I REALLY like my 7'6" MH Omen Black for punching. Super stout (no idea how they call that a MH) but still has some tip to it. I regularly punch w/ 1.25oz tungsten and a double wide beaver, so easily 1.6oz of weight, and the rod doesn't feel overmatched on this technique at all. (Mind you, that ...

I bring 8-9 setups as a non-boater. Maybe it helps that I'm really good buds with all of my boater friends. :) I'll echo the DX743 suggestion - that's a versatile rod I picked up this spring and so far I really like it. My general list of rigs are built to do the following: - Frog - Punch - 1/2 or 3...

DX703 w/ Curado 201e7 and 30# Samurai braid.
I have been throwing a lot of 3/16oz tungsten w/ 3/0 hook and a 4" chigger craw or YUM craw papi this season with the still-spawning behaviour of the bass. Been doing very well w/ this setup.

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Ok, so 2 internal brakes 'on' and dial set at 3.5...was slinging 5" weightless senkos a country mile on a Dobyns DX743! Amazing smooth reel! Completely in love with it.

Ok so NONE of the brakes were on. I turned on 2 and exterior dial to 5/6. Will test it out this weekend.

Crap I just realized that since I bought it 'lightly used' that the internal SVS are probably set to 0 on! I'll switch that up tonight to 2 or 3 and see how it goes in the yard.

I picked up a Curado 71XG over the off-season and it came spooled with 50# power pro. (I absolutely hate power pro... feels like steel cable IMO). In the 4 outings I've been using this reel, on a DX743 rod, I have casted without backlash exactly zero times. All my other reels are 201E series (curado...

Thanks for those links. However, none of them are what I was using. They looked exactly like a typical EWG worm hook but had the (maybe 20*) bend off-centre from the point to the first bend into the throat of the book. I may start bending factory gamakatsu EWG hooks, but I really don't like doing th...

I recall 5-7 years ago using a hook for double wide beavers which had a point off-centre from the eye and shank. Similar to what Hackney does here: http://bass365.com/crooked-hook-hackney/

Anyone know what hooks these are that came from the package with that style of bend?
Thanks!

http://tackletour.com/images17/chrtkistlerzbonelexf2ms70.jpg It may help to look at rod deflection charts to visualize this question/answer. If you browse the various charts, you'll see some rods have very little deflection in the first (lower left) portion - a relatively flat/horizontal line - this...

Been punching, flipping, and frogging with the J-Braid regularly and so far it's on par with Daiwa Samurai (which I have as my top line EVER). One noticeable difference between J-Braid and Samurai -- the J-Braid seems to resist wind knots a bit better. It's just as soft as Samurai though. The best p...

Yes, guess I'm stuck with them. I've got a '15 zbone 7'3h that weighs 3.8oz & with the same reel it feels no diff on my nrx 873. I think when you get to pair 3,4,5 oz rod & reels together, balance don't mean nothing. Many people have core 50mgs on nrx 893. I've got a daiwa ss sv on my 893 &...

My fulcrum point is where my ring finger goes underneath the rod, which is generally the foregrip. When I balance test a rod with a reel I put the rod foregrip on my finger and let it balance. Because my hand is so far forward on the rod the reel does definitely matter. If I were to un-grasp the re...

I often hear from people "this rod balances perfectly with this reel " or "this rod feels tip-heavy - I need a different reel to help it balance better". I was thinking about this today and just want to see if I'm way off-base based on my understanding of the physics, and to see ...