daiwaguy

I do the same usually Shakespeare 8lb mono for 2.97 800yd spool/

I have some that are painted just like that. They work great in most of the waters that I fish.

Another in between Pinky and ring here. It is weird that this is brought up because my first outing this year a buddy and I talked about it because I noticed all his fingers are above and mine has one below.

11.4, it was a really slow day. We have tha BBB coming up down there this weekend and another tourney the weekend after that so I will report back with what info I have.

Cardinals. NL and Series champs. That is my prediction and I am sticking to it.

Since we talked about this I decided to throw one this weekend and had some decent sucess.

I use the shad colored ones because that is the primary food source in lakes I fish.. They run good and I have caught a few fish on them. I dont use swimbaits alot so I dont buy the Huds or Deps but when I feel like throwing one this is what I tie.

Mermaid eggs.

LOZ or Table Rock

The DSG in my area has a horrible selection of rods, ofcourse there is a BPS about 5 minutes down the road. No GM so I cannot comment on that so I completley agree with what Jon G posted above.

She should appreciate it. I bet it saves her from getting cut. The most dangerous utencil in a kitchen is a dull knife.

X2. And Flukes with long pauses in between jerks.

Beaver, 10" powerbait, Trick worm

Old stone and oil works good, I got an electric sharpener from the meat department at a local grocery store a year or two ago,they were replacing it,and man that sucker can sharpen a knife. Super sharp and super fast. I think they sold it to me for 20 bucks.

I tried twice to push it through and it was so deep it just wouldnt come out, thats when I decided to try and pull it with the pliers. When that didnt work I went with the line trick and after a few broken pieces of mono I went to yarn and it did the trick. It actually felt 100 percent back to normal yesterday.

I had a rod with a trigger that annoyed me once and I just got an old steak knife tip red hot and cut it down to about the size of my other rods that I dont notice the trigger on. Cut it off round and then sanded it with a strip of 800 grit sand paper till it wasnt rough and went bag over it with a strip of 1000 grit till smoth then polished it with some buffing compound and a dremel and you could barely tell it ever had trigger modification done to it.

Dont know where you are located maybe it was in this thread and I overlooked it but this weekend in Mid Missouri the Jerkbait bite was slow but one of the only bites you could find and it required a slowrod sweep and a 15-20 second pause.

Yes Sir.

Welcome!

All great suggestions. So many. I would say Mojo would be a looker, as well as Carbonlites. A buddy of mine has the new white BPS Bionic Blade and he really likes it I think it is only 60 or 70 bucks. But really for 100 dollars any well known rod maker is going to get you a nice rod.

This year is a 7'4" Tatula Frog Rod/ T3 Ballistic Xs w/ 65lb Samurai/ PP reg./Smackdown. Still experimenting till frog season starts, Back up: 7'4" Light and Tough Frog Rod/Viento 65lb PP reg. Love the walk the twitch switch gives a frog.

Anything T-rigged with tungsten gives me confidence.

My favorite fishing music is the birds. LOL that looks like something my wife would write. They are rather relaxing thought and keep me focused on the task at hand. I dont need to be dancing or head bobbing on the deck while fishing people would think I was "different".

Has anyone said Jig yet?