Thanks for all of your input. Hope to hear back on how you do tomorrow. My sister lives in Bfield so I do know a little about it...it gets smoggier and hotter the further south you go-and your way down there. Do you fish Isabella much? Mr. Brown truck man showed up early today with my new toys so I'm going to have something to play with Sat. I'm now set up with a new 7' H action Fenwick/Cabela's Prodigy baitcaster and a 6.5' M action Berkley Series 1/Cabela's(made by Daiwa) Prodigy spincaster. Both are loaded with 8lb test mono. I'm lousy with a baitcaster so I'll have a lot of fun getting rid of bird nests. I'm bound and determined to learn how to use one though- no matter how dorky I look figuring it out. Luckily I've got a couple of cheap back up spincasters to play so I don't spend all day monkeying with the reel and looking like a total BARNI out there Saturday.