Smells like fish Posted May 3, 2020 Posted May 3, 2020 A beautiful thing happened this Sunday evening! My bait monkey suggested I take measures to enlarge my topwater game. So I have on the way... Lucky Craft Sammy 128 in Aurora Gold Lucky Craft Sammy 115 in Pearl Shad Lucky Craft Sammy 85 in Ghost Nishiki 1 Quote
bigjean663 Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 Rather small purchase compared to most others on here but I’m pumped about this package. Not sure which one I’m more excited about but the trash fish I can’t wait to tie on. Little Allen color and Bluegill on the frogs. Just Shad and ghost hitch for the trash fish 5 Quote
Throwafrog Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 11 minutes ago, bigjean663 said: Rather small purchase compared to most others on here but I’m pumped about this package. Not sure which one I’m more excited about but the trash fish I can’t wait to tie on. Little Allen color and Bluegill on the frogs. Just Shad and ghost hitch for the trash fish Looks like you've been watchin tactical bassin! Nice choices tho 2 Quote
Quarry Man Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 I can't get my postimage links to show as images and not links. any help? Quote
bigjean663 Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, Throwafrog said: Looks like you've been watchin tactical bassin! Nice choices tho There’s no denying that. I had been looking for a smaller profile frog and just so happen to see their top water video last week i think. As for the trash fish, I’ve seen so many people talk about them and rave about them so I had to give it a shot lol. 1 Quote
Smells like fish Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 58 minutes ago, bigjean663 said: Rather small purchase compared to most others on here but I’m pumped about this package. Not sure which one I’m more excited about but the trash fish I can’t wait to tie on. Little Allen color and Bluegill on the frogs. Just Shad and ghost hitch for the trash fish To the man that loves fishing and lures there isn't any small purchases- only smallmouths uh and largemouths these baits bringing out my poetic trying sound smart side ? 2 Quote
Super User jbsoonerfan Posted May 6, 2020 Super User Posted May 6, 2020 A couple new items arrived. Finally got the Met 20. Put it on a 7'3 MH Poison Adrena, pretty sick setup. Next is the 6'6 M Expride paired up with a Aldebaran 50HG for Jerkbaits, light weight is an understatement on this one. 8 Quote
Derek1 Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 17 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said: A couple new items arrived. Finally got the Met 20. Put it on a 7'3 MH Poison Adrena, pretty sick setup. Next is the 6'6 M Expride paired up with a Aldebaran 50HG for Jerkbaits, light weight is an understatement on this one. Nice stuff. Quote
Smells like fish Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 The school of Sammies was in today's mail and then to fan the flames I stopped by the tackle store for extra pack senkos and a tool. Some used lures were on the counter and I got a Bagley Fat Cat and an ET 2 same as new. The bait monkey happily gave his blessing by providing his best Roland Martin impression saying "Oh son!!!!" 8 Quote
Ksam1234 Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 Finally got the new rod and reel combo! This thing feels and looks amazing! Get to fully try it out tomrorow! The new daiwa rebellion 7’3” MH/F 12 Quote
kayaking_kev Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 I think I finally settled on a reel for my Xtasy 723c, I got this Tatula SV TW103 last week and it feels great together. I did have a Tatula 100 on it, but my brief experiment with left handed reels has ended already and so far this has been my favorite Daiwa reel out of the Tatula 100, Tatula CT Type-R, Catalina TW, which were all three handed reels. The Catalina was super nice also, but I just like the smaller size and weight of this Tatula SV better. As far as people comparing the SV spool to the Shimano DC reels, I would say they are close, but the DC still seems a little better in the wind, but I haven't spent as much time with the SV yet as the DC, so my opinion might change. But, the biggest difference between this reel and my DC is the weight, this one weights over an 1 oz less. So I would say SV for lighter rods and DC for heavier rods, IMO. 8 Quote
Jason.Domingo Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Ksam1234 said: Finally got the new rod and reel combo! This thing feels and looks amazing! Get to fully try it out tomrorow! The new daiwa rebellion 7’3” MH/F Interested to see how sensitive it is with the HVF blank..keep us updated! Quote
Ksam1234 Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, Jason.Domingo said: Interested to see how sensitive it is with the HVF blank..keep us updated! Will do! It seems pretty sensitive in hand and at home testing, I’ll be out tomorrow and give it the full test. As if right now it has a lot of backbone with a pretty soft tip. It’s a lot softer than some of my other Mh tips which are Pretty stiff. I’ll be using this for small open hook swimbaits and weedless. Maybe a few other applications so I’m liking the soft tip Quote
YoTone Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 On 5/4/2020 at 9:42 PM, Quarry Man said: I can't get my postimage links to show as images and not links. any help? ive been using an app called compress. it helps resize them small enough to post on this forum. 1 Quote
