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It's the Terrible at Fishing radio show on Gold

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Country Radio. Here's your fishing expert and

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host, Michael Raffino. All right, welcome back

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to Terrible at Fishing, everybody. Well, this

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week we'd talk a little bit about fishing rods

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because it is spring, almost. Well, we're starting

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to get the itch, aren't we? Well, I'll tell you

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that the lakes got a lot of snow on them. That

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doesn't mean you can trust that ice. If you are

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crazy enough to walk out there, you make sure

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you get your spud bar and you're pounding that

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ice in front of you. you'll find that the edges

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are very fragile, so you'll probably fall into

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the lake before you even get on any kind of safe

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ice, but I would caution you against it for this

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week or for the rest of the season. So our ice

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fishing season is pretty much concluded. Now

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we're waiting for that ice to melt and open up

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some of our lakes. We are, though, going to get

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there very, very soon. In the meantime, we do

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have river fishing right now, and we do have

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some lakes. I mean, you go down over into the

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valley, you know, over off I -5 there, you know,

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you could go over to Agate Lake, you could go

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to, you know, over in Medford, you could go to

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Willow Lake on the other side, you know, on the

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downhill side of the Cascades, and you could

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go over to Immigrant Lake. Now those lakes don't

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freeze. So, you go there and catch some fish.

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The water is still cold, though, so you're not

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going to get any of the warm fish, but you can

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get lots of pan fish, you can get trout, and

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you can have a good old time doing that. As for

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spring, spring, spring, spring, at this time

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of year we start to get the itch, don't we? we

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start looking at our rods, thinking, oh, I gotta

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go fishing. Just gotta go fishing. So, I'm starting

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to get the same hitch as y 'all, and so I'm making

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my baits, among other things. My art, certainly

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off season stuff, and looking at my rods, making

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sure they're tuned up. Now, I'll tell you something

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about tuning your rods, or your reels. Reels

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are very easy to tune, especially spinning reels.

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Spinning reels are very easy to tune. Put a couple

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drops of lube inside the handle bearings. That

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gets inside, spin it a few times, remove your

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spool, and make sure that the spindle is actually

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nice and clean. Put it all back together and

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you're good to go. The thing will spin like a

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brand new reel. As for our bait casting rails,

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that's a little bit different. I mean, we do

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use gear oil in them, but we also have a grease

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that we put on the worm gear, and that's got

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to be maintained as well. I do have some videos

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on doing this on my Terrible at Fishing channel

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on YouTube. I've been asked to do a TV show.

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I'll let you all, you know, send me some emails.

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Tell me what you think about a TV show on the

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new community television station. But, I will

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tell you that I ain't got a whole lot of time.

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For a retired guy, I don't got a lot of time.

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So, I don't know if it would be one or the other.

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TV or radio, one or the other. So, I don't think

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I have enough time to do both. So, I don't think

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I'm good -looking. I have a face for radio. So,

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I don't have a face for TV. So, you know, I kind

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of look in the mirror and the mirror tells me

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which medium I should be on. Now, let's talk

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about fishing rods. Now, fishing rods, fishing

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rods, fishing rods. You know, we live in trout

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country. So, Fishing rods, they come in every

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size, every weight, every thickness you can imagine.

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You walk into, say, Dick's Sporting Goods, or

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Bass Sporting Goods, or Cabela's, or someplace

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like that, and they've got these rods stretched

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up over aisles, and it creates a tunnel. There's

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hundreds. of rods, hundreds of rods. You're thinking,

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oh my goodness, where do I start? Well, if you're

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an experienced fisherman, you already know what

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you want when you go in there. But if you're

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not an experienced fisherman, and let's say you

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just want a good, fun, let's do almost everything

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rod, and you live in Klamath Falls, which is

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where we all live, Well, you're going to go after

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trout and panfish. And it's pretty much what

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you're going to go after. And bass. I mean, once

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in a while you can catch bass. Me, I'm a bass

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fisherman. You all know that. But for a good

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all -around rod, that's what we're going to talk

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about first, is an all -around rod. Now, I will

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tell you that on rods There a rod is made up

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of what's called a blank. That's really the the

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rod itself That's the blank and the blank Quality

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has a lot to do with how long it's going to last

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and how accurate it's going to throw So and how

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it's made so it is that blank has a lot to do

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with Well, it is the rod and then you've got

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the handle you know where your hands are and

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you've got the reel seat where the reel is attached

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to that's the two screws that hold your reel

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on that's the real seat and then you've got guides

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those guides are what your line goes through

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those little circles go all the way up to the

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tip of your your rod these are the portions of

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a rod You know, in my book, I really break this

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apart really well on all the different materials

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rods can be made out of and why guides are very,

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very important. Now, I will tell you one thing

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about guides. I like guides that have an insert,

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but they've got to be good inserts. Typically,

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they're Fuji guides. More guides, the better.

