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Well, to make it an easy start I took Wayne's advice and started looking for the Falcon Low Rider. Can't buy it directly from Falcon, need to go thru distribution. Haven't been able to find a distributor that carries the LFC 3 166. Smalliebigs called the Falcon factory and they have 78 in stock.

Wow Phil, that's horrible........

In Ofallon, Mo.....30-40 minutes of fury, now light to medium snow

Is it a beer?

Good call, I go to Michaels to get things that a cheaper price than. Fly fishing store. Thinking outside the box! Good job

Bourbon man myself!!! Oh and Grey Goose, Pinot Noir Cabernet All the Chinese food I care to eat!

Bruce, You are the Fluke master!

Nice fish guys!

Thats great info! After reading Gavin's post my concern was finding the perfect blank and then adding a handle that was too long for the straight section of the blank. Kind of like the handle would be a straight cylinder and the blank would be cone shaped. I was wondering what to fill the void with and you answered it perfectly.

I'd be curious to find out how you broke the Kistler. There's always a gap between a rod that is the ultimate sensitive lightweight rod and one that is robust.

Do they carry a 6 footer?

Let's say you wanted to place the reel seat a little farther toward the tip and onto the tapered section...do you think an epoxy resin filler would work to fill the void created?

Just a dumb question to throw out there because I've never attempted to build a rod before....why can't you use a spinning rod blank and attach a baitcaster handle? BTW, good call Wayne on the Falcon

Pixy sounds pretty gay!! LOL

I found a new Zoom Trick Worm color called "Bruised Banana" that seems to be the perfect color for golden craws. I melted them up and poured them. A touch up with a brown Sharpie finished the look.

1. My quest to find a casting rod for the river that's 6'2" or less and throw an 1/8th oz jig has reached critical mass. Since I do mostly river fishing in cold weather, I want to be able to throw smallish hair jigs or crawfish with a baitcasting rod. The only reason I use a spinning rod is because right now I have no other choice, except like Al once said you use a baitcaster and re-teach your thumb to release earlier than normal. You need the shorter rod on the river to get under the low hanging branches and since I like to use a side arm cast, I feel a 7 ft rod is just too inaccurate. Besides most lures work better with a shorter more accurate cast at the "zone of ideal effectiveness" at a certain distance from the boat. I went to Cabelas the other day in my search and went up to the counter...."Can I help you find something Sir? Maybe I said, but it might be a tall order. "what is it that you need?" I told him I wanted a casting rod 6"2 or less to throw and 1/8th oz jig. "Thats no problem". Off we walked to the St. Croix section, as he started looking thru all the rods he soon realized the lowest rated rod was 1/4 oz at minimum. "HMMM", he said, "I guess I thought you said 1/4 oz". For the next hour we looked at every rod in the store and on the Cabelas web site....Nothing. Finally we both agreed the the best way was to make a custom rod from a blank, One with a fast or extra fast tip, medium or medium light. The only ones close are drop shot rods that are usually 6'10 to 7" long. I think Im going to have another project to work on now. Ha, like I really need another project. 2. I've come to the conclusion that crank bait rods are becoming more and more a useless product designed by rod manufacturers to sell you another rod. I realize the intent is to have a limber enough rod to keep you from pulling small trebles out of a fish's mouth. That's right if you are using extra small trebles. With the invention of EWG trebles, which penetrate so deep I think the days of a cranbait rod are numbered. Even though they load up and cast a mile, CB rods have little or no feeling at all and I think a big fish can swim up and in one motion grab your crank bait and spit it out without you even knowing what happened. I've lost more fish by not getting enough strength in the initial take than pulling a hook out of the fish's mouth. Now if you are lake fishing and are throwing deep diving crankbaits all day where you have to cast the lure a country mile I can see the usefullness of a limber CB rod.

Yes, that was a hawg!!!

Breaks my heart to hear those stories. Legal limits can kill a stream, especially smaller ones.

21" Meramec, Eakins jig....fishing from the back of the boat

I consider Ambassadeur the best all around bait caster reel before the Shimano Curado came around. It was very rugged and sturdy and took a lickin and still kept on tickin. It still has many great applications as others have said, especially when line capacity May be an issue. I know the striper guys love them as we'll as the cat fishermen.

Good job!

Keep in mind Marion Berry was caught on video tape smoking crack in a hotel room with a hooker and they voted him back in............

Great fish, huge fish......music I can actually listen to!

I actually caught a couple of golden craws is my craw trap http://youtu.be/3m17CaK27HQ

I think he just ran into the Meramec dam