eightydee

I live in northern Minnesota and middle of last year I bought a Abu Garcia baitcasting rod and reel combo. After learning to cast it without a bird's nest, I wanted to target bass. As I was raised to fish northerns and walleyes. I kayak fish as well as off shore. I have a few lakes, one is my secret lake that does not have public access and it just AMAZING for bass, northerns as well as a sturgeon or two. Anyways, I love the BooYah Pad Crasher frog. I have went through.... a few and that's all I am going to say about that. I bet you could guess what other fish likes to hit them. Anyways, I can't place the hook! They hit, I pull and rip it out of their mouths and I don't pull that hard. So I started to wait than pull. Still nothing. This is for bass as northerns, the ones I do hook turn right around and snip the line. Any tips for using the BooYah Pad Crasher frog with bass? Kind of embarrassing to be asking this as I come from a long family of die hard fishers.

I am actually new to bass fishing as I was raised to fish northerns or walleyes here in northern Minnesota. This year I am learning to target bass more. I have a few lakes I LOVE to fish on the range and I am the only one I know that kayak fishes. I would love to find a club or so to help and fish with and possibly a trip.

That would be amazing if you could send it. I think I found the schematic but not sure. I actually would love to just clean it up and possibly buy a rod from that era. Keep it on a wall to bring up fish stories. I did snap the Daiwa rod that my grandfather mounted it on from the bowfin. I know they are selling for 40 to 60 dollars with the leather case on eBay but I do not have plans as this is one of the first Abu reels so I think it's pretty cool.

Hello! I received this Abu Ambassadeur 5000 from my grand father a few months ago. I used it once and caught a nice bowfin. Actually my first bowfin. I want to kind of restore it and keep it as I am a fan of Abu Garcia products. Since this is before Abu Garcia added the Garcia, it has to be 50's to 70's reel. It is dirty but I would love to keep this around. Any information or information leading to ways to restore it or clean it up would be amazing! I had to use Imgur for the pictures. https://imgur.com/FHSMkZX https://imgur.com/A22Ih7K https://imgur.com/XSXhkOR