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That's exactly what I needed to hear, thanks Capt. 2500 or 3000 it is, depending whichever deal I come across. I assume I can swap spools to go from one to the other.

Now if I can find a deal on a 2500 Ci4+...

I recently bought a 6'6 6-12 lb E6x bass rod, 782 SJR specifically, and need a reel for it. I tried a Stradic 2500 on it at the store when I bought the rod, and it felt pretty well balanced. My goal is to go light tackle for trout, reds, and bass by pitching jigs and weedless swimbaits. Does anyone ...

Put in at the Mandalay ramp around noon with a buddy. We fished down the river to the Gulf. Caught several short trout, small ladyfish, and a few bluefish on the way down. On the way back up the river, with incoming tide, caught a few bigger trout. 17 and 18 inches, and finally a 20 inch redfish abo...

Put in at the Mandalay ramp around noon to an outgoing tide and a super intense headwind. It was my first time there so after driving out from Tallahassee, I was going to explore. I planned to paddle out of the river, explore the creeks, and drift the flats. There was a small flotilla of boats in th...

Been raining like hell, drive safe fellas.

I put in at Newport and fished down river for maybe 2 miles. The tide was going out quite hard. I was throwing a small chatterbait with a DOA shad on it, and a gold spoon. No luck, but had something hit my Yozuri minnow on the way back, it looked about the size of a football and jumped about 3 ft ou...

Beautiful fish!

I gotta try St. Marks sometime, seems like I'm missing out!

Nice work! That red has such a pretty shade of copper red.

I paddled from Bottoms Rd to the Skipper Bay landing a few weeks ago. The end of it still looked as crazy as ever. I did make it through in a VW Rabbit, tried it once. The only other problem I ran into was some standing water going in, this was last year. I went earlier this year and no standing wat...

I got my Shimano Stradic 4000 FK for $140 new in box. My buddy grabbed a Quantum Smoke PTs casting reel also for $140 NIB. The Smoke and the Stradic both retail for around $210ish at a big box store, point being the abundance of deals online. The Quantum Smoke PTs spinning reel is sweet too. Again, ...

Sweet, sounds like a helluva day.

I uploaded a picture in the original post. That red looked like something swiped at it a few months ago. Capt. Silverking I do use that drift chute a lot, thanks again! It's pretty serious for my kayak and works really well. That drift chute on an anchor trolley is as good as it gets for a kayak dri...

Put in just east of Carrabelle early Saturday around 8 am. The tide was way low but incoming, and the wind was cooperative for the first... half hour. It got pretty windy, blowing me out to sea, so about a North Northwest ish wind. I started in about 2 ft and incoming and couldn't get a bite on the ...

So unofficially, I think I'll try a few pairs of the Frogg Togg bibs to wear over my pants. That should keep me dry from water coming up from scuppers. T shirt, old Goodwill hoodie worked last time. I'll try a Frogg Toggs rain jacket as wind barrier next time. I like the FTs ideally as I tend to cru...

The wind in town yesterday was crazy! If you guys were being blown around in a power boat I can't imagine the frustration for me in a kayak. Glad you got some!