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Yup, I do. It'll double for some topwaters too. I stick with 3000/30 size spinners now since there is such a small weight penalty and the wider spool gives me better performance. I'll avoid mentioning a brand but I'm sure the worshippers will throw something out very soon.....

Easiest with spinning since its so lightweight but many casting "pro's“ will say otherwise. I also throw it with a Ambassadeur 2500c and a MM crankshaft rod. Stick to 8 or 10# mono and use a rod with a moderate tip. The sticky little hooks with work there's no need to use heavy flipping tackle with it.The puppy can be a true slayer.

Sk1,from your schematic does it appear to be an easy reel to get into? I prefer to maintain my own reels and some spinners takedown are miserable.

Looks like heaven!. One day when momma says she willing, we are Lexington bound. Good bye Florida (the southern most county in N.J.)

Smart thing to do, try new techniques. Especially when things get slow. I'd like to do more night fishing but the gators are so thick anymore they wont leave a lure alone. Getting more annoying than mosquito's.

Its been a great year but when we hit 95 each day last week, the bite fizzled.

St. Croix makes a good spinnerbait rod that I use to walk the dog and poppers all the time. It's the Spinnerbait Sniper in the LTB series, but may be out of your budget. Daiwa is making a new inshore series of rods that are slightly more limber in the tip and have nice short grips. They are made for golf coast wade fishing. They are under $100 US.

It sure does.

Ha ha that's a great smiley Capt. Bob. By the way, great pics you sent me. Beautiful fish, I *** the diversity of species you have up there. And all tasty too....

I see a popper on TW from a company called Baker. Ive never heard or seen there stuff before and the price is suspiciously low. But there popper looks like suspiciously like the old yo-zuri, right down to the molding marks and innards visible through the clear part of the body. Makes me wonder if "Baker" got a hold of their old moldings or something. Im going to give them a ry along with the other mentioned, thanks everybody for your input.

Those are the original ones with the clear cupped face? Not the new X Rap Pop......

jdl2425 The Pop-R just doesnt have the right noise that the yo-zuri had. Right now the fish are addicted to my last one, its a golden lure catching me more and bigger fish this year than all other baits combined. Webertime & Road Warrior Im trying to avoid the $$ lures because the snook and tarpon tear all the lures up after just a few days of fishing. But I will check the Jackal out, it sounds like what Im talking about, thanks webertime. Reason Oh man, the lotion thing again.......... Queebs me out! John Wayne never used lotion. Grandpa Red Neck never used lotion. Im kinda proud of looking like an alligator!

Yeah I had that with the yo-zuri too being it was smaller than most poppers with sticky little hooks. But this year the bream have all been bulls on the bed and made it into my cooler.

The Lobina, yellow magic's and and the mega-X lures are too expensive to sacrifice since more snook and baby tarpon will hit them than bass. They have a limited life span. Never thought about Hula Poppers, havent seen one in years on the shelf. May try it minus the skirt.

My go to popper the Yo-zuri 3D Popper, has been redesigned. It no longer sits near vertical or produce its unique blurping sound. EBay has dried up and I need to find a replacement. The old Excaliber Pop-R comes close but still doesn't produce like my old favorite. Yo-zuri's new version is just a splashed and the chug bug is a wash. What are your favorite popper' s that pop and blurb? Anybody try the fairly new Rebel popping frog?

My idea of heavy isnt most folks idea of heavy. The heaviest I use is MH and its more to force snook away from barnacle ridden roots/branches than to handle thick mats or heavy baits. I use a 3000 size spinner and 10 or 12lb. mono with a 20-30# mono leader. Its really the only application I do entertain braid for and I unlike the other guy find 30# power pro super slick fine with spinning reels in the 2500-3000 size. No loss in distance, less wind knots. I also use 30# braid with med. rods with no loss in performance.

Do it all the time for inshore saltwater fish, in mangroves and Brazilian Pepper. Works great, since spinning lets you use lighter jigs and have a more natural rate of fall.

A bb in the roller has nothing to do with line twist. A bushing is much more durable especially in saltwater. Even more so when you take into account the minute size of the bb and being in a continuous wet state when in use. Line twist cannot be removed ever, it can't be on a spinning reel, its the nature of the beast, a law of physics!

I got the first 2500. One big red and the bail arms were never the same. The drag was'nt too tight, I was only using 5 or 6lb. powerpro. The Daiwa Ballistic has taken much bigger fish without a glitch, so I'm not anti carbon yet.....

I have the Inshore and it is super smooth. The drag is the smoothest I've ever seen not in a fly reel. Its handled Reds and Snook of a size that ruined my Stradic CI4. Best of all Abu includes a spare spool.

Please don't tell me there are men who use lotion ............ I'm disenchanted enough

Nautilus because as your very own header states, its Florida grown! Mr. Mustad will treat you like a king and has been known to open his factory to a customer for a private Sunday tour and repair/maintain their reel personally. On top of that Nautilus provides Tibor performance with modern light weight, Tibors except their very latest which you cant get yet, are as heavy as a brick. While Snook's 150lb. tarpon are something (something I'd never be interested in too much work), an awful lot of saltwater fishing can be done with trout size combos. I get my butt smacked all summer long by a guy who works a 4wt. on the surf and gets more spawning snook than the entire s.w. gulf coast. It makes sea trout, ladyfish and macks all seem like a tarpon. I find no need for anything but a 6 wt myself for anything and I mostly fish the mangroves. Your 10 weight is exactly the same as Sage's Smallmouth rig, their Largemouth rig is like a 12wt. way overkill marketing hype to me targeted folks who dont know better or think bass fly fishing is strictly gawdy deer hair fuzz bombs.

I have used the Squall and the other small conventional whose name escapes me. They were nice but the little Avet's I've used seemed more rugged. I'd take the Penn over shimano since Penn offers real customer service. Be happy you have the old stuff it'll last until your grand kids are tired of using it. Tons of tutorials on alantani to help you with them and Penn and pennparts.com will have what you need for decades.

Love mine. Not as stiff as most rods excellent topwater rods in med. Nothing fancy guide wise. Older ones had Fuji seats now they're are proprietary. Bigger guides allow for leader knots. All in all not what typical modern bass anglers want.

Wait till the bait monkey invents Bass Tenkara! Then we'll all be jumping on that band wagon ...........