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Sometimes I miss the obvious. I didn't want to believe it, but I checked, and you are spot on!

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What's the fishing community like in Korea? Obviously it's huge in Japan, but so much good stuff comes out of Korea that I'd guess it's a huge sport there as well.

After 17 years of marriage, my wife and me just "agree" not get each other anything for Valentines. But I usuallly score a gift card to BPS and she gets some stuff from Bath and Body Works. By the way, I like shopping there (B&BW). Last time I was there there was some young cute girl with a wooden massager who "demonstrated" the newest eucaliptice massage lotion on the back of my neck.

We don't have snook in Virginia, thus I've never caught one. I understand, though, that the gill plates are very sharp and you can't hold them under the gill because they will cut you. Is that really true?

Keep her happy. Otherwise your boat might become a nice lawn decoration.

I keep a selection of cranks with suresets on them. This fall I found that the colder the water got the more I was hooking fish in the face and gills (or pectoral fin). I have no idea why that was but some old guy came up to me on the water and said that the fish lazily slap their heads at the bait instead of agressively trying to suck it down. He literally handed me a few suresets right there on the river and and I put them on some some Bombers. Problem solved. Every fish I got after than was mouth hooked. I have no idea what's going on when they strike, but they did help me get cleaner hookups.

You might be able to tow it with that vehicle. But with all that weight on the rear of a front drive vehicle you may not be able to get it back up a ramp. You don't need to spend 10G on a tow vehicle. You can get a decent used pickup that's more than suitable for a few Gs.

Not only the plug, but the whole lead. That lead looks jacketed, and mine is unjacketed. That's not a bad thing, though. The jacket adds a bit of protection.

My issue is that up until recently I didn't have any ideal crankbait baitcasting setups. I still don't have the ideal rig, but what I do have works well enough. So I'm used to fishing crankbaits on spinning rigs. I've never really taken into consideration the line retrieve rate, just the gear ratio. What I didn't realize is that a 5.1:1 spinning reel may be a heckuva lot faster than a 5.1:1 baitcaster with respect to line retrieve. None of this is a problem since I've still been managing to catch fish. I was just curious if anyone else used spinning outfit to fish crankbaits and what they thought of it.

Man, that's a new one. If that's a factory intalled power lead, it must be something Minn Kota has just started doing (mine's a few years old). Looks like wrapped bonded wire. I'm suprised the plug is not black. The lead that comes out of mine is simple 10 gauge bonded wire ... ...with rings attahed to the ends. Is it possible that's a lead that the dealer installed to demonstate the motor? I'd go back to the dealer and ask if that's something they installed, and where you can find the receptacle for it.

That's Burley. I recognize the teeth.

In case anyone is interested. Little Creek Reservoir in James City County is down about 4'7" according to the depth guage on the side of the overflow at the dam. Huge improvement. That's up from being 12' low in October. Over the last 4 weeks, the reservoir has been filling at about 1' per week. The docks are floating again. The islands that appeared are starting to disappear. The vast beaches that formed around the lake when the water receded and the grass died are all mostly submerged now (including the shallow coves that drained). Any area that stayed underwater still has vast amounts of grass. In fact, the water is coming up high enough now to start encroaching into upland grasses that started growing in the sand when the water receded. Lots of minnows in these areas. Looks like there will be lots of bare bottom for beds. Hopefully the concession stand and ramp will open soon - no reason to keep it closed now that it's usable again. Chickahominy Reservoir in New Kent County is full to the brim. The dam is mostly stabilized - though I was told the reservoir is still leaking 33,000 gallons a day. There doesn't appear to have been the huge weed die-off this year like in previous winters. Still lots of weeds out there. HUGE quantities of baitfish using the coves and grass - more than I've seen in past years. The new floating dock at Ed Allen's should make launching a lot easier this year. Things are definitely looking up for these two reservoirs that were so severely affected by the dam breach.

That's a good series. I'm a history geek, too. I like to watch for errors in wardrobe and equipment, and it's pretty darned near perfect.

I use an SX on my Team All Star 6'6' and 6'8" MHs. They go together like peas and carrots. Great combo and casts like a dream.

By the way, this sound backwards. The lead coming from the motor should have the male plug. The female receptacle should come from the battery. If this is, indeed, the power lead, I really think you ought to clip it off and start over. Installing them is really easy.

I have that motor, too. When you say the "plug coming out of the motor" are you talking about the power lead? Mine didn't come with a plug. Mine came with a ring connector at the end of the black and red wires. I ended up clipping those off and installing a plug. I installed the matching receptacle on the leads coming from the battery and breaker. Did you buy this motor used? If so, I suspect that plug on yours was installed by the previous owner. If that's the case, I'd clip it offer and just start fresh with a new plug and receptacle. They are pretty cheap. Here's mine. The power leads from the motor are 10 gauge. The leads from the battery and 50 amp breaker is 8 gauge. I have plug/receptacle connecting them.

That's looking good.

Very good rods, indeed. I have a 7' MH Elite with the recoil guides. Same blank as the signature. They are very light and sensitive rods.

Beats me. A snook, maybe?

Bomber Fat As and Flat As are pretty cheap, run true, and are great producers.

A pair of tight white spandex Shimano bicycling shorts?

That's pretty much what I do. I don't have any super slow reels. My slowest baitcaster is a 6.2:1 and I use this for crankbaits in the manner you described. But I've been using a steady retrieve, usually, on my spinning rigs not really realizing how fast they were drawing in line. I catch fish and the lures seem to track well. I just didn't realize I was actually cranking them in as fast as I would if I steady retrieved them on my 6.2:1 baitcaster. It seems that line retrieve rate is a more useful guide than gear ratio. I never gave it much thought.

It seems the prefered baitcast gear ratio for fishing with crankbaits is around 5:1. Among different manufacturers, the inches-per-turn rate pretty much hovers around 21 inches. But this loose rule of thumb doesn't seem to apply to spinning reels. For the most part, spinning reels in 5:1 speed seems to draw in line as quickly as, say, a 6.3:1 baitcast reel - around 27 inches. (An approximation, I know there are some exceptions). Slower reel are usually bigger reels, which actually may have a greater inches-per-turn rate - even though they are geared slower. What makes a good spinning reel for crankbaits? Do you just crank slower? Do some of you just not fish cranks with spinning tackle?