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Aren't these the kind of boots the chinese guy in "The Hangover" wore? "See ya lata, gay boyzzzzzz" ;D ;D

In Virginia, 1 in 10 bats are alleged to carry rabies. Better to get the shots and not need them. Once you start showing symptoms, which my be a month down the road, you are dead. It's 100% fatal once you start showing symptoms.

"Skid marks" and "underwear" should not be in the same post.

He's been wanting a bike he can pedal backwards for ages. He saved forever. Man, what a look of disappointment.

My 15 year old son saved over $400 to buy a custome fixed gear bike. It came in today. I had to assemble it. I put the wheels on, handlebars, seat and pedals. Right in the middle of the documentation was a big sheet of paper with big letters asying "Tighten the pedals into the cranks with a wrench. Failure to do so will result in stripped threads and will void the manufacturer's warranty fo that part." Guess what. I tightened one, got into something else, and forgot to tighten the other. On my son's first ride, he came home with a stipped crank and a pedal that won't fit. Now I have to order a new crank and it will be another week or 10 days before he can ride it again.

Bought a new TV. > Exact same model. Salvaged the speakers and boards out of the broken TV. After taking the back off, the whole TV is all screen. The boards and speakers are, at most, 2% of the weight. I did try an experiment. Before I took it apart I turned i on one last time and tossed a stapler at it. It's amazing how easily the screen broke. I think I'm going to buy one of those plexiglass covers to put over it.

I fish brackish water in VA. too. I don't think the crab pot marker is indicative of much with respect to ledges or deep water. In Virginia, I think crab traps have to be 100 yards apart. A fisherman needs a heck of a lot of traps to make money. And there are a lot of commerical crabbers in VA. I think a crabber is trying to cover a lot of area. Only a few are going to get the choice spots. I would never rely on a pot marker to tell me anything, except that there is a snag hazzard below the float.

Why are ARB bearings "better?" Are they smoother? It's my understanding that they simply have more corrosion resistance.

I use Rapala knots with hollowbody frogs, or any bait that has a side to side action.

Good post. I've tried a couple of these lines and have the following observations myself: I've tried PP, too. It's been awhile so maybe its improved. I thought it was rough and bled color like crazy - to the point of having green stains on the reel. I've tried black Fireline and that bled color like crazy, too. I thought it was very smooth, though. Never tried Samurai. At my local store, Samurai is about $10 per spool more than Stren Sonic Braid for the same amount of line. I've pretty much settled on Stren Sonic Braid and Sufix Braid, which are about equal in my book with respect to color retention and smoothness. Maybe a slight edge to Stren. I, too, hate braid. I'm trying to use it more but no love affair has started. I have 20lb on my flipping outfit. It has a lot of memory but settles down after a few casts. I've found it to be very sensitive and abrasion resistant. I've had it wrapped around wooden pilings with screws and nails and it came through great. 20 lb is pretty beefy though and this is the only test I've used. I have the opposite opinion. I hated it. I tried it about 2-3 years ago so maybe something has changed. But I could scarcely keep it on a spinning reel. I though it was way too springy. Its the only line that consistently snapped at the knot. Like I said, maybe things have changed. I, too, like Yo-Zuri Hybrid for most of my fishing. I used 8lb test on my rods that have Daiwa Sols. I use 10lb and 12 lb on heavier outfits. 12lb is the heaviest I use. Right now I'm using P-Line CXX on a couple of outfits. I'm trying it because it is highly recommended and because its easier for me to find than Yo-Zuri. I also like 600 yard spools which my local BPS carries. My BPS doesn't carry 600 yard spools of Yo-Zuri. So far, I like it a lot and can't tell a whole lot of difference between it and Yo-Zuri.

To this day, my dad uses an old Penn baitcast reel on a Ted Williams 9' salmon spinning rod for throwing jigs to stripers. He used this when I was a little kid and still does. He can wing a jig a helluva long way. He always told me that he could never find a baitcast rod that would let do this so he decided to us a spinning rod. It sure looks goofy but it has worked exceptionally well for well over 30 years. So yes, it can be done. It might even be able to be done well. But you will be ridiculed for it. Even if you are the one catching fish. Edit: My dad's rod is a glass rod. i'm not sure how a graphite rod with a spine and all that stuff will work out for you.