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You don't buy a seven -foot rod with six guides

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on it. You just don't usually do that. You want

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ten, you want twelve, you want a lot of guides.

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Now, why are guides important? Well, guides keep

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the line straight, and it allows the line to

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flow off of the reel in a nice steady stream.

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If you don't have that many guides, it gets bunched

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up and it can kink and it really destroys your

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casting. More guides are better. It's as simple

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as that. So when you go in and you're looking

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at all these rods and you see one with a few

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guides and the one with a bunch of guides, well

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the one with a bunch of guides will cast a lot

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better than the one with a few guides. Absolutely.

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It's kind of a no -brainer on that one. So that's

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easy, right? We ain't stringing it through 10

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or 12 guides, but, you know, we do, because we

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want the better experience. Now, there's the

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handles. Now, there's a split handle and a one

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-piece handle. So, I'm more of a split -handle

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type of guy. Almost all my rods are split handles.

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I mean there's some because they don't come that

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way. I can't have it because I like a certain

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brand of Fishing rod and if you're wondering

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what that brand is Is Cajun rods Cajun is an

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American made rod not Chinese made and it's made

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in I think it's in Ohio nowadays I think they

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moved from Jacksonville to Ohio so Anyway, they

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use carbon fiber to make their their blanks and

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they make their own blanks and they stand behind

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their product really well. So, split handles.

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Why do I like split handles? A split handle has

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a gap between the two foam areas. You know, you

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see at the bottom of you got cork and foam and

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it just depends what you're comfortable with.

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Some of these handles I mean, I have one that's

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made of carbon fiber. They can transmit the bite

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better through the handle. Now, a split handle,

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you've got some of the blank in between and it's

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really nice because when you don't have anything

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in between your hand and the blank, or even just

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a finger or two, you can feel subtle bites. So,

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That line gets a few little bites. It's going

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to transmit that vibration all the way up to

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your rod. That blank, which is your rod, will

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transmit it from the tip all the way down to

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your hands. A solid handle, you know, a solid

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one -piece handle. will have a hard time transmitting

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it. At least with the split handle, I have an

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area I can go ahead and put a hand on or a couple

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fingers on and see if I can feel it. That's my

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advantageous handle, so I can feel the bite better

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and set the hook. Otherwise, if I have a one

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-piece handle, which I do because, like I said,

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there are certain rods that I like that don't

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have split handles, a one -piece handle, I just

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have to put my finger on the line. And there

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are other ways, you know, of feeling a bite.

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Now, a lot of people, they don't understand the

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difference between the two major categories of

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rods. You've got yourself a bait casting rod

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and you've got your spinning rod. Now, spinning

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rods, we all know what a spinning reel is. That

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spinning reel sits below the rod and the guides

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are underneath the rod on its spine. A bait caster

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sits above the rod and the guides are much smaller

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and they're on top of the spine. They're right

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on top of the rod. Bait casters have a little

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trigger on the handles. There's a trigger so

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you can, it gives your hand a spot to pull back

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on and set the hook. Spinning rods don't have

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that. The reason being is that they've got the

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spinning reel and typically you've got your fingers

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wrapped around that spinning reel and it becomes

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the trigger. There's a big difference in the

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way these two rods are designed and the parts

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on it. Spinning wheels, spinning rods have big

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giant guides on them. Big guides. Now they have

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to have that because the line is coming off of

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that spool in a big giant circle and it's got

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to filter it down into a really tight spiral

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by the end of the the rod tip. The The bait caster,

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it comes off a rolling spool, something that

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spinning reels don't do. The spool rolls and

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it comes off in a nice tight line anyway. Typically,

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typically, you could get a better cast with a

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bait caster. And once you go bait casters, it's

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really hard to go back to spinning. Now spinning

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rods they can cast very light things. Something

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that you have to have a special reel in bait

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casters to do and it's called the BFS or bait

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finesse system and I do have a couple BFS reels

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in my arsenal and you know maybe this year I'll

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give one away I don't know we'll see but the

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BFS is my favorite form of fishing. I like throwing

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really light tackle and I like I like the fight

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on a very light tackle setup. So you can catch

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you know this is a this is sort of your you know

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your timeout here where can you catch a ten pound

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fish on two pound test or a four pound test.

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I'll let you think about that. Can you catch

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a 10 pound fish on a line that will break with

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four pounds of pressure? Do, do, do, do, do,

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do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Yes, you can.

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Yes, you can. And it's a whole lot more fun.

