Cole Cybulski

Was just wondering how many other people actually use these strike king series 1 Shallow square bills. I love them but I only buy one colour, Chartreuse Belly Craw, its the only strike king shallow square that has worked for me. In an area I fish where everyone switched to lindy rig worms because the bass wouldn't bite lures, I will catch limit. Any day any condition these things just keep producing fish. Even one day temp dropped down to about 8 celcius, bass usually lockjaw in this lake under 15. I was catching them still.

12 inch zoom magnum on 5/0 ewg, if the fish aren't biting I'll switch to a 7 inch worm. I never fish t rig weightless always a bullet sinker.

Just thought I would share my story from my lost PB largemouth. It was last summer me and my little cousin were out fishing, we went out at about 7 AM and she wanted to go back to the cottage to take a break from fishing around 9-10 AM, I went back out by myself and was hoppin a T-Rig on the edge of some sunken milfoil and sure enough it gets heavy and starts to move. Set the hook and this thing is fighting pretty good so I bring her up to the surface and grab the net (Joys of fishing alone ) Me being clumsy as all hell lift the bass out of the water before I bring the net over and she shakes off the hook, and swims away, Tried catchin her again for a week but got nothing. It was about 6-7 LB'er. To this day I swing them in the boat, or lip them in the water unless someones with me.

Depending on conditions i usually use spinners (inline or spinner baits), cranks, and flipping jigs if there is thicker grass in the shallows. I flip last though since its more of a slower paced approach, but ill rip spinners and cranks on the edges and over top those weeds and if i see any movement ill try flipping.

Alright, wasn't sure if it was just my reel, thanks

Have heard great things about the lews speed, I would say have the brake set to what your comfortable with, unless you are in need of a longer cast or you are pitching you wont need to back off, Or if you just want to learn baitcaster without brakes a good way is to start at what you have it on now, then slowly every couple days/weeks/months depending on how much you fish start backing off by one number on your brake, if you go too far too soon you may get a little backlash but keep your thumb in control. Eventually you will be able to cast without spool tensioner or brakes unless its windy. Personally after getting used to the reel I backed off the tension if it was a calm day and it helped me learn my reel say if I need to pitch and my pitching reel broke or isn't with me, I can do it on this reel too. It's great to be able to be versatile with your equipment.

So i noticed when i'm pitching my line tends to spool up on one side and I have to pull off a bunch of line and reel in to even it out, anyone know why this is happening? The level winder is working perfectly fine, and it doesn't always wind to the same side after I even it out, sometimes left side sometimes right. Could it just be from throwing such a short amount of line out and reeling it back in over and over without a long cast?