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I usually use clear or green because most of the water I fish has a greenish tint to it. I saw some blue braid though that looks awesome. I think it was super slick 8 marine blue. That would look cool on one of my aetos rods but I honestly would be less confident using it so I'll probably just stick with what I have

I like both. The soft body frogs with curly legs like the zoom horny toad or strike king rage toad are more versatile for me. I catch fish with them subsurface swimming and even working Texas rigged with a bullet weight on bottom. I don't know if they think it's a big fat craw or a frog but I've caught some bigger fish. A fishing partner showed me this in a pond on lookout mtn near chattanooga and he caught several over 5 and 2 over 7. Been using it myself ever since. I use hollow body frogs, mainly booyah and spro sometimes too, but about the only place's with mats near me are some small ponds, and I seem to do better with the swimming soft frogs. I've seen lots of people use hollow frogs in open water, but I usually do better with a hard walker or popper. If I fished guntersville or chickamauga more, I'd probably use hollow frogs a lot more though

Walleye are probably the easiest fish I've caught to reel in. Landlocked stripes and hybrids in current put up a really good fight. I fish for both at night and you never know what's going to bite, but I can usually tell which within 5 seconds of hooking up. Catfish and carp put up a great fight, and if you are talking about fight and take size in the equation, most panfish like bluegill and red ears fight very hard

Definitely go see a lawyer and get visitation rights put in place. It's different on a state to state basis but where my son was born in ga, the father is responsible for hiring their own lawyer and suing for visitation. The state or mother can order child support but that court date and order doesn't cover visitation. I made the mistake of giving my ex money orders and checks and writing for child support in the subject line. Ga doesn't recognize this as support. She and i sat down and write out a contract between us that i would pay x amount and get to get him every other weekend. I gave her money for 2 years with no visits because she always had an excuseMy son and her lived with me until he was 3. Because I never kept receipts when we were together she lied and said she hadn't lived with me so I was ordered to pay back pay from when he was born. I really wish I had hired a lawyer from the start. Now I have a 6 year old stepson and 2 1/2 year old twin girls and I'm paying back child support to my ex and taking away from the 3 that live with me full time. It isn't the child support and if he needed anything I'd buy it also, it's the fact that I'm basically paying her to have lived with me free while I paid everything then

I've found several high end baits by lucky craft and megabass and quite a few bandits, bombers, and normans. One spot I like to fish a lot is an old deserted swimming beach with a big drop off. Most of the time the wind on the lake blows towards that bank. I've probably found 50 lures over the years at the edge of the water on the beach that got blown from the rest of the lake by wind and waves. Also another lake I fish does a winter drawdown and it's always a great time to go walking the banks. I always find cover and new fishing spots for when the water is back up like springs and brushpiles, and usually find several lures in the process

It will be much more accurate than a longer rod and I use a 6'3" rod all the time. I go longer in 20'+ water but for short accurate casts and skips around cover, a 6'-6'6" rod is much better for me. I also like the shorter length better when working jerkbaits, soft jerkbaits, and topwater poppers and walkers as it's easier to get the rod movement I want without worrying about hitting the rod tip on stuff

The newer edge rods by Gary Loomis and some of the jdm (I believe megabass) rods have these types of seats. Especially some of the short jdm top water rods designed for round reels. I don't know where you would order the seats from, but they are definitely still used. They aren't exactly like those old Loomis seats, but the same concept

I've used the avid rod in this model for the same stuff. Nice rod and pretty sensitive, especially for a cranking rod. I liked it for squarebills, lipless, and medium divers, as long as you don't fish a lot of weeds or cover. I prefer a mod fast for that or even a fast action to help pull lures free. Great rod for most cranking stuff though. About the only things I wouldn't use it for would be small balsa baits like a lot of customers or Bagley honey B's or shad raps, or for deep cranking with 15+ ft divers

I use lots of different worms: high tail hole shot, reins bubbling shaker, big bite baits squirrel tail worms, and zman, strike king 3x, and old terminator baits all made from elastic if I want the worm to float up in the tail. I usually use these when fishing slow in clear water when the fish see it paused for a few seconds. If I'm not worried about the fish getting as good a look and I'm fishing faster or in off color water I use roboworms, trick worms, finesse worms from 7-8 different brands, and pro send and slim send type baits. I've also caught a lot of fish on a sluggo ss with its super thin wispy tail, but Idk if it's technically a worm. I also like using big 10-12 inch worms on large shaky heads when targeting deep bass or when after a bigger kicker fish. I like several brands but probably use the yum mighty worm the most

