daiwa coastal low profile reel TW 80 – US 30/115 11 $249.99 Daiwa Coastal SV TW 150

The silver and gold willow leaf design works well in various conditions, and the heavy gauge weed guard will stand up to both dense cover and big fish

Know how to find the fish: Topwater walk-the-dog techniques can be used to quickly cover water and locate fish

The beauty of the rig is the convenience of carrying small, party-style balloons in a tackle box, as they can be inflated quickly when needed

They looked like mullet which were head-down and rooting around on the bottom which produces those telltale scrapes in the mud as per the photo above, but I also had a suspicion that one of the tails might well be a bass

At the end of the day, the target species of fish is gonna go about its very same day regardless of the fishermans choice of equipment