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the backing will limit the braid from slipping on the spool keeping the braid from digging down into the spool. another good thing about backing is you can stretch a average 150/200 yard spool over a couple of reels. i would use some cheap mono like Cajun line to back my reels. This is good advice....

fireant21 wrote:always flouro leaders for me, except of course top water lures.

Why not on topwater? What's your preferred setup?

Interesting! How many trout did you catch? With three of us in the boat we landed about 120 specks before 2:30 p.m. (I had a video camera running for 45 minutes, and we caught 50 trout in just that time!!) Average was around 12 inches, but there were two or three 17ers mixed in there. Only got two ...

I caught this guy amongst the scads of trout in the St Marks river on Thanksgiving. I'm thinking there's some speckled trout mixed in there. Or maybe some Dalmatian.

This guy says he caught it off of Panama City Beach last weekend.

Foxtrotuniform, VERY curious if by saying you dropped them you mean you swam them down OR dropped them manually while still in the boat using line/some rig.: I shot most of it with this rig: http://i.imgur.com/6Oi1B8k.jpg?1 It's PVC attached to a 4lb lead weight. The tail is a piece of aluminum cha...

We spotted these guys after dropping a GoPro at OAR Wakulla and a couple other local reefs. Haven't managed to get one alongside the boat yet (though they've taken more jigs and rigs than I care to admit!) Now I've got a dedicated rod spooled with 170# mono for the next time we come across them. Its...