New house is on a lake so I went out and re-bought shit I threw away years ago.
Grabbed a Berkley graphite rod and a Shimano Spirex w/ the rear drag. Seems like most people prefer the front drag but I like the ability to adjust the drag as I'm bringing something in. It also has the trigger on the gate so I can flip the bail open with my pointing finger on my right hand. Just a handful of little features that I liked and it felt very smooth.
So far everything I catch seems to be about a 1 lb small-mouth so I'm pretty sure the thing is incredibly underfished keeping everything fairly small but maybe I'll find some better spots when I get a boat and get out there a little more. I've pulled surprisingly large crappie and sunfish so it seems like there's some decent fish in there and I just need to find them. It's a large pond as much as it is a small lake so it'll be paddle-boat at best.
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