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I'd suggest buying a used quality reel. I'm starting to think it really does not matter who makes it. If you can find a 2 or 300 hundred dollar reel retail price and pay half for it used you are probably going to be pretty happy. Providing you find an honest seller.

I've thought about it but can't bring myself to spend 20 bucks on any bait that isn't musky related. Wish they sold it in a 10 dollar size can.......

I can only imagine how happy you must be. Congats! I've been fishing a few spots along the T.O. waterfront for a good 6 or seven years chasing pike and never caught a single one! Thank god I moved away from those cursed shores to a land where musky are as plentiful as the birds in the sky. Lousy pike....Actually I'm kind of hoping to get down to Toronto for a day and take another kick at the can.

Last years reel trade in co-incided with some pretty decent deals on some reels actually. With trade in you could of picked up a C4 for about 80 bucks after tax if I remember correctly. I know alot of guys are not too big on the Abu C4 but there were some other bargains too.

Yeah, good site, good advice and good folks. Thanks.

I get the double click thing even with the Christmas skin until I log in. Then it's single click. Interesting.

That's crazy. Hookseting what? On what kind of rod?

I'm thinking about picking up an 84ish Chevy K10; it might even be a K20 come to think about it. They always looked like pretty capable haulers/work trucks. Any thoughts/experiences with the old brutes?

Cool. Thanks.

Hi, I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me what size and type of hook to use when wacky rigging a 5 inch Senko. I understand a 4/0 or 5/0 offset when texas rigging from using the search function but I never really found out what size to use when wacky rigging. Thanks. I'm slowly putting the Summer tackle box together now, helps to pass the Winter.

I've fished it before and never caught anything but I also hear it's good for pike. I didn't explore the whole Bay but what I saw of it was very shallow and muddy/mirky. Tons of Carp in the summer.

Big fish; I'd like to think it was released, although it looks a little frosty in the pics. Perch get no respect, poor little buggers. I might be tempted to eat it too but if one in every thousand perch reach that size (I doubt that many) I would imagine returning it to the waterbody would be the right thing to do. Although I could be completely wrong.

I have no clue what this means. Good thing, bad thing..........anybody? Should I be eating more vegetables? Should I be eating less? Que Pasa? Ohhh. Maybe I get it. I don't eat alot of fish perhaps?

I'm going in the opposite direction to you I guess Rich. As I already know I'm fairly worthless as an angler so I figure this is the year that I'm going to start using minnows; and using them as often as I can catch them. Which probably won't be very often because, as previously stated, I'm a fairly useless fisherman. Kind of a catch 22 I guess. P.S. Self improvement is the road to ruin.

I agree with Irishfield; I had alot of luck this year with Suicks for musky. Definately 9 Inch weighted, and perch pattern I think. Although I never let them sit, ripped them like crazy and after July they lost their magic. Next year maybe I'll try twitching them later in the season.

Thanks for the replies guys, I really appreciate it. I'll have to google that Daiwa.

Howdy all, season greetings, Happy happy, etc, etc.... I recently picked myself up a 7 foot medium light St. Croix spinning rod. In recent years I've done very little fishing with a spinning outfit. A few years back I purchased a MH baitcasting set up and ever since it seems to have been almost something of an arms race; as I developed a real love of musky fishing the rods just got bigger and heavier, even when fishing for bass. So this something of a return to the beginning for me. I had planned on using this rod fishing for bass and panfish, chucking absolutley everything that seemed a little light for the MH baitcaster, things like tubes, unweighted senkos and plastics (I have really no experience with any of them) tiny crankbaits and small inline spinners. Is this rod to light for such applications? Anybody else using a medium light spinning rod these days? The current trend definately is for Medium heavy and Heavy baitcasting sticks and I feel that these rods really might be limiting/eliminating the use of alot of effective lures. I'd also appreciate it if anyone could recommend a good spinning reel keeping in mind that this outfit is geared towards light line and lures. Thanks, Ross

I like the show and without having ever met him I'd have to say I like Dave too. But.....waaaay too much product placement. I mean way too much. It undermines your credibility when every other sentence involves either Rappala, Shimano or Berkley. I still think it's a cool show and I'd love to have the sponsors that he has and I understand he has to pay the bills the same as everyone else but I mean....Sheesh. I dunno. I liked watching Musky hunter with Jim Saric too until the other day when there was a 5 minute tribute to Ranger boats. Eventually it gets almost insulting. Nothing like paying good money for WFN and getting advertising in return. Where's that cheese? P.S. I did enjoy watching him put a good whippin on Scott Martin (Whom I also like).

Scored myself a brand new St. Croix 7 foot medium light for 70 bucks, no tax. Good luck finding a retailer that can beat the OFC classifieds, boxing day or any other! No line up either. Considered hitting Bass pro for all of a half second for a reel before deciding to wait; after all, Spring is a good 3 monthes off and I also found Basspro's specials a bit lacking. Anyone know when they have their trade a reel in day kind of thing?

Go big or go home. I love 80lb braid, you'll never have a birdsnest you can't untangle and very few lures that you can't drag off the bottom. Pair it with your leader of choice in the appropriate length and you can fish for anything, panfish through musky. Just my 2 cents. Trust me, you'll love it.

Whoah. One thing's for sure. That is one big bass.

What would be a better option, especially if you do no trolling, similar price?

I know it's probably not a popular choice for a musky reel but I find my high speed Curado DHSV works pretty well for picking up slack when working a Suick and great for burning smaller bucktails (ounce, maybe ounce and a half). Maybe big Bulldawgs might be a bit too much for it. I've got a C3 too, retrieve is slower but a good reel with pulling power.

35 million is a pretty good size target market. Besides, lots of companies have Canadian sites in addition to their American sites. It's not like you have to have just one or the other.

I'm really all not that eager for any of Irishfields stink cheese here but having said that, how hard would it be to have a Canadian version of the site? When you consider how many people shop at the Vaughn location you'd think it reasonable to have a website that accurately reflects what the prices are. You are really in for a shock on your first visit if you think prices even remotely resemble a straight conversion.