BigTimeBassin

have a 7'2 mh expride and a 7'2 jwr IMX pro. They are both fantastic, I find the grip/reel seat on the expride a bit more comfortable, both fantastic rods.

Right there with you.. this weather has been discouraging.

Expride to me punches quite above it's price tag. Really can't go wrong.

Those look pretty good. It’s hard to tell from the pics on amazon, does the bottom part of the keeper offer a loop to attach t rigged plastics without popping the hook tip out of the bait?

Beat the bank with it for a bit yesterday. Throwing a 3/8 jig. Coming from the SLX rod, the sensitivity is insane. Didn’t catch anything, it it was pretty amazing to feel it bump off something and know exactly what I was hitting. edit* mobile really made a mess of that. Whoops.

Thanks man! Needless to say, I am beyond ready to get out there. Just waiting on the weather to cooperate just a little more.

Bantam paired with an expride, chronarch with an imx pro, curado k on a dobyns fury 735c. All new for this season. Bait monkey got me good this year...

For me, no question about it. Texas rigged strike king rage menace. I started back up fishing two years ago after having not since I was in my early teens (33 now). First year back I just had a spinning rod and threw a lot of senkos with decent success. Year two I got my first bait caster, started doing a lot of reading and watching youtube, expanding my tackle selection a bit. May 30th, I'm out at the dam on my local lake, I see a couple of kids catching some big bass throwing a weighted lizard. I tie on a rage menace with a 1/4oz weight and proceed to have the most incredible day of fishing I ever had. Little did I know at the time that New York was right in the middle of spawn and I was catching bedding bass. Must have caught a dozen in the 3-4.5 pound range that day, and quite a few others. The rest of late spring and all through the summer you bet I had a rage menace tied on at all times.