List of Questions

[jooleyen]

1.Would you rather have a nicer rod or a nicer reel? Is it just depending on the technique?

2.What lures would you fish with a 6'6" MH rod?

3.How much money do you usually spend on a setup?

4.When do you like to throw swimbaits such as a 4" Wildeye Swim Shad, and how do you fish them?

Thanks

[flbassman]

1. Split the difference, get the best you can afford. Both are pretty crucial.
2. Just about everything. It's not real good for finesse work or pitching/flipping, but it should cover the middle range pretty nicely.
3. As a teenager, I usually try to save up for about a $150 or so combo. You can get some pretty decent stuff for that much, but you'll probably wind up spending a bit more. I have a few rods laying around with no reels, so right now, I'm really only in the reel market.
4. I like to throw these prespawn and postspawn, along with whenever bait that size is schooling. During prespawn, I fish it pretty slowly in areas where the bass are likely to bed. Postspawn I like to go with a jerkier, more eratic cadence. When the bait is all schooled up, I jig it right under the school, and dance around the edges.

Hope all this helped.

[zooker]

Originally Posted by jooleyen

1.Would you rather have a nicer rod or a nicer reel? Is it just depending on the technique?

2.What lures would you fish with a 6'6" MH rod?

3.How much money do you usually spend on a setup?

4.When do you like to throw swimbaits such as a 4" Wildeye Swim Shad, and how do you fish them?

Thanks

#1 the reel makes the differance in all things..

#2 a jerkbait..every thing else 7 foot or longer

#3 too dam much... $300 average

#4 i don't -too many trees

zooker

[texasbasser]

Originally Posted by jooleyen

1.Would you rather have a nicer rod or a nicer reel? Is it just depending on the technique?

2.What lures would you fish with a 6'6" MH rod?

3.How much money do you usually spend on a setup?

4.When do you like to throw swimbaits such as a 4" Wildeye Swim Shad, and how do you fish them?

Thanks

1. nicer reel, its more important than a rod.

2. pretty much anything

3. I try to save up 100-150

4. during spawn, just hopping it along the bottom.

[lizardsrule]

Originally Posted by jooleyen

1.Would you rather have a nicer rod or a nicer reel? Is it just depending on the technique?

2.What lures would you fish with a 6'6" MH rod?

3.How much money do you usually spend on a setup?

4.When do you like to throw swimbaits such as a 4" Wildeye Swim Shad, and how do you fish them?

Thanks

1. Rod is more important IMO. It is what moves the line for the hookset, it is what allows you to feel the bites. It is what you fight the fish with. Not that I don't like exspensive reels though.

2. Anything

3. A whole bunch LOL.

4. Whenever and wherever the fish are feeding on shad. I however rarely throw swimbaits. Just haven't had much success with them, a fluke or crank would be my choice. As zooker already stated, they get hung up on every twig there is, and I like to fish wood.

[Rebbasser]

Originally Posted by jooleyen

1.Would you rather have a nicer rod or a nicer reel? Is it just depending on the technique?

2.What lures would you fish with a 6'6" MH rod?

3.How much money do you usually spend on a setup?

4.When do you like to throw swimbaits such as a 4" Wildeye Swim Shad, and how do you fish them?

Thanks

1. Reel. While both are important, the best rod in the world won't fish well if the reel doesn't function well.

2. Everything except a crankbait, and even then I would in a pinch.

3. Probably around $200

4. Just chunk and wind or yo-yo it back in.

[jooleyen]

I appreciate it guys.

[skeeter944]

I think that its better to get a rod that you like instead of some $400 g-loomis that you think is really sensative,well,the key to sensativity is YOU,not the rod. The more you fish,the more sensative YOU become. So just get something that you like and balances with a reel.