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  1. Don’t forget after washing, the line needs to be stretched and air dried. Easiest way for me is to go to the local football field with a bunch of tent stakes. One stake for every 10 yards will do. Since this is a tripping hazard, I’d only recommend doing this late at night when the local high school isn’t using the field for practice.
  2. No, and in my 2 decades of fishing I’ve never heard of someone doing this. If you’re going to go down this road, I’d hope you’re at least using something easily biodegradable.
  3. Absolutely. Slammers can take splashes and brief dunks easily, and you’ll end up saving money instead of constantly going through spinfishers. Spinfishers are excellent reels, in my opinion it’s the best bang for your buck boat reel, and works fine for the surf fishing applications when you’re high and dry. But it’s only sealed well enough for spray/light splashes. However, I’d strongly consider either a Shimano spheros or saragosa over a slammer. They’re the best sealed reels under $300. Spheros is more than adequate for most inshore fishing and is cheaper than a saragosa. Saragosa upgrades are worth it if the reel is going to see pelagics at any point, but for just the typical inshore species, spheros is just fine.
  4. For some species or situations, I not only find artificials more fun, but more effective. Being able to easily cover more ground/the entire water column and the actions of certain plugs/lures, can be more advantageous than using bait. It’s not a skill thing, while I think it’s more likely to see fair weather fisherman using bait, to be consistently successful with bait requires a lot of skill. In the northeast I very rarely use bait. Almost never from shore (unless hanging with non-fisherman friends), and rarely from boat unless I cast net some live peanut bunker. On the contrary, I get to fish offshore down in the keys fairly regularly, and down there live bait (and a lot of it) is vital.
  5. Oh no! Anyway… Vast majority of people can just stop at white water on the way out and not have to deal with a convicted sex offender. To the few fisherman that actually live in easthampton/montauk…enjoy the ride west I guess.
  6. I’m very happy with my maxel platinum slow pitch.
  7. Saragosas are definitely a middle ground option considering a 6000 sized one is well under half the price of a vs 150. Other reels sealed well enough to be submerged to varying degrees, without getting into “flagship models”, include a penn slammer, shimano spheros, tsunami saltx, daiwa bq MQ (not the standard BG). Also, if you’re one of the many surf anglers that fish jetties or just shallow wade sand beaches and back bay spots, essentially any saltwater reel over $150 will at least have a drag seal, and possibly a body seal, that will handle the light splashes and spray you’ll deal with. “Surf approved” is completely dependent on where you’re fishing. If you’re fishing boulder fields constantly, yeah you should have the best sealing on the market, which would be a VS or zeebaas. If you need a reel that can be submerged for brief periods and can handle constant heavy splashes, there are a decent amount of options before spending $700+. If you’re fishing calm water and don’t wade too deep, then there are plenty of options that can handle splashes and spray.
  8. There is such a massive middle ground of surf reels between a BG (ok entry level reel) and a Van Staal lol. Not saying it’s a bad idea or anything, but that’s like going from a dodge neon to a Ferrari.
  9. It depends on where you’re fishing more than anything else. If you’re constantly fishing boulder fields and wetsuiting, yeah it makes sense. Otherwise, the answer is it’s never necessary when there are self serviceable reels out there that are near waterproof for $200-300. I’d much rather 3 saragosas than one VS any day.
  10. 20 ounces is not uncommon for orient point tog.
  11. It’s to sink boats that fish too close to a jetty.
  12. Fathom is a great choice whether you go star drag or lever drag. Pure bottom fishing for snappers and grouper I’d personally go star drag, but if you’re going to mess with pelagics a lever drag could come in handy.
  13. Hard choice, but I’m going with a 1-2 oz white bucktail with whatever red trailer just for sheer versatility. However, as far as fish per cast success, I’d rate tsunami sandeel, little neck popper and sp minnow up there as well. Rarely do I stray from these four.
  14. Deadly dick is my go to tin, but I’ve replaced the vast majority of my tin usage with epoxy jigs. And then of course the A17 if it’s a sandeel bite and I want to show my friends how many schoolies I can pose wi…I mean catch.
  15. Daiwa BG has the best main gear in the “budget” class of reels, which matters a lot. Manufacturer stats don’t matter as much as performance, and the BG is a very reliable reel that you can get for around $100. Max drag doesn’t matter much if the rest of the reel can’t handle that drag pressure, or if you’d never use that heavy of a drag in that class of reel. You would not have fun fishing a tsunami shield of any class with 30lbs of drag, and neither would the reel. I had one that literally blew up with MUCH less drag pressure applied.
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