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You can fish it slowly with pregnant pauses and subtle twitchesor fish it faster with more of a walk the dog retrieve while casting shoreline as your kayak drifts downstream

I like the ribbontail design

Unfortunately as new introductions come in, a lot of what were the best reels become discontinued, so we review as many reels as we can year after year

In no particular order, my top 5 baits are as follows: 1) The jig : The bass are gorging before winter and one of their favorite meals is a crawdad

Justin Lucas's topwater rod

The drag washers provide a smooth, even ow of line when a sh surges to prevent the line from breaking