To answer the original question, the Clackin Rap has a relatively tight wiggle. It's about the same as the Rattlin Rapala. Likewise, it seems that you have to retrieve it at a good clip to get the best action out of it. That's the downside. The upside is that the Clackin Rap is a big bait. It's thick. It's almost twice as thick as a Lucky Craft LVR D-10. It has a big profile. It has excellent hooks. It casts 20 miles, give or take a mile. It stops on a dime and sinks nose first. It does not plane to one side or the other when sinking straight down. When it rests on the bottom, it rests on its nose with its tail pointing up at 45 degrees. One technique that Stringjam told me about and I've tried for the last two years is slow swimming a lipless over a visible bass bed then letting it drop down, nose first, in or near the bed. Lipless cranks that rest on their nose with their tails sticking up are best for this as it looks like a nest raider eating eggs. It's hard to do unless you are in relatively open water as it's easy to get hung up. But it does produce. It tickss bass off. The Clackin Rap would be excellent for this technique. Of course, its good for burning, too. Other excellent lipless includes the Yo-Zuri Hardcore Shad, the Jackall T/N70 and the Spro Aruku Shad. All three of these lures have good actions at any speed - very slow, slow, medium, fast, burning. They sink nose first and don't plane when they sink. They flutter nicely on a straight-up retrieve making them good for jigging. They rest on their nose on the bottom with their tails up making them good for the bed technique described above. They have excellent hooks and tough finishes. The Koppers Live Target Golden Shiner lipless appears to have these attributes, too. However, I haven't fished it much.

It's a discontinued model that I got for a steep discount at BestBuy. I can't image I am going to be able to fix it economically.

The warranty won't cover a cracked screen. I did it.

I accidentally banged my 40" LCD TV screen and now it's cracked with funky colors going every which way. Any way to repair that or should I just plan on having to buy a new TV?

The brake on the Curado and Citica differ a little. The brake shoes on the Curado are on metal pins, whereas the brake shoes on the Citica are on plastic pins. Both apparently work well but I think Bantam1 once told us the brakes activate a little quicker on the Curado due to the metal pins.

12 swipes oughta last 2 months.

I second the Berkley Lightning Shock. I haven't fished one but my ultra-reliable in-store assessment tells me its a good rod for the $. Others that have fished it seem to love it. Darn nice looking, too.

That's an old Fenglass rod. They've been around forever. It is definitiely a cranking rod. They were very highly respected rods. If it's in good shape, you did well.

Not necessarily. The "ML" in the CML may mean medium light. I'm not familiar with the "CS" model prefix. Is it a salmon rod?

I have 9 Daiwas (5 Zillions, 2 Fuegos, 2 Sols) and 10 Shimanos (1 Core, 1 Calcutta, 1 Castaic, 2 Curados, 2 Stradics, 2 Symetres and 1 Spirex). I sold all of my Abus. With my Revos I had several with bearing issues and one with metal shavings in the reel. With my Cardinals, I had one 800 with bearing problems, and a 500 ALB with paint flaking off. To their credit, Abu replaced all of these reels. But they should have never made it out the door with these problems. I have not encountered any problems of any sort with any of the my Daiwas or Shimanos.

Yes, I fish them, and they work. In my expereince, they are the best hollow body frogs available - by far. They come in a couple of sizes - 60mm and 70mm. I tie them on using a Rapala knot. The loop knot does not inhibit the action of the frog. The Rapala knot will maintain about 90%+ of line strength. Simply cast the frog into a promising spot and retrieve. Retrieve it slowly and it will walk across the water. It gives of a satisfying plop-plop-plop with its wobbles, and leaves a trail of bubbles behind it. You can pop it, too. The frog also walks well across matted grass. At rest, the frog sits at about a 45 degree angle in the water with just the head sticking out. The current model is the "hard belly" which has a hard plastic belly that gives the bottom some support and impoves hook-ups (allegedly improve hook ups). The original model, I believe, was called the "soft crawler" that lacked the hard belly. You can still get these but I think they only come in one color now - a ghost color. I have a lot of luck on the light green one with the white belly in bright days. I do well on the green, root beer colored and black one in latert afternoon and evenings. These frogs flat out work. Highly recommended.

I just cleaned one of my Daiwa Sols and one of my Fuegos. Both of those reels have those tool marks on the frame face. Particularly the Fuego. :-? I would have never noticed them but for this thread.

And that's precisely the type of water I fish most. I've got to start using them.

I've been fishing since 1972, possibly earlier, but that's when the pictures start. I've owned jitterbugs for almost all of the time between 1972 and today. And honestly, I cannot remember ever catching a fish on a jitterbug. I've fished them a lot and a fish seemed to ignore them. I went out this evening to fish some topwater. I caught a few fish on some OSP BuzzNCranks and Jackall Cherry 0 Footers. Then I decided to try a black jitterbug. Threw it on my 6'6" m/mh and Daiwa Sol. I was retreiving it very slowly and wasn't much paying attention. Then there was a boil and I stopped. I started again then WHAM. I got the fish to the dock and realized the fish had swallowed the bait. So I couldn't lift him to the deck. I let out some line and guided my rod tip over the high pilings (the water is 8 feet low). Got him to the boat ramp and lifted him out by the lip. Walked to my bag to get my pliers and realized I didn't have them. The bait was all the way down to his gullet. Luckily only the front hook was in his tongue and I was able to work it out with my finger. The rear hook wasn't hooked. I spent about 10 mintues with that fish at the water's edge pushing and pulling him back and forth. Finally, he swam off. I think he weight about 3.5. Best fish of the night (and all week). So, I got my first bass on a jitterbug, and nearly killed him doing it.