Tyler Schmidt

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Gan Craft 148 floating Chart Shad. These things are so much fun.

If you go the fluro route, don't buy cheap crap. I used red label for a while and got a couple bad spools. Switched to Sunline assassin and sniper. 20lb is awesome. Why throw expensive baits on cheap line? Why have a corvette and but 87 octane in it? Personally I can't stand copoly, only thing Id use it for is burning a triple trout or similar baits as fast as I could, the stretch would help with hookups.

Love mine, 6:6. The drag is stout and currently have >100yds 20lb sunline sniper fc on it. I really dig the cork handle knobs, eva foam sucks.

That is the bees knees, sign me up for that

Right hand dominant, cast with my right and reel with my left. I do have a couple right handed reels and I can catch fish with them as long as I don't have to work the bait, like a spook or jerkbait, with my left arm.

I do have a 8ft kvd cranking rod that warped on me..not sure if it was from sitting in my rod locker in the boat or against the wall in the house but it certainly is not straight anymore. Still catches fish and casts plenty far but it can't be "good" for it. Word to the wise they will warp eventually I guess

Been tossing around the H model 4-8oz for about a month now with a couple fish over 6. Likes: Fairly light for a swimbait rod, sensitive, comfortable handle. It tosses hudd 68s, 8in hudds and savage gear trouts a country mile with plenty of backbone to drive the hook in with a lot of line out. Dislikes: Though a deps 250 falls within the oz rating I am not satisfied with the casting distance. For $80 I think It is a sure fire buy and plan on buying the XH. I have been pairing it with the 13 A3 which is awesome as well; tons of drag, comfortable handle, lightweight, I had >100yds of 20lb fluro on it.

Truthfully dude you will be throwing something that >90% of the fish down here have never seen and they will eat it out of anger, curiosity, or it swims past them. Like a shark they may not "eat" it cause they are hungry but they will hit it to get a feel for what it is. You'll have a ton of followers and that's always cool, if you are far enough south you have the potential to catch some peacocks as well.

The carp colors look like shiners..winner winner deps for dinner. I have an ayu variant in the 250 that I like.

Thanks Grady! Yeah that fish felt so big when I railed into her, I can't believe I torqued the hook out. It wasn't bent much, just enough I guess. She'll be there for next time...

After 4 trips to, lets call it lake "x", this is where I will catch a DD and hopefully a teener. I've lost a couple good ones, one I wish I saw, and have caught 2 over 6 and a 7. Each trip I learn a little more about this lake.

It was out and ready sitting on the passenger seat but a month ago I lost a 7 at the boat on a hudd as I was fooling with the net. It left a bad taste in my mouth so I try to avoid using the net if I'm flying solo. Swing em in or grab em by the lip

Thanks, Dan! It is the 13 fishing defy H 4-8oz...I like it a lot for my hudds and smaller stuff. The 250 is a bit much for the rod I think, I can only lob it 30-40yds. I may end up getting the heavier version of it. Could also just need to hit the gym a couple times a week. I love the 13 A3 though, awesome reel, unreal amount of drag.

Long story short, I long lined my 250 on a ledge in 15ft of water that had fish feeding on the bottom. Steady retrieve, w/ a couple random hard glides back to the boat. Video clip does not include me trolling with m spool open. She went 7.3 on the scale. https://youtu.be/AS8SrNXAGzY

Minimize debt and wasteful spending, create an investment acct, deposit 5+% of your monthly income after you have taken care of the the necessities to live. Watch it grow, buy the boat you really want "x" years down the road. Until then bum it out the back of your buddies boats for just deck out a classic style jon boat and pick up an old 9.9 2 stroke.

You can get a late 80's, early 90s era bass boat for less than 5k. Save your pennies, do your research on the makes and models of that era, but most importantly educate yourself about old carbed motors to ensure you find a reliable one. Once upon a time I sold my kayak and bought a 14ft aluminum bass tracker style boat w/25 johnson, had a console, small front deck, etc. I hated it. It was small, unstable and had virtually no storage. I had it for 6 months, sold it and bought a 2004 Triton TR186. Save your money and get the biggest boat you can afford. Any adverse weather will ave a great effect on a smaller boat; trust me it sucks plowing through rollers in a little aluminum can. The bigger the boat, the safer it is, you won't be restricted to only fishing on calmer days. Also the best type of friends are the ones with boats...you don't have to pay to fix them

It looks like he has a Carolina rig weight in front of it keeping it down. Very interesting, I dig the top hooks.

I did order the daiwa lure retriever the other day, along with some heavy fluro and tuning weights to try to keep it down. Not super concerned about losing it. Went back to the same lake today and jumped off a 6 at the boat on a hudd and bent the hook out on the hudd on a bigger one several casts later. Hopefully the sticky trebles of the 250 will keep them hooked up.

That is awesome, I will try to give that a shot. Me too...I am 45 minutes from prime mahi mahi and sailfish waters so maybe some day soon

Played around on a new lake with quality fish in it. They stack up on ledges similar to Guntersville, Pickwick, etc (except there is no current here). Bottom bounced a hudd, savage gear real trout, a big hollow body on a 1/2oz jighead, and a 3/4oz underspin with a big paddle tail. Caught a 7 and a handful of 2s on the underspin but they wouldn't touch the other swimbaits. Has anyone had success on a big glide fished in 10-25ft? I'm thinking if I can tune my 250 to stay a couple feet off of the bottom it may work. Thoughts? Just a small portion of the school I was on.

Threw em back, rarely will I eat a freshwater fish that isn't a trout or salmon.

What's the opinion on these? I'm looking to expand my weedless swimbaits and there isn't much out there in the form of reviews. Yes I used the search bar. Fishing mainly submerged offshore hydrilla and shallow pads and eel grass. How's the action, durability, etc? Also any alternatives to the stealth swimmers? I have a weedless 68 special and grass shad, with a couple more 68s on the way. Anything else out there besides the hudds and stealth swimmer that are molded around a hook?