Kevin22

Then its in your gearing assembly most likely. Be very careful taking it apart! If you don't think you can do it then just send it in to daiwa. Its probably still under warranty.

Can't say I've ever seen a stainless steel hook. I would imagine they would be pretty darn expensive! I think you mean a chrome finished hook (silver colored). I don't use them so I have no idea if they scare fish or not. I use black chrome, bronze, or red. I have caught a lot of bass while crappie fishing with gold hooks, so I doubt a silver colored one would scare the fish too bad.

Does it happen on the cast as well or just when reeling? If its on the cast as well then its bearings, if not its probably gears. Pull up the parts schematic online and carefully take it apart until you get to the gear case. You should be able to tell if there was something not matching properly, there will be metal shards everywhere. Clean all the grease out with a Q-tip and then regrease it with some quantum hot sauce grease. If the gears are worn then you'll need to send it in to daiwa and get it fixed or replaced.

Ceramics are ran dry.

You need to freeze those fish first!!! Acid will not kill some of the harmful parasites and bacteria that is in freshwater fish. You need to freeze them solid for at least 48 hours then thaw and do as you please. Pickling is the same way and you NEVER want to pickle a fresh fish. Acid + freeze will kill enough to be safe.

I'm sure he had some sort of depth finder on that boat. They've been around since before B.A.S.S was founded. I remember a picture of bill dance when he was a young man holding up a bass on an old tri-hull boat with an old super 60 on it.

First you need to replace that tip, braid ate it and it will continue to fray your line until you replace it. Get a higher quality tip that will be "braid safe". I very rarely use a leader, when I do its seaguar red label. The last trip out I was throwing a weightless finesse worm on the 10# nanofil and the first cast I had about a 15-16" fish slam it right at my feet. I let him turn and set the hook (not that hard really) and the shock broke the leader in an instant. I cut the leader off and fished straight nanofil the rest of the time and caught a couple more. They didn't seem to shy off it, came right up and slammed it. This was in water of 5-6' of visibility so not dirty at all.

How exactly do you taste the fish to know it doesn't taste like weeds? Pull a bass out of a big hydrilla patch in 80deg water temp, put salt and pepper on it and pan fry it in a little olive oil or toss on the grill. Let me know how it tastes.

Crankbaits are rated on 10# line for maximum depth. So the 14 feet would be with 10# mono. You can drop down to 8# flouro and get an extra foot or two as well.. If you don't mind breaking off a ton of cranks. To get it to run at 8' is just a guessing game. I'd say with a range that broad it would be 14-17# mono. You'd have to find a spot of 8' water and give it a toss to see how each crank runs. A great tip I saw on a pro's video once was to learn your cranks! Spend a day on the water when the fish aren't biting just learning your crankbaits. Pick a brand that you want to learn and learn it. For instance, strike king crankbaits (my favorite). Get some series 3, 3xd, 4, 5, 5xd, 6, 6xd and learn them. Toss them on different lines to known depths and see how deep each one dives. Write it down as you go, with the brand and poundage of line and how deep the crank went on that line. When you are all done make a couple copies and have them laminated. Put one in your boat and keep the others for your record. That way lets say you are on the water and are marking a big school of fish 12' down over 20' of water. You can pull out your sheet and see that you found out a series 5 will dive 12 with 12# seaguar invizx. So you grab your reel that has the correct line, slap it on a crankbait rod if it isnt already, tie on the series 5 and catch those fish.

For those who have tried this lure, what gear are you throwing it on? I picked up one of the bass models and tested it on the water, sounds awesome and has great action. Just not sure what to throw it on. Was thinking 7'-7'6'H with 65# braid. I know you are not supposed to throw heavy baits on braid because if you get a dig-in they will sail, but being a topwater I can just go pick it up.

Without electronics you are just guessing where to throw the crank and how deep to run it. Waste of fishing time IMO. Won't be able to see any breaks or underwater points or any other structure that will hold fish. Might as well cover your eyes with a bandanna and start casting. The exception would be square bills of course.

