hatrix

San Diego jam or a uni. Neither are actual knots but are slips.

Fas snaps are possibly the best I have ever tried and I tried like everything. They ask work good though. Not much a fan of the afford clips though. They a kinda weak and sorta to start unattaching

I would maybe stay with a 168 and you know it, I know it I think is another color and party crasher are all good. Also perch but I don't know about in Texas

Lots of the stuff mentioned is not that weird and other people use similar rigs you just don't hear about it. I have rigged up all kinds of crazy stuff just to see. You might be surprised at how well some things actually work.

Even with a trained thumb filling to much will cause problems. I have done it a few times and even though it didn't look it that little bit of extra line was the issue.

It depends on the type of swimbaits and size. Braid for topwater cxx for soft stuff like huds ect and tatsu for glide and jointed stuff. Braid is 50-65 and 12-20 for anything else.

For numbers a rapala x-rap 06 is hard to beat. They are like a ultra light type thing or light spinning but they catch fish of all species and lots of them.

I have never heard of the stutter step til on here. It has a been quite some time since I have been active on here though. I have seen quite a lot of whopper plopper post in the past few days. Its very reminiscent of the 10 daily posts about keitech like a year ago. Keitech were far from a new thing back then and neither are whopper ploppers now. Its gets old quickly and even more so when it's already old to you by the time it becomes popular. I have been throwing the big ploppers for a few years now and same with keitechs but never heard of the stutter step. I have been to deep into the big swimbaits I guess.

There are quite a lot people who paint those or just swimbaits in general. They do some amazing work and price is usually by the "

Gan Craft S-Song OG Deps 250 Roman Made Negotiator MS Slammer Triple Trout

Basstrix and for jigheads big hammer

Just take another hook or something similar and pull the tag end out. The line that runs down along the outside of your wraps. Once you do that it just pulls right off. super quick and easy.

Even if you don't have time to get out to a big lake I would still recommend trying to fish some of these other ponds and lakes from the bank. There is tons of great fishing all over the Orlando area. I catch tons of nice fish in downtown Orlando. There are big all over and you can't catch then unless you try.

I am sure every piece of the country has awesome places to fish. But really I don't think florida can be beat. I just moved down here recently and fishing is everywhere.

Of all the glides you listed the S-Waver is your best bet. A 168 with catch a ton and don't overlook a 200. They are solid bait and easy to get compared to others. I still throw them a ton even though I have a bunches of glides. The 168's put in a lot of work and they are one of my favorite baits.

Blood knots are great but hard to tie. There is a trick to tie them easy. You end up with the same number of wraps on each line and your tags both come out the same side but it's a easy blood knot.

I thought it was the 404

It would probably be a 7'2" MH/XF Crucial. It is a excellent rod and I have used it for everything. I don't know if they still make that rod in the cork grips or how it compares to the old eva ones. But if you can find a older one its a good buy.

I use 20# braid plenty and so do a lot of people. It has nothing to do with breaking strength as your drag should miles away from ever breaking it. It is about using a suitable diamater for the rod and reel you are using.

For some reason I never had the best success with a pit boss. I know people swear by them and catch a ton and I have caught some on them but not enough. A D-Bomb is easily one of my favorites and I fish the crap out of those and have caught countless fish. They also come in a baby version and that can be the ticket at times.

I am going to have to say yes you can and probably most of the time you can't. It really depends how much shore access you have. Unless you had access from shore to some spots that consistently hold fish and you would actually fish from a boat then your at the mercy of the fish. If they are not around or active you have no choice but to sit and wait for them to turn on or come around.

It's strange it broke but I believe it. Unless it's a lightwire hook it will break. Any of the heavier duty hooks "superline"? I think they are. They don't bend but will flex a little and if you keep going they just snap. Basically all my EWG style hooks are like that. Go grab a few crappy hooks and some pliers and start trying to bend them out. They might bend out a good way but you might be surprised how many just snap.

I am not sure a lot of things I would classify as "technique" unless it's a totally different way of rigging. I would more or less say what style of baits to learn. But whatever that don't matter. I would agree with a lot of people you need to start throwing moving baits or search baits of you will. In all honesty I don't think there is much to it for someone to be half decent at using moving baits. The highest skill cap IMO is bottom contact stuff. Really you can apply all the same retrieves and little things to all moving baits. Swimbaits, traps, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, swimjigs, even cranks to some degree. You should be trying to do a lot of the same things will all of those. And with all of those it is possible to just chuk and wind and stil catch fish but it is rarely your best option. Find some type of cover of structure and bump into it. During your retrieves you just kinda mess around imparting different actions till you find out how they want it while making a mental note of what happened to make you get bit. Then try to keep dialing in more in more on what is working. You can speed up a bait a do a quick half turn of even a couple turns. Killing a bait for a split second works amazingly and I have tons of success with that. Also dragging a bait and using only your rod to really move it like a C-Rig. Ripping baits up out of grass to cause reaction strikes or throwing a coupe hops in here and there. That's basically about it unless there was something I missed.

I'm rich!! I knew they were worth keeping all this time. If anyone is interested we can we out a deal. I can do like 10 for a even 100k so we both win. And if you order in the next hour I will even throw in a old Ambassadeur. That's a $9.99 value free! Just pay separate processing.