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For streamer fishing big aggressive browns, I ran it as a 10 7/8 weight and it bombed big articulated streamers with ease

The custom weedless double hooks allow you to fish right into the cover without foul up, while ensuring a secure hook-up if your strike skills are on par

Now that all sounds pretty impressive, and perhaps a bit too good to be true...However, my experience with using the Cast Lube on my Ambassadeur would seem to bear this out...Having also dunked that reel in the river while trying to photograph fish recently

Worst of all, a failure mid-battle could see you treading water beside your kayak rather than sitting on top of it, where you should be

Though elsewhere they are almost always deceptively filled with bread crumbs and/or mayonnaise, The Crab Place's are the real deal

The big laker bites are impressive as they will absolutely stop a longline or diver rod