Hi Salenity

If you ever come to Kansas I'd let you try both. As far as the mag breaks go I ALMOST never use them. I hate mag breaks. However on a windy day throwing into the wind Sometimes I add some mag break instaid of clicking another cent. break. If you like the Shimanno better you like the Shimanno better, The Curado a great reel!

One of my local lakes that I fish on , I fish from sunrise to 9-10am and then I come back for the last 2 hours of daylight.

I was going to suggest a TP but once you have one you realize how bad the rest of your reels are.

On a side note, I love the long handle on the Lew's MG but It only has mag breaks and I have a problem backlashing them trying to cast them further than I should...

To each there own... Those reels should work fine . I have a tuned Curado e5 that I use for anything with a lip and a BPS JM Carbonlite 5.4:1 for lipless. For me a big part of cranking is having the ability to make a long cast and I am pretty happy with the distance I can get out of my casts with these reels.

I like that boat. Hope that makes you feel better?

If I knew my Monday morning job was going to fall through I'd still be there!Saturday I did good on a Black/Yellow squarebill but they were out in no-mans land. If you had the boat ware you could just cast to the bank we would see them jumping behind us. we actually caught them fishing away from the shore. (hope that makes sense) We did see lots of boats fishing in deep water but I'm not sure if they were fishing for bass or crapie?

You'll want 36-38-40. 37&39 are across the road.

Btw NONE of the smallies we caught had Tattoos. I was pretty bummed at that, I was wanting to see some pretty fish

So it rained Sunday morning so we didn't get on the water until around 9. Not a lot to report Sunday, 2 cats, 2 crappie all on a Mepps Several whites but no Greens or Browns that made it in the boat. I did have 2 unknown fish to the boat that were in the 2' range easily. I was brown and may have been a Carp and the other was Black. I didn't see it's head but it's tail could have gone 6'' tall fanned out. The camp sight was $22.70 with a truck pass!!! We stayed in 38 on church hill loop. We were the only ones in a tent everyone else was in RV's A tournament was just getting over as we got off the water. It took just over 9# to win it and paid $500 to win and my buddy said he thought they said it paid $300 something for second! I talked to a guy that fished in it and he said the winner had 1-15'' 1-14'' and the rest were 13'' fish? I can't make that add up we got a smallie that went 16'' and it didn't go 2# maybe I need new scales LOL! Do they let you enter 13'' fish in Tournaments? Anyhow this was the fish if the weekend. I had one almost as big but the pic sucks. Anyhow it was a great weekend I hope I can make it out again next weekend.

So I'm at melvern shall we say pre fishing or should I say I got my weekends mixed up? my mistake... anyhow goe a bunch of smallies and a walley? And striper but we didn't land the stripper ! Lol Long story... ill make anoher report later.....................................good times

Look on Ebay for a Lews TP (Hint; don't look for a Lew's TP) If you don't get the TP model I'd vote foe a E series Curado.

I can't sleep I must be ready to go already I'll bring a small grill and a bag of charcoal. It should do fine if we all want to do Dogs or Brats but it'll get crowded if we try to do steaks...My number is 913-710-8114 anyone that wants to can call or text me. I should make it by 4 if not earlier.

The lake I fish the most has a 18'' length limit. That's about a 3# fish. I think of -18'' & smaller fish as dinks. On a good day I'll catch at least 1 that will go 4# or bigger maxing out at 5-6# as a great day. However I haven't had a good day in a while.

Jig/Rage!

It keeps telling me, Not available on-line

7.0 Shimano

It won't let me book it online... I called earlier to look for a cabin and the woman I talked to was not in Kansas and was unhelpful to say the least. BTW it says 2 cars / campsite.

I have used 15# Tatsu on my 7'11'' jig rod and still had a problem with hooksets! I got home and tied it to a post and gave about 60' of it a pull and it was WAAAAY STRETCHY!!! Should I have tried a larger size (20#)? or is the KVD L&L my problem?

I had 12# Vanish on a 50e used for soft plastics and liked it a LOT.

Yea, it was a great show!

I just saw that In 2011, it was discovered that Melvern Lake had been infested with zebra mussels? BTW what is the name of the campsite?

.I'd love to have the 300+ hp boat and the gear they have but I still wouldn't have any desire to fish a tournament

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