoom worms and booyah products. Also, order from Sieberts. Good quality and fantastic service. Welcome to BR.

Use something with treble hooks. There are plenty of top waters besides frogs. Poppers, spooks, Jitterbugs, Devilshorse, etc

In WY, an inflatable pontoon might be a better choice

To get comfortable with worms, I spent a whole yeafishing nothing but Junebug plastics TX rig in pads and heavy plant growth. Changed the weight and shape only. I would fo from Trickworm to U vibe, to Ole Monster,etc. Weightless to 1/4 oz. I got much better at worm fishing and caught a metric crap ton of fish. Now I am getting into swimbaits and Toad fishing.

I have been teaching kids who are a product of the MS public school system.

Anyone who teaches knows that there ARE stupid questions. This was not one.

A couple things: Plastics Texas rigged is a good start Get on the water safety first: kill switch, pfd, sun screen, mosquito spray, etc