Looks amazing! Seems like it has all of the tech of their steez bass rods and I absolutely love those. Will definitely have to pick one up this winter thanks for the video!
I really like the looks of that lake. Same for the Nikko worm and the trout magnets just look like the cheapest copy of a bead head wooly bugger you can get. Anyways nice fish.
Victor you need to keep your Crappie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Keep the videos coming your the best... I killed the perch yesterday at Navy Pier with the goby soft plastic that you used in your videos... I was catching fish on every cast for about 30 mins when the school was around. Guys where asking me what I am using. I told them to watch I_FISH to learn something....🤣🤣🤣
I appreciate that! I still have a few packs of those gobies! I made many give aways but i never gave them away! They work good and are very tough when nose hooked, not like them keitechs..
PRESSO AIR AGS is great, but they don't have the knob at the bottom, I tried to protect the rod with Electrical tape, but it's so ugly, Where did you get the protection knob?
i have a bunch of speaker bumpers because every time i buy speakers i get a bunch of those. But you can go to walmart and just buy any piece of rubber and cut out a small circle and put a dab of glue
Hello! New to your channel. I must say your videos are extremely informative and your content is thorough and thoughtful. My son and I are sharing interest in ultralight gear and have purchased some nice Daiwa Presso rods since subbing to your channel. Please let me know what is your recommendation for braid line for trout fishing while jigging? Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences to help us create enjoyable memories!
i don't recommend braid, especially for kids and beginners.. Buy some 2 lb fluorocarbon instead.. maybe 3 lb... as thin as you can... If you do float fishing, go for 6 lb monofilament. Braid is a big pain with all the knots..
in clear water or when its sunny, i go natural. Otherwise something bright. However pink for some reason works even in clear water. It looks like eggs I think.. Also, if you have very small trout, they are so stupid that it doesn't matter what u put. But with older trout it begins to matter as they become cautious
@@ifishcatfish gotcha, I live in GB wisconsin so I dont have much trout spots that arents 2 hour drives. But I appreciate you for answering my question
Random question, do you have any tips for keeping a super thin JDM rod that is 100% graphite WITHOUT a clear coat from cracking/threading with use or age? Do you store them in a specific way or treat them with anything?
no, i don't treat them with anything, and i don't recommend you treat yours with anything, as chemicals seem to work in funny ways. In my last video i showed u the silky rod cases I use. They are super soft and slippery and prevent snags. Other than that, my rods are either in the boat, or in my garage, which is very clean and temperature controlled. So I am not really concerned about mine,but I think your question is legitimate. But my advice would be to be super careful but don't do anything funny with them
@@ifishcatfish Thank you for the well thought out response! Truly it is just the lack of a clear coat to seal the graphite that concerns me the most. Going forward I think I will only order JDM rods that have one, even though the rod I have (tict rocking drift), is an absolutely perfect rod, just seeing the open carbon scares me haha.
victor, i have a question about your rods. of course i posted that i just got the air ags rod, absolutely love the rod. out of your jdm rods which ones do you consider your favorites? i know the eradicator is and the air ags rod, but any others regardless if hard to find or not, which other ones do you just absolutely consider top notch rods.
I probably love the Eradicator more than any other of my rods, i think because it is so thin and yet so long. Super elegant feel with fish and super sensitive. But the Air AGS is better for twitching, and the $60 presso is better for float fishing, and the Soare XR is the most beautiful rod on the planet and yet most comfortable. I am getting older and see value in other things. Something doesn't have to be perfect for me to love it 100%.
one of my subscribers bought if rom me from japan, for the MSRP. Then i paid for shipping. But then I saw it on platt and i bought a second one. Platt was selling them with free shipping but i think he sold out. But this is daiwa, them make thousands of these and they will be easy to find if u browse
i just bought one the day after thanksgiving from jdm tackle heaven. it arrived today 12-1 it cost 305.00 plus 30.00 shipping, everyone has been sold out for months.
Is it possible that the bluegill are getting bigger because they do allow some harvest? I can think of three bodies of water near me that biologists are begging people to keep fish because there are too many and growth is stunted. Perch, walleye and lake trout.
a lot of things make sense superficially, but when u get into specifics they don't make sense. Bluegills grow extremely slow and not every bluegill has the genes to grow to 10" . Harvesting a 10" bluegill does nothing to reduce the number of bluegill, but hurts the best part of the reproductive population. If you ask me to harvest 100 six-inchers , i will say GO FOR IT! Then you reduce the numbers and don't hurt the fishery. But nobody takes 100 six-inchers. People harvest the best specimen in the lake, continuously, and it is PRECISELY THAT, which stuns the population - harvesting the biggest fish continuously. If this was my lake, i would have an UPPER limit for harvesting. Once a bluegill makes it to 9", harvesting should be illegal. Also once a crappie makes it to 14", harvesting should be illegal. These are the fish that you want on top of the spawning beds in the spring, and they would be, because the males are very dominant and would displace smaller, immature males
That rod looks like a work of art. Those guides look like they belong in a museum. I wonder why they advise you to keep crappie. Maybe too many crappie and not enough natural predators to keep the population in check leading to disease and competition for food? Who knows
They manage the lake for bass and bluegill, and crappie competes for food with both. They are trying to get rid of them and there are very few crappie left in the lake (which is the reason why the remaining units are so large). I kept large crappie from this lake before they told me that and now i feel really bad about it. I will never take another crappie from this lake. I will start harvesting BASS instead, to protest their management. The other TWRA managed lakes around are VFW and Laurel Hill and they also are managed for bass and bluegill and have no crappie.
