st croix bullfrog rod St. Legend Casting including the Slop and Frog St. Croix Triumph Travel Spinning

Use braided line as the main line , and then attach a fluorocarbon leader or even a brief section of mono line

Jigheads of 1/2 ounce or less work the best

Soft Beads for Steelhead BNR Soft Beads are one of the top soft beads for Washington State and beyond

Anywhere shallow water drops into deeper water is a good area to look for bass

It wasnt until I began fishing with the admittedly slightly heavier but incredibly confidence-inspiring Penn Slammer III spinning reels (review here) this year that I finally realised that there was a viable option to a completely sealed spinning reel such as the various Van Staal models