fishwizzard

Dude that is amazing. What kind of tackle did you get them on? It looks like I am going to take my nephew out there tomorrow, but the water looks a little high to have him scrambling around the rocks, so I think we are going to try for bass in the canal and if that isnt working try for cats from shore.

Cool, thanks for the info. My current Light spinning rod is a 6' SC Premier and while it is great for small spinnerbaits and cranks, it is awful for soft plastics and I am looking to upgrade it at some point this fall or winter.

Boom: Chatterbaits. I have tried them on and off for the last two years, but after getting a heavy power rod I am finally getting them to work. My lighter rods would vibrate my arm off and I never really had any confidence that I could make a good hookset. Now I can run one all day while still feeling it run and tick off the bottom. I have been catching with them all over, from working cover and weedlines, to just fan casting them across open water. Bust: Full sized straight tail Texas rigged worms. The old classic has never worked for me and because of that I have a really hard time making myself fish them. I use other t-rigged plastics, smaller worms, and curly tails to good effect but my little box of 6-8" worms has never caught me a fish.

If you do an creek/river fishing around here the heavier heads work well for that when the current is fast.

I am super interested in that rod, please keep us updated as you get more time in with it.

Yea, I just started using them this spring and have really gotten into them so far, they are really versatile and the Pro ones have a great hook, even with two small pliers it takes a bit to get them to bend. I think for elaztech plastics I prefer to have the hook lying parallel to the worm as the are so stretchy that I feel like it's hard to get the hook to consistently punch through with light rod and line. As I move away from elaztech worms I think I am going to shift to jigheads with a more perpendicular hook angle.

Just mine. It isn't bad per se, but it is noticeable next to the other reels, especially the sv103.

Try the Robos on the smallest Owner Ultra heads. They are so soft and thin that you give up little in the way of hooksets but gain weedless-ness and imho a better gliding swim due to the angle of the line tie.

Nice dude. My nephew is visiting next week and I had wanted to take him to the canal. He is becoming quite the little catfisherman so I wanted to give him a shot at the Potomac while also letting him try going for a bass. Sadly I think the rain is going to rule that out, hopefully somewhere around here will be fishable by midweek.

I used hula stickz a lot and had good luck with them but have moved back to the half zinker for open hook use and the trds for weedless use. The zlinkers need the surface area of the mushroom head to get a good glue bond and are too soft to stay rigged weedless for long. Honestly the zman plastics are not great for weedless rigging so when I need to go that route I am more likely to use the plastics and jigheads I posted earlier.

I have a Phenix 682, a Major Craft GEC 63ML, and a Loomis CR721. I rotate through them trying to find my idea light/medium light casting rod. I use them for small plastics and cranks when fishing more open areas. I still use a ML spinning combo for tighter quarters and smaller waters where casting distance is irrelevant. I have not had any real issues loosing fish on any of them once I made sure to use thinner hooks. Even though the CR721 can throw light jigs, I was never able to get good hook sets with it unless I picked jigs based on hook thickness. I was initially looking for two rods, one for plastics and one for small cranks, but I am starting to think that I can use a single rod for both.

I cannot get my head around how Loomis rates their rods. I have two from the same series, a CR721 IMX and a CR723 IMX and they both seem to cast best right around 3/8oz. The Light rod does not cast well near it's lower end and the Medium Heavy seems over-powered with a total lure weight over 1/2oz. One of them is going to end up as my senko rod, I just can't decide which.

It looks to me like a rage menace with part of the head trimmed to make it shorter.

I also have an sv105 that I fish with light 6-10lb line. I have found broken line when working out a backlash before. I agree that it is from loops that get in the line from previous casts. I had this happen a lot when I was fishing smaller rivers and trying to pitch light plastics into still pockets behind log jams. I would get a lot of loose line and if I wasn't on top of pulling them out I would end up with a broken line the first time I had a real backlash.

Got another early morning bass on a chatterbait. I am really getting some confidence with them now, they are really taking the place on spinnerbaits for me. I also saw this sign at Allen Pond. If they nuke the pond I am gonna be pretty ticked. I spent a little time casting around the shallow pads but didn't get a hit.

cgolf, that is an interesting collection of colors, I never hear much about guys using the white plastics with the Ned. I have a pack of pearl Hula Sticks I was going to try and use for schoolie striped bass and pickerel but I haven't gotten to it yet.

This is why I can't blind order a club sandwich without asking questions, people got some weird ideas about what one is these days. I am am bit Ned Rig/MWF believer. But I think it is more the retrieved then the exact lure. So long as the lure is more or less the same (very light jighead, small, buoyant plastic). I think if you are going with an open hook jighead the smaller the better, but I fish this little kit of tackle; Using the MWF retrieves and do pretty well when the fish want a slightly larger lure or I want to fish faster current.

That is odd, did he not try, or was it rejected?

DOA makes a range of short-shank jigheads from like 1/16 to 1oz.

That is something an OEM manufacturer would do though. But I imagine that the rest of the marketing package in their booth would make it pretty clear what was going on, it would eather be a "Wanna sell our awesome baits?" or "Wanna hire us to make your awsome baits?" type pitch, so I am sure the ICAST lawyers had more info then us to go on.

Huh, I have had one for about 6 months and it is still sharp as ever. Have you cut anything other than line with it? I ruined a different cutter by using it on fiber weedguards.

I have a Zillion SV TWS and I like it far less than I do the other Daiwa reels I own. It doesn't feel as sturdy or smooth as the other ones and is less comfortable to palm then an sv103 or sv105.

I got into bass fishing on the C&O canal around Potomac MD. It is a great bass fishery when the water is high and clear. It is so-so when it is high and stained and pretty awful when it is low. The canal is great as there is a huge amount of cover and structure to cast to, parts of it look like they were designed as largemouth habitat. The part from Swain's Lock up to Riley's Lock is a great place to start. The water level issue is a pain for me as I am like an hour plus away, but if you are close it is worth it to stop by to check. The recent rains will have it very muddy from runoff but in a day or so it should be good to go.

Oh, it would be, which is why I am not likely to buy it. In addition to issues of storage and general handling, the length of the butt section would mess with seated casting, especially when wearing a PFD. But, I think it would be good for a bunch of spots on some of the rivers around Annapolis, especially for schoolie stripers, and while I don't fish salt often enough to justify buying it, I would love to fish it for an afternoon.

Oh man, why do I click these threads, they have a discontinued Savvy 9'6" ML/F spinning rod that sounds like it would be a blast for fishing long stretches of riprap out of my kayak.