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Small beetlespins Small inline spinners (roostertails, mepps, panther martin, etc.) Fly and bubble with something rubber legged Small dark marabou jig under a bobber 1 inch curly tail grubs on a 1/32 or so jighead the smallest classic rapala in persh or gold/black Get a micro rod and have at it

Your Tigers got knocked off too Ken...sorry about that.

870s need VERY little oil. They really just need you to set the oil near the firing mech after you clean it.

I don't; there was a huge waiting list to join when I was younger. Your best chance would be to stop by and ask nicely, maybe while carrying cash, liquor, and/or baked goods.

It's Glengary Lake. One of my best fish came out of there on an orange walmart special crankbait. It is private, and they will enforce the privacy part of it. I used to go to church about 100 yds from there, and my parents live about 2 miles away. I passed it every day on my way to school and thought about fishing it every.single.day.

Born in Germantown, grew up in Oakland/Somerville. Fished alot of farm ponds, Herb Parsons, and, way back when, a lake across the street from Herb Parsons called Monterey.

HEY! My wife's from Chicago and I'm from TN, and I've seen waaaaaaaaaaaaaay weirder stuff in Chicago. You don't even marry in the family!

Think of pushing on a nylon rope (braid) vs pushing on surgical tubing (flouro). The fluoro is much less compressable longitudinally, hence when a fish moves toward you on flouro, you feel it moreso than with braid. I don't fish much on a totally slack line and have no problem feeling bites on weightless worms with braid. It really is what you feel comfortable with.

It's ok, I still laugh about it. The look on my friend's face when I sat down was only slightly less priceless as the look on his face when the blood started trickling down. He then ran and to this day I have no idea where he went.

There used to be a commercial for the Marines where there's a blacksmith forging a sword. Seeing that, as an aspiring and industrial young man I took a tubular steel fencepost and a small sledge, and set to work. First swing bounced off that post like a spring and cracked me square in the top of my head. Sat me down, where I stayed until the blood came tricling down my face. My mom ( a nurse) handed me an ice pack and advised me to stay on the couch where I couldn't hurt myself. Also, a few weeks ago I was running in the very early morning. I found out the hard way that some new parking meters had been installed on one of the sidewalks.

You're probably nancy short-stroking it. Take it to the range, load, and then complete only the rearward stroke of the slide, bringing it all the way to the rear with some force. Does the shell eject? If not, then you have a problem with the extractor most likely. I've shot and seen shot several hundreds of thousands of rounds through 870s, and never seen a malfunction like that that wasn't operator error, unless the extractor broke, which shouldn't be on a new gun. Have you been poking around in the ejection port? What happens alot of times is guys/gals want to empty the gun fast or get a quick follow-up, and don't stroke it all the way to the rear, and then you get a stove pipe, or a shell that doesn't clear the chamber at all. On a funnier note, when you put the end cap back on if you clean it, make sure not to cross thread it. I have seen guns literally fall apart after a shot because people didn't have the end cap on. It's pretty hilarious, BOOM, rack, end cap flies off, barrel follows, person standing there with the forearm in one hand, stock in the other, barrel hits the macadam, etc.

For the record my normal running shoes are Sauconys. I like them MUCH better than Nikes. But I needed the motto...

Excuses are for losers. If you keep making them, you'll keep losing. There are no secrets to hard work. I'm 5'6" (with my shoes on) and 175 and can do all of the above and pass my PT tests. Get some Nikes and Just Do It. We're all pulling for you. Coffee is for closers.

Crawdads/crayfish are second only to ants and cockroaches (third then maybe) in their distribution. Look it up. They live in cow pastures, drainage ditches, and even under an old shed we had. They don't need alot of water to survive and reproduce. Most of them burrow. When it rains, the burrows fill with water and they can survive in there for MONTHS. All of your bodies of water have water flowing into and out of them, and birds and other critters coming and going. If there are not crawdads in your pond, there will be. Which brings me to my point: Rage craws catch fish everywhere.

X2. 2 miles is a warm-up if you're really serious. Hitch up your skirt and git-r-dun.

That's the muscles between your ribs being sore; that means you stressed them. If that's getting sore, lengthening your stride is least of your worries. Long strides are for sprints; quick rhythmic steps are for long distance. When you take long strides, the impact is greater on your body, and then your feet are touching ground longer. You basically kill your own momentum with every leap. Long distance should smooooooooth across the ground. Yoour shoulders should be dorectly over your hips. If you look down and all you see are your toes as you stride, you're leaning forward too much and overstriding. Keep the shoulders over the hips and keep your feet underneath you. Smooth is fast.

The fish is fat, but if you relate the fish to the size of his hands it doesn't look like a 16+ lb fish. I'd believe the 11 more readily, but as we all know, it's impossible to guess weight from a pic.

Shimano Sahara. I have had 6, 2 of them for 5+ years, and never had a problem with any of them. Great drag, smooth reel, widely available parts if needed. I'm not against the Pflueger President either, I just don't have a track record with them like the Saharas.

How well does that thing actually hold the weapon? It looks like just a strap-on cloth pocket.

1. Ragetail Space monkey, I can fish it top to bottom, weighted, unweighted, fast, slow, in-between. Use it like a spinnerbait, buzzbait, crankbait, jig, you name it, it does it all and catches some great sized fish. 2. SK perfect plastics Ocho 3A. SK PP finesse worm 3B. SK perfect plastics beaver (the smaller one)

Just take shorter, quicker strides and don't reach out as much. It takes care of itself once you find a good range. Stand up straight, and your feet should hit the ground underneath you, not in front of you. You shouldn't bounce up and down, but be a fluid movement forward.

1. Run in your combat boots. Most of them are made well enough for it. 2. Don't try too hard to lengthen your stride; you put alot of stress on the front of your legs (shins, quads) when you run long distances like that, and you wear yourself out. Long strides are for sprints. 3. Work on shorter smoother comfortable strides with a quick leg turnover, less shock to your whole body and it keeps you from wearing out your big muscle groups. I run in minimalist shoes on pavement almost every day. Once you find the right stride/turnover, it's like a wonderful revelation and running long distances becomes much more comfortable.

I have two of the MH spinning. Their action isn't as fast as some, which would make some think they're underpowered. I feel they are powered correctly, the action is just a little slower.

I had it. Used it for three trips and did away with it. It made a weird noise going through my guides, and I felt like it had too much body and wasn't particularly sensitive, especially for the price. Just my $.02.

I don't see Peyton Farve-ing it. If they release him, I could see him playing someplace else, but I don't see him hopping to four different teams. I see them keeping him on to mentor Luck, either as a QB coach or if he can play.