Reel Drag Control Tips

 Ambient temperature, heat generated during a hard run, spool diameter as line leaves a reel — all these variables can affect a reel’s drag. Each might change your drag only slightly, but their combined effects can quickly compound.

Shimano Waxwing Lures

Speed, distance, and power are all important factors in saltwater lure casting. Releasing the lure from the  hook-keeper, sliding your way to the bow in 4 foot seas, going 30 knots into a head wind while facing an acre of breaking jumbos in front of you – this is Tuna fishing today. Yes, we are crazy, and no, we don’t skydive. It’s too dangerous. This is the Waxwing mentality.

G Loomist Pro-Green Series Fishing Rod

The Pro Green Series is a special set of inshore saltwater rods created for anglers preferring to fish small jigs, soft plastics and any number of artificial baits, including topwaters for myriad saltwater species. A great choice for school-sized blues and stripers along the Atlantic Coast as well as redfish, seatrout, permit, bonefish, snook and small tarpon in Florida and all along the Gulf coast, these rods offer a surprising blend of power, light weight and sensitivity. There are three different power-ratings and three different rods lengths offered in each power to cover the variety of water depths and conditions each region offers.

G Loomist IMX® SURF Series Rod

The new IMX® SURF Series are extremely powerful, high-modulus, light weight spinning rods designed specifically for the long-range casts required to successfully fish the surf. They have smaller diameters that create less air-resistance during the casting stroke, with faster actions, creating tremendous tip-speed to virtually launch lures into the next time zone and enough power to handle stripers, blues, sierras, roosters, big drum and cobia.

Sufix Duraflex Monofilament Line

My first impression of this new-for-2009 reel line is very good indeed. The diameter for strength ratio is excellent, outstanding in fact. It’s limp, smooth, and Steve Ringer who has been testing it tell me he is highly impressed with its durability too.

CrossCurrent Fly Fishing Rod

CrossCurrent Fly Rod

Whether you choose our standard CrossCurrent rods for back ups or for your budget, they are outstanding fishing tools. You might call them “power tools” for the flats. We use our “fiber blend technology” to combine the benefits of strength and stiffness of different materials to build a powerful alternative for anglers at any level of proficiency. These four- piece sticks are every bit as smooth, as powerful and as efficient as any fly rod on the market. Blending different materials allows us to take advantage of the unique properties of each without overbuilding the blank.

Shimano Calcutta Conquest Baitcasting Reel

Calcutta Conquest DC introduces a new size to the family Conquest 50/51DC It is designed to cast ultralight lures with thin lines. It’s lightweight sensitive spool design results in low inertia startup for longer casting distance. It comes equipped with the I-DC4 electronic brake control consisting of 4 preset setting for casting of super lightweight lures. The improve DC unit has a more sensitive sensor needed to deliver braking more accurately with minimal backlash for low poundage lines.

Shimano Scorpion DC Baitcasting Reel

In true Shimano tradition, we improved a reel everyone thought was already at its peak potential. The New Scorpion DC is the latest addition to the famed Scorpion tackle family. Loaded with electronic digital control, anglers only have to choose the type of fishing line to initiate the electronic braking system.

Shimano Stella Spinning Reel

The Stella spinning reels sets the benchmark in reel design, utilizing the latest design & material technology available today. The use of high grade Super Magnesium material for body & rotor decrease the reel weight and at the same time providing strong rigidity.

Bottom Fishing Techniques

This technique may already be familiar to the fishing hobbyist. But for the novice angler still a few who understand the technique, but may at any fishing using this technique. Because of this heavy foundation fishing technique is a technique common and most easily used by anglers, whether professional or beginner.
Target fish using bottom fishing techniques is a fish under the waters like a catfish, snapper, grouper, GT, grouper, and many others.

Some examples of bottom fishing rigs :