pete smith st croix rods Staff Pick Streamer – Bighorn Angler Jeremy Smith is going over

I take my young boys fishing a lot and this added peace of mind is worth the purchase

Before we move on from the rotor, the "RES II Rotor Equalizing System" is a rotor that's balanced by mass distribution instead of the prehistoric piece of lead you see stuck somewhere on the rotor in older spinning reels, so it's nothing new or evolutionary

Ott replaces the bill with a circuit-board bill in the nose at a different angle, and repositions the line tie so it comes out of the nose [in the pic above, the Ott bait is at the bottom]

Choose fluorocarbon when the water is clear or the fish are wary

A slower gear ratio reel (5.4:16.4:1) allows the bait to maintain its natural action without overpowering it