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Yep my wife and I both agreed that Christmas time presents are for our son only. He doesn't believe in Santa anymore (8 years old) but it is still fun. Kids these days want all sorts of expensive gadgets. We don't get him them all for sure because I'm not a fan of kids having cellphones and crap at the age of 8. Point is.......my wife would kill me with this rule in place lol. She would call the bank or credit card company to track down the price lol.

Good advice. I'm a mostly shorefisherman with some rafting here and there. When I approach a spot from my raft that I fish from the shore sometimes, I usually get more bites and nicer fish when I'm on the water because I can sneak up on them. When I'm fishing that same spot without my raft (when I don't have much time and just want to throw a few casts) and I just walk out on that point..........the bite isn't as good and I have to really concentrate on the things that Crest is saying above. It can be a chore to catch some nice fish when my 8 year old son is with me because he is all boy....makes all sorts or racket....trips on rocks lol.

Being a fellow northern fisherman I would say 6lbs. There is no way that fish is only 3.5-4 lbs IMO. That looks to be a nice thick fish with a nice little belly on her. That fish is pretty close to BrokeJews for sure.

Looks like it hasn't even come out yet by the dates at ***. That or they have already sold out. Yep due out around Thanksgiving of this year. I'm interested in those jigheads.

Being a resident 20 minutes from the stadium and a huge bills fan.......I wish Jauron would be fired. Last night was a joke and the coaching cost them this game. Hard one to take..... Sick of seeing my team losing games like that. My wife is sick of hearing me screaming at the TV as well. Even the dogs hide when my Bills play. I get "out of hand" to put it nicely.

already on my list my friend....i thought maybe i could more ideas you said smoke color right...... thanks again for the help Motor Oil Black with a chartruse tail I have heard that people have good luck with the Camo color as well. Haven't tried it yet. Try picking up some power tubes as well. Bargain bins are filled with the Berkley ones at my Dicks for 2.47 a pack.

Like I said in the other thread. 7" power worms Pick up a pack up for less than three bucks.

Guilty here as well..... Can never make it out of Dicks without spending 30 dollars or so. Bass Pro Shops may be coming to Buffalo. Who knows.....the deal goes on and than the news says that Bass Pro isn't coming. Sometimes I think that if they do come than I'm screwed. I have a pretty big wishlist on BPS.com and cabelas.com is mounting as well. Come spring I will have a big order for *.com and probably a nice size one from *** as well.

7" Berkley Powerworm in motor oil or black with a chartruse tail. Weightless. If you want to add weight than go the split shot route about 18" above your bait. My #1 producer in my creek that has rocky/shale bottoms. Nabbed plenty of big smallies with this technique. Going to try out tubes next spring though. Oh yeah I haven't tried these in the fall because everyone is fishing for steelhead in the creek at that point so I can't get down there. But give them powerworms a try. I also nailed my PB smallie on a 3/16th Giggy head (shakey head jighead) with a GULP watermeleon shakey worm. IMO they love the Berkley scents. Oh yeah....one more thing. Always throw up stream into the current. Let that powerworm float down the rapids and try to keep your line semi tight most of the time. The smallies will see that bait coming right at them and they WILL clober it. If its weighted with split shot than it will also still come down the rapids but more towards the bottom, while banging rocks.

Figured as much but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks.

THanks guys. Going to pick up 2 10lbers than. Appreciate the advice and tips. Never thought of picking up two but that makes a lot of sense.

Picked up a Pflueger President not long ago. Came with an extra spool. Going to spool my main spool with Hybrid Ultra soft #6 and the other spool with BPS Fluoro 8lb. I know you just unscrew the drag on the top the spinning reel to take the spool off......but is there a specific way that it needs to fit back down when I change up my spools based on what I am fishing? Just don't want to screw the drag up on the reel when I change spools. Help I am lost in this area totally. Sure it's not a big deal but I want to know that I'm not going to mess up my new reel. Thanks.

Ah I see.

I fish a large pond/small lake. The morning hours are great with no wind at all....but around noon it just whips right through the small valley that this body of water is in. I don't get huge waves or anything but it sure is enough to move my coleman 4 man raft around. Sick of paddling to just stay in position. The bottom of the pond/small lake is muddy with some gravel in it. What do you recommend for size and style of anchor? I was thinking about a 10lb mushroom anchor. Would this work? What else would I need besides an anchor rope?

Smallies like to feed and dig in the bottoms of the gravel/sand. I would weight that crawdad and drag it along the bottom. I do this with worms and what not in the rapids. Just letting the current drag it. They kill em that way. Throw some split shot up about 12-18" and hang on. Don't be afraid to rig a nightcrawler (not balled up) this same way and let it just lay on the bottom with the split shot. This too works well in the current.

I can't wait to use there shakey heads. Bought them in 1/8 and 1/4. Spring time smallie fishing can't come soon enough!!!!!

I bought a ton as well. Why not just throw them in a shoebox like me lol. Seriously I have never had any problems with Powerbait melting...shrinking...going bad....etc. I still have two bags of 7" worms that I have owned for almost 6 years now. (Don't like the colors) and there still stinky and intact! Colors are a bit faded but there still fishable.

;D Looks like a super hero mask. ;D

Can you ask your friend where he got his scale? I'd like to pick one up. ;D And someone needs to teach him how to use a measuring tape. :-X

;D Same thing happened to me except I was throwing it with my spinning gear because I don't have a bait caster. Sucker sailed a ways. Never found it or got it back because I didn't have my boat. Either someone nabbed it or a fish is swimming around with it. >

I have always left the barbs untouched. Never had a lot of problems so why change? I pretty much lip hook all my fish. Especially because I use circle hooks most of the time for wacky rigging which is one of my favorite styles. Don't think I would want to try and fish for smallies with a barb crushed. That's just asking for a big fish to jump off.

That's a big problem there. Angering me and I'm not even fishing in your state.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat21404-cat21406-cat21436&id=0047037122189a&navCount=1&podId=0047037&parentId=cat21436&masterpathid=&navAction=push&catalogCode=OG&rid=&parentType=index&indexId=cat21436&hasJS=true Anyone use these with success? I'm sure RW has fished them before. At 1.88 in the bargain cave how could I pass this up? Picked up a pack of them. I guess if I don't get a bite fishing them on the bottoms texas rigged than I can always use them as jig trailers. Picked up some Yozuri Ultra soft #6 in green color as well. To keep the wife happy I also picked her up a Columbia winter coat on sale for 70 bucks. :

Like I said. They feel sharp and sturdy to me. Try em out for the price. That's what I'm doing. They definately don't have a "cheap" feel to them to me.

Purchased some football jigs and some tubeheads, along with some tubes and finesse worms. Haven't tried any of them yet but the jigs are pretty nice and the hook seems pretty sharp. Going to probably try them out Sat morning. I will report my thoughts on Monday morning when I get back to work. Fast shipping and nice prices for sure though.