Brett Hite talks reels

Does Gear Ratio Matter

Summer 2020

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GEAR RATIO

BREAKDOWN

with Brett Hite By Tyler Brinks

T

hey are America’s favorite gamefish because they

are found just about everywhere and generally

bite just about anything. If Arizona’s Brett Hite had to choose, he would much rather catch bass the way he

“Those two baits have been doing really good. I normally use the 125 size but noticed a lot of the shad were smaller lately, so the 105 has been great the past few weeks,” Hite shared during his time on the water. He prefers a high-speed

likes. For him, that’s power fishing.

reel when fishing this bait and was using the 7.1:1 Daiwa

He loves to flip, pitch, throw topwater, and of course,

Tatula Elite reel.

throw the ChatterBait. Hite is the undisputed king of the

“The

vibrating jig and has won piles of money with it.

Tatula Elite

For all of his favorite techniques, he keeps it pretty

was designed

simple when it comes to the gear he uses; but does adjust it for long casts

based on the situation.

and that bait

casts a long

TOPWATER SEASON

way, to begin with, so it

In the tournament hiatus this year, Hite was tearing up really lets

the bass with a topwater bait on the Arizona lakes. He was you bomb it

catching them on both the Evergreen Shower Blows SB-105 out there,”

and SB-125 pencil popper.

he said. “I like

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