@@ifishcatfish wow. I know bass fishing is america’s cup of coffee, but I’ve never heard of state managed fisheries recommending anglers to harvest other species of fish to boost another species’ population. Doesn’t seem fair to those crappie. Usually only when a species is invasive or diseased or poses a threat to the overall health of the water do they recommend you to take them out of that body of water. Follow your heart Victor. UL fisherman have as much right to fish for their favorite species as bass fisherman do.
i didn't understand your question. Why do I fish with gloves? Protect my hands from both sun and slime.. I tend to catch a lot of fish and slime goes on clothes, on the rods, and eventually in my truck. This way i take them off when im done
Very smart I wii give them a try l catch lots of speckle trout and I will try them do you wash them every time every time you go fishing keep up the good fishing
@@walteroquinn757 i have 7 or 8 pairs now now and just collect them in a bucket and when i have enough i wash them. The left glove i can use only once, because it stinks really bad. But the right glove i can use 1 month as my hands don't sweat. I wish I could buy only left gloves : )
wow... carabus and eradicator is amazing pair.. I have your number and when i start buying something new may sell one of my JDMs to clear space, but for now they all have slightly different purpose and i will keep them for a while at least
The parabolic curve of this rod is off the charts! Nice action !
thank you sir!
It’s therapeutic watching these videos 👍🏼
i think you need to get a $350 japanese rod that weighs 43 grams! I bet that will spark some interest in your subs : )
@@ifishcatfish
Lol, that’ll never happen 😋
this rod is the best for twitching trout magnet for panfish. unbeatable.
Looks amazing! Seems like it has all of the tech of their steez bass rods and I absolutely love those. Will definitely have to pick one up this winter thanks for the video!
@@benczarnecki9406 u gona love this thing no matter what u use it for
Good to see that, in the end, you got on those very healthy looking Bluegill. They can put up a good fight!
you never told me - who is your favorite sumo fighter?
Nice Bluegill catches. It been slow here in California with the colder weather.
here too..
I really like the looks of that lake. Same for the Nikko worm and the trout magnets just look like the cheapest copy of a bead head wooly bugger you can get. Anyways nice fish.
this lake is a little gem. Tough but good reward. I'm sure u have lakes like that
Victor you need to keep your Crappie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Keep the videos coming your the best... I killed the perch yesterday at Navy Pier with the goby soft plastic that you used in your videos... I was catching fish on every cast for about 30 mins when the school was around. Guys where asking me what I am using. I told them to watch I_FISH to learn something....🤣🤣🤣
I appreciate that! I still have a few packs of those gobies! I made many give aways but i never gave them away! They work good and are very tough when nose hooked, not like them keitechs..
Victor still waiting for that float video...
PRESSO AIR AGS is great, but they don't have the knob at the bottom, I tried to protect the rod with Electrical tape, but it's so ugly, Where did you get the protection knob?
i have a bunch of speaker bumpers because every time i buy speakers i get a bunch of those. But you can go to walmart and just buy any piece of rubber and cut out a small circle and put a dab of glue
@@ifishcatfish Thanks for your advice! I will try it this weekend.
Have you fished with your Air AGS 61 ML? How did you like the action?
Completely parabolic. Zero tip, its just one long blank :). I like it for swimbaits.. it is in many of my videos
Hello! New to your channel. I must say your videos are extremely informative and your content is thorough and thoughtful. My son and I are sharing interest in ultralight gear and have purchased some nice Daiwa Presso rods since subbing to your channel. Please let me know what is your recommendation for braid line for trout fishing while jigging? Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences to help us create enjoyable memories!
i don't recommend braid, especially for kids and beginners.. Buy some 2 lb fluorocarbon instead.. maybe 3 lb... as thin as you can... If you do float fishing, go for 6 lb monofilament. Braid is a big pain with all the knots..
