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Stick with the Irod. I am not a Duckett fan

Irod Genesis II IRG 703CC for $150 That rod is called a Gabe's Rip Rap Special. I also use a Falcon Bucoo Micro series 7 foot MH MF rod called a Trap Caster. IT sells for $129 . I use both and love them. Dobyns offers Fury FR 705CB for $110 I have a friend that loves this rod for all size cranks except big deep divers.

The NED rig is an amazing bait when they shut down on everything else. My wife and I vacation in TN/KY on Dale Hollow as often as possible. In April 2016 ( our last trip) we encountered an unusual situation. Most of the time the bass come in in a specific schedule. Smallies, the Kentucky spots and then largies. Well that winter the temps warmed up/cooled off/warmed up. This left all the bass ready to go at once and they all spawned together. We arrived as the big females were leaving the nests. The KY spots lingered in the creeks on the way out. We found big pods of largies and smallies spread out over main lake grass beds in 20 feet of water and they refused to eat anything except NED rigs. I had just had a G Loomis rod modified with a set of Winn Grips, and a American Tackle Comfort reel seat. I fished that spinning rod almost all week. Funny thing I was standing over top of 14 other rods in the rod box. By late week they finally started eating swim jigs but should have been eating swimbaits and jerkbaits. The good news was were basically fishing to 4 to 8 pound bass as those big females were there by themselves. It was awesome!

My wife has a Dobyns Sierra SA 705SF she uses for her frogs/ big jigs and carolina rigs. We matched it up with a Pflueger Supreme 35. It costs $100. It is super smooth and balances really well on her rod. The bonus here is the retrieve rate is almost exactly the same inches per turn of handle that my Daiwa Tatula Type R 8-1 reel has. So that works out great for her. That reel is way smoother than her Shimano Symetre and I heard almost no issues with the Pfluegers. There were lots of complaints with the Symetre reels, that is why they were discontinued. If I was matching a reel to your Fury FR 703SF ( you had a mistype) I would consider the Supreme 30 size or a Pflueger Supreme XT in a 30 size reel. I personally like a 35 size reel, but most people like the 30 size. The Pflueger Supreme XT runs $150 so you would be in your budget either way. When it comes to baitcasters I am a Daiwa guy , but for spinning I have fished Pflueger reels for decades and they have always held up well.

I would expect you will be fine. I have not heard of any other complaints about this being an issue.

If you use the search box there are literally tons of postings on the Bassraider type boats. I always try doing a little research on topics since you sometimes have no idea what others have received as solutions.

Okay what do you mean by "bait finesse rod"? I am guessing you are looking to get a baitcaster that can handle light weight baits.. What type of lures do you want to throw on it? What weight range. What reel are you using? Traditionally high quality, sensitive spinning combos have handles most weightless and lightly weighted finesse style baits when fishing for bass. This was true for a lot of reasons including the fact most baitcasters could not do a good job throwing baits below 1/4 or 5/16. That was in the past. Now there is a trend towards using some of the high priced baitcasting reel designed with special spools and brake systems to throw these light weight baits. The trend towards longer rods has helped advance this as well. Reels like the Daiwa SV105 and the Tatula SV TWS and others are popular for this. Shimano has plenty of high end offerings as well. As for a rod it depends on your budget. Dobyns rods run a little lighter than specked so perhaps a Dobyns Sierra Series SA 682C or a Champion XP models DC 682C or DC 702C. Give Gary or his son Richard a call at Dobyns rods for a more complete answer.

One nice thing you would never have to worry about water pooling issues on that cover.

