antique hardy perfect fly reel 1896 BROS 3 1/4” Brass The Rare 3 1/4” – Antique & Vintage Fishing Tackle piece spindle and stainless steel ball bearings HARDY BROS. Reels - Alnwick,

Because 5 baits really is tough to do, the rest of the baits that really should have made the cut are the Swim Jig (California Swim Jig to be exact), the spoon (both Jigging Spoon and Flutter Spoon, The Jerkbait (ripbait if you live on the west coast), and the paddle tail swimbait (I'd go with the 6" basstrix or 4.8 Keitech on a Dirty Jigs Swimbait head)

Per that blog post, which also says balsa trees only come in firetiger, silver/black back and gold/black back, so all the other colors need to be painted over those

Its a high end rod that just happens to be in 5 pieces

But it wasnt adequate to handle the huge, slow-moving fish