I like using a fast action rod and mono to make my jerks have more movement. There are lots of differences between the lucky craft lineup, some are floating, some are suspending, some are slow sinking, some have flat sides, and some move more than others. Generally the various sizes of pointer, slender pointer, flash minnow, and flash pointer are what I use most. The pointer dd, staysee, and bey shad if I want to fish a little deeper. Every lucky craft I have used was a quality bait, but some like the pointer sp catch more for me than some like the live pointer series

I don't know that there is a big enough difference in diameters to matter between those two, but yes thinner lines generally cast farther. If you want thin, try daiwa samurai, but also be aware that some lines are thinner because they are actually rated closer to actual breaking strength. What I mean by this is samurai 20lb is thinner than power pro 832 20lb, but it also breaks closer to 20lb while power pro is stronger. 10lb is pretty light around cover and weeds, I'd probably stick with the heavier line you usually use and actually I'd probably go up to 20 myself. If you still can't get the distance you need you might want to look into getting a longer rod that will load more and cast farther with the same baits, and/or a reel with a bigger diameter spool/longer stroke spool so the line has less resistance when coming off the spool lip

I don't think it matters a lot in most conditions but in gin clear water where I can see everything on the bottom in 10' of water, I have noticed a difference between catches using braid vs mono, fluoro, or copoly. Also I don't like using braid around a lot of rocks and rip rap because even with a leader, the braid is still always rubbing rocks and fraying. Also I fish plastics and jigs a lot by dead sticking and maybe just shaking now and then on semi slack or slack line and I feel more bites with mono or fluoro vs super limp braid. Lots of guys use braid and love it, it just isn't for me and the waters I fish most of the time. I still use it in certain situations though, at night, if targeting stripers and hybrids in current because of the strength and small diameter and spinning tackle gives me longer casts to reach fish from shore, and if I fish a lake with a lot of weeds I like it because it cuts through the weeds. There are lots of reasons to use or not to use braid and it all comes down to what the user prefers. I wouldn't immediately change all my reels until I tried it in one or a few first though

I'd try the super spook junior in bone if I had to pick just one. But I use both sizes of super spooks, the original rattling spook, the chug n spook, swayback spook, and the puppy and I've caught fish on all of them. The super spook Jr in bone, RI barely legal vixen, the smaller strike king kvd bait, the sammy in all sizes, the skitterwalk, zip baits irony, and the lunker punker are the top water walkers I use regularly and catch fish on. The super spook jr, sammy, and irony have been producing the best this year. I really like walking baits and so do the river smallies and stripers this time of year

Yes you are right most people consider the 873 to be a step up in power from the 853 and 893 and between the 893 and 894 from what I've heard. I'd say 853 and 894. The 853 for lighter jigs and t rigs and 894 for Carolina rigs and big jigs or for fishing around cover. It all depends on what weight stuff you want to throw and also what type of cover and water depth you are fishing as well as what length rod feels best to you. What works best for me or someone else may not fit you best

Straight from abu, lews, bass pro, or daiwa. All these brands have handles that will fit. Daiwa will offer the biggest variety of possible knobs if that matters. Aftermarket brands like hedgehog, semper fi, and hawgtech also make handles. Another option would be finding one of the extra long handles off the abu skeet reese revos or revo winches. As stated you will have to buy a straight handle or get a swept star or possibly bend your stock star with a vice.

It definitely sounds like wind knots. Some reels are worse than others with this. I'd try some of the suggestions above and if this still occurs, maybe try a pfleuger, daiwa, quantum, lews, abu, or shimano spinning reel. There are lots of good reels but I've good experiences with all these. Also i didn't care for nanofil either. Abrades and breaks way too easily and i snapped a few baits off on casts and weak hooksets. Try a quality mono like trilene xl or sunline supernatural in 8 or 10lb, a good limp copolymer like hybrid ultra soft or silver thread an40 in 8-10lb , or if you want braid try 832, jbraid, samurai, or sx1 in 10-20 lb test

The 853c or 873 c would be perfect for what you want to do as long as jig weights are around 3/8 or so. If you want to go heavier or for Carolina rigs I'd look at 893 or 894 depending on lure weights. Lots of guys use the 893 for flukes and senkos as well but it's too long imo definitely look at nrx rep samples or lightly used vs glx at the same price. The only way I'd go glx is to get a rod they don't make in nrx like 844 mbr. Also I'd advise trying a reel mounted on one in hand. The aldebaran is super light and if a rod is tip heavy, I'd want a heavier reel like maybe a metanium or ci4+, or zillion or steez sv tw

