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Great video. Hello from Canada. I just love grubs. Some of the things I like about them are, they are way easier to acquire and keep in good condition opposed to live bait. They work on pretty much every species of fish, you can imitate anything a fish eats with them by changing the colour and how you fish them, you can fish it in almost every way, lots of people don’t throw them so fish are typically not used to seeing them. They work scented or unscented if you have allergies or going into restricted waters. And they are usually pretty dang cheap.
I heard the minnowz has a split dorsal like the gobius that is used for weedless/snagless rigging. How do you rig that with a jig so that it's weedless?
I like the Avid series and one is my favorite Jigging Rod. What I did see missing is a 5’10 MHF Spinning for the Detroit River Men. I also feel in the Casting Rod Size I would have like to seen a bigger selection would like a 7’2or 7’3 MHF for Bass Rod.
Just got a st croix legend glass it's incredible, total parabolic bend, it will hurl monster swimbaits for stripers. Smooth, Iightweight a d cast a mil
That’s an old Quantum Energy PT 7:1 gear. I go with 7-1 or 7-3 gear with this rod. Handles paddletails and launches them very well. Also does some Tokyo rigging and C-rigging too.
Why would u want a crankbait style rod with a single hook lure? I get that it's a smaller hook but wouldn't a little bit faster action MH rod work better?
User preference. I work chatterbaits with glass cranking rods like the Mojo Glass and LTB Rip n Chatter. The vibration and strike detection is so better with those than with standard MH rod.
Use an old Avid 6'3" MXF for my jerkbait rod and have had great success. Have the Warhorse on the way with a Bates GOAT on it. Own way too many St Croix products with most of them being Legend X and Legend Tournament series.
Need a little help trying to decide which way to go. looking at the avid series in a 7'to 7'"3 med extra fast for draging jigs up to maybe 5/8 in anywhere between 25ft to 48ft in lake for pre spawn eyes. Would also like to use in early summer to pull worm harness. Huge Thanks for your time on your channel
@@NorthwoodsBass Thanks for the reply! I'm personally not a fan of glass rods, I use copolymer line almost exclusively so it would be way too soft. How would the rip and chatter handle squarebills and lipless? Also, looking at the 7.4 H victory/legend tournament, have any experience with that?
@@c.shoefish I use both of my rip and chatter rods, and the 72MM legend glass with Squarebills, DT4’s, DT6’s, and lipless cranks. For line I go between 12 and 15 pound fluoro. I absolutely hate braid for any cranking and baits with treble hooks. You will have no issue with copolymer lines. Perfect match for these rods.
Make sure you remove those Elaztech trailers from those non Elaztech skirted jigs. The compounds used to make them don't play well together if you store them together.
Yup sure do. That’s a must for storage. Forgot to mention this part, oopsy. Oddly, on some jigs I have not done that to, there has been no warping. Hmmmmm
Hammered both SMB and LMB on the finesse football with either the ZMan TRD or the Nikko baits ZaZa (for a little thicker profile ) this past year. Simple but deadly rig! 👊🏼🎣
lots of good info very detailed thanks for sharing , keep the great videos coming can never get enough information on Smallies and fishing in general love the tackle ideas.
i have gone to zman plastics for almost all my plastic needs . takes a little longer to rig but you gain that back at the amount of fish you can catch on them per bait without having to rerig.
It's a huge benefit! AND the cost savings too. These Diezel Minnowz catch smallmouths just as well and/or better than other popular brands. For 1 Diezel Minnow you can go several dozens of fish compared to 1 or 2 with other brand before new tail is needed. These outfish a lot of other paddletails for me.
Good Stuff Here!....Thanks for the Tips and input on these as I need to try this now here in NJ, as it's about to me 2024 but we still are Ice Free with 50-55 Degree air temps everyday