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So we're going to take a break now. We're going

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to come back. We're going to talk more about

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the different weights and actions that you will

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see at the store on fishing rods. So stay tuned,

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.org. Gold Country Radio, your message heard

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locally and beyond. Welcome back to Terrible

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at Fishing everybody. So we're talking about

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fishing rods and we talked basically about the

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parts of a fishing rod in the first segment and

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now we're going to talk about some of the numbers

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that you're going to see on the rod. Now there

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are a few things posted on every blank just above

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the handles. There's the action, and then there's

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the power, and then of course the size of line

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and weight it's designed to be utilized with.

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So those are the things that are there. So a

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lot of people don't understand some of these

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things. Now some of it is self -explanatory.

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Things like how heavy of a weight that you could

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put on your line and what line it should have

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on it. Kind of easy because that's posted right

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on the line and on the baits. But a lot of people

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don't understand power and action. And power

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and action are crucial. Really, really crucial.

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So in our area, we go trout fishing. And I'm

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a bass fisherman, so I will tell you an advantage

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of trout fishing. You really only need one rod.

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With bass fishing, you need a bunch of rods.

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We'll talk about that too. But with trout fishing

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and pan fishing, you only need one rod. And that's

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a rod we would call a light or maybe even an

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ultra, you know, anywhere from an ultra light

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to a medium light. So you want the word light.

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in your power of your rod. What is power? Power

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implies the stiffness of the rod. So, if you

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want the rod that can handle throwing a 1 -16th

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of an ounce or 1 -32 of an ounce, I've even gone

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down as one eightieth of an ounce. Well, I can't

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have what's called an extra heavy rod. Throw

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that. It just can't do it. I mean, it just, you

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know, tangle up, be a mess. I need a rod that

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is thin. And really, you look at the thickness

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of the blank, which is the rod body. When you

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look at the thickness of it, it's kind of going

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to give you a clue. If you look at an ultralight

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rod, it's really tiny. You look at an extra heavy

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rod, it's really, really thick, and that's kind

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of, and everything else is in between. So, if

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you want to cast, let's say, a small spinner,

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rooster tail or even jigs, small jigs, you have

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to go with a rod that has the word light in it.

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And that's really most of the fishing that we

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have in our area. Now, bass fishing is not something

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for the timid or for those with no money. You

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need a rod, you know, bass fishing, you have

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a rod for everything. I have ultra lights, I

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got lights, I got medium lights, mediums, medium

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heavies, I got extra heavies and extra heavies.

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And the reason being is that I make baits that

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are down to, you know, very, very, very, very

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light and to eight inch, you know, five ounce

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baits I throw. I can't throw five ounce bait

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with my ultralight it would break my rod so that's

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where you want to pay attention to your your

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rods recommendation of bait that you can put

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on it you do not want to overload your rod and

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break your rod now some rods are near impossible

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to break That doesn't mean they're better. It

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just means they're made of some really good stuff,

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but doesn't mean it's more sensitive. Almost

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all my rods are carbon fiber. Carbon fiber has

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the reputation of not breaking, but it does break.

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I've broken quite a few. It's just the way it

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is. All rods can break, I will tell you that.

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And that's where your company that makes your

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rod comes into play. Will they back you up? And

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I will tell you, Cajun Rods does back me up.

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I mean, I think it's $25. I pay for another one

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just for the shipping, and they send me another

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one. But that's kind of what you want. In our

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area, if you want a nice all -around rod, find

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a rod with the word light in it. All right? With

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the word light in it. So that'd be ultralight,

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a light, or a medium light for our area. And

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you will be having so much fun catching fish.

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Because even a one pound fish feels big on a

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light rod. And that's what I love about it. 90

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% of my fishing is done on light rods because

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I just love the drama of hooking a fish with

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a rod that's bending all the way over on me.

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And so will you. Now, action. Now, action is

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different. Action is how much of the rod flexes.

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So, you know, you can have a a rod with a tip

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that only flexes down to about 20 % of the rod

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blank or 25 % or 30 % or it could be a big wet

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noodle. Now it's going to be interesting when

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I tell you this because a fast rod flexes at

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the end of the rod, so about 20 -25%. A medium

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one will bring that flex down onto the blank

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to about half, you know, about 40 or 50 percent.

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A slow rod, which you will not find very many

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of on the market. Slow rods are wet noodles,

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basically. You've just got the, you know, the

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handle doesn't flex, but the rest of the rod

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does. That'll drive you nuts. You really don't

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want a slow rod. Slow rods are just big. wet

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noodles. You want something that's medium or

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fast, you know, or medium fast. You got, you

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know, right in there. You want to be able to

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set the hook without losing it. Now the reason

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slow rods are horrible, and you don't see too

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many of them on the market, is because when a

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fish bites it and you set the hook, you're going

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to set that hook hard, but if the whole rod is

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flexing, the fish can shake that hook right out

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of its mouth. But if you've got 50 % of that

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rod blank, at least, that is stiff, you've got

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the ability of keeping that hook in that fish's

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mouth. This is really important. If you want

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to land the fish that you are trying to, you

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know, that you've hooked, you want a fast or

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you know maybe a medium fast rod. So now what

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have we looked at here so far? So in the Klamath

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Falls area for just fun fishing you really want

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a powerful rod that in the light category but

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you want an action in sort of that medium fast

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category. So, that's kind of what you want. Now,

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as for picking your reels. Oh, and we've talked

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about lines, right? We've talked about lines.

