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I have a 7-2 mh/xf rod ( not an slx) that has fallen into the role as my do-all(almost) rod. This year I've done everything from jerkbait from shore in March to toads in July and a couple of weeks ago poppers and sz. 90 ploppers for smallies. In between I've thrown spinnerbaits buzzbaits shallow cranks bladed jigs and t rigs. The only thing i won't do is punch or frog or anything over 1/2 ounce.

You can put me in the no senkos camp. Or weightless anything except the occasional sluggo/fluke. I'd rather just get a bucket of shiners,probably cheaper ands just as effective. Definatly agree with this. As I've said before I'd rather try and catch 5 that weigh 20 than 20 that weigh 5.

Kinda south central eastern mass. Northbridge

Massachusetts. And thank you.

Fished today 8:30-1:30. Got 9 with the best being a 4-2 and 4-15 on a buzzbait and a 6-10 on a double wide beaver. Best 5 for the day went 19-15. Pics of the 3 best.

1:Buzzbait 2:spinnerbait 3:bladed jig 4:jig

Got out yesterday 9-3. Boated 9 punching with the best at 3-9 plus a couple bonus fish on a frog with one weighing 4-7.

Got a bunch of smallies up in maine with the best a 3-6 on a spinnerbait. Back home got a 5-7 punching a double wide beaver.

I try to get up every year around this time,( going up tomorrow)and find the smallies to be fairly aggressive as would be expected. I mostly fish the penobscot and use spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and poppers. Also like tiny torpedoes zara puppys and have mixed in some ploppers the last couple years.

Wow. Great pic. Thanks for the clarification.

Agree with post above. A cheap reel is more likely to fail/break than a cheap rod.

Just to confuse you a bit more, while fireline is a 'superline' it's not braided but rather the fibers are fused in a linear manner.

Got a 3-15 yesterday and a 3-14 today both on a double wide beaver.

40 lb. Spiderwire stealth.cant tell you how much i dont really keep track.i just wind it on til it's full.

Jump on it. I 've been using a 7 speed on my 7' mh/f buzz bait rod for 3 years now. it has no problem handling,casting,hooking or landing fish such as this one I caught on thurs. Around some fairly heavy weeds.[edit:should read 6 speed not 7]

I actually had this happen to me a few times with the old style mustad grip pin hooks while punching. I believe the weight flopping around can pull the knot to the gap. 1st time thought I broke off but went to retie and saw my knot still there. Figured it was a fluke then it happened again. At the time these were the only hooks with the shank keeper so I wasn't going to change hooks. I did both the 'dummy knot' and the super glue and found the glue to work better. Don't have this problem with the newer style hooks.

Made a lot of casts for not a lot of fish today. But they were all decent. Got a 3-7and a 5-7 on buzzbaits and a 3-6 punching. Also dropped 1 about 3.5 punching when it cleared the weeds. Here are the buzzbait fish.

If your gonna buy all those stackable codes posted a while back for rapala still work. Just ordered this and got it for $31 shipped. Codes: 15rapala ,fish10 , welcome10, thanks10. Couldnt get freeship25 to work maybe will work for you.

Believe me there's no shortage of confusion on the water for me this year. This one came on my 4th different bait I tried on my punch rig. Over all I threw at least a dozen different baits today.

Got out 7:30-1:30 today. Boated 9, 1 on jig 2 on a toad 5 on a buzzbait and 2 punching a double wide beaver with this one weighing in at 5-8.

Never trailers always trailer hooks for me. I never want to give the fish a reason to strike at something behind the hook.

I've been throwing mine on 40 lb. Spiderwire stealth. The best,I don't know but it works for me.

Never music but back in the day before all this digital crapola I would bring a portable t.v. and watch football while I fished. Never noticed that it hurt my catching.

I throw pretty much everything on braid. Right now I have 30 lb. 832 on my spinnerbait rod and 40lb. Spiderwire stealth on my buzzbait rod.

If I remember correctly the 1st lure I bought was a fleck weed wader spinnerbait. Then one day a co-worker gave me a bps catalog and it melted my brain.