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I worked with a three-inch pearl-salt-pepper curly-tailed grub affixed to a white 1/8-ounce mushroom-style jig

Monofilament Pros for Using Mono The added stretch with mono allows for mistakes to occur mid-fight that might otherwise result in a lost fish if using braid

Equipment should be easy to use and good enough to allow kids to feel the bottom and light hits

Essential Fishing Gear for Beginners The rod and reel are the building blocks of angling, so mastering them should be a priority before moving to more complex gear

Reels are sized to correspond with rods (and fly lines, more on that in the next article) and usually designed to match two consecutive rod weights, such as 3-4 or 5-6