BassMetal Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 I ordered quite a bit the last few days. Since the havoc line has been discontinued for awhile I found some online and stock up for awhile. Bait monkey got me good enough. H20 xpress ethos nano 7ft mh rod H20 xpress ethos hd reel Suffix Siege 12lb Berkley Pit Boss Black/Blue 5, June Bug 2, Perfection 4, Green Pumpkin Purple Fleck 2, Green Pumpkin 7 (20 packs total) Zoom Mag 2 Black Zoom Mag 2 Black Grape Zoom Speed Craw Black, Black Sapphire, Green Pumpkin Orange Grandebass Beaver Craw Black Blue Fleck, Okeechobee Craw Reaction Innovations Pocket Rocket Green Pumpkin, Spiked Watermelon, Watermelon Red Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20 June bag 2, Tramp Stamp 2, Black Light 3, California 2 Eagle Claw Lazer EWG 2/0 and 3/0 20 pk each Bullet weight 1/4 oz. 5pk 3 Plano Pro Latch Box 3731 Had to do some stocking up and gift myself a new rod and reel. 3 Quote
Ksam1234 Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 On 5/7/2020 at 11:43 PM, Jason.Domingo said: Interested to see how sensitive it is with the HVF blank..keep us updated! @FryDog62 soo update on the new Daiwa Rebellion rods. They are very aesthetically pleasing to the eye as all foreign rods are. I had the 7 3 Mh/f rod and it looked great, everything was lined up correctly and no issues with guides etc. I weighed it on my scale at 4.4 -4.5 oz depending on how it sat but with this being said it felt awkward. I don’t like the real seat as I like to palm my whole reel in my hand and the trigger part was higher up it felt like and it was rubbing shading my pinky pretty hard. It made it awkward for me to set the hook or to feel as much. The sensitivity wasn’t horrible but not as good as I wanted for a 200$ rod. I usually use ALX rods and find that for the extra 15$ I would rather go with a ALX zolo series than this. I will give credit as the rebellion has a lot of power in the backbone and it was a nice soft tip, it loaded very well as I was casting a 1/4 oz swimbait and up to a 1/2 oz with ease. It seemed “bulkier” than most rods tho. I would compare it to a shimano zodias in terms of sensitive but the zodias “feels” better to me personally. It didn’t fit neatly into my hands and the blank seemed bigger than normal.. I ended up returning it and just going with my usual.. I upgraded a little bit and got the ALX ENOX series rod the decoy... now this I know is going to be amazing when I get it. I have a few zolo series so I can only imagine what the step up would be. More to follow on that rod when it comes in 3 Quote
Jason.Domingo Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Ksam1234 said: @FryDog62 soo update on the new Daiwa Rebellion rods. They are very aesthetically pleasing to the eye as all foreign rods are. I had the 7 3 Mh/f rod and it looked great, everything was lined up correctly and no issues with guides etc. I weighed it on my scale at 4.4 -4.5 oz depending on how it sat but with this being said it felt awkward. I don’t like the real seat as I like to palm my whole reel in my hand and the trigger part was higher up it felt like and it was rubbing shading my pinky pretty hard. It made it awkward for me to set the hook or to feel as much. The sensitivity wasn’t horrible but not as good as I wanted for a 200$ rod. I usually use ALX rods and find that for the extra 15$ I would rather go with a ALX zolo series than this. I will give credit as the rebellion has a lot of power in the backbone and it was a nice soft tip, it loaded very well as I was casting a 1/4 oz swimbait and up to a 1/2 oz with ease. It seemed “bulkier” than most rods tho. I would compare it to a shimano zodias in terms of sensitive but the zodias “feels” better to me personally. It didn’t fit neatly into my hands and the blank seemed bigger than normal.. I ended up returning it and just going with my usual.. I upgraded a little bit and got the ALX ENOX series rod the decoy... now this I know is going to be amazing when I get it. I have a few zolo series so I can only imagine what the step up would be. More to follow on that rod when it comes in Thank you for the update! I was only asking because I too have a Rebellion coming in but in the 7’ M spinning model. The HVF had me curious because I have a Tatula Bass that uses the SVF blank and I find that rod for the money to be quite sensitive. Anyways thanks again for the review! 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted May 11, 2020 Global Moderator Posted May 11, 2020 Getting ready for frogging season, hopefully if it ever warms up and stays that way. This was a hard color for me to find for anything very close to retail price, not sure why. 7 Quote
Super User MIbassyaker Posted May 12, 2020 Super User Posted May 12, 2020 Small order from former BR sponsor Bizz Baits just arrived: They have a very good stickworm (the Sassy Stick), and excellent laminate colors, very cleanly-done. Some of their bait designs: 9 Quote
Mbirdsley Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 Weather really has not been that cooperative up here in the north country hope it changes soon. I ordered about 100 bucks worth of tungsten weights ( only the 1/2 oz is shown). So far I ordered a lot of 6 war eagle spinner baits which, came in various sizes and unique colors I can’t wait to throw. I also had another 2 pack of 1/2 white lime color show What came that really excites me are these kvd 1.5 silent flat side cranks. Package says square bill but, they don’t have a square bill. I’m hopping these will replace my bomber 6a and 7 a cranks. Even though, I have caught plenty on the 4A size bombers I can’t buy a bite on the bigger bomber cranks. Trying to fill the medium depth hole in my crank arsenal 7 Quote
Derek1 Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jason.Domingo said: 7’ M spinning model Looks very nice. Quote
Jason.Domingo Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 Feels good in hand just sucks theres no hook keeper Quote
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