rangerjockey

I use the LIV bags.

I've only owned one edge. It was nice but personally I'd go with Loomis. But of course it's your money. NFC/Edge is not known for good customer service.

To be fair to Gary Loomis he sold to Shimano because he got a cancer diagnosis and apparently the prognosis wasn't good. He thought it was better to leave his family a load of money vs a fishing rod company. Gary Dobyns is 66 I believe. He's a straight up kinda guy. I wish it wasn't GSM but why not take the money.

The E Series

Kistler used NFC blanks before they made the switch to a off shore source. I've owned Z bones with both the NFC and the new source and I'm hard pressed to tell much difference. But they are still assembled in Texas as far as I know

As a guy who fishes NRX and Steeze for my bottom contact stuff I'd love to say they are a game changer but they aren't. I dig 'em and its not taking food off my table by buying them so what the heck. I'm sure I will hook just as many on my Tatula elite's or Falcons . Now you can't compare a NRX to a $ 50 dollar rod but there is without question a point of diminishing returns.

That would be too long for my taste, For me 6ft10 - 7ft is about right. But everybody is different. The 6ft 10 PA for example I can just tap my thumb on the blank and it shakes without much effort.

Falcon is really behind the spinning rod market. Maybe they will rest on the casting rods but they haven't made a great spinning rod since the original experts and now without a minnow shaking rod the market is passing them by.

I'm curious as to why you wouldn't just bring them in and not worry about it. It can't take long to carry 6 rods out of the house or garage.

I usually trim them to the hook bend. I don't use scissors I just pull the strands off so they're uneven. Probably doesn't matter but just the way I've always done it.

The weightless worm has always been popular around here as a jerkbait rod. I think its better than the rod Falcon actually calls a jerkbait rod which has always felt too soft to me. The WW is basically a MH butt with a medium tip. Remember, it was meant to be a floating worm rod but it fishes a popper or sammy well also.

In your mind it’s wrong. What has Luke Dunkin ever won ? Without you YouTube, he would be irrelevant. Last I saw he was fishing the ABT big deal I can do that

How much tournament experience do you have ? Just wondering if you have ever been around . Sounds like you have a lot of anger towards someone you don't know

Well, It's more like being told to pee in Alabama and then peeing in Florida. Since you have the inside info here's something that maybe you can answer. He has to be one of if not the best if not the best on Okeechobee . Why would he ask anyone for help ? Also who turned him in this time? Shouldn't that guy have to sack up ,be a man about it and come forward ?

It's entirely possible, but I remember when we didn't have GPS or even 2d. The old flasher didn't tell you anything close to what a pass with side or down will now. So just my opinion but if some body had some info it actually may have helped more back then if the fish stayed put. It used to be hard to catch another mans fish, at least for me. I got burned more than once by listening to others.