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mustard kvd size 6 round bend. Bait still balances perfectly.

--- Just answering you response to me only. Yeah overseas rods but they work great for me. Kistlers and St Croix are great rods but not my cup of tea. Kistlers I've owners are excessively tip heavy California series and KLX. The St Croixs are solid but not as sensitive compared to the others. As far as abuse, my 13s I beat the living hell out of them and they take it. Dobyns I'm more gentle with because the price of replacing. But as far as me a finesse rod is something I'll be gentle with. I'll go custom because the odds of replacing one is slim to none unless a obvious defect in the blank. But this is just my preference. Btw my 2 main saltwater rods are St Croix avid surf 9'6 and mojo inshore 7'

Love the coffee scented stuff. Much better when I throw a dip in to have coffee over garlic residue on my fingers. Lmao

Just got the Plano FTO terminal tackle box the other day. So far so good. My beef with a lot of these boxes is small items like small hooks end up all over the place when the box is moved around a lot. So far haven't had that problem. I like how the compartments are pre labled on the bottom.

Sup all, I know the hooks have been covered on the forums in the past anyhow want to share. So first tourney in my now secondary club yesterday.... I pre fished twice and had a solid game plan to get the staging pre spawns while my boater hit beds. However we ended up with dense fog and dark skies from 7-2 plus water temp was 8 degrees higher than it was 2 days prior. I knew I'd be throwing a jerkbait so brought my box luckily I had 1 all white RC. Only fished it a few times as I have other go to cloudy baits. They weren't hitting my confidence bait. So I tied him on for 11th cast, first cast a perch, 2nd cast rainbow trout, 3rd cast quite possibly my fish of a lifetime, on Candlewood anyways... Enormous LMB in 17ft of water. 10# FC on there so I had plenty of confidence in my line with how my drag was going. 5 ft from the boat my boater had net ready in the water she made one last shake and off she goes. Straightened out 2 hooks on the middle treble and 1 hook on the rear treble and the first treble a hook was actually bent in towards the center shanks. The only jerkbait in my box I don't have mustads on. Lesson learned!!! Just because you THINK you may never use a bait or THINK nah I'm not gonna catch a trophy today is what will cost you. Yes I'm a Mustad fan my 6# smallie was on a KVD double wide size 1 drop shot hook. I have trust in them from that point on. Anyhow the saying of "when in doubt set the hook" has changed for me to "change the hook". Lol So back to the tourney I only got 4/5 limit for the day. 3, 1.5lbers on that jerkbait and 1, 3lber off a bed on a bitsy bug. If I had that one fish I would have won lunker easily and the tourney on the first one in my new club. Bummer but learned a highly valuable lesson in bass fishing. All day on the boat my boater was saying she was a 5lber I was thinking 6-7. At weigh in the lunker was 5.2. My boater looked at me and said I think we're both wrong she was around 10.

13 and Dobyns are the only 2 brands I've been completely 110% happy with everything. I own/owned Daiwas Kistlers st croixs Shimanos Crowders BPS quantums Shakespeares Sill Stars Pinnacles Okumas. I wouldn't go custom on workhorse rods that get beat up bad. More risk of breaking. However you can't beat custom so for me personally custom is the way to go for finesse.

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Hello all, Connecticut Bass Nation High School teams are running some fundraisers right now to raise money to cover their tournament expenses. To help them out and get some of the new guys situated one of the heads of the program also started taking donations. Old rods, reels, line, lures, tools etc. The kids are all doing great academically and have been performing great on the water! If you would like to show some support and help these kids get everything they need PM me and I'll get you in contact with the director. Also any company reps reading this if you would like to help out that would be awesome. Stickers, hats, t shirts etc. These kids are great and are happy to get anything they can. Thanks in advance! *edit - 32 total kids. 12 high school teams of 2 kids and 8 juniors.

So I forgot to throw Carolina keepers in my bag and didn't have any swivels with me. Used bobber stoppers and the weight kept sliding the stoppers down. Bead and all. So mission failed although we did pattern them fairly quickly and caught dozens of 2-4lbers with other stuff

Get some of that blue powder stuff too, that helps keep them alive.

I think the only 2 you can interchange spools are the 2500 and 3000.

I'm interested in hearing more too. I love Sufix Siege, trying the cheaper "21" stuff and it seems great so far. If they could make a great fluorocarbon I'll go all Sufix in a heartbeat.

Cool, I figured as much it's gonna be like working a keitech

I've only used one for one reel www.japantackle.com. Ordered a scorpion on sale plus $20 shipping on a Monday and it was delivered on Thursday. Great company imo

Thanks guys!

Gonna experiment again this weekend in practice if they aren't shallow yet. Water temp has been between high 40s down to 39 with the random cold fronts. Last week was seeing them hold up in 20ft but the weren't eating what I was throwing except a couple around 8-10ft I got on a jerkbait. With that said I've never really thrown it before. I have a bunch of rods to pick from, so what's good for this? 7ft mh/f??? 7'3? 7' H? I grabbed some 3/4 egg sinkers plan on doing a fluke with a 3 ft leader and dragging it up and down ledges. From what I've read you do a sweeping hook set... Any other pointers would be appreciated. Then again if they're shallow I'm jerking all day lmao.

Sufix Siege 14#

2 reasons. 1) Because it floats. All 3 of these baits I want to keep up in the water column or on the surface. 2) it's cheap as hell and these baits get thrown in abusive areas so I re spool multiple times a season. Also I retie ALOT. So cheaper than braid.

Can't find that color. But I saw a Ito in stealth flash googling. I think megabass may have discontinued that color. No biggie I'll try a different color. But if any of you come across one feel free to shoot me the link. Will Greatly appreciate it!

Every 40-50 casts unless I'm catching em

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Mike is awesome! Built me a custom rod last year. Great work!

I use the RC STX jerk bait in stealth flash, was wondering if anyone knows or has seen the megabass version in the same multi color pattern... Its hard to tell from pictures as its holographic. The stealth flash doesn't even show up in the stock images on the net. I wanna do a comparison of the 2 and might as well do the comparison in my confidence color. Cheers