After several months fishing with the longer rods I was very impressed and never once thought Id made a bad decision or ruined a good rod
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If you make a pike fly, use large double hooks and gymp, with broad tinsel, and make the body full with pig hair, large saddlecock hackles for legs, wing them with peacock moon feathers, and add two large blue beads over spangles for eyes, and green or red pig hair towards the head
As your fly or lure moves through the water, it can spin, especially when using streamers or other patterns that cause rotational movement
Flipping and pitching a light Texas rigged stick bait works very well, particularly in Florida, where the bass can often be moody dependent on the weather and disinterested in baits with a lot of action
It's going to deliver those long accurate casts you are loooking for