VolFan

Unless that is one heck of a boat yoi have too much tongue weight.

A 7 or 8 weight, depending on cover and/or flies is what I use. I like poppers, deer-hair mice, snallygasters (its like a plastic worm), and some of the articulated streamers that resemble baitfish. Casting some of the big streamers is like casting a big wet sock. Fishing mice in the evening around cover and docks is crazy fun. Where are you specifically?

How big a bottle?

Catfishermen have seen/caught bull sharks around Alexandria on the Potomac, and I've seen blue crabs as far up as Gravelly Point. Nothing really surprises me there any more.

They are delicious!

I fish Curado Ds and Pixys almost exclusively. They just work for me.

Snakeheads like overhead cover - so pads and spatterdock are better than grass, but they like matted grass too. Falling tide on the outside edge of cover is best, but at low tide they have less cover so holes in matted grass, overhanging trees, etc should get it done. If they wont come up for frogs, a swim jig or bitsy flip with a rage craw on it was my next best. Pitch or swim it close along matted edges and in holes, or through the weeds.

Four Roses Single Barrel - a friend turned me on to it.

I'd start with a perch pattern glidebait along the weedline. Size and price to your preference. River to Sea S-wavers would be a good place to start. Or, if you really want to get your blood flowing, fish a rat on and in the weedline around and after dark.

Where should i spend my time for maximum happiness? Brown fish in rivers? Green fish or spots in lakes? Just take up catfishing and novels?

BMCF rig - Pile approximately 72 lbs of virtually unused plastics, spinnerbaits, and hardbaits into a backpack to carry around along with three rods, only one of which is in use. Approximate cost: $5,763/year Total fish: Sometimes I give you: The Bait Monkey College Fund Rig

As Tom mentioned above - best hookset with those small trebles is to sweep down/sideways and away from the fish while reeling - kind of like a sweep set in flyfishing. Depending on which size you're using, those small trebles may not be biting on larger fish, or you may have a bunch of bluegill taking pot shots at it. Its one of my favorite baits though.

I am in NC and also have State Farm. They dont offer tow service on the boat like on cars, but they do have some reimbursement for it depending on yoir policy.

Unless theyre really really nice seats, the difference is probably negligible.

Some amount of bass will spawn all summer - they're just big sunfish. I like bass, crappie, white bass, bluegill and catfish, not necessarily in that order. I'm just too lazy to clean fish lately.

This is great advice - if it's taking you 20+ min to load and unload you may need to look at simplifying or refining your load-out load and process.

I broke one on a short-range hookset where the bass didnt quite have it - the jig flying back broke it clean aboit 12 inches from the tip of my Cielo. The second was a cheaper rod but similar action. Big hookset in some moss and my jig and 12" pike came flying at me. Jig and pike hit the rod about 4" above the reel and broke it most of the way through.

That'd be the question - what are you going to do with it? The H fits most of my FL bass fishing needs from 3/8 oz T-rigs to swimbaits up to 3 oz. Its not perfect at either end of those weights but it does it pretty well.

I do virtually all of the cooking and grocery shopping in our house, and, like Flyfisher, it's gotten less complex with a 10 year old around. I both cook and bake, and I've been cranking out sourdough doughnuts and bread and english muffins during these Covid times. My mom was s nurse and my dad worked 16 hour days 6 days a week so Ive been cooking since before I could reach the countertop. My first job in and out of college were waiting tables and line cooking. I've worked in a national chain and a five star dining room. It's a fascinating thing to do and being southern, its in the fabric of how to treat people well.

The Motorguide Bulldog series might work for you if you can find one - good luck!

That is a white Huddleston 68 Special. 6" bait with the tail of the 8" bait.

The Okuma Citrix and Nomads are great rods - I have a few for swimbaits.

I think the pike referenced are probably pickeral. The things you mentioned should do well - maybe add a spinnerbait in there for target casting as the sun gets up and you float.

I could be wrong but I think those are crushers that allow them to better eat things like crawdads and mussels.

Thats a good fry right there.