You can’t catchem’ if you are where they ain’t. Find a dam and fish below it.
This can be a result of spooling the line “on backwards” with mono. The spool the line comes on MUST be facing a certain way when you spool it on the first time due to the memory of mono line. Secure it and walk it all off and rewind or put it out behind the boat till it is all off and rewind.
Been around for a loooong time. Imitates an eel when fishing for striped bass.
A “budget” will cost you in the long run when you buy a kayak that is unsafe, uncomfortable and impossible to fish from. The lack of quality because you tried to stay “within your budget” is just not worth it. Save a few bucks more and get a Vibe.
Y’all making it way too complicated. Go spend about $900 on a Vibe and put 2 rodholders on it. Upgrade to a light $150 paddle. Now, go fish.
You can’t beat Pflueger Presidential for price and dependability. Stradics are great but $40 versus $200!
Looks like dinner to me.🤔
Just think: rising tide pushes fish up and falling tide pulls them back. Fish ANYTIME accordingly and look for ambush points.
Couldn’t count how many Mitchells i have had over the past 60 years, mostly up until the late 70’s. Weakness is the bailspring.
The only stigma is by those jealous “anglers” who are too lazy to catch live bait and then do not have the experience or knowledge to use it correctly. Sure, i love my plastics (Gulp, DOA, etc.) but i will take live bait over artificial 100% of the time and out fish the lure fisherman 99% of the time. Put a big shiner under a float in Florida and then watch a 10 pound bass chase him on the top, inhale and take off with your float. You will be hooked just like that trophy!
I purchased a $400 rod from Fenwick and it snapped the first day when casting! I sent it back and they sent me another that snapped setting the hook on a 1 lb bass. So pissed that i didn’t send it back for a year. They replaced it with a newer model. Sometimes I think they push the envelope on thin blanks and sensitivity. They always replace with no argument.
No competition. Vibe, I own 3 and could buy whatever i wanted. Got my 14 year old grandson in one and he stands up and fishes out of it.
After 68 years of fishing freshwater, saltwater, piers, banks, boats, kayaks, dams, (you get the point) my observation is that any saltwater species fights harder than freshwater species if you go pound per pound. Try reeling in a 25 pound grouper up from the bottom with a Penn 4/0 and you will understand.
Fished for over 60 years. Spinning was always left in the beginning and bait-casters were right. Did more spinning so became proficient using left to reel. First bait caster that was available with left hand reeling jumped on it and only use left hand to reel because i can cast much more accurately with my dominate right hand. My grandson who i started fishing when he was 2 or 3 only wants to teel with his left so he can cast with his dominate hand, right. Maybe it has something to do with a lot of reels coming from Europe years ago. They are bassackwards on a lot of stuff across the pond. They drive on the wrong side of the road, right? Or left, I mean they drive on the left, right? Or is it right? Whose on first?😂