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Fishing line, you're going to go fluorocarbon.

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You really are. You're going to go like a four,

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you know, with light line, you're going to go

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four pound, you know, fluorocarbon is invisible

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to fish in the water. fantastic line to throw.

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If you want to get longer casts out there, then

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you're going to go with a really nice light four

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strand braided line, but put a liter of fluorocarbon

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on it, about five or six feet, and then you could

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cast that thing a mile and get more line on your

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spool. Now, I was about to talk about when you

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have a drink of my 7 -Up Zero. Oh, reels. I knew

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it was going to come to me. Good old 7 -Up. So,

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reels. There are so many. There's really two

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categories. Actually, there's three categories.

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There's spinning reels. there's bait casting

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reels and there's spin cast reels and spin cast

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reels get sort of a I Don't think they've got

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a good enough You know voice Spin cast reels

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are really really really really easy to use It's

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probably what you learned on as a child. You

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know, the Zepcos that you press the button and

00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:42.339
you cast at it? That's a spin cast reel. Spin

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cast reels have gotten professional grade nowadays.

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And you can get a Zepco Bullet that is fantastic.

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You know, it's about a $100 reel. But my goodness,

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it is a fantastic reel. And there are other reels

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similar to it. So, a spin cast is probably the

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easiest, well, it is the easiest reel to use,

00:27:09.859 --> 00:27:14.519
is a spin cast reel. But they can be heavy. They're

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definitely bulky. And so, me, I like going out

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fishing 10 hours a day. So, I'm casting a lot.

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My wrist is really in motion quite a bit, you

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know, while I'm working the line. So, then there's

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the spinning reel, which you all know about.

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Spinning reels are very, very, very affordable.

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You can get good ones for 40, 50 bucks, and they

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do very, very well. Now, they come in different

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sizes. You know, they have like 1 ,000, 2 ,000,

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3 ,000, 4 ,000 on them. That's how bulky they

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are, how much line they can hold. So a 1000 or

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a 500, we use 500s for ice fishing. But 1000

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is a small one. I prefer 2000s when I'm fishing.

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2000 is my favorite size. Now the reason being

00:28:21.630 --> 00:28:25.950
is it can hold more than enough line for me to

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play with. I'm not going to cast hundreds of

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yards. I'm just not going to do it. So a 2000

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is lightweight and again I'm casting all day

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long. You don't want to exhaust your your muscles

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on your arm and get carpal tunnel and and and

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at the end you know the next day you're just

00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:55.640
sort of putting you know icy hot on your on your

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:58.619
arm you don't want that you want to have fun

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well you don't want to be punished the next day

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or if you're going out for several days you want

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to be able to fish for several days so typically

00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:09.279
most people buy three thousands because it's

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in the middle but two thousands are better in

00:29:11.299 --> 00:29:15.119
my opinion Because you don't need that much line

00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.920
on your spool. You just don't need that much

00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:25.380
line. So, 2000 allows you to have fun without

00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:29.940
paying, especially for an old guy like me. And

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then there's bait casters. I will tell you one

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thing about bait casters. Bait casters have a

00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.019
learning curve and it will drive you nuts. But,

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If you have somebody to teach you how to use

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a bait caster, you can't go back. Because with

00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:53.759
one hand, one cast, you can get better accuracy

00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:57.259
without having to flip a bail and flop that bail

00:29:57.259 --> 00:30:03.000
back over. It is probably the nicest reel I've

00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.539
ever learned how to use. The problem with bait

00:30:06.539 --> 00:30:10.400
casters is that unless you have a BFS, you cannot.

00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.160
cast a light bait on it, a really light one,

00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:19.640
and they're lousy in the wind. I always have

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a spinning rod on my boat in case the wind is

00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:27.680
really gusting and I can't use my bait caster.

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Spinning is your fallback position. Even though

00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:36.980
I prefer a bait caster, there are some days,

00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:41.819
sometimes of the day, that I cannot use it. I

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hope this show helped you a little bit. I know

00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:49.559
we're all itching to get back out there, but

00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:53.839
again, you know, hit the rivers right now until

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.759
the lakes unfreeze. But until then, keep your

00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:02.579
lines tight, have fun, and please, please be

00:31:02.579 --> 00:31:07.400
safe out there. Take care, everybody. That was

00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.059
terrible at fishing the radio show with fishing

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:14.440
expert Michael Ruffino Check out terrible at

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