What is Offshore fishing?

What in your opinion is the best fishing rod , fishing line , fishing lure and fishing hook?

• Every year I go freshwater fishing and there's always this one fish that either snaps my fishing line or almost breaks my fishing rod so I have to let it go and also what fishing ...show more

• Answer:

  Merle I hope you don't mind me answering all three questions here. The least rod action you can go with is heavy and I would make it a 6 1/2 foot 1 piece pitching stick with a very fast retrieve bait casting or small level wind reel like the millionaire by daiwa or calcutta by shimano the line should be 15 -18 pound big game trilene for musky and pike and I would also use (suggest) low visibility green. Baits would have to be larger buck tails and larger in line spinners or spinner baits that are also huge. titanium and stainless mixed as far as what the baits metals should be and cast long and far into coves that aren't too deep but full of weeds and hydrilla and keep the blades of the baits under the surface but barely. the best method is to never break the surface with the baits but retrieve them as fast as you can making them travel the same direction as the wind and or current. use the rod tip to actually change the baits direction during the retrieve and go around stumps and visible weed lines. for the walleye you can use a medium action from 6 1/2' to 7 1/2' but I would stay with a one piece and whatever you are most accustomed too you can either use spinning or conventional. The tour likes spinning gear. I would use 8 pound test green trilene XL and drop fluourscent leadheads with leeches to the bottom wherever my electronics pointed out a raised hump ( 20 - 30 feet deep ) or a rock pile rising at least four feet off the bottom.