ccm
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Went bass fishing with my dad Saturday afternoon. At our first spot I noticed a large slip float bobbing up & down. I thought this was strange since there were no lines out on any of the piers nearby so I decided to snag it & pull in along with any long pieces of mono attached. To my surprise at the end of about 20yds of mono there was a new ( still plastic on the cork ) Berkley Bionix crank bait rod along with a like new Abu Garcia red 5000 ( made in Sweden ) reel. I believe this had to be lost sometime earlier that day or the day before because it still had shad scales stuck to it from whomever was using it for catfish & had it pulled into the lake. Back at the house I took the reel completely apart cleaned, dried, re oiled, & re greased. It's in excellent shape & would look brand new except for a couple of small scratches on the bottom of the left side plate. I spooled it with new 20lb big game & it casts like a dream ( actually better than I thought for a bushing reel ). Next I pulled the plastic off of the cork grips on the rod & cleaned off the shad scales ( a real PITA to get off but hey it's free so I cant really complain ). The real was never meant to go on the rod as it was lose with the handle tightened all the way down but I just flip flopped it with another rod & reel I had. It seems I had all the luck as I caught our only two bass our intended species on a spinnerbait while my dad ended up catching 4 catfish on artificials 2 on crankbaits & 2 more on spinnerbaits. Overall a great day on the water. :mrgreen: tight lines yall