First I would give Fenwick a call and see what they would do. Ask if they have that same rod available in the new series. If they do not have a solution then I would look for a custom rod builder near you. Check with several local tackle shops. They usually know who does repairs and custom builds. If you can not find one you like you could contact my builder in MD. He does get rods shipped in periodically. I will share a recent problem I had and it resulted in a similar repair. I fish several G Loomis spinning rods. These are beloved to me but sometimes things happen. I fish these, these rods are not mantle pieces. I broke a G Loomis 6 foot SJR 721 spin jig rod. I covers 1/16 to 5/16 and it is so sensitive. Anyway it was at least 10 years old. I contacted my local tackle shop and they said they could handle the "no questions asked" warranty exchange. So off I went with money in hand to get its replacement. To my disappointment G Loomis had changed the newer model to an up locking reel seat. I hate them, so my best option was to pay the warranty cost plus an upgrade charge and get the same rod in IMX. That is what I did. I got home and could not wait to use it. I used it for several trips and realized this new "all Plastic" reel seat kept loosening up and the more often I tightened it up the more likely I was going to break it. My solution was to go to Tom's Custom rods. We decided to strip the entire full cork handle in the rear, the real seat, and the front cork section. We chose a set of Winn split grips and an American Tackle Comfort reel seat. You could choose any reel seat and grip system you want. Here are a couple of pics showing what the rod was originally and what I chose to setup it up with now. After fishing Ned rigs on it for almost a week I had Tom do the same changes to my SJR722.

Those microwave guides work extremely well. If you ever heard of Doug Hannon "The Bass Professor" He was involved in the design. Their purpose is to straighten the line as it comes off the reel thus allowing you to achieve a longer cast. They work well. I have a friend that is a custom rod builder and he has built several rods for my friends using those guides. Each one loves the rods. In addition to the guides on those TP-1 rods you get a cool set of Winn grips made of a special material. I had my friend do a custom rebuild on two of my expensive G Loomis IMX rods. We chose those grips in "natural" color and the same American Tackle Comfort Grip reel seat. I know the reel seat looks a little different than the normal rod out there, trust me they are the most comfortable seats I have ever used. As a package I fished my 6 foot ML IMX rod for days in April 2016. We were on Dale Hollow and caught the main spawning females just off their beds and hunkered down in grass flats on main lake. They were only there for several days before we arrived. The only bait they would eat were ned rigs. For 4 day we fished ned rigs practically all day. I doubt I have fished a spinning rod that much for decades. However when that is what the 4 to 7 pound smallies want I give it to them. LOL I am sure you will like that rod Check out this webpage http://www.americantackle.us/microwave_guides.html Here are some p[ics on the before and after on my rod upgrades. We chose to eliminate the full cork handle and after all of the changes were made the rod is more comfortable and I think it is more sensitive. I know it is lighter.

I have been fishing for over 40 years and used a lot of different brands. What my wife and I have "settled" in on as very reasonably priced but very reliable reels are made by Pflueger. A Pflueger President is a $50 reel that will perform smoothly and last for decades. We are fishing some that are less than 2 years old and some that are over 10 years old. The upgrade from that is the Pflueger Supreme, she fishes one of those and loves it. It runs around $100. She has a Shimano Symmetry and it cost more than her Supreme, it also got discontinued due to "binding" issues they never figured out how to repair. Hopefully hers is one that does not develop that problem. As for rods you did not mention what lures you want to throw so I will give you a few choices in rods but realize these will be "medium power fast action" rods. If you are more interested in a ML rod just drop down 1 rod in the series. I consider the medium to be the best all around rod for most finesse bass baits. The ML is better for super light baits and drop shotting. First up is a Dobyns 703SF. It is available in the fury series for $110, the Sierra series, which is an upgrade in blank and components, for $160, or a Champion series for around $230. Next check out a Powell rod. Look at a Max 3D 713 for around $160 Lastly checkout an Abu Garcia Ike series 7 foot medium spinning rod. It should run around $150. Put any of these rods and reels together for a nice combo.

