vikingbear8

I've never seen one in person so I may be wrong, but I think that is a Worm King Dinosaur

I gotta agree with Mike, as having fished both water with 6" vis where I used to live and up to 25ft vis where I live now, there is a huge difference for me. Have I caught big fish in both? Yes, but it's a lot more work, with a lot more skunks in the dirty water. If you spend a lot of time smallie fishing I think this proves to be true even more than for LM. This has also held true for me in 6 different states, I'm not trying to be discouraging or disagree with the guys that have success in dirty water it's just my experiance that clear water is significantly better for me. Trout tend to be more common in clear water too, and that certainly helps.

There is also a big difference between a 3# Bass and an 8+ Yeah you are right...........a 8lb bass eating a 2lb trout is a quarter of its body weight a 3 pound bass eating a little herring is well under 10% of its body weight, it's still not even in the same ballpark. Also catching a fish in no way proves it was "hungry", bass hit lures for plenty of other reasons. Which is a good thing for OP, because that fish is probably still very catchable

There is a world of difference between a bass eating a 7" herring and a 2lb trout......

^^^^Yeah I should have mentioned all that too haha Im running Gopro Hero3+ silver 1080/30fps, but if you want any kind of decent slow mo type of thing you will need to running higher frames per second than that, and thus kill your battery faster. My video is just for me and a couple friends, nothing I ever want the public to see plus I'm not trying to make a Zack Snyder film so I don't do that

With the original method the action was definitely subdued a bit, a little more subtle than the normal action, but they tighten up as you crank them anyway. I took the weight from the rear as recommended by many and it opened up a bit. Sorry I don't have a video, I only bring smaller sized baits like the 7" slammer when my girl fishes with me.

I get 2.5 hours per battery. 4 batteries plus the one that comes with the camera you are at 12.5 hours

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Man am I happy I brought a few baits to PA

I tune my own reels, but when I get stuck or hit a problem I can't fix, I txt Jesse (Reel Deal Tuning) and he has always been super helpful.

I like 5:1 and 5:4 I can work any bait as fast as I could ever possibly need too. A lot of it has to do with your reel size as well, I only use 400 size reels, the line pick up is more on them. You might have a tough time using a 200 size reel at 5:1