I'd look at a ml to do those things with St Croix casting or spinning. Probably 6'10" ml/xf. The light powered saltwater rods would be a good fit also. I use the mediums for light Texas rigs and heavier tunes and 5" weightless senkos. The ml I use for ned rigs, drop shot, split shot, shaky head, flick shakes, and 4" senkos. Also floating worms and some jerkbaits, underspins, and crankbaits. Very versatile rod despite the xfast rating

I'd take St Croix anytime over dobyns. I just don't know about fishing the 10th on glass. It's so big and takes quite a bit of backbone for good hooksets. I tried using a composite rod at first and then a fast action heavy powered frog rod because I wasn't hooking up good with composite. The fast action worked OK but I finally settled on an okuma guide select swimbait rod. I'll definitely be interested in a couple of the new school glass rods if they aren't super noodly

I honestly have never heard of the max z or pinnacle solene. I'd keep whichever one had the best braking system. The silver max just has simple progressive magnetic brakes so if the other 2 have centifugal or dual brakes I'd keep those or the one that did. Magnetic brakes are OK but basically choke off the entire cast based on where you set the dial. If they are all magnetic keep the newest nicest one or just keep all 3 as you probably aren't going to get much for them. As far as a rod the best deals I've seen in rods under 100 bucks are the fenwick hmx on the fenwick site, and fenwick, abu, berkley, and others. Around 100 I'd look at the fenwick aetos on the fenwick site, tatula on sportsmans outfitters site, powell max 3d on sheltons clothing site, and 13 fishing green on tackle warehouse. There are lots of good rods at 100 retail but all these are on sale and retail for quite a bit more and any would be a very nice rod that you will want to keep for awhile.

I'd definitely go with the aetos. I don't think Fenwicks rods are underpowered, it's just that they fish closer to ratings than a lot of manufacturers. I find the medium fishes like a medium and so on. That's just me though so if you can pick one up you may want to. The enigma rods I've held and just didn't feel nearly as good as the aetos. I've heard nearly nothing about them since they came out as far as reviews and I've seen a lot of guys selling them used that seemed excited about picking them up a few months before. The data tatula rods at 110 from Sportsmans outfitters, fenwick smallmouth rods for 78.88, Powell max 3d from sheltons clothing and the Omen green rods on clearance at tackle warehouse are all great rods that are selling around 100 right now and deeply discounted. All are great rods I have models from each line and the aetos, tatula, and max 3d all fish above their price, and the Omen green rods are very versatile with a true fast action if you want a do it all longer length rod I'd go with the Omen green or max 3d 684. Bottom contact I'd go with the aetos or tatula, but the 684 is plenty sensitive for that. Just not my first choice for jigs because of the shorter length. Crankbait rods I'd look at the tatula regular action or max 3d composite rods. It all depends on what you want to use the rod for but there are great rods for 100 or so no matter what technique you want them for

I'd look at stores for clearance deals on rods like dicks, bass pro, cabelas, or look at used stuff like maybe a *** *** *** piece. As far as reels the h20 mettle or a quality used reel like a pro qualifier, citica d or g, or shimano and daiwa both have good reels around 60 and change online. Shimano has the caius and daiwas exceller is a little over 60. I'd definitely do something like the used *** black or maybe a bps bionic blade or cabelas pro guide or h20 ethos from academy with the exceller or caius or citica d. I'd say you could do that right around your budget if you shop around. I'd definitely get as good a reel as I could though and as far as rod a 6'-6'6" med or med heavy fast would probably be the most versatile

I use this and all other senko type baits and fish them like soft jerkbaits a lot. I pause more and for longer periods between twitches usually. I experiment with them and usually start out fishing them kind of fast Texas rigged and skipping under docks, trees, and around cover. I like white and smoke color variations for imitating shad if I'm on the lake or in the river. In ponds I like green pumpkin and watermelon colors to imitate bluegill. I still use them in greens, browns, and blacks sometimes when dead sticking or fishing wacky on flick shake heads, but I catch a lot of bass working them kind of fast like a bigger floating worm. I've even used a white bps sticko during the post spawn in murky water and inserted a rattle in the tail. It was during a tournament and I ended up catching 19 that day and best 5 weighed 17 lbs, good enough for second place.

It also depends a lot on the brand you choose. I might use a medium fenwick, but there's no way I would want a medium power abu rod for that as they are closer to mh. Personally I'd look for a shorter 6'-6'6" ml or medium power rod with a fast or ex fast action. I mostly use a 6'3" fenwick smallmouth med xfast spinning rod. The rod is really more of a medium light and fished anything from 1/16-3/8 well. I'd look for something around that length with a soft tip and a weight range the same as most of the baits you throw

I'd send a pm or email to dvt or the guys at the tackle trap