st croix casting rods St. JIS76MLF Mojo Inshore Spinning Rod and fishability ST Croix Victory Casting Rods

The Shimano Metanium DC 70 A Casting Reel is engineered to be the lightest DC reel in the Shimano lineup

The larger versions got big and heavy quick, and the 420 had too small a spool for the reel's weight

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog that will discuss quick-strike rigs for dead-bait

Man-made reservoirs present different options than natural lakes

If your spinning rod doesnt have the right backbone power and hook-setting capability to drive hooks into a pikes hard jaw, that fish is gone

If youre flipping and pitching in heavy cover, you probably want that drag turned all of the way down so you can really get those fish out of heavy cover, Conlon says