Keep moving (especially your hands and feet) to keep your blood flowing and maintain your body heat. Protect yourself Wear a face mask and goggles if you are participating in winter activities such as skiing, snowmobiling and skating to protect your face from frostbite and windburn. For drop-shotting, I use 8-pound fluorocarbon line and a 6 1/2-foot medium action rod.
I spool the reel with 6-pound line and match it with a 7-foot light action rod for dock shooting. The 2500 or 25 size reel is my choice for dock shooting for crappie or finesse tactics for bass such as drop-shotting. Is 2000 reel too small?Ĭhoosing a fishing rod to go with this size reel: A 2000 or 20 sized reel being a quite small reel ideally will suit a fishing rod between 6ft – 7ft 6 inches in length that has a line class rating somewhere between 2-5Kg. Then a quality 8 to 10,000 will deliver access to some pretty big fish anywhere. A 5000 for larger inshore targets as well as a go-to surf reel. What is a 3000 reel used for?Ī 3000 go-to for everything inshore fresh and salt.
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