baitfeeder reels daiwa Aird 80 Baitcast Reel coupled with a secure screw Daiwa Free Swimmer BR 8000

Smooth rotation and a highly rigid handle with machine-cut design enable stress-free reeling

Taku Ito | Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S The Free Rig and How to Use It The free rig is a hybrid rig that shares some aspects of the ultra-popular Texas and Carolina rigs

Forage Color Topwaters, whether made of soft plastic, hard plastic, wood or skirted material, can be colored to look like anything, from shad to bluegills to amphibians to terrestrials

For a more experienced baitcast user, the beautiful thing about a 7:1 gear ratio is that you can manually decrease your retrieval speed

But with braid, the line is capable of cutting through the vegetation and hauling the fish out of the cover