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That's alright. Colors come and go. There are other good choices, and the bass won't mind. http://www.***.com/descpageHRDSTRIKE-SKPMCB.html

Looks like a Strike King Pro Model in some discontinued color.

I have a few. I haven't caught anything on them yet, but that's because I haven't had them long and just haven't gotten around to using them in earnest. Otherwise, they have a nice, wide, wobbling action. You can jerk them underwater. The bait is a brute, a tad over an ounce. The hooks are as good as they get.

Dan, it wasone of these, 4/0 with 1/8th oz weight. This is the space monkey

Lee Hall and Harwood Mills have water drawn off the Chickahominy. These are primary reservoirs in the reservoir network and where we get our drinking water. The water is stained, sometimes heavily, and the lakes are very weedy, just like the Chick. I've found the following are my best producers... Weightless 4" and 5" senkos, either wacky rigged or t-rigged on a 3/0 EWG hook. Green pumpkin w/ black flake, and sometimes purple with blue flake do well for me. Fished around blow-downs, or in nooks and crannies in the shoreline, and around timber and branches. Swim Senkos (same colors) on a 3/0 or 4/0 EWG hook and a pegged 3/16 oz bullet weight. Or you can get some EWG hooks that are weighted and have a twist lock. I like these best. I fish these along grassy shorelines. For hard baits, flashier colors (shiny or chrome) tend to do well for me. Diascund and Little Creek draw water off each other. These are back-up holding reservoirs. Water is drawn off Little Creek when the others start to get low (Little Creek suffers first since its the highest elevation, but Diascund sometimes sends water to Little Creek if Little Creek does not refill quickly enough) Diascund is stained. Little Creek is a little stained in the winter, but turns very clear in the summer. In Diascund, the same lures as in Lee Hall work well. In Little Creek, I've found other colors work well here. Red shad colored worms of all sorts, purples, blues, laminated colors, etc. Okeechobee and Bama craw (green pumpin w/ green flake and green pumkin w/ blue flake, respectively) work very well. In hard baits, red craw, brown craw, shad colors, bluegill colors. IMO, its a little easier to be more experimental on Little Creek. On lakes like Lee Hall, I've just found that green pumpkin works so well that I rarely use much else.

DGIF shocked Chick Lake again yesterday. Biggest in Johnson Creek was ~7.5 lbs, biggest at Cypress Point was ~6.5 lbs.

Spent about 6 hours on the lake. Caught a great number of bass. Largest was a solid 5+ lb'er (dunno exact, forgot my Boga Grip). Caught all on Rage Tail Space Monkeys rigged on an Owner weighted (1/8 oz) twist lock hook. Fished the backs of wind-blown inlets in the creeks. Hooked up in almost all of them. Water temp up to 64 degrees. My son holding the biggest of the day...

Heck, yes. I live in Newport News. All the lakes I list will be electric only. Lee Hall Res. Lee Hall Reservoir in Newport News is pretty good, and getting better. The ramp is at the campground off Jefferson Avenue. Best place is to go under the I-65 bridge and fish the side will all the standing timber. Harwood Mills Reservoir Another Newport News Reservoir. Good bass and GREAT pickerel fishing. The best part of the lake is on the other side of the Oriana Road causeway. Problem is, you can't get a boat you launch over there. But you can rent theirs and put you own motor on it. Little Creek Reservoir The whole lake is good. Water levels get lowered each fall about 10 feet which creates beaches all around the lake. By spring, the water levels are back up and there are vast expanses of hard, sandy bottom near shore. Spawns have been great last couple of years. lake has walleye, too, and has recently been restocked. This is a fantastic striped bass lake, too. Stop by Hooker's Bait and Tackle on the way and meet Darryl and the other folks. Great place to buy tackle. Daiscund Reservoir The whole lake is great. It's big, so take two batteries for a full day.

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You do not need to spend a huge amount of money on good sunglasses. There are only 3 things that are a must - 1) 100% UVA/B resistant, 2) polarized, 3) optically perfect lenses. Everything else is optional and preference. As long as the glasses have these three characteristics, they will be good glasses. Plastic lenses will be cheapest, polycarbonate mid priced, and glass lenses most expensive. The more you spend, the better the components (generally) and the longer they will last (normal wear). However, I tend to lose or break glasses within a few years of buying them, so I don't need glasses that will last 15 years. I need glasses that will last a few season and meet the above three requirements. I've settled on a company called Gill. I have a pair of their glasses. They cost me about $60. They look good, meet all my requirements. I suspect I'll lose or break them log before they wear out. I recommend them highly. http://gillsailinggear.com/Gill/Gill-sunglasses.htm

In my neck of the woods, eastern Virginia, we don't have many big lakes where a super-big bass boat makes a lot of sense. We have a lot of electric-only reservoirs and a couple of gas-motor lakes, and some rivers. I certainly don't have anything against a big bass boat - I wish I had one. But I kind feel sorry for the guy with a $30,000+ boat and enough fish finder screens so that is looks like a floating Circuit City store. That's the guy who can make it to a spot much faster than my boat can. But can't squeeze between cypress trees or navigate between the log jams to make it to a secluded little cove. They guys that seem to do best on my home lake tend to be the guys who rent a beat up 12ft jon boat, a 6 hp motor and put a transom trolling motor on the bow. Their rigs look ridiculous. But they know the lake and clean up on big fish.

