Raul

Can't you come up with something new? You've been using that line for 25 years! ;D ;D ;D Why fix it if ain 't broken ? Besides, old habits don 't die easily.

3/8, 1/2 oz that 's what I fish the most.

Berkley Trilene Big Game or XT.

That question is one of those questions you should never ask to others, ask it to yourself, do YOU think they will work ? Look at it this way, you have nothing to loose and you won 't know unless you try.

To make it short I 'm going to ask you another question: If you lived where a "chilly" winter day is in the high 70 's low 80 's how would you cope with winter ? Stay frosty ( no pun intended )

You can pitch and flip with practically any bc reel. Shimano went that road many moons ago with the Shimano BushMaster 10 offering a flip only reel and the production lasted only a couple of years, imagine how well they sold for the production to last only a couple of years, now if you are a e-bayer you can ocassionaly find them for about 30-50 dollars. If I were on the look for a flip and pitch reel I would certainly consider getting me a Shimano Castaic instead.

From those ones to choose, none of them. I 've got a GLX and I 'm not one of those persons that can feel THAT great difference in sensitivity between it and my IMXs. To my eyes the best bang for the buck is the IMX series.

Can you land a big un with a ML rod ? Yes you can, with good fighting technique, the proper drag settings, line in tip top condition and not much where the fish can hide, yes you can land a big un, I 've done it with a UL rod but think of it more in the level where I hooked the fish out of pure luck cuz I wasn 't fishing for bass, I was panfishing and oooops. No I wouldn 't think about getting a ML rod unless I were to use it as a finesse rod. I do have a ML rod for the foot patrol, but just to play it safe get a more powerful rod, M/MH. I don 't agree that you can 't set the hook properly with a whippy rod, it 's a matter of rigging technique, hook sharpness and hook setting technique.

X2

Righty, and no, I 'm not left handed.

Uhhhh, not me, I can fish year round in 70°+ weather. ;D

For 30 dollars more you can get at *** one of the best baitcasters ever made: Shimano Chronarch 50/51 Mg.

You don't have to rub it in. Oh yea, a jig. Winsconsin ........ ain 't that place a stone cast far from the north pole ?

I had that rod, a great stick for crankbaiting, I really liked the way the rod behaved when casting and retrieving a crank, how it handled the fight, if it weren 't for the s*y Batson reel seat > ( problem not found in the new ones ) and for a bulky handle I would have kept it.

The only bait I fish with heavy line are swimbaits, the others do not depend on the bait but depend on where and what ( cover and/or structure ) I 'm fishing so it can go from as low as 6 lb test up to 17 lbs test.

Some of the very best crankbait fishing techniques threads have been written by one of our members, check out Chris ' posts on crankbaits.

Alphas Itös have never shined even brand new and out of the box, the surface is polished aluminum and there will always be a slight coating of aluminum oxide covering the reel reason why it doesn 't shine like a mirror unless you polish it to mirror finish. Polishing it with car polish is not a good idea, you will only cause scratches and swirls on the surface if not done with the proper tools to bring it to mirror finish. Now if I could only remember who posted the pics of a mirror polished Itö....... :-/

They built a special gate for you and retain a personal concierge for your convience. 8-) No s*t ? Man, I knew there was something fishy about me being able to log in anytime and speedy fast :-?, now I know why !

My dear friend, most of the crankbaits I use have almost no finish on them, that part is true, they are all beat up, chewed upon, scratched & dull barely resembling how they used to look out of the box buuuuuuuuut the same does not apply to "spares" , so if I want to remember how a bait looked I just go to the collection and search for it ....... something that I don 't do oftenly cuz I 'm lazy and don 't wanna spend a couple of days looking into the boxes where the spares are kept. Can you have enough tackle ? in the words of Jimmy Morris: "ah no, you can never have nuff tackle ". ;D

Many moons ago when I was younger and pterosaurs nested on my home 's roof we had the photographic finish craze, cranks came painted ( I say most probably covered with some sort of photographic layer ) in ultrarealistic extra detailed finish, you got a Bagley 's Baby Bass crank it not only came painted like a true baby bass, it even had the brighty thingy pearlscaly look, I 've got a couple yet and if you saw them on your hand you would swear you were holding a real baby bass, same applied to other cranks you could find in the market at that time. Later came the Color CLector "authorized" colored patterns craze, later the G Finish ( G for guanim ) craze. Being an old fart and having gone from plain colors ( what can be more classic than white and red ? ), to phographic realism, to gadget authorization, to shiny guanim, to cracked finishes, reflective surfaces and so on I 've found that ........ they all work in about the same level of success, what makes the difference is -----> the guy behind the rod. If you think and/or believe that painting on the spot trying to match to whatever the fish might eat is going to help I 'll be the first one to say -----> my man go for it ! Bass bite spinnerbaits and them don 't look like anything a bass could eat.

Any of those because my "winter" is not like yours, for example, yesterday was a "cold" winter day down here, by mid day we were at chilly 82°.

Well, I click on my favorites link to TW and voilà, the gates of tackle heaven open for me immediately.

X2, man .... clear line on a metallic green/purple combo looks like S*T !.

With exception of 2 the rest of my reels are in their original boxes.

Fishing stuff ---> nothing But since I 'm well in contact with my inner child and got lotz of toyz I got Medal of Honor Airbone and Call of Duty the World at War. I 'm a Happy Camper. ;D