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Finally had a chance to check out my local Walmart to see if they had any of their evos ringing up on clearance. Unfortunately, this Walmart didn't have any, but they had the Evo Light spinning rod. So I had to pick one up.

I picked up 2 reels for $12 each off temu.... for when I'm shuffling line around. They work great so far. Probably get a few more in case I want to store line till I'm ready to spool it.

Thanks for the info, I'll research it more when I get a chance.

I picked some up from bps the other day to try. I haven't spooled any reels with it yet. Besides for some spinning reels I'm going to try it out on a gen 5 revo SX SS. I heard supposedly that the shallow spools make it easier to use thinner braid. I saw some of the inshore guys using the Lews SP SS reels for speckled trout and redfish. So this is what I got the reel for.

I know the recent trends are getting away from using traditional wallets. But I still carry mine and use it to wrap around and break off. I used to use branches i could find on the ground. But I started worrying about line fray from the rough branches. So a sturdy wallet does the trick. It's currently decorated with little hashes on the edges from the line lol

I would start out with a Light powered rod or even a ML if you wanted. Handing rods from Amazon or the dragon II rods off Aliexpress or bfs empire. I use 4 lb fluorocarbon for my Light power rods. Then maybe 1/16th or 1/8th ounce roadrunners to practice casting with. Roadrunners with small swimbaits are my favorite light lures to throw. They catch everything

I just picked up the wes Logan all chatter. I really liked the Medium Leatherman so I decided to get the all chatter. Hoping it's as good as the Tharp rods. When it's not a 15 degree wind chill in Texas I can try it out.

It's got plenty of power for bass. I use it with 2 lb samurai FC and caught some decent bass. I haven't caught one as big as the one i caught with my Old 18 Authentic yet. Old 18 is another option if you want an UL that can handle bass.

I don't really like the current debate about left retrieve vs right online. People are straight toxic on reddit and youtube. Someone will post a picture of their new reel and someone will respond with "hope you are left handed" "just do it the right way ". It seems like it would be discouraging for people. We should all be on the same team. When I was growing up, nobody liked fishing, besides for a few friends. Everyone else said it was boring. With casting i prefer to trigger grip to cast and spider grip to palm the reel during the retrieve. The easiest way it seems for me to do this, is to go from right trigger to left palm because that's only switching hands once. I've seen the videos of people casting right trigger, then switch to right palming, most switch hands twice because they'll offload the weight to their left hand while holding the handle knob then switch to right palming offloading the weight back to the right hand. That's twice. With spinning reels I switch the handles to the right side but that's because I do most of my spinning reel fishing with live bait. So it's muscle memory with lures.

My dad was real frugal when I was growing up and he'd buy rods and reels on sale. He'd want my brother and I to take care of everything so it would last. So we would use the same gear for 5 to 10 years. So when I got older I guess I rebelled against my dad and started buying all kinds of different brands and models just to try things out. I made it a policy for awhile to make sure not to buy the same models. But I liked the latest SS Air so much I got a 2nd one.

Don't do it! It's a trap! The baitmonkey just wants you to find a new "warm and fuzzy"! I thought i would be getting less spinning tackle after trying BFS but the baitmonkey said "well now you need to step up your spinning game" All kidding aside, when I tried BFS, it was quite meh because I was already using spinning tackle and having a blast UL and L fishing. But what it did was just give me something new to be obsessed with. Especially now with the CDM market blowing up. There's so many reels and rods.

Wanted to try out Ark rods, so i got one of the new Wes Logan Leatherman do everything regular Action rods. Then the baitmonkey wanted another SS Air for the 7'6 Cashion BFS

I have the TW exclusive UL and the 7'6 L. They definitely have fast actions and are stiff or crisp. I'm not sure how to describe. I have other UL rods that kind of bounce around when I walk with them while the Cashion UL doesn't. I'd imagine the ML probably has a similar stiffness as the UL and L

Tackle Advisors will always be my main channel to watch. But after he stopped putting out videos as often , I had to find 10 other channels to get my reel porn fix. Thereeltest was one of them. But I kind of stopped listening to him and just watch the videos for the reel porn. I don't care how much he shills for the Aldebaran, I like the SS Air more. (I have both). I should make my own channel and call it thereelpornfix. No talking, no shilling, just the closeup shots you're looking for so you can make your own decisions if you want to buy the reel. Edit: i went and created a Gmail and YouTube account with that name

I have the shallow spool edition. Like mentioned, it can get down to bfs weights but not the best at it. I have mine on a ALX Light+ spinning rod custom made into a casting rod with carbon grips. The different paint job pairs well with the carbon grips. It works great with small keitech swimbaits. But I ended up really liking the rod for it's intended purpose, which was drop shot. 5 lb Sniper and a Light+ really makes the shallow spool shine as a reel for blurring the line between bfs and regular bass finesse (ML). Also I'm not too worried about the aluminum gears because I keep drag low for drop shot.