Raul

You are in heaven compared to me, I 'm a poor mexican and the nearest BPS is a 2 hour flight from me, so on-line shopping is all I do 99% of the time. You can get any of those rods at Plat from Japan, shipped by EMS to your door and they turn out to be as expensive as an Avid including the shipping. I have a spinning rod of that line and I really like it ( I 'm a Loomisoid ), you get all the goodies you wish you could have in a rod but without the hefty price. Much better rod than a GL2, better than a Crucial and in the Avid range of quality and feel. Srprisingly for those who think that a 2 piece rod is "less" sensitive, this rod feels as sensitive as an Avid.

Yes there is. Not a 7 feeter but close

Not by much, I 'm almost there ! ;D

Whadya think ?

You don 't have to mount anything nor drill anything if you get a pair of collapsible ones.

Seldomly I use a trailer on my spinnerbaits, last time I used one was 3 years ago. Have never used a trailer hook.

A magnetic brake system is the one that controls the spool speed rotation based on the principle of magnetic attraction between a magnet and the material of the spool ( or a rotor ) itself. Closer proximity of the magnet ( or magnets ) to the spool ( or it 's rotor ) the more magnetic attraction thus the more braking power it exerts. How do you adjust it ? with a dial. All Daiwa bc reels have a magnetic braking system.

Scoundrels are classic baits that still catch fish now like they did years ago. You don 't need to have the newest stuff to catch fish, bass haven 't evolved nor are as sophisticated to the point where they won 't bite classic baits. Wanna know which are my everyday baits ? Used to fish with 6 inch Jelly Worms, now I fish with Trickworms, basically the same design. Culprit 7.5 inch ribbontail worms French Fry worms 5 inch grubs Rapala Original Minnow size 11 Rat-L-Traps Shad Raps Hula Popper Jitterbug Zara Spook ( even though the Sammy is a lot easier to make it walk the dog ) Mepps in-line spinners: Aglia size 4 & Black Fury size 4 Those old Strike King spinnerbaits Slugo 1/2 jig That is what you will see 90% of the time dressing my rods, with those baits I catch fish everywhere most of the time. So, sometimes I wonder ....... if I catch fish with those most of the time then why the heck do I have a big bunch of stuff ?, oh well, the BaitMonkey is powerful and plays mind tricks on those with weak minds.

Oars are like American Express ---> NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THEM S*t never happens until it happens and when it happens you wish it never happened. Now if you think that having to carry oars is a pain in the neck, get a couple of collapsible ones and you 'll have them there not getting in the way and if you need them there they are ready to be used. Oars have many uses other than rowing with them, like Dawson mentioned, they can be used to pull people out of the water, they can be used to avoid banging against objects, they can be used to push the boat.

Well, I had to go so I couldn 't add more to the thread, but since it 's a slow day at the kitty/doggy hospital here 's more food for thought. they are not as sensitive I said, get better quality rods. That helps, but in techniques like flipping what you are able to feel with the rod is only half important, the other important half is what you don 't feel and what you see. The concept of what you "don 't feel" doesn 't alaways get into the people who are used to fish jigs and flippable baits ( like worms, grubs, tubes & creatures ) in the most conventional ways, they are used to fish baits on the bottom and maintaing contact with it, they are also used to experience the fish biting the bait, the famous tap-tap. When you flip or pitch the bait is not presented on the bottom, it 's presented off it, when the fish hit the bait they hit it on the fall as it sinks, if you are waiting for the tap-tap you can wait all day long not knowing that the fish have bit the bait in many ocassions; when you flip or pitch you have to be aware that the fish will hit the bait on the fall and therefore there will be no tap-tap. What you don 't "feel" ? you don 't feel the drag of the bait pulling the line as it sinks when a fish hits the bait, when a fish hits the bait on the fall you get the "feel" of the bait suddenly dissapearing from the end of your line. If you don 't pay attention you will miss the fish. Also important, how come you flip or pitch to a target and don 't watch the line all the time your bait is in the water ? a lot of times the only thing you can notice when a fish has the bait is that the line moves.

True ! Jeans are a good example, the only problem would be if you want color jeans, at the kids section I can only find blue or black, want something else in color ? you got to move to the men 's section, you may or not find your size and the price is twice as much. $20-22 in the kids section, $40-45 in the men 's section and I 'm not always able to find 28x28. Man I don 't mind wearing blue or black jeans all the time.

do you really need a 7ft6" heavy flippoing stick i mean braid is not gonna brak so do you really need the broom stick ... Flipping rods are built long and broomstick like to be used as a lever to pull the fish out of the cover. reason i ask is i dont like the feel of heavy and some medium heavy rods they are not as sensitive Get better quality rods

Do I believe there are extraterrestrial forms of life ? Oh, yes sir. Do I beleive that there are technollogically superior forms of inteligent life ? To a certain point we are technologically superior forms of life, we are the one who create technology in our planet and in less than 25,000 years we jumped from stone tools to space craft. If there are only 200,000 planets in an entire galaxy capable of sustaining life under the principles by which we understand life forms ( based on the components we are made from ), how many of those 200 grand planets have intelligent life ? Let 's be generous, say 10%, that would make 20,000 planets Now, how many have of those have developed technology to the point or superior to what we have ? Being generous let 's say 5%, that would make 5,000 Now, we have only being around broadcasting signals into space for barely 100 years, taking in consideration that those signals travel at light speeds then our earliest signal would be 100 light years away. How close is the closest star that could have a planet with technologicaly superior life that can listen to our signals ? Pretty darn far. Do I beleive that extraterrestrial intelligent technologicaly superior forms of life have visited us ? No. The chances of them finding us are as thin as us finding them.

And you can grow your own.

I 'm 5'8", I can fish with a 7 ft rod with no problem at all even though I prefer 6' and 6'6" rods, not cuz I 'm short, it 's cuz they are 6-12 inches" farther away from my compadre and I 'd rather not hook the largest animal on the lake.

It 's really important to have a reel that picks up slack line fast when fishing baits where you need to pick up the line slack fast like worms, jigs, poppers, walk the dog type, jerkbaits ( soft or hard ), or with baits that need to be reeled in fast like buzzbaits regardless if the cover is heavy or not.

Which length of senko ?

GLoomis.

Yes, you can swap the handle for a 92 mm ZPI carbon fiber handle, $115 bones + shipping from Japan, you 'll gain 6 mm per handle side.

You don 't lube the spool shaft, you lube the spool supporting bearings.

I have the SJR782 and it has a lot of backbone, more than my GraphiteLeader Bosco ( ML, which I also use for bass fishing ) and it 's far from being a panfish rod, excellent rod for finesse applications.

As I said, all the reels I 've known since 1980 ( Abu, Ryobi, Daiwa, Shimano and Quantum ) have that gear made of plastic, actually that gear and the one that moves it ( under the main gear ) are both nylon gears. There 's a reason why it 's made from plastic, if something happens the plastic gear breaks before your worm gear does or your main gear does, it 's a fail safe mechanism to protect the metal gears of the reel. It doesn 't mean that because the reel has a couple of nylon gears it 's made cheaply.

Tubes don 't glide under cover like beavers do.

I 'm gonna send the BaitMonkey your way and it ain 't gonna be pretty when he 's over with you. >

And that little plastic gear used to turn the worm gear are found in all baitcasters I 've seen since 1980.