I have tried spiderwire (threw it out after 1 day), fireline (same thing), Stren super braid (was a little better, but pretty rough), power pro (was great for years, got 2 bad batches this year that wind knotted every cast), sufix 832 (using it now, great stuff!), Nanofil (good), and power pro slick 8 (just tried it, no opinion yet) So overall, power pro worked great for me for years until I hit those bad batches this year which put me off it for good. Tried sufix 832 in 30# green on a casting reel and it is great, very strong and nice and subtle. Lo-vis green color, and it has faded to near white already. Have sufix 832 in 6# (similar in breaking strength to PP 10#) on a spinning reel and it is also great. Have had it on there since spring and the color has not faded at all, this one is neon lime color. Have nanofil 10# on another spinning reel and it is pretty good stuff. Much stiffer than true braid, but it seems to be pretty strong and pretty sensitive. Haven't used it a whole lot this year yet. I just spooled up last night with 65# power pro slick 8 in the green color on a frog rod. Seems to be rounder than orig power pro, and with a few practice casts in the back yard it seems to cast well.

Well, you want it to get to where the fish are! Cranking is an electronics game really. If you see the fish on a break in 10 feet of water then you back off and get a crank down there. For the crank you mentioned, it will dive 13 feet with 10 pound mono. So with 12# fluoro it would dive to about 12 feet, 12# mono about 11 feet. So I would choose one of those two. You want to crank it down until it hits bottom and then reel as slow as possible to still make bottom contact. Another example. If you saw fish in 8 feet of water, you would take that same crank and tie it on 14# line to get it to dive about 8-9 feet. If you do not have multiple rods to adjust depth with, then you need multiple cranks covering all depths and each one of those cranks in different colors so you can switch cranks to hit the right depth. You don't want to be adjusting depth with crank speed unless you absolutely need to, it will be hard to duplicate over and over.

I believe that Raul! Looks just like a legless hellgrammite! One of a bass's favorite summertime foods!

I fish P14 and I have never seen a striper. Never heard of one being caught, and talked to a guy at the cordova hatchery that said they have never netted or shocked one. If you have caught them I would suggest you give them a call and report it. That topic came up on another board and I asked him if he had ever seen one, he said no. There might be a stray one or two but we have no record of them. I also asked about brown trout and he said they net a few every year while getting walleye eggs in willow slough. I'm up to 574 white bass and a friend is up to 900 some this year and we have had no stripers. Only 1 hybrid and it was the typical 17-18". IL state record for hybrid is 20#, Iowa 19#. I'd like to fish with you if you are hooking near state records regularly. And if you happen to hook into a striper on the Miss I would suggest you call the DNR, IA record is only 9#

I've also had very weedy tasting bluegills in the summer. And very shad tasting bass in the fall. Spring and winter is the only time to keep them IMO.

Bluegill

I didnt know central IL had stripers?? Where at? Might have to make a road trip!

They did it for me.

If you are doing it the same as shown in shanks picture then you have the wrong size snaps.

The braid is likely going to be a much thinner diameter, so it will not fill the spool as far. You'll need more mono backing.

No, I've had times when it tasted bad.. Middle of the summer, pulling them out of the weeds. Think about it, when a bass eats a craw, gill, or hellgrammite he gets a mouth full of weeds too. They are what they eat. Keep them out of a weed free lake or in the spring and you will change your opinion.

Don't think it would be illegal, but I wouldn't want to be spraying it into my local water. You can buy a bottle of scent at walmart for $6. I would suggest you look for the paste type, it will hold on better.

Sure you can. They will do your order for you and you will get an email with your order. You then have to send them a payment for the total. Then you can call or email them letting them know the payment has been sent, along with the transaction ID for the paypal payment and your order #. Takes no time at all and they usually respond within the hour saying they got the payment and the order will be shipped.

The only time I throw one is when I can see the fish busting on tiny schooling shiners. Usually the 1/4 size on a spinning rod.