Their rods are a lot better than their reels. In fact, the rods are pretty good for the money. I had a few Medallions and a Citori. Like you, I found the Medallion a bit heavy. But they were well constructed and sensitive. The Citori was very good. Mine were older models with Alconite guides. I broke the tip off in my ceiling fan. Up until then, I liked it a lot.

You don't need the swivel. Just the snap. The advantage is quick lure changes. The disadvantage is that, with some lures, the weight of the snap can make the lure sit funny in the water at rest. For instance, a little crank make sit with a more nose-down attitude than a lure without the snap. But that only happens with very light lures that I've noticed. I like Norman Speed Clips. I like then because they are small, stainless steel, symetrical, and tend to pick up less gunk than Duolock snaps. But they are harder to use than Duolocks. If your fingers tips are cold, they are a pain (literally). If I'm fishing water that doesn't have a lot os gunk in it, I'll use Duolocks because they are easier to use.

In make-up, she's kinda good looking. That's her real value. (Without make-up she looks like the sea hag.) Otherwise, she's just another media type that likes to hear herself talk.

I picked Fenwick. Only because I've fished more expensvie brands and they either didn't have anything on my HMGs, or what they did have didn't warrant an another $200.

It's not that bad. It can cast 1/4oz cranks pretty well. I just don't cast many light baits with them. My Zillions are pulling heavier duty. The Feugo also does pretty well with 1/4oz cranks. The Sol does the best. Like I said, the Sol cast light baits so well its easy to place them very precisely. With the Zillion, I can cast a 1/2 oz crank bait a long way to cover a log ot water. With the Sol, I can cast a Bomber Fat A under low hanging branches to get on the far side of a cypress tree trunk.

I love my Sol. Its not quite as smooth as the Zillion, but that reel has helped improve my accuracy with light crank baits. Over my last couple of outings, I used it exclusively for lighter cranks, like the Bomber Fat A. I can put them right where I want them. It's not a long-distance caster by any means. But if you need precision, its all there.

I use them in muck and pads. It's my favorite Rage Tail bait.

The article says, "The bait did not look that good as it folds over on itself when sitting still." It does do that. Every time the bait stops, it's hinged over. It sort of looks unnatural. But it doesn't seem to make it less attractive. It does look a little bizarre.

No problem. It floats like mono.

Not as much with the Sol. But another thing I've noticed... All of them - the Sol, Fuego and Zillion - have very smooth drags and very smooth retrieves. I've actually had line pulled out when I thought I was retrieving. It's all new to me. With my Revo there are subtle differences in feel when different things happen. With my Daiwas, it all feels the same.

Yeah, and you'll save a wad of money too. You can get yourself some Lucky Craft Pointers with what you save.

They are almost too smooth. There, I said it. Up until this season, I mainly fished Revos. They were plenty smooth. But they did have some play. You don't really notice it until you compare them to a Zillion. When you do, you can feel the Zillion is built to tighter tolerances. But the advantage of the looseness in the Revo is feel. I feel next to nothing through the Zillion. Maybe a good fisherman doesn't need to. But once you are used to the feel of a Revo on a sensitive rod, then replace it with a Zillion, it seems to loose something. The overall feel just isn't there. I'm not knocking the Zillion, I love them. They are casting beasts. But there is something to be said for a little backplay in a reel. Once you are used to it, taking it away feels like your hand's asleep.

JM reels are nice. But IMO there is no need for 2 brake systems on a reel. It makes a reel heavier than necessary, and it offers no real benefit over a quality reel with either just a centrifugal or magnetic brake system. That being said, the JM Elite is a good reel. I owned one. Its a good performer and is well made. But it has a learning curve as steep as any other reel with just a single brake system. IMO, the easiest (and arguably the most effective) brake system to learn is the centrifugal brake. You pretty much set them and leave them alone. If I were new to baitcasting, and had someone offer me this advice, I'd look hard at the Shimano Citica or Shimano Curado. They are excellent reels, have a large and well deserved following, will last you many years, are backed by excellent customer service, and you will have a lot of pride-of-ownership. And, they are easy to learn.

You can. I have found this color to be a God-send in some of the green-milk lakes I fish. I first bought bubble gum when i needed some trick worms. This was the ONLY color my store had in stock. I bought some and was half-way embarassed to use it. Now, I make sure I always have some with me. It's a great color.