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Nope, no money. Just your time and assistance to help slice, serve, general help. All food, plates, plasticwear, drinks, pretty much everything you can think of is donated. The only thing we brought was food for ourselves and beverages of choice. I appreciate your interest and offer for help. We set up at the stadium last year, I'm sure that where we will be again.

Guys, I need some help here. We are putting on a BBQ for another group of soldiers (5th Brigade, 1st Cav) heading out to Iraq. We participated in one at Ft. Hood last year and it was VERY fulfilling. We show up on 6/4 and cook all night then have a service team that feeds everyone, the count they gave us is 9,000 troops and their families (we did 10,000 last year). We can use all the help we can get, and anything you can do is GREATLY appreciated. If you have any questions please feel free to PM me, or if you have my # give me a call. Thanks! I know a few of y'all have some big smokers as well, we can use all the cooking space we can get too. We cooked up almost 7,000 LBS of brisket, pork butts, and sausage, wont be quite that much this year, but still will be at least a couple tons of meat. Last year we had a guy come all the way from Alabama to help us out. Even if you don't have a smoker, we can utilize your assistance.

I'm going to have to go with the Pointer. I have always been skeptical about a $20.00 bait, but I broke down and bought 2 of the Pointers and have not regretted the decision. We have been catching striper, whites, and blacks off the same bait. I have missed a few, but can't contribute that to the hooks, probably just a misguided fish . Just the way the back of that bait moves makes that bait almost irresistable to those bad boys!

I'm a big fan of the Shimano Curado B series reels I have a few of each of the 200 size (200B, 200B5, 200B38, & 200SF). I have tried the new Curados and am not impressed at the $200 price point, YET. I have picked up a couple Citicas and have been happy with them. I use them in both salt & freshwater and haven't had any issues. I have looked at the Core a couple times but it's just too far out of my budget right now. Great topic.......

Gotcha.....

Have you looked at the Luck-E-Strike Magic Bass baits? Very similar to both Basstrix and the ones you posted, I think you get more in a pack than 5 though. I think they run $5.99-6.99 as well.

My vote goes to Falcon. I have plenty of other brands, but always go back to my Falcon.

I'd either go with the Falcon Cara (If you have an Academy Sports & Outdoors near you they are on clearance for under $100.00) or even the Falcon Lowrider. I picked up 2 Cara's this past week 1-6'6" MH and 1-6'9" Medium "Weightless Worm Special", both were $99.88/each.

Sorry, it was the copolymer line. Only paid $7.50 for the spool. I also have been trying the Suffix line as well, there is a pretty good rebate on them as well when you buy 2 spools.

Finally had a chance to go out and throw these cranks this morning. All I can say is they look great in the water and all 5 that I tried ran true right out of the package, no tuning needed at all. Also found out that the CSH is a suspending bait. I was able to hook up with 4 fish on the cranks today all coming off the shadtruse pattern. Just wanted to let y'all know about these baits and their performance.

I have been using this line for a while now in both salt & freshwater and have been really pleased with the line strength, knot strength, and abbrasion resistance it has. Anyone else been using this stuff and have any feedback on it?

i have some in the 5.5 but i didn't get to strong of a bad smell. the smell is present but i have to stick my nose a half inch from the bait to smell it. Mine came when I opened the package. Normally you get some kind of scent smell, but the plastic smell seemed almost overwhelming.

What about the old standby..... Rat-L-Trap Chrome/Blue or Chrome/Black

They have been getting quite a bit of publicity lately, the bait monkey says I need to invest in a couple of these......