JediAmoeba

No problem, it is adjustable so you can change it to a left or right hand retrieve! Good luck!

Yeah dude, you have it tightened up wrong. Loosen it up all the way until the joint on the handle side will bend out further...reseat it and then tighten up the nut again.

Running out of something is my biggest fear...which is why when I have 1 or 2 packs left of something I go buy 10 more. Sigh.

If you have a picture that would be helpful but it sounds like you may need to back the nut off the handle, make sure it is seated correctly and retighten it. Also, being a cheap reel it may be flexing a lot and getting caught.

I think you are spot on with the seasonal disparity. Our northern bass are basically in suspended animation for 1/4 of the year where they aren't seeing ANY lures except maybe live bait or jigs, if anything. The northern bass also have other predatory fish to compete against (muskie, Pike and pickerel) and with a shorter feeding window on the year need to be a little more aggressive.

Lew's American Hero.

Does anyone ever have problems getting spooled? The first 30 or 40 yards of line on my spools only ever sees the light of day twice...when it goes on and when it comes off. Since I use braid for almost all of my main lines if the line is getting worn out I just reel it on to another reel to reverse it. I fished for muskie a lot and never had a fish spool me... Leaders get changed out all the time but the main line is always fine. When buying line I figured out those small 150 yard or so spools were worthless as I would end up only getting 1 1/2 spools of line....better to get the 300+ so I have less waste.

For soft plastics nothing has ever totally satisfied me but the best thing so far is big clear zipper tackle bags separated by style with the baits in their original packaging. Hardbaits go in any number of different size and shape Plano and other brands of boxes. Rustrictor boxes look neat and I may get a few of those...

I got 2 kastkings...one quit working after 2 short adventures - the thumb "bar" quit disengaging after casting. I tore it down and tightened the reel up with a washer but it still doesn't always like to engage after casting. So that one sits in the dark corner on a shelf. The second one lasted 1 outting and will not stop squeaking...I have torn it apart and oiled it, sprayed it with reel magic and lubed it but it still squeaks...so that one works but I won't use it again either. I feel duped by these reels as everyone was posting videos and reviews touting these cheap but high quality reels - as it turns out these were all "sponsored" reviews they got from giving out free stuff to anglers. And forget returning it because that is more a pain in the butt than anything. The Kastking rods I bought though are pretty nice. I like those a lot for the price... I would also like to add I have never had a reel you can feel flex when hung up or fighting a fish...that bothered me a lot.

Depending on the depth, you can mostly get away with unweighted Texas rigged plastics - worms, craws or lizards. Depends what you have in there for forage. If it's a little deeper and the bottom isn't weedy and/or sludge you can use a 1/8 oz jighead with a curlytail grub. I would also recommend coming back after dark - 11pm to 1 am and throw a chatterbait with a craws or flappy trailer a few feet off the shore going around. Reel moderately slow and you will get some hits...

After seeing how well the feathered trebles look on the Gantarel's I have I put some slightly smaller feathered trebles on my s wavers so they stay up against the bait better when in the water. I have only caught 3 fish with this setup but I haven't missed any...

That's crazy to me. I don't even put those two baits to be used in the same way.

Usually more than I intend, but on the other hand, more intentions than executions.

Small pieces of gizzard on small circle hooks that are suspended below a bobber works great for my kids. They catch the occasional bullhead too.

A fly rod with mayfly patterned fly on it?

The way I see it (if you are hell-bent on it only being one rod) your best option is a medium rod. You are going to lose control on light rigs and heavy rigs. Feel will also be compromised on a lot of applications but it will be "doable". There is a reason they market so many different rods, powers and flexes...

Sounds like you need a kastking perigee ii. You can get 2 different rod tips that will cover your needs.

When I was 19-22 I kept a journal of every fish I caught. Date, Water temp, air temp, amount of cloud cover, lure color and barometric pressure. I always thought these things were worthwhile... If you are trying to pattern catches it is worthwhile.

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You have to search on line for a picture that truly represents the "wings"! Looks like it is mimicking a bird in the water.

Cool. Maybe they are rebranding everything. That would explain their vast amounts of out of stocks. I totally forgot about those infomercials that played during in fisherman's show. I just know I never experienced any trouble with their baits and they ran truer than anything else out of the package.

I kept seeing their ads pop up on Facebook and when they had a BOGO sale finally decided to get 2 rods. I have to say for ~65 bucks per rod I am highly impressed. They are better for me than the tatula, Lew's or Duckett rods I have. They are well worth retail price. As far as the reels go - after getting duped into getting a few kastkings and a piscafun I won't make that mistake again getting a knockoff reel...

Was this with the originals? I used them and caught some really nice Pike (40+ inchers) and never had one snap. I can only remember one snapping and that was one that was probably 10 years old.

When I first discovered Terminator spinnerbaits back in the late 90's I loved them. I was fishing for bass but more often than not catching Pike and pickerel and they destroyed typical spinnerbaits - the titanium ones didn't get destroyed. I quickly put an order through to get all the different size spinnerbaits, all the different sized blades to swap out and fished them all the time. They released 6 and 12 inch titanium leaders and I bought a bunch of those too... I have since lost most of them over the years and wanted to replace some but I notice the selection is gone and the few I did get don't seem to work as well. I looked on the website and notice most items are out of stock. I always had great luck with the indiana blades and those are just about impossible to find in different sizes. There also used to be different colors of blades, like red and black and those are nowhere to be found. So is Rapala dropping the whole line, I haven't seen anything stating as such?

I don't think kids and the younger market are buying bass mafia boxes though. Or 6 dollar bait packs. These guys all started out with cheap stuff...like most kids.