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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Calcutta 200DMark Zona says he was no different than most anglers in his early days when it came to choosing a baitcasting reel.
“Let’s face it, low profile reels are just cool looking,” said the host of Zona’s Awesome Fishing Show seen on the The Outdoor Channel. “I remember when I saw my first low profile reel; it was sleek, had a Star Wars looking hood over the spool and I was like, come on, dude! That is cool!”
But Zona says experience has taught him there’s more to tackle selection than “cool” Star Wars aesthetics.
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VanDam shows how he adjusts centrifugal drag on his Quantum EXO.While I was being filmed for a Bass Pro Shops commercial, local onlookers walked onto their docks and began asking me about the use of a baitcaster.
VanDam shows how he adjusts centrifugal drag on his Quantum EXO.
“I never could get the hang of how to use a baitcaster,” one man said. “How do you make it look so easy?”
It’s a comment I get at sport shows and public appearances. People say they can’t use baitcast gear and prefer spincast and spinning reels that are easier to use.
But baitcast gear gives you a mechanical advantage over other types of reels and the utmost control in making precision presentations.
You just have to give it a chance. With a proper setup and a little practice, modern baitcast technology delivers fewer backlashes than the reels we had four or five years ago.
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Make your reels feel new again.Has this ever happened to you?
It’s mid-summer, you’re on the lake, the fish are bitin’ and your favorite reel begins to act up.
Make your reels feel new again.
Maybe it growls, develops a strange vibration with every turn of the handle, or the spool won’t engage.
Something like that happens to me every year. Not that I don’t have good reels; I just don’t take very good care of them.
That’s why I dropped some off at Moe Ranieri’s place the other day. In addition to working part-time in the reel department at Lunker’s, he has a tackle repair service in his Edwardsburg, Mich. home.
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Poor Boys Baits and Lurecraft will host its annual Open House at the LaGrange, Ind. business Jan. 25-26.
Poor Boys/Lurecraft is one of the Midwest’s largest supplier of hand-pour soft plastics and a sundry of lure components and bait making supplies.
Hours are 8-5 on Friday and 7-4 Saturday. Coffee and donuts will be served during morning hours and hot dogs at lunch.
Lurecraft has taken on several new fly tying supplies as well as lures components for all types of fishing.
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The 10XD is quite a bit larger than a 5XD, as both are pictured here.Have you heard about the 10XD, Strike King’s newest deep diver?
The 10XD is quite a bit larger than a 5XD, as both are pictured here.
It was supposed to be a secret until next year, but company lure designer Phil Marks won the recent Sam Rayburn FLW Tour event on it and had to let the cat out of the bag.
Big bass are known to eat big baits and bass anglers target big bass. The all-new 10XD deep diving crankbait will appeal to both. It’s 6 inches long and will easily hit the 25-foot mark on 14-pound fluorocarbon line, allowing you to get a crankbait in front of fish that you previously could not reach. It also casts and pulls surprisingly easy for its behemoth size.