Damon

You took the words right out of my mouth! You got to be from South Carolina cause here, 7 foot will cause you to loose your religion. You got to become Batman to throw your line anywhere due to brush or trees. I’ve read all the articles and watched video after video but almost always I throw that monster pole back in the truck and grab my flee market special Zebco Sling Shot on its 2 piece 5’6” pole with crappy braid. Recently, I’ve resorted to making my own pole using Mudhole.com. They got any power, action, length, handles, eyes, colors and reel seat combinations you can think of. I’d still like someone to give me their take on their setup for same situations.

I have really been reading up on rod & reels, lines & tackle, and techniques for the purpose of buying the best set up for fishing for panfish in my area. The low land, swampy holes of good ole South Carolina. Here, all water is at best murky and almost every good spot for panfish is covered with pads, algae, down limbs, weeds, cattails, etc. The water bottoms are usually gunky too. My problem is no one every writes articles on this sort of setting. No one ever makes videos of fishing these areas. Clearer waters, gravel bottoms, and if there’s cover, it’s light and easily fished around as compared to here. (1) I want a set up for throwing a lightweight in-line spinner. Rod, reel, line, size of spinner, color. (2) I want to try some kind of artificial with a sliding bobber. Maybe something like a jig head with a curly tail. (3) would just like to get some opinions on anything else to use other than a live crickets or worms. Keeping in mind the war zone of cover I described above in the holes I fish. Also, sometimes it’s not the cover in the water but the crap I got to fish over to get to the water.