I said to almost totally loosen the then so that is unspooled without hitting the release button. My purpose was only for the purpose to walk out the line and the put the line back on the reel smoothly using just the reel itself. If you did not tighten up the drag you might turn the handle but the spool might not turn. The reason for using a super light drag setting to accomplish this instead of hitting the release button is to avoid a major backlash. If the uneven line on the reel caused a problem while laying out the line you could easily create a bad enough backlash that your might have to cut it out. This trick of laying out the line by loosening a drag and walking it out is useful not only to correct a line stacking issue ( what you have) but also I will do it if I have a reel with fluoro, copoly or mono that has not been used in a while and is causing memory issues. In that case I will loosen the drag, set the rod in the V of my front yard tree and walk out the line. i will then reset he drag to about where it was and I will apply line conditioner on a rag. I will walk the line applying conditioner and keep using a different par of the rag. This technique can clean and condition any type line. By doing so I can run the down the line really tight the last time and remove most of the line memory. I have been doing this for years. Remember I own over two dozen rods just for me. I normally have around 10 to 12 baitcasters and at least 2 or 3 spinning rods in my rod locker at any one time. Some of my rods do not get used often. If you ever want to talk fishing issues on the phone we can do that sometime. Sometimes it is easier.

I always set my drag on a baitcaster around the 3/4 range. I need it to be able to release line if I pull hard on it but not so that I can not fight a fish. I never lock it all the way down or the fish can break off easier. I run it a little looser on a reel with braid due to no stretch in the line. It is almost a "feel" thing after years of fishing. The only time I would lock the drag all the way down is on my punching rod.

The boat was designed to fish sitting down. There were no raised decks because the boat was long and not real wide. It was equipped with up front stick steering. The boat measured 15 1/2 long,. I believe it was only 54" on the bottom. That size boat combined with the stick steering and a 40 horse max would make a raised deck sorta dangerous. The safest place to be when operating the outboard is sitting down in the boat, not up on it, I never had a motor on it larger than 25 HP and that is all I ever wanted to have on a boat like this. The hull was a Mod V design and the inside floor was not totally flat so fishing standing up was not a real good safe thing to do Dispite the smaller engine, the boat ran close to 18 mph and it fished really well. I rigged it as a multi species boat with rod holders storage, marker buoys, an anchor and winch, etc. I could deploy everything from my front seat. By the way this is a really good style of fishing machine if you are getting older, or if you fish with an older angler since you both are "inside" the boat. I miss that rig, it was fun and easy to operate. The picture number 3 shows the outboard that I removed from the Polar Kraft when i turned it into a reservoir electric only rig. I fished it as a gas engine powered boat for 4 years at first.

Well you know my arsenal. I use 3 Daiwa Tatula Type R 8-1 on my frog rod, flipping and punching rods. They work well for me, but to honest I have had very little time working with the Punching set up since I have been sick for the last year. I would have no doubt the extra drag on the 13 would be good. I just have never cast one.

Take a look at an Irod Genesis II model 703CC Gabes"s Rip Rap Special. Also a Champion XP 704 CB this is not one of Gary's glass rods. Another good option would be an Abu Garcia "Ike" Series Delay Cast Rod 7' Medium moderate. I fish the 703cc and a shorter version of the Ike rod. Mine is a 6'4" for throwing jerkbaits. I like both rods a lot.

Boy congrats on moving up to a boat. You and I have written back and forth many times. Here is the deal in MD. There are two totally different opportunities to use a boat in MD. One is the electric only reservoir rig (we have no "lakes" except for Deep Creek in MD) so this type boat can fish our 5 reservoirs. If you set up a boat and select Liberty/Pretty Boy, Loch Raven you can not use it anywhere else. If you set up a reservoir boat but do not fish the big 3 you have lots of fishing options. These includes Tridelphia, Rocky Gorge, Piney Run, Black Hills, and a few more. Reservoir rigs are specialized boats, but can be really great rigs. They unfortunately do not work real well in tidal waters because long narrow, flat bottom or mod V aluminum boats work best for electric rigs. They can have two trolling motors on the rear and a front one, like my old reservoir rig had, or one large higher horsepower electric outboard (see Ray Electic, Torqueedo, and a few other units). Some of these require 60 volts worth of batteries and their cost is high, but they are the best rig for serious reservoir fishing. Fiberglass does not fit well in this world. The tow rig needs only be a small truck or SUV. I prefer the truck as it is easier to tow with due to its longer wheel base. Trucks like the Toyota Tacoma and Tundra, Ford F150s, Chevy Colorado and Silverado. A V 6 is what is needed, but a V8 works even better. These boats are relatively light. I pull my 17 1/2 Lowe with a Chevy S-10. The best rigs for tidal river fishing are either bigger deep V aluminum and 18 to 21 foot fiberglass boats. These take much bigger engines ( 150 - 200 HP) and weigh closer to 2000 pounds or more. This takes a full size pickup, or SUV. The cost of a good used boat here is much more. If you have some time we can talk more on the phone. Here are a couple of pics, two are pics of my Polar Kraft that I turned into a reservoir rig for a while. The other is my current aluminum bass boat. I lived in Reisterstown and fished Piney Run, Dale Hollow, Center Hill Lake (both in TN.), Lake Marburg and other places with the Lowe. I fished Pretty Boy Reservoir with the Polar Kraft. We owned both boats at the time. Again I would be happy to go into it more with you.

