tomustang

Most likely cracked by dropping it, just pick up a fuji top guide and replace it

Something longer than 6'6. A 6'8MXF or 6'10MXF is very versatile.

Just spool it up, seaguar says their 15 is more like 12lb dia, the 50 can handle 85 yrds of 12lb dia. So that spool would be perfect filled for use and some left over if you lose some line.

Powells 705cb max rod is $128.88 over at TW

I use 6lb pline c21, if there wasn't toothy critters around I'd drop back to 4lb, wife really likes the seaguar senshi 4lb

Junk. Get a river2sea s-waver to start out on, much better.

When it's swimming

That's fine by me, shimano rods and their service have left a sour note with me many years ago, they won't get my money. So it's no skin off my back, it's still lame no matter how you two defend them.

Reread my post, it's not that hard, if you dont/can't use your rods that first year much you're SOL with a one year warranty.

That's fine, but we're all talking about the warranty here, not catching fish.

You buy the rod with the warranty so a part of it does expire.

That does seem lame. one year to make sure you rods are good from defect? Say you bought a new lineup of your favorite rods but now have the one year warranty, fish maybe 4 times a month, for the whole warranty year, not every technique produces and you put them back down for the rest of the year. You finally break one of those lesser used rods next year but it's not covered now. There's a lot of people out there that don't use their gear religiously, can't find the time, or have too many rods in there rotation to use them all. A 2-3 year warranty would help at least. I received a new soft plastics rod in january, been six months now and I used it less than 10 times and haven't caught a fish with it, because I'm producing more on other techniques, that's half a year already with out seeing if the rod can handle a fish. If I had that warranty I guess I should better tell the fish to jump on my line before time runs out.

I use all my 'technique' rods differntly, I've even used cranking rods to throw swimbaits and an occasional finesse worm.

The channel in the shaft was for transducer wiring to travel without being in the way

Must have swollen knuckes..

I ditched the backpack years ago for these http://m.basspro.com/Bass-Pro-Shops-Freestyle-Satchel-370-Tackle-Bag-or-System/product/12041305022811/

I like how they got the breakage problem covered

Tell him you'll be there and never show up.

Because you never know when you're going to catch that 50 pound bass.

Or it will deter them from buying, lifetime warranties are a selling point for most.

I wouldn't say everything is better. Look at pitching, with a caster motion is much more fluid, on a spinner it seems like a lanky process

For me it's the opposite. Spinning setups tend to hang in the hand which feel more comfortable where baitcasters are held up and many want to tip to the handle side. Now based off both being balanced and weighing the same, for more comfort (but its not by much) I would choose spinning.

Play Foster The Kids - Pumped Up Kicks, that'll get any song out of your head

It's not far off, avids have jumped in price, $180-$250 for a caster now

I completely agree with the braking systems, less is more and having too much adjustments makes the new system a little bit more finicky though it's still a good system. Two brakes was really a set and forget setup.