fishwizzard

Man, you are missing some great grub. The HoW fleamarket east of Annapolis has pitbeef and oysters some years!

Lovey. I have never read much about the Bantam rods, which one is that?

What if any food vendors do they have? I am used to the MD shows where you almost always get a pitbeef vendor.

I just use an old dish spounge and some warm soapy water to clean my rods, the sponge seems to get into the guides well enough. I do like the looks of those fancy qtips for reels, I use a weak alcohol solution for that and normal qtips dont get into cracks and crevices well enough.

I used these all season and love them, even with the barb pinched down I rarely loose them and they really stick in deep. I had been using the Gama Finesse Heavy Cover hooks for t-rigged plastics but they are expenisve as heck. I picked up a pile of these new Owner hooks and what little I have used them really impressed me.

The Rage Tail version of the Kietechs are far far more durable and work great as swimjig trailers.

Minus the last bit, sure! Maybe a nice big 5.x:1 deep cranking reel. My interest in jdm gear has upped the level of whimsical naming that I want in my tackle.

https://jaxchemical.com/shop/jax-iron-steel-nickel-blackener/ This is the product she came back with. She said it works very good on non-stainless steel and she think she remembers using it on stainless a couple years ago and it working out “OK”. She said the Jax chemicals are very easy to use and are not too terribly toxic smelling

That is what I told her but she wanted to know what kind of stainelss. I assume most lure component companies are not going to get that specific but I thought I would ask just in case. She mostly works at brass and copper which are apparently much easier to get to take a pickle but has some colleagues who might have more experence with coloring stainless steel.

That is a hell of a good name for a reel.

What exact metal are the blades? My wife does a lot of pickeling/staining of metal for her job, she said if I know the exact metal she might be albe to suggest other options.

I am not either, but it does beg the question, "If it has no effect, why did the bother doing it in the first place?" I suspect it's cheaper to not lay the line on level but I do kinda believe that it doesn't do much other then look cool.

Most of my bass fishing is of the “I wanna catch a bass on X presentation today” type. My back-up plan is to give up on the presentation I *want* to work and try what knowledge and experience tells me what *should* work.

I dont like a fully painted blank, but I love bright highlights and will usually add color parts to my reels to match. If you go real crazy you want the lures to match as well....

I work in Miami from time to time and just use google earth to find sections of canal with public access. I have caught snakeheads, LMBs, peacocks, and a bunch of other exotics all in like a 1/4m of bank.

My “home office” door now does not open all the way due to having a rod rack stuck between it and the wall. I needed the space and having to squeeze through the door will be a good incentive to lose a little weight.

There was one color that a few guys were raving about, it’s like a translucent green/purple color changing deal, I can't remember the name. @Bluebasser86 was I think one of the guys who talked about it. I ended up seeing a pack at BPS and picked it up. I think I caught two or three bass on every plastic in the pack and now I wish I had stocked up on it!

They are like a buck each but Eiron Jigs makes a great version of that style head.

Hah, if I were to get a baby round reel it would be the Conquest BFS. I have my sights on that new Alphas though.....

If I could take an iRod Fred’s Magic Stick and, while retaining it’s power/taper, shrink it down to like 6’8” or even 6’6” I would have my ideal frog rod. Right now I am using the Fred’s and a MB Hyuga 72h for frogs/toads. The Hyuga is a XH/R rod and while the tip is not at all suited to walking anthing, the hookup to landing ratio with it is off the charts.

I’m really interested because despite being advertised as “fast”, to me the FMJ feels way more Modfast, especially when compaired to a mbr844 glx. So I’m very curious to see how it would compare to a MB rod of the same power that is listed as being modfast. Speaking of the mbr844 glx; I think I might need to buy another Ringa or find a different reel for my swimbait rod. I stuck the Ringa on an 844 I traded into and think I’m in love.

I have a mbr783 GLX and my nephew has an old-model mbr783 E6X and I have gotten to fish them side by side. The GLX is undoubtedly more sensitive, loads and unloads more smoothly on the cast and is more balanced, but over all the E6X compares very well to it. Dragging a jig around on a soft bottom really demonstrated the difference the most dramatically. I also have an Avid and again it is closer to the GLX then further from it until you get to stricly bottom contact presentations. I will admit that I am so in love with the mbr tapers that I would pick an E6X a more sensitive rod with a “worse” taper any day.

I never thought to use them as spinnerbait trailers, I bet that would work pretty well. I wish that the heads were more round and a little bigger so that they could be more easily rigged with the body in a vertical orientation.

Have you used those leeches before? They are great DS lures but are also amazing nose hooked on a wacky jighead or small ball jig and just slowly swam back in. Only problem is that panfish just hammer them to pieces, so I don’t use them as much as I would like too.

Uh, where do I have to hangout to find stuff like this up for sale? That is amazing! Do you have or have access to an FMJ? I would love to know if they are similar in power/taper.