VolFan

My two Nucanoes cost about $3k apiece. My tin cost $4500 with a 20hp. My first kayak cost $350 (I think) but that was the 90s. I was fishing out of a kayak way before it was cool, and still enjoy it. My wife and had a canoe when we lived in DC and I would cartop it and then prop it up on our deck for storage. To quote Digital Underground (I think) Do What You Like!

Fishing doesn’t have resumés. Fishing resumés are like 10 lb bass. Very few people have them and most are wildly overstated.

More fishing. I also cook.

This game has been a bit of a mess… Hurts throwing a pic then recovering the fumble of the return and then FUMBLING IT RIGHT BACK is something I’ve never seen. Ever.

38 and foggy here this morning and it’s time for outdoor hockey!

This sucks - your pheasant trips with Cosmo are always my favorite posts of the year. Hard to watch them age. Hopefully Cosmo’s got one more rooster in her. I agree with AJ - she might need a pup to teach how to take care of you…

Supposed to be in the low 30s/upper 20s later this week. I may go drag for some whisker fish… Cold for Charlotte.

We had a guy around here that got into a road rage incident over an interstate merge that ended with a shooting that killed his 11 y/o son. Just drive to where you’re going as best you can and let everyone else do the same. Slowly (slower than I should have) over my adult life I have learned that it’s just not worth it. Let people have their space, let them merge, don’t race them to let them over, just do your thing and get where you’re going. Use your thumb 👍 not your finger.

Those E7s are some all-time great reels - enjoy!

I subdued a 30+ lb striper below Ft Loudon dam on the Tennessee River on a 9 weight and a fly the size of a small chicken. I did not do that regularly, mostly schoolies. I probably had similar palm burn.

People standing on my lawn…GET OFF MY LAWN!!! I do hate the TPMS…it’s actually blinking at me right now because of a low battery, likely in the spare.

A lot of what weight rod you use will depend on the location you fish and the size of flies you’ll be using. I use a 3 and a 5 weight in the New with small poppers/streamers and fish up to about 3 lbs. I use a 9 for throwing streamers and deer frogs around cover for lmb. A 7 is almost certainly fine for most river smallmouth. Get a decent reel and spend some money on an appropriate line. A casting lesson (or two!) with your rod is the money best spent.

Seattle is putting a whoopin’ on Washington

Love this!

I lost a 3:16 Gizzard Glide that I paid $200 with on about the 5th cast. Nothing to do but retie at that point. It hurts. But you have to move on…

It was actually just into the high 30s when I tried to launch the boat this morning in the mid mountains of NC. Had to switch ramps and we were into the mid 40s by the time I was actually fishing on Badin. 4 great fish and a few rats and the pattern was wood + grass but no real rhyme or reason. 72 when the boat was on the trailer at noon. This is the best time of year.

Party of two!

I go quick if I’m target casting or getting under overhanging brush. Lots of time this is in moving and/or very shallow water. I go slow if I’m covering large amounts of high-potential water with long casts if that makes sense.

Put a hook on the end of your push pole and use it to hook your winch. Pull self to winch. Clip and exit. Would that work? Would be able to do the reverse to launch.

But what a game!

It is extremely unlikely that your reel is held up because UPS did some kind of deep dive into the aluminum content of your commercial product and then the provenance of said aluminum. I’d love to see some info on that.

It’s not just old, there wasn’t even an issue with the drag! All based on inexperience!

^ This is the way if you have space. Keel guard if you’re handy, cheap rubberized carpet if you’re not. All have their positives and negatives.

That video was awful. Awful. Clear as a bell, plenty of space either side, and dead centers them broadside. Just awful.

Nice! I had one evening in college where I caught 10 or so saugers on a jerkbait over off Topside Drive. That’s exactly all of the sauger I’ve ever caught.