daiwa airity reel 23 ST SF2500SS-H-QD with its meticulously refined rotational performance Daiwa 23 Airity LT2000S-P

Note that some ATD reels might find their way into UTD markets and vice-versa

I tournament fish all summer long, so its always been important to me to understand what theyre eating, says Jeff Elliott, a Michigan-based federal fisheries biologist with NOAA

I have had some fish take the tails and I replace them with the tails off of 4.75" strike king rage swimmers in black and blue to get the same loud plop

The reason bass eat plastic worms is because they wriggle and move so seductively in the water that theyll often produce a reactionary strikeor what Driscoll calls a reflex bite. This also ties back to the opportunistic nature of bass, and the fact that theyll eat almost anything they can swallow

This is a great bait to get those last couple of bites after youve caught two or three from a spot with another lure

Multi-coloured braid that changes colour every 10 metres is pretty much the norm nowadays on any kingfish jigging or livebait setup