New Setups for Zig Jigs

[hoglaw]

My wife fishes with me. I'd honestly rather take her than go with just about anyone else. She is also very honest and adamant about her limits. If it's bad cold or raining she says have a great time. 

I have a lot of great memories fishing with her. My favorite might be last year when she wanted to do the three mile float to the house when she was seven months pregnant. I wouldn't let her drag her kayak over the log jams and shoals, but otherwise she fished as hard as she always does. 

[Stein]

Got a chance to try out the new Air Stream rods last night doing a little crappie fishing at my cabin.  Second fish - maybe 10-11" er - swung it into the boat and right before I set it in the bottom of the boat the rod snapped off about 2 1/2 feet from the end.  Very surprised at this as it was a little fish.  Grabbed the other identical rod and finished the evening with no other issues.  Hopefully BPS won't give me any grief on an exchange tonight.  Had to be a manufacturing defect - it just let go with no warning with around half a pound on it.

[Ham]

2 hours ago, Stein said:

.  Second fish - maybe 10-11" er - swung it into the boat and right before I set it in the bottom of the boat the rod snapped off about 2 1/2 feet from the end.  Very surprised at this as it was a little fish. 

I would be shocked at that happening and I really doubt that BPS will give you a hard time. I'm several hundred fish in on mine without issue. I hope you have better luck with them going forward.

 

[Stein]

No issues with BPS, just swapped it for another.  I was going to go to a 7' but they didn't have any.  They had 6'6" or 7'6" and those started getting a little whippy.

[Ham]

1 hour ago, Stein said:

No issues with BPS, just swapped it for another.  I was going to go to a 7' but they didn't have any.  They had 6'6" or 7'6" and those started getting a little whippy.

I would love to have used every rod in that series to see how they change thru the lineup. I dearly love the 7 footer and I think the 6'6" would be very close to that. I have seen the actions of rod vary a bunch though. I have used St Croix "L"s in 5'6", 6', 6'6", and 7' and they are all different from each other. The 7' footer is an awesome live bait rod, but the 6' and 6'6" are sensitive enough to fish jigs tight lined. The 5'6" didn't throw as well as the others, but you could still feel with it.

So, I recommend the rod I have used the 7 foot one.

[Stein]

Ooohh, pretty!

[Ham]

So many fish will be caught from the contents of that box. So, so many. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Nice.

Two vacancies.  White and pink?

[Stein]

8 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Nice.

Two vacancies.  White and pink?

Could be.  Hopefully this will get me going for a while.  I just asked Richard to put together a starter package.

[Ham]

21 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Nice.

Two vacancies.  White and pink?

Richard handed me my hat with Pink one day. I bought pink jigs, but I can't buy a bite with them.

i think he will want some White 1/32 oz and some Olive/Ginger 1/32 oz. I don't think I need a full range of colors in 1/32 oz, but believe they are needed.