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Hold it wrong and your casts, hook sets, and ability to fight big fish all suffer

Grasshoppers Grasshoppers find their way onto bass waters in the late summer

Mustad 34011 The Mustad 34011 is the long-shank version of the 34007

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(Manufacturers insist that fluorocarbon does not absorb water, though some limited testing Ive done showed fluoro breaking slightly lower after becoming saturated.) Time constraints also deterred me from measuring diameters of mono and fluoro with a digital caliper

Flipping jigs are fished around structure, where a bass might be holding up, they are flipped into position as gently as possible, and worked a few times with the rod tip to encourage a strike, reeling in if there is no action and trying again