The stock chrome colored metal CCC on the TD Fuego baitcasting reel is heavy and not very attractive. It weighs 3.5 grams compared to the 1.1g of the older TD-X reels that have the same size CCC cap that is champagne colored aluminum. I measured the threads at about 10.8 mm on my digital micrometer....

I live in West Central Florida and I don't think that I have ever caught a double digit LM Bass. This LM is probably my largest and it's big to me. I have pics of others around this size but this one is probably the biggest. I don't carry a scale and I have never weighed a bass in my life. For refe...

Nobody should question a grown man that brings home the bacon. That's one of the reasons that I ditched the ex-wife and I found a millionaire ex-model that buys me anything fishing or cycling that I want! :lol: Problem solved. 8-) Your results may vary :big grin: So it was you that snatched Giselle...

Nobody should question a grown man that brings home the bacon. That's one of the reasons that I ditched the ex-wife and I found a millionaire ex-model that buys me anything fishing or cycling that I want! :lol: Problem solved. 8-) Your results may vary :big grin: ex-model... post is useless without...

Nobody should question a grown man that brings home the bacon. That's one of the reasons that I ditched the ex-wife and I found a millionaire ex-model that buys me anything fishing or cycling that I want! Problem solved. Your results may vary

Western finesse legend Don Iovino would be proud of you. He loves those reels and has sold parts over the years. They feel really smooth and solid, but my small hands love a lower profile reel.

Just like the fishing pressure in Japan, the clearwater golf course lakes all around me get beat to death. You constantly have to evolve to get bit. A lot of times, it is really just about giving them something different to see, like was said. The free rig works well with my fishing slow baits fast...

Just like the fishing pressure in Japan, the clearwater golf course lakes all around me get beat to death. You constantly have to evolve to get bit. A lot of times, it is really just about giving them something different to see, like was said. The free rig works well with my fishing slow baits fast ...

The fish don't know who is casting to them, or even that they are being messed with a lot of times. Like you proved, your skill over a beginning angler is going to make you much more likely to put the bait in the right places and catch more fish, but any cast might catch a monster. What really pisse...

It is always relative to where and how you fish. Here in SoCal you have tiny reservoirs and huge fishing pressure, but the area has the weather to grow them as big as anywhere. The late winter and spring time brings out the 30 pound plus limits. People don't even bat an eyelash at anything under 7. ...

I still haven't found a hollow body frog I like better than the Reaction Innovations Swamp Donkey. The Megabass Big Gabot has its place for sure, but if I'm throwing a hollow body, my confidence bait is the SD! Good to have options for sure! The Swamp Donkey colors are good. There are a lot of guys...

I've had fish eat my lure in mid air three times. Once off of a tule, and also once off of a bush. The best strike was when I watched a fish in ultra clear water at night shark the surface following a black jig that had been casted to the back of a pocket underneath a floodlight. The fish caught the...

IMG_0106.jpg Our mountain biking in the Coachella Valley is straight up and down on chunky decomposed granite and rocks. Most trails gain 500 feet of elevation per mile. So you must be very fit and have a very light and low-geared full suspension bike (25 lbs. or less). The modern overweight and ov...

Take it from someone that is a skirted bait specialist with over 4 decades of experience making and throwing skirted baits, the amount of strands can make a difference, but it's usually several attributes of the lure that make a lure effective where you are throwing it. Thinner skirts tend to be bet...

If it's really a MH rod, it would be better for 30-50 pound braid and smaller frogs. I wouldn't go matt fishing with a true MH rod. I am currently using that same reel on my heavy frog rod right now.