Gear

Baitcaster Gear Ratios Explained – What Does It Mean on Your Reel? (With Chart)

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For bass anglers, baitcasting reels are a critical piece of equipment.  The control, casting distance, and retrieval rate of these modern reels is unsurpassed. Spincast and spinning reels try to compete, but they are distant rivals in the bass fishing world. The retrieval ability of a baitcasting reel is a combination of the spool size …

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Best Flipping and Pitching Reels – Top Choices & Combos Reviewed For 2023

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Flipping and pitching are effective techniques for successfully fishing any water-based structure. An angler good at both methods has a distinct advantage since bass are ambush hunters. They lie in wait, protected by reeds, trees, rocks, gnarly banks, etc Anglers must be exceptionally accurate if they want to avoid getting snagged or hung up in …

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How to Tell if Your Fishfinder Transducer is Bad – Troubleshooting and Detecting Problems

How to Tell if Your Fishfinder Transducer is Bad

Fish finders allow us to see everything below the surface of the water, so we know where fish are, what they’re chasing, and what depths they’re at. While the digital display in your boat provides you with a picture of the underwater world, the eye in the water is the transducer. A correctly functioning transducer …

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Best Fish Finders for Bank Fishing in 2023 – Top Portable Sonar Models

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Land-based portable fish finders have certainly improved since the angling market’s first foray into bank-based sonar. To make things more appealing for the land-based angler, the selection now ensures most budgets and demands are covered. Like any piece of angling technology, there are key criteria from which to measure efficacy.  We should ask ourselves, does …

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Best Fishing Line For Trout in 2023

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I’m continually surprised at how often I’m asked my opinions on fishing line. I’m surprised because, of all things fishing, I’m not overly particular about my fishing line selection. My buddy’s son recently asked me about the best fishing line for trout. I told him, with conviction, “It depends…” The boy’s sharp. And he asked …

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What is Copolymer Fishing Line? Choosing The Right Type For You

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Copolymer fishing line is made with a combination of two types of nylon. Copolymer takes the best properties of mono and fluoro combining them into a high-performance nylon fishing line. It’s not a twin-strand, braid-style fishing line, weaving a single strand of mono and a single strand of fluoro. It’s traditional monofilament ingredients with fluoro …

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7 Best Spinning Reels With Trigger: Review of The Top Underspin Reels

Technology is improving, and it’s bringing some major improvements to fishing. While you likely pride yourself on catching fish with minimal equipment, and relying on your expertise alone, investing in a good reel is critical to your fishing success. Ready to have one of those, “I swear, it was this big!” fishing stories? Consider these …

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Best Rods for Redfish and Trout

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Going after redfish or trout is one of the most enjoyable fishing pastimes of all. Not only are there plenty of places you can fish for these fast and hard-fighting fish species, but they are also some of the most delicious fish you can cook.  If you’re going to go fishing for trout and redfish, …

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What are the parts of a baitcaster reel? Brake adjust knob, Spool Release, Handle, & Other Functions

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The modern baitcasting reel evolved from the Kentucky reels of the early 19th century when inventor William Shakespeare Jr. purchased the rights from another inventor, Walter Marhoff. Marhoff’s addition was a level-wind mechanism that transformed Shakespeare’s earlier backlash-prone reel into the modern version of the baitcasting reel we all know so well. Baitcasters are the …

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Can A Fish Finder Work Through Ice? Will a Regular Fish Finder Work For Ice Fishing?

Yes, a regular fish finder can work through ice. And while it’s useful to have an arsenal of application-specific fish-finding tools, they aren’t essential.  Even though fish finders aren’t always optimal, it’s extremely rare to find yourself in a situation where they’re useless.. Bottom line is that a fish finder can be a god-send when …

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Best Spinning Reels Under $50 – 2023 – Top Budget Choices For The Money

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Spinning reels come in many models, varieties, and configurations that it’s easy to get lost in all the choices.  Selecting one that is right for you from the dozens of established manufacturers, along with the constant influx of new companies, can be daunting. In this article we’ll discuss some options that will help you decide …

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Baitcaster Bird Nest – How To Prevent Backlash On A Baitcasting Reel

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There’s death and taxes, and then there’s backlash. All are inevitable. For those unfamiliar with the terms, backlash is the result of spool overrun on baitcasters.  More commonly known as backlash, overrun results in horrendous line tangles called bird nests. The popularity and market dominance of the spinning reel is all thanks to backlash and …

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Best Salmon Fishing Lures

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If you’ve ever found salmon fishing to be a challenge, it could be that you haven’t given yourself the advantage of some good salmon lures. When you have the right gear in your arsenal, you’ll be able to fish for salmon in any kind of condition – rain or shine, cloudy or sunny, shallow or …

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