I liked the short threads as well. Visually clean with a reel installed. I can try and get some pics under load when time allows. What weight weights should I use? Each end of the it's range would be ideal, but even it just loaded by hand would be fine, I am mostly looking to get an idea of how the...

Has anyone seen a pic of these rods under load? I would love to see how fast the tip really is. I very much love fishing presentations in the 1/16-5/16oz range, but I think my longest rod for it is 6' even, so the idea of a much longer one is appealing. Fwiw, Tacklewarehouse measures from butt to th...

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Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:23 pm

Sort of like when I bought $1600 roller skates for myself and $1000 skates for my teen daughter, just to spend a little extra time with her!

How many bearings do the $1600 ones have in them ?!?

I have no recommendation for a rod that short, but I caught hundreds of smallies up to 3 lbs. on a 5'10" Loomis SJR 700 rod from streams. If you find one used, you might get it for a reasonable price. I don't think Loomis makes that model anymore. Here is a discussion of it 14 years ago; Cal says n...

I just asked a guy that I know who lives up there, he responded "it's so fickle, it's hard to say. but it's usually frozen by mid january". I had a feeling that might be the case. Perhaps I'll just limit myself to bringing two rods. Thanks for asking buddy. 8-) He did backtrack a little and said th...

I just asked a guy that I know who lives up there, he responded "it's so fickle, it's hard to say. but it's usually frozen by mid january".

I use a little piece of electrician's tape over the knot. I just weighed a piece, it came it at .08g to .1g.

My money is on them not being pure distance monsters but more of a spool that cast pretty far effortlessly. This is the way my two ZPI knock off spools and what I hear the Tatula Elite is like. I doubt they will be anything like a TD Zillion HLC. If they can have that free and effortless casting of...

I’m alway open to try new things on other people I’ve had one person and his wife really like this stuff I got by talking to a customer and the person who I gave it to said they would have never tried it but since I brought it they gave it a shot but ended up going to find it weeks later. I appreci...

With any aged liquor, you are mostly paying for time. I lucked out and prefer whiskies with a little bite to them, so cheaper stuff is what I go for. Old, smooth scotch is good, but only when someone else is buying it. High West's Campfire is one of my favourite whiskies and the only good one I kee...

With any aged liquor, you are mostly paying for time. I lucked out and prefer whiskies with a little bite to them, so cheaper stuff is what I go for. Old, smooth scotch is good, but only when someone else is buying it. High West's Campfire is one of my favourite whiskies and the only good one I keep...

Imo from loomis if its not glx up its not worth it. Many nicer rods at the imx price point like alx enox or poison adrena. I had a imx pro 853c and it was just ok to me not worth the price tag. I regret trading my alx zolo deputy for it. Only thing i dislike about the zolo is the exposed nut thread...

I wonder if that even matters for me as I’m wading most of the time and the tip down stuff is a bit hard to do when waist deep. Thanks, I think I’ve narrowed it down to that 783c, 782c to give a bit more flex for jumping fish and lighter jigs, or the Expride 610M to save a few bucks/have a stellar ...

The GLX 783 sounds like a perfect fit, it’s an outstanding 1/4oz jig rod and do a ton more. My only beef with it is that I think the handle is too long for anything tip-down.

The 'rona killed my industry, I have been out of work since last March with no real sign of things getting better. Because of this I had to hit the brakes 100% on my tackle spending. I had always felt kinda bad about the huge piles of unopened "spare" tackle I had been hoarding up, but I am so happy...