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Nothing solves an argument like making the other guy feel insulted Be polite and diffuse the situation and he won't have a reason to harass you. Hope he leaves ya alone

Team daiwa s has a 7'4" frog rod with fast action for roughly 75 dollars. Rated to 2oz but can handle more. Also relatively lightweight for its size. It's lighter than my 7'3" heavy ***!

Kahara split ring pliers. Problem is the cutting blade is near joint. Blades are small but replaceable.

Amazon is merely a middle man for vendors to use. Amazon has their own products but they don't sell or ship for their vendors. Daiwa for instance sells many products through amazon but amazon does not dictate price to daiwa. I was interested in 7'7" tatula and I searched for it for a period of 4 months waiting for a price drop. I couldn't add it to my wishlist to monitor (firefox glitch) so I had to search almost every day. Price didn't budge but was under msrp. One day they dropped to 75 despite a hundred searches. Not sure how this myth started but it has no grounds in either reality or business. Edit: saw an online post that a few years ago amazon tried custom pricing based on customer habits but had dropped it after backlash.

Again, you don't need to delete cookies and amazon doesn't increase prices when you search. Their prices are set by their vendors and the prices fluctuate depending on how bad they want to get the product off their shelves.

http://www.bassmaster.com/blogs/icast-2014-live-blog/crews-shows-little-john-xl-70-spro

Which is why I got my tatula rod 40% off? If you add items to cart or wishlist you can see their prices fluctuate and by how much so you can buy when prices drop.

Estimates are that they should be in this week maybe next

Just saw this on a tv show. Oversized little john for medium depths. Will wait impatiently to add to my box.

Moderate action means it has flex to it which is what you want with moving baits. Extra fast would be too stiff.

The warm rain has opened up almost all of wv. Some small impoundments have ices along edge but still mostly open. I was at south mill lake outside petersburg, water temps in mid 40s, 50 at the feeder creek.

It's a little stretchy and has some memory to it. It's not a top of the line fluoro but certainly better than numerous cheaper options.

Used it today. No fish, but it's smooth casting and I had no trouble with sparse rip rap. Jury is still out on this one.

The rocky and rip rap dam had trout anglers all over it so that was a no go. I used swimjig and spro lil john most of the day. Had trailer tails ripped off swimjig twice which was the extent of my action. Tried jerkbait but at those temps I had to use slower cadence...which was impossible with the wind, I was practically trolling. Probably didn't help fishing post frontal conditions either.

Went out today on a small impoundment and was hammered with 20+ mph winds. Bass tracker struggled. Temps in mid 40s but could hardly get a good presentation....forget about pitching jigs! My dad caught a nice brook trout on a red eye shad...but that was it for us. The impoundment has one tiny cove that was barely sheltered so we were stuck with the wind. What's your most effective strategy when the wind is howling?

Tackle trap has some in stock yes, but they won't return emails to me. A couple of well known Japanese stores have returned emails saying that daiwa will not allow them to order t3 gears to ship out. Been wanting to upgrade my t3 1016 to 8.1 ratio

Rage bug just seems like such a big bait for trailer. I love em though. I been using swing impacts almost exclusively.

Sniper is good but it has given me fits lately while trying to pitch.

Unless you buy a faster ratio aird and take the gears out, then you are out of luck. Daiwa will not sell gears unless it's for a repair at one of their approved repair shops. I've contacted multiple online stores and get the same response.

Dicks has a large fresh stock of xcalibur lures. I think they are fine

Fluoro really isn't that bad and it does have its benefits. When punching I see a lot of pros on tv and youtube who use braid...Hell Hackney...you know him, the BASS angler of the year...says he uses braid all the time regardless of water clarity. There really is a difference in slack line sensitivity and if you are hopping a plastic on a bed you may not even feel the bass pick it up with braid and they certainly won't be swimming off with it so line watching isn't as effective.

Thanks frog! I've been itching to get one but not many reviews on its stability while fishing.

Tatulas and tcs can be had on amazon for around 100