Felix77

I still love my Abu Garcia Silver Max. That is in that price range I believe.

Agree with the others. This should cover everything. Try to stay away from fishing to vastly different baits in terms of speed of retrieve. As mentioned a slow Jig and fast crankbait are hard to do side by side. Your best bet would be to cover the area with the other 3 and if you are sure there are fish there slow down with a few slow bottom dwelling baits (jig, t-rigged craw, punch rig etc.) as the day progresses. Good luck.

7' MH/F is a good all purpose rod. I tend to use my 7'M/F for most application though so I would recommend that.

Spinnerbait, swimbait, buzzbait, senko

For the bank or kayaking ... needle nose pliers scissors ruler scale flashlight Phone Megastrike JJ's Not sure those last 2 count as tools but I still don't leave home without it.

Whenever I can ...

x2 I use EWG's from 1/0 to 5/0 for everything except punching. For that I prefer a flipping hook with the keeper.

My 7 combos vary from tournament to tournament but if I had to put an "all star" lineup that I can use anywhere here is what it would be. These are my confidence baits 1 - 7'6" Heavy Flippin Stick - pegged T-Rig, heavy sinker and a rage craw, beaver or otherwise 2 - 7' MedHeavy - Jig (all purpose - could use for just about anything) 3 - 7' Medium - Spinnerbait, Chatterbait, cranks etc. (another all purpose) 4 - 6'6" MediumHeavy - Topwater - Sexy Dawg 5 - 6'6" MH Spinning - Wacky Senko 6 - 7' Med Spinning - Mojo Rig 7 - 6'9" Med LIght - Drop Shot

Looks like Sproles will be back for their next game. They have a bye next weekend. I can't stand the Eagles and man was that game painful for me to watch. Especially when Cruz went out. Just utterly painful. Compound that with a dominant performance for Dallas against the Seahawks and I had the lowest of lows this football week. Go Giants ?!?!

Braid: Seaguar Smackdown (15lb spinning, 50+ for flip n pitch) Mono: Seaguar Senshi (15lb topwater rod) Fluoro: Seaguar InvizX (6lb - 15lb - all other rods.)

My last tournament was a one dayer and it rained all day long. My partner and I killed them on spinnerbaits primarily. Spinning just fast enough to tick the weeds. Even more effective when it was a bit windy. Other effective lures was a brush hog just soaking at the bottom of bridge pilings or weeds. Single handedly culled two fish doing that.

Seaguar Senshi 12-15lb for my topwater

Welcome ...

This ... It takes a little practice. I ended up with fatigue when working a Zara Spook as well and once I began working my arms more and wrist less it became easier to manage. It does take time though ...

Bravo! LOL

Not sure how odd it is but wacky rigging a fluke bait has caught me some decent fish. Emulates a dying fish on the fall.

R.I.P RM.

The way I look at this question is to answer the following ... If I were to go out with a single rod to fish anywhere what would it be. For me it's a 6'6" MH Spinning rod. Paired up with 15lb braid and various size leader material I can do pretty much everything with it. Is it "ideal" for all ... no ... but it will get the job done for me.

Yes ... I was paired up with someone in a tournament which was fishing shallow pads, weeds and such. He used a spoon to fish the area and caught bass like mad. I couldn't buy a bite with everything else I threw at them. It was nuts.

Great video ... fun to watch the video. Thanks for sharing.

PB Smallmouth - 7'M Spinning - Shakey head and mag shakey worm PM Largemouth - 7'M Spinning - Drop shot

Had the carp thing happen to me a few weeks ago. I struggled to get any kind of bite from the bank. Wen't to a ledge which drops pretty deep. After trying a ton of things I resorted to a shakey head and worm. Within moments of hitting the bottom something struck and it took me forever to get it up. I swore it was a monster bass. Turned into a huge carp. So excited and disappointed at the same time. LOL

I so wish there was a "dislike you" button right now. So jealous ... LOL