no worries man :D

tis all in good fun, cept when its windy.....

I bought a new rod today too... I ran out of circle hooks yesterday so i was trying to find a tackleshop that has some good ones, the shiner circles and the mutus but BCF midland was closed (staying at in laws) and i ended up just picking up h0ju...

on the way to the canning, we stopped in this like, dingy asian tackle shop... h0ju doesnt like em due to the service he got there once and but he acknowledged that the guy sells TONS of japanese terminal and gear, which he obviously ships in... so we went in for a look...

Good News: ended up buying a fricken awesome IM8 High Modulus 5'6 graphite spin stik for like $45! what a fricken bargain! The guy ended up being the distributor of some brand called Lamex or some shit and some other brands... man, had a whole heap of good graphite blank rods for cheap...!

Also, the terminal gear! My God! Poppers like Kasey was casting into the river yesterday for dirt cheap.. same stuff...

Bad News: Idiots didnt stock gamakatsu or owner lol so I went with Mustad Demon Hooks.... and my advice is.. nice hook... a lot of dropped fish :( coulda been the weather tho, id stick to mutus and shiners lol However, the rod is a bloody dream! In the wind, I casted an unweighted prawn bloody ages! cant wait to use 1/16 and 1/32 jigheads with some snapbacks and bass minnows with it... its gonna be aweeeeeeesome!

oh the funnier thing about those japanese rods.. lol

either they got like mega powerful blanks or these guys are crazy...

the rod weight on this stik I bought was 6-12lb ROFL and its thin as, I woulda picked it definitly more for a 2-4lb based on the taper and feel... however, it loaded up well and has fuji alconite guides so im stoked! Its called the Lamex President Royal