Blame it on the fireworks LOL

Yes they do. Go to TW and click on spinning rods, then select Daiwa. It will open to all the Daiwa spinning rods. The Sierra rods are located to the left of the Fury rods.

That is not true. Gary sells the Fury for $110, then the Sierra spinning rods for $159 to $169. The Champion XP spinning rods go for $229 to $250. My wife owns a Sierra SA 705SF for her heavy action rod. She can use it to throw hollow bodied frogs, big jigs and carolina rigs. It specs as a 7 foot heavy fast and rates for baits thst weigh between 3/8 to 1 1/4. She loves that thing. It is matched up with a Pflueger Supreme 35 series reel. It pull in as much line as my 8-1 Tatula Type R baitcasting reel.

Okay I have to ask what size swimbaits? These baits range from plastic swimbaits ( rather lightweight) to the big ones that may weigh over 7 ounces. If you are talking about the standard Huddlestons or things like a Deps Slide Swimmer, than a rod that covers up to 5 ounces should be fine. For that I would consider a Dobyns Champion XP series model 795 SB. They run all the way up to a rod like the DC 908 which handles a ridiculous 8 to 24 ounce bait. When it comes to reels look for one of the Abu round reels or a Shimano round reel. They make some good ones as far as I know. This is a bit specialized technique so I would spend some time on you tube watching videos and make note what reels they are using most often.

You are going to be amazed by the sensitivity and balance of the rod. That balance thing is hard to explain but once you fish all day with it you will appreciate it for sure. I have had several members come back and tell me how different it felt, but that is something Gary Dobyns strives for in every rod he sells.

Oh that is easy if your budget is unlimited!! Okay here is where it gets into a little bit of a problem. Sometimes we want a rod top do everything. Here is a great rod for frogging, pitching, flipping, big heavy jigs, carolina rigs and some small swimbaits. Look at a Dobyns Champion XP series model DC 735C rod. I actually fish with the 7 foot version of this rod for my frogs, big jigs and carolina rigs. I chose the shorter rod because that is the longest I can fit in my rod locker, but the 735C is the better choice. Now you asked about popping and other lures. If you mean like a Strike King Pepping Perch then it is fine, if you meant a top water popping bait like a Chug Bug or Pop R I would choose a DC 734C for that bait most of the time. Anyway I would match that rod up with a Daiwa Tatula CT in a 8-1 right handed reel or a Tatula CT Type R in a 8-1 leftie depending on your preference. Either way I would spool it up with Power Pro Spectra 65 pound test line. That is exactly what I use.

The 15% is a sale on everything. If you look at the banner on top you will see it. I am sure the discount will be applied when you check out with your cart full. There is a red ="shop now button, I am not sure how it works. I have fished many of the waters over on the shore. I love fishing Wye Mills and Tuckahoe lake. If you look at the Fury 734 you could easily fish a frog like a MR Ribbit or even a Hollow bodied frog, obviously the 735 is a better choice for bigger frogs. The MR Ribbits are what Dobyns refers to as Horny Toads LOl. However you could also throw a buzzbait in that same situation. I fish them both sometimes. Another idea would be something like a Buzz Plug or a Strike King Popping Perch, man that might work really well on that rod too.