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Man I didn't know Netflix still did mail order lol.

Carbonlite 7'MH or sub $100, fenwick HMG.

Been married for 3 years now and the wife and I have never felt like we needed cable/dish. The whole "wants" and "needs" thing. We could afford it, just didn't do it as we're not huge TV people. My wife is now staying home with the kids, and I'm also home a great deal more now thinks to my awesome job and it would be nice for there to be something on TV once in a while. I currently have an aircard for the laptop, so we have internet but the 5gigs a month is no good for streaming. We're considering either getting cable/dish OR high speed internet and doing Netflix or hulu or whatnot. I've been looking over direct dish/direct tv/comcast and I feel like after the intial promos wear off, they kind of rip you off (it would be cool to have nfl network and outdoor channel though ) What do you do? If you do use the interwebs for your TV, what do you use (netflix, hulu, something else?) Just trying to weigh the options.

River smallmouth on a late summer sammy or buzzbait bite is about as good as it gets in my world.

Case hellgrammite....bout the best river smallie plastic out there, and the split shot rig really mimics one displaced by the current.

Nope. Mine has handled stripers and numerous 26"+ largemouth. I own about 10 baitcasters and when the flushed and relubed correctly it outcasts them all by a noticeable difference. Plenty of good reels out there, this is one of them.

Unless its not the diameter you want, it'll be fine. Other than a select 2-3 I've tried, most braids are fairly similar.

You a tower hand?

A buddy of mine owns that rod, I used it for big spook type baits for striper one day and was very impressed. At the end of a long cast a gentle flick is all it takes to walk the bait. As a topwater nut who's wrist is starting to feel it from years of dog walking, this is appreciated. A really stout stick for its weight.

Construction Manager for one of the larger cell companies in the US

I have the one with the thermal layer in camo for hunting. I wanted something that I could slip over my face quick if need be. Its perfect for what i need it to do. Not too hot that it cant be used early season either.

I love variety. I have reels from everyone, and enjoy them all. I have a great job that has blessed us to be able to let the wife stay home. Still, with 3 kids I don't have much wiggle room on the "wants" purchases. I need to get it right when making a purchase. If I'm going to get a vehicle, phone, reel, gun, whatever it is I always research the heck out of it first. Sometimes too much!

My favorite lure to fish honestly. A true big fish bait that can be cast extremely accurately and can be dragged through some snaggier cover than you'd think. I use them anywhere there's bass, brown or green fish. River smallmouth love them. Ive even caught a 27" largemouth off a bed on one. I don't have a brand preference, I've used almost all of the major brands and will occasionally get one that won't "keel" evenly, but most work just fine, even the generic $3 models as long as it has a good hook. I do prefer the single propeller over the double prop models and the inline "snagless sally" types. One other thing I've noticed is after a few BIG fish, a lot of buzzers get out of tune and just won't run right. There are plenty of ways to attempt to tweak and retune them, but I've had so so results as a whole. I had high hopes at one point for the terminator titanium wire buzzers, but couldn't get one to keel straight up and down, a pet peeve. Some feel an ultra slow model is best, I don't fully subscribe to that. Perhaps when the fish has a tight window of opportunity to react...perhaps. But I typically don't want a fish to get a good look at my buzzer. Believe me, a bass can cover ground VERY, VERY quickly. One of the coolest things I've ever seen was an 8lbr emerge from under a 10' clump of algae in open water and chase down my buzz bait from nearly 40' away. Season? For me, its usually late prespawn thru mid fall. Color? I like black most of the time. If I'm around shad the strike king perfect skirt in white w/the blood red belly strip is also a favorite. I've experimented and am fully convinced a river smallmouth doesn't care one bit about color...Ive caught them without a skirt! Any other questions feel free to ask.

Pink works great. Action and profile are of greater importance IMO than color though.

Possibly the strongest arm ever, Matched with the weakest brain.

Should get some pretty impressive mpg's. I have a huntin buddy who gets 20mpg all around out of a 3/4 4x4 diesel.

Haterism? Is that a new generation term for Cynicsm? Why so cynical over an editorial piece that has a humorus tone to it? I could see the Impartial Haterism' if bobby actually had a dog in the fight to compete with this product, but he doesnt. Craww how long has you worked in the fishing industry? If bobby says that cranking "is a dying art" then there is a reason he said that. Good piece bobby! Im still trying to get this darn Banjo minnow to work. Whatever. Considering the fact that hes saying cranks are declining technique and don't fish well in grass and "get snagged" is ludicrous, and someone should call foul. Coincidentally Mega doesn't sell cranks. I bought (and actually used before bashing) those E2 jig heads and it is the most snag attracting head design I've ever used.

At the end of the day who knows til you fish it..Your thread has an underlying tone of Haterism that doesn't reflect well on you as a the owner of another lure company. I strongly disagree that cranks are declining also.

For my money it'd be the revo, or pick up one of the discontinued curado e7's for the same price.

So your gonna show up after a sale has expired and complain and make a stink about getting "burned" if they no longer have the sale item? LOL. I do not miss working retail one bit.

Flouro stretches just as much as nylon...The caveat being nylon isn't permanently deformed and weakened by this process. Hybrid retains its strength quite well when stretched and has incredible knot strength thanks to the nylon. It also weighs virtually the same and is as dense is most other nylon monos. End result, in the real world it fishes like a nylon mono. There are rubber band stretchy nylon lines (trilene big cat), and lines that have that instant "crisp" feel. Toray Bawo Polyamide Plus is touted as 100% Nylon and feels less stretchy than Hybrid to me. At the end of the day all I'm saying is fisherman are hoodwinked by the marketing of the manufacturers...Every nylon made "mono" IS A COPOLYMER of various chemicals.

I figured someone would mention that. Again I get there's different recipes. But it's still predominantly nylon and fishes like it... If I gave u a reel with it chances are most couldnt tell a difference. it fishes very similar to a lot of the other more abrasion resistant, less manageable, high diameter vs rated strength monos on the market. I love hybrid and have used it since 2005. Im not so sure that it takes less UV damage over time than other nylon lines either. Personally I change it often cause its cheap, but the few breakage issues I've seen amongst my friends and I are among the older spoolings. .

Thank you. On a daily basis I see folks on here talking about liking a copolymer for this and a mono for that. It's marketing guys. There are different nylon based monfilament lines with different characteristics on the water; but it's still nylon mono lol.

Ive found bass pretty good if you remove the skin. Takes away the strong "fishy" taste, (which I don't care for). It lends itself well to whatever its cooked in/with. My favorite way? Take some fillets and cook in a bed of pico de gio (sp?) on the grill. Healthy and delicious.

Xrap Walk 13 in glass ghost...Dont blame me if you get your arm broke!