Thank you for the advice
Greetings. New subscriber here, which Presso model is this (length/action)? After 20 years of cheap ultralights I’m about to get a soare and presso :)
please watch my review of the rod, from a month ago. Model , link , everything is there
How do you choice what color of trout magnets to use?
in clear water or when its sunny, i go natural. Otherwise something bright. However pink for some reason works even in clear water. It looks like eggs I think.. Also, if you have very small trout, they are so stupid that it doesn't matter what u put. But with older trout it begins to matter as they become cautious
@@ifishcatfish gotcha, I live in GB wisconsin so I dont have much trout spots that arents 2 hour drives. But I appreciate you for answering my question
Random question, do you have any tips for keeping a super thin JDM rod that is 100% graphite WITHOUT a clear coat from cracking/threading with use or age? Do you store them in a specific way or treat them with anything?
no, i don't treat them with anything, and i don't recommend you treat yours with anything, as chemicals seem to work in funny ways. In my last video i showed u the silky rod cases I use. They are super soft and slippery and prevent snags. Other than that, my rods are either in the boat, or in my garage, which is very clean and temperature controlled. So I am not really concerned about mine,but I think your question is legitimate. But my advice would be to be super careful but don't do anything funny with them
@@ifishcatfish Thank you for the well thought out response! Truly it is just the lack of a clear coat to seal the graphite that concerns me the most. Going forward I think I will only order JDM rods that have one, even though the rod I have (tict rocking drift), is an absolutely perfect rod, just seeing the open carbon scares me haha.
victor, i have a question about your rods.
of course i posted that i just got the air ags rod, absolutely love the rod.
out of your jdm rods which ones do you consider your favorites?
i know the eradicator is and the air ags rod, but any others regardless if hard to find or not, which other ones do you just absolutely consider top notch rods.
I probably love the Eradicator more than any other of my rods, i think because it is so thin and yet so long. Super elegant feel with fish and super sensitive. But the Air AGS is better for twitching, and the $60 presso is better for float fishing, and the Soare XR is the most beautiful rod on the planet and yet most comfortable. I am getting older and see value in other things. Something doesn't have to be perfect for me to love it 100%.
Where did you buy presso air ags rod from how much was it not to be nosy
one of my subscribers bought if rom me from japan, for the MSRP. Then i paid for shipping. But then I saw it on platt and i bought a second one. Platt was selling them with free shipping but i think he sold out. But this is daiwa, them make thousands of these and they will be easy to find if u browse
i just bought one the day after thanksgiving from jdm tackle heaven. it arrived today 12-1
it cost 305.00 plus 30.00 shipping, everyone has been sold out for months.
Is it possible that the bluegill are getting bigger because they do allow some harvest? I can think of three bodies of water near me that biologists are begging people to keep fish because there are too many and growth is stunted. Perch, walleye and lake trout.
a lot of things make sense superficially, but when u get into specifics they don't make sense. Bluegills grow extremely slow and not every bluegill has the genes to grow to 10" . Harvesting a 10" bluegill does nothing to reduce the number of bluegill, but hurts the best part of the reproductive population. If you ask me to harvest 100 six-inchers , i will say GO FOR IT! Then you reduce the numbers and don't hurt the fishery. But nobody takes 100 six-inchers. People harvest the best specimen in the lake, continuously, and it is PRECISELY THAT, which stuns the population - harvesting the biggest fish continuously. If this was my lake, i would have an UPPER limit for harvesting. Once a bluegill makes it to 9", harvesting should be illegal. Also once a crappie makes it to 14", harvesting should be illegal. These are the fish that you want on top of the spawning beds in the spring, and they would be, because the males are very dominant and would displace smaller, immature males
That rod looks like a work of art. Those guides look like they belong in a museum. I wonder why they advise you to keep crappie. Maybe too many crappie and not enough natural predators to keep the population in check leading to disease and competition for food? Who knows
They manage the lake for bass and bluegill, and crappie competes for food with both. They are trying to get rid of them and there are very few crappie left in the lake (which is the reason why the remaining units are so large). I kept large crappie from this lake before they told me that and now i feel really bad about it. I will never take another crappie from this lake. I will start harvesting BASS instead, to protest their management. The other TWRA managed lakes around are VFW and Laurel Hill and they also are managed for bass and bluegill and have no crappie.
@@ifishcatfish wow. I know bass fishing is america’s cup of coffee, but I’ve never heard of state managed fisheries recommending anglers to harvest other species of fish to boost another species’ population. Doesn’t seem fair to those crappie. Usually only when a species is invasive or diseased or poses a threat to the overall health of the water do they recommend you to take them out of that body of water. Follow your heart Victor. UL fisherman have as much right to fish for their favorite species as bass fisherman do.
Why do you fish with gives love your videos I fish salt water
i didn't understand your question. Why do I fish with gloves? Protect my hands from both sun and slime.. I tend to catch a lot of fish and slime goes on clothes, on the rods, and eventually in my truck. This way i take them off when im done
Very smart I wii give them a try l catch lots of speckle trout and I will try them do you wash them every time every time you go fishing keep up the good fishing
@@walteroquinn757 i have 7 or 8 pairs now now and just collect them in a bucket and when i have enough i wash them. The left glove i can use only once, because it stinks really bad. But the right glove i can use 1 month as my hands don't sweat. I wish I could buy only left gloves : )
@@walteroquinn757 if u don't start using gloves, your hands will look like speckled trout when u get old..
I lost your number text me if you got any rods you wanna sell. Carrabus got a new friend. Eradicator......
wow... carabus and eradicator is amazing pair.. I have your number and when i start buying something new may sell one of my JDMs to clear space, but for now they all have slightly different purpose and i will keep them for a while at least