Angry John

The advantage htsl I have is great to. It gets good reviews in everything but weight. The alphas and pixy don't have enough drag IMO. The zillion is a workhorse reel that anything can be done to. The tdz has a lot of options as well. If your looking for a new style the ss sv might be perfect

I fish it out of my yak when there is no wind. That is when its at its best for me. No anchor most times and I have no sonar. Lots of ways to skin that cat.

High quality flouro does not do well with the Palomar. It is almost brittle and most people use special knots like the SD jam. Knot wars has great info for tests on utube.

This is so true. Seems like its now some kind of competition to see how much stuff you can bring. I for one think that's a bad idea just the the guy above!

Wow the level's here are all over the map. I am in the I don't want to know camp as I bought a certate and a steez in the same month and that was not the worst. Us enthuseists just don't add it up because the thought might scare us!

I have not had a bunch of luck on robos. I seem to do the best on the 2.75" tubes from dry creak. The small trick worms are good to.

Use normal length round bend on jerk baits. I use short shank on square bills the rest is dependant on cover.

I am in the same position but I dont have electronics. The bass here eat trout and bluegill and perch. They seem to be a lot more nomadic and hold in deep pieces of structure. The bottom of local lakes are all bowl shaped and covered in weeds. If you figure it out let me know, as I am having a hard time as well.

Matt Allen does a good overall review on swimbaits, and he has my respect. The hard gills from mattlures is one of the best but hard to find. If your winter fishing a hudd is the best you can get. I use 6" but a lot of guys like the 8. A ms slammer is one of the must haves. Those three is where I have spent my money first and would do it again.

I have not had it happen to me but I have seen pics. Prevented me from trying it myself, and the other methods have worked for me.

falcon is everywhere and carried at wally world. They have micro rods at mine. The new avidx also have micros

Fenwick is making species rods to draw attention to there product. Large mouth crank in just fine on the small mouth series. I don't believe its a special taper.

I like the spro lipless the strike king is very popular along with the lucky craft lv500. I have had the spro baits the longest so they are my comfort lipless.

Stay braid. I use flouocarbon only because I have to in the vgin clear water here in WA. I would love to go back like in CT but I get no bites

I am a tool and fishing nut. I use and like the hedgehog tool but it is not a shop level tool. For regular writer cleaning on a dozen or so reels it will last years.

The magic erasers are the best. Steel wool will leave small metal shards and then rust stains. Very fine sand paper works but get aggressive and you will change the shape.

I use the Boca oil and it comes in a nice applicator. The have it at TW.

For me it's a water clarity thing. The more clear water calls for melon

Saw on TT that you dislike the 103. I have 100's and want to roll a 103 spool for a bit to compare to the new sv spools. The 103 is supposed to be a love hate thing.

Yes. Watch the video's on mudhole

Don't think a bearing swap is going to do much for you. A faster spool like the steez 103 will do the most for piching. I love my steez reels!!!

The mhx blanks are good, and I like the orange lamiglas excel blanks

This is good stuff

I like this as well as the Serbert shakey heads. I use zoom trick worms and baby brush hawgs

Be very careful with chemicals as you can damage the blank. I would use warm water and a hard tooth brush.