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Good to have you aboard! WELCOME! Ronnie

My Shimano 50mg s cast 1/4 oz easily. My Calcutta TE200DC will cast them a mile. Like Lightninrod asked, how much you willing to spend? Ronnie

50lb PowerPro braid (12lb diameter) is my choice for Texas rigged plastics. JMHO Ronnie

Senko! Gumbo or Jambalya?

That's a hard question because Fuji's OG series of guides have aluminum oxide rings. Aluminum oxide is a ceramic material used in guides from many different maufactures. Fuji is brand name and they make a lot of guides at different quality/price & materials. Hope this helps you. Ronnie

At the end of the St. Charles street car line near the Jefferson Parish line is the Camelia Grill famous for there "Chilli Cheese Omelet". Lakeview Seafood in N. O. East best shrimp & oyster po-boys anywhere. And on the few occasions when I could afford it (or really wanted to impress a girl) there's "Brousard's" on Conti St. $150/plate in 1976 but worth every penny. Just North of Lake Pontchatrain in Hammond is one of the best resteraunts anywhere "Jaque-Mel Inn" I took my wife there on our first date, proposed to her there and always went on our anniversary. Boiled seafood, gumbo, jambalaya & etouffee at MY HOUSE Ronnie

Happy B-Day Skillet. Ronnie

GIT-R-DUN! Sorry, that's about as profound as I get. Fish hard & come back a winner. Ronnie

Pretty much me too, except I don't pitch crankbaits much, but I don't fish with them much. Any way what Catt said X2. Ronnie

I would glue another tip on it and call it a a 6' 2" heavy, super extra fast rod and continue to fish with it. Who makes the rod? Maybe a warranty will replace it. Hope this helps. Ronnie

Me Too......... Ronnie

Pitch them gently around the stickups and wiggle them in the weeds. Ronnie

SCII is a designation that St.Croix uses to define the modulus of their graphite material. Premiers and Triumphs are not made on the exact same blanks, only with same raw material. That's like saying that a beer can and Shimano spool are the same because they are both made of aluminum. The blank tapers are different, they use different guides, different handles and reel seats on some models, the blanks and guides are finished differently. They are similar in some ways, but not exactly the same. Ronnie

My philosophy is that fish don't have a color chart and my baits of all types are some shade of black/gray, white/silver or chartruse/green. I think that fish respond more to contrast, flash and sillouettes than specific colors. JMHO Ronnie

NC, If you can think of a jig as a hook with a weighted head designed to hold many different artificial baits or trailers, you will see that all of the lures in both pictures are types of jigs. Most of the time when you read posts/articles about jig & pork or jig & craw trailers the type of jig in the first picture is most common. The jigs in the second picture are swim jigs. Note that you could pull the small soft plastic minnow off of those jigs and put on a plastic worm or grub and you have a whole different lure. Jigs are very versital and you can rig them and fish them a million ways. Next to a plastic worm They are the best all around baits for bass. JMHO Ronnie

Raul, I think there is some kind of a little glitch in the board software that sometimes kicks new members out as soon as they sign up. I think the mods will fix him up. It has happened before, but I think it's pretty rare. Ronnie

Welcome Al, Make yourself at home. You will enjoy it here. Ronnie

Custom spiral wrapped G-Loomis MBR844C with Shimano Calais CL200. Ronnie

Yep, stick a fork in you, your done now. Good fishing and congratulatons on a great rod. Ronnie

I like Wave worms, they work for me. Ronnie

bighead, Welcome! Looking forward to your Lake Fork reports. Thanks for your input and join us! Ronnie

Power Pro is great on spinning reel. JMHO Ronnie

Hey Kent, Just heard from Muddy. Notify the local authorities and warn the neighbors, they aren't nearly as bad as they look. The mooks will be showing up at your place on Saturday evening. Express our appreciation to "the boss". Muddy will have to cast one of my Shimanos before the week is out. We will see what we will see. LOL Ronnie

rosewalt, If you mean spiral wrapped rods, there are many members who use them, build them and are big fans of the concept. Spiral wrapping only applies to bait casting rods because spinning rods already have the guides on the bottom of the rod. Baitcasting rods need the spiral wrapping to move the guides to the bottom of the rod to enjoy the inherent advantages of a spinning rod. Line twist is not usually a problem for bait casting reels, so spiral wrapping should not affect this one way or the other. I would say, from my experience with several spiral wrapped baitcasters, that casting distance is not affected at, but and the general performance of the rod (fish fighting) is enhanced a great deal. JMHO Ronnie

My dad used to say "I'd rather play and lose than not get to play at all." I just hope to celebrate one of our BR boys catching a hawg. I don't care who it is. Ronnie