07-08-2014, 06:05 AM
Glad to hear your enjoying your setup. My use of word flimsy"was a bad choice of word, I should rather said "the 7'm has a slightly slower action than the 6'6"M.
I know what you mean, I have hundreds of dollars of lures that sit at home in boxes most of the time. Around here a live crawdad performs quite well also and if you take a liking to live bait, the 7'is a better choice overall for sure.
In artificial baits I like plastic things I can use for more than one thing. Like the speedcraw, I can fish it weightless topwater as a small mammel or an undersurface frog or add weight and swim while jigging it as a frog or on bottom as a crawdad. Its one of the only baits I have used that catches nearly every freshwater species in north America consistently for me.
Shimano makes dependable reels. I used to use the 40 size, the larger spool is more manageable but I have had some bad experiences with all fluorocarbon on my spinning reels with all makes of line I have used and have seen fish actually look at my braid and then swim off. When I fish un/slightly weighted small baits like I to use a 1'leader and cast that too, as in, don't reel the knot into the tip, it will get you a few extra feet in casting distance.
I only changed to a 20 series because they hold a full 150yrd spool of #10 braid over the backing.
I hope you catch many trout Wednesday and add memories that will be stories that inspire others to more appreciate our hobby. :-)
the best advice I can think of to increase your catching with artificial is try to "create a silhouette", make fish think your "worm" is a bream's back that they just caught a glimpse of. Be blessed. :-)
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I know what you mean, I have hundreds of dollars of lures that sit at home in boxes most of the time. Around here a live crawdad performs quite well also and if you take a liking to live bait, the 7'is a better choice overall for sure.
In artificial baits I like plastic things I can use for more than one thing. Like the speedcraw, I can fish it weightless topwater as a small mammel or an undersurface frog or add weight and swim while jigging it as a frog or on bottom as a crawdad. Its one of the only baits I have used that catches nearly every freshwater species in north America consistently for me.
Shimano makes dependable reels. I used to use the 40 size, the larger spool is more manageable but I have had some bad experiences with all fluorocarbon on my spinning reels with all makes of line I have used and have seen fish actually look at my braid and then swim off. When I fish un/slightly weighted small baits like I to use a 1'leader and cast that too, as in, don't reel the knot into the tip, it will get you a few extra feet in casting distance.
I only changed to a 20 series because they hold a full 150yrd spool of #10 braid over the backing.
I hope you catch many trout Wednesday and add memories that will be stories that inspire others to more appreciate our hobby. :-)
the best advice I can think of to increase your catching with artificial is try to "create a silhouette", make fish think your "worm" is a bream's back that they just caught a glimpse of. Be blessed. :-)
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