What Are Y'all Throwing The New-Ish Kvd 8.0 On?

[J Francho]

And a 3/4 oz. bait isn't really all that monstrous.  I throw that size all day long on my Avid AVC70MHM cranking stick.

[Bass_Fanatic]

I don't think your going to get more than around 20" out of that bait.  At least I can't, even burning it.

Mine runs 3-4 ft on 16ob sniper.

[JGBassinAL]

I just listened to a podcast where hackney said it will dive 10ft on 20lb fluoro. That's part of what he won pickwick on. 20lb fluoro on a 300 sized reel and his flippin stick

 

I watched Hackney fish this tournament on Championship day and the spot he was fishing was 4-5 ft deep. He fished this spot the whole time so he must have tested the 8.0 on a different spot if he felt it hit 10ft on 20 lb fluoro. Every fish I saw him catch came on a jig but I'm sure he caught some on the 8.0 too. In my experience, throwing this bait on a 7'4" medium heavy glass crankin rod with 15 lb fluoro, it will go down to 6-7 ft. And that bait on the glass crankin rod casts a good 35 yards which is plenty for it to get down close to maximum depth. I haven't tried long-lining or dipping my rod tip under the water to get it deeper tho...

 

Edit: And I didn't mean that in a ***** kind of way Grantman83 lol didn't want you to think I was being like that.

[TrapperJ]

7'6" MH Duckett Ghost seemed to work fine for me and dang these 8.0 are huuuuuuuuge. 

[Grantman83]

I watched Hackney fish this tournament on Championship day and the spot he was fishing was 4-5 ft deep. He fished this spot the whole time so he must have tested the 8.0 on a different spot if he felt it hit 10ft on 20 lb fluoro. Every fish I saw him catch came on a jig but I'm sure he caught some on the 8.0 too. In my experience, throwing this bait on a 7'4" medium heavy glass crankin rod with 15 lb fluoro, it will go down to 6-7 ft. And that bait on the glass crankin rod casts a good 35 yards which is plenty for it to get down close to maximum depth. I haven't tried long-lining or dipping my rod tip under the water to get it deeper tho...

Edit: And I didn't mean that in a ***** kind of way Grantman83 lol didn't want you to think I was being like that.

Lol don't worry man cause I wasn't taking it that way. I trust your experience with it.

[Bluebasser86]

Wonder how hard that 8.0 will pull?

Not bad at all really, similar to like a SK series 5 or Spro Little John DD.