Poorly made rods make fishing difficult, don’t allow for finesse, and may fail when you have a fish on. An excellent rod for light-biting panfish, the Croix Custom Ice Pan Finesse rod is 24 inches long with a solid carbon blank for sensitivity and durability. This light power rod performs well with tungsten jigs and small spoons, and its extra-fast action couples a sensitive tip with a firm backbone for positive hooksets.
That’s because the city’s voter-imposed revenue cap, which limits what Houston can collect in property taxes each year, exempts the cash these zones generate. Supporters say the city’s long-lived TIRZs are justified and point to the marquee parks projects and millions of dollars in road repairs they have funded. The zones, they add, helped the city prevent all of Houston’s growth from flowing to the suburbs and played a crucial role in revitalizing neighborhoods such as Midtown, Gulfgate and parts of Washington Avenue. And some TIRZs, under a quirk in state law, have generated millions for affordable housing — though the resulting programs have had mixed results. The captured city tax dollars alone are enough to run all of Houston’s parks and libraries and still have tens of millions of dollars left over. Two miles from where Medina collapsed in the punishing heat, there’s no shortage of amenities in the trendy neighborhood of Uptown.
While this one is designated a “medium,” it’s just a little bit heavier than the others in that class. That means if you’re fishing in deep water, heavy current, or other conditions that make the use of a ½ ounce or greater weight necessary, you won’t be overpowered or lose control. The 7 foot 7 inch length allows for long casts if needed, but more importantly, it picks up a lot of line when you need to move a big fish that has grabbed your bait. It features a custom one-piece reel seat and proprietary SiC guides.
Glory Medina gets her daughter Jade, 6, ready for day care at their Gulfton apartment. They rely on the bus and often have to wait at unsheltered stops. The area’s subpar lighting, drainage and sidewalks didn’t satisfy the criteria council had adopted when it formed the city’s lone TIRZ in 1990. It was 1992, and Houston had only one such zone, formed two years prior. So city planners produced a report on how Houston should approach this relatively novel tool.
In the last 15 years, city records list just four street or drainage projects in or around the neighborhood and $2 million spent in the area’s main park, Burnett-Bayland. Parker, who as mayor oversaw most of Houston’s TIRZ expansions and life extensions, said the zones should be regularly reevaluated. But in 2014, the zone’s boundaries exploded to more than 12 square miles and its life was extended by 17 years as the city sought to spark development across southeast Houston and improve Broadway Street. Yet Houston has repeatedly justified extending the life of its zones precisely because they fulfilled their original goals. The law, in fact, lets petition zones be formed anywhere — blighted or not — as long as the paperwork is signed by the owners of a majority of the area’s property value.
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I’ll admit it—while I’m not afraid of spinning tackle and embraced the drop shot relatively early in time, I still don’t use it as much as I should. That has started to change as I’ve accumulated and tested rods dedicated to the technique—and now I’ve caught largemouths to 7 pounds and smallmouths to 5 on this comparatively new technique. I know that it works in a ridiculously wide range of circumstances and also that the right rod makes a huge difference not only in the number that you hook, but more importantly, in the number that you land. With that in mind, I’ve forced myself to fish them as much as possible to take the guesswork away going forward. It’s an insane balance of lightweight and strength, with a Toray Nano blank, Fuji Titanium Torzite guides, and painted Fuji graphite reel seats.
Lesch dabbled in fisheries management at Utah State University. He eventually settled on the Iron Range where he worked for a mining supply company. He also worked in custom printing for the Hibbing Tribune and sold sporting goods for 15 years. After Lesch is finished, each rod is inspected by his wife, M.J. Then both get their names written on the blank, along with the name of the new owner.
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