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Amazon usually has awful prices on tackle unless you get lucky and find a robot error.

I have a 9.1:1 Zillion TWS SV and it is pretty loud. I had to send it in to TTT to get a defective pinion gear replaced and it did come back a little quieter, but it is still louder then any other Daiwa reel that I own. I really don't care for it at all, it feels so much more sloppy and loose as we...

The only compact/heavy jigs that I use are the Kietech casting jig but only then when fishing a lead-ban lake. I do fish smaller/lighter jigs all the time, my most used size is 1/4oz and I fish a lot of 1/8oz ones as well. I fish a lot of pretty shallow water so I generally want to maximize fall tim...

I lose enough chatterbaits to wood, I don't think I care to lose any by breaking the blade on rocks. Maybe they will be great, but no way I will be an early adopter on this.

Tubes have always been a smallmouth staple for me. I generally only use tubes from a company called River Rock custom baits. I like to rig them all terrain style, and play with them in the rocks. Great tubes, but man they are pricey. I like Dry Creek tubes as well and they are sold in bulk. I fish ...

I love my Hyuga for frogs but it has one issue. It is fairly unwieldy and not the best thing to walk frogs with. I haven't weighed them but while it feels lighter weight than my gen 1 PP it is more tip heavy and wonky to walk unlike the PP which rotates naturally and easily at the reel seat even wi...

One thing that I do like about nrx is the style. I have Valkyrie rods with a skull on the butt cap, poison adrena, xtreme, and all the crazy new style rods and honestly. I prefer the simplistic look and I'm in my 30's 8-) I feel more or less the same way, but also love more "fancy" looking rods. I ...

Never with a full spool but I have gotten close a few times when I was messing around with thin fluoro and would only fill the spool up halfway to save money. A lot of the time I would only have dozens of feel of line left on the reel after a long cast, so it's not shocking that it happened and it h...

Bigger paddle tails work very well on it, I use 5" Gambler Big GZs on the smaller side and Optimum Boom Booms on the larger side. There are times when I want more power with the Boom Booms, but only for the heaviest of cover when I am ripping them out of pads. The 72H has really opened my eyes to th...

I use 8lb J-Braid on a Pixy w/ DIY spool and if I set the spool tension with a little play it seems like it can get suck in there every hundred casts or so. Not often enough to be an issue really but if I add enough tension to remove the play it seems to prevent it. Also I have noticed that with a f...

But for real has anyone here actually laid hands on a fishing ape Zillion? It’s gotta be the rarest of the rare. I’ve hit so many of the treasure shops in Japan over the years and have never laid eyes on one I have thought of trying to make a knockoff Fishing Ape Zillion, it seems like it would be ...

Colored reels are nothing, back when Daiwa was fun they did a line of reels, lures, and clothing with the streetwear brand A Bathing Ape. http://www.hypebeast.com/image/2010/02/a-bathing-ape-daiwa-fishing-ape-1.jpg http://www.hypebeast.com/image/2010/02/a-bathing-ape-daiwa-fishing-ape-12.jpg http://...

I thought the first generation fished well, but I couldn't palm them comfortably with the sharp edge on the palming sideplate. Doesn't look like that has changed. It's a no from me. That’s what killed my enthusiasm for them as well, it’s such a ridiculous place to put a sharp ridge. I still use min...

I just want them to stick with a few standard spool sizes. What got me into Daiwa over Shimano at first was the lure of spool interchangeability, I love being able to switch between line types to try out whatever dumb idea I have w/o having to respool.

Which adrena would be best for 3/16- 3/8oz jig/trigs but could also throw 1/4-3/8 swim jigs well. Exactly what I throw with my 6'11M+ along with weightless soft plastics and some topwaters. Been really enjoying this rod, but i like it best with 1/4 jigs (swimming or casting). Same here, I see the 6...