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Braid gives you that ability to get a good fast drop with a drop shot because of the small diameter, but the no stretch to give you a good hookset at the end of a long drop or long cast. Hite has been experimenting with pound tests and really likes a 10 to 12 pound new prototype Sunline SX-1 that will be unveiled at ICAST this year

And thats the primary thing to keep in mind in May: getting junky means stringing together a series of small windows instead of dying on the vine by being committed to a single area or pattern

Plenty of artificial lures work best only when retrieved at very high speeds, points out Steve Carson, director of Penn Fishing University

$100 for a rod or reel seems to be the threshold where you start seeing huge leaps in technology