J Francho

LOL, already have a dialog going. Start your own thread, dude! ;D http://www.richz.com/fishing/articles/dropshot.html

Cool little reels from my teenage years, though its not a Brush Buster. Brush Busters had no line carriage.

Thanks Kent. I'm really only specifically interested in circle hooks for wacky rigging. Nothing, absolutely nothing would convince me to change the way I drop shot, LOL. So I'm clear, I'm not necessarily interested in using these hooks myself. I'm just interested in how those that have success using them do it.

I know this has been done before.... But I really only want to hear from those that use them, and have greater success using them than other style hooks. I'm not interested in a debate about what is better, just wondering how the whole technique is applied, from rod and reel, line, knot, cover and hookset.

Its a good day for the Evil Empire ;D Seriously, this was a great series to watch. I love good pitching, and it was a stellar display of great pitching. It was a treat to see Pedro get beat twice, despite him pitching well. I think if Cliff Lee could have pitched effectively on short rest, Phillies might have won. We'll never know....

Wait until you see my next boat......

You are going to want to take a look at USCG requirements for various charter licenses and NYSDEC for guide requirements. Figure those costs into your plan. I think your revenue forecasting is grossly over stated. I know a few bass guides, and I will be guiding next year. Most have full time jobs that don't involve guiding.

Money can't buy chemistry....its only one part of the equation. Look at the list of team salaries. Note all the clunkers in the top ten. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries

Mine is on the dash, and the transducer is mounted in the scupper hole. Look up Kayak Bass Fishing, and Kayak Fishing Stuff, and you will find tons of rigging related info.

South Park.

Use a good nylon mono, and loosen the drag. Don't whale on the hookset.

Welcome from one those knuckle dragging centrepinners. ;D

Owners offer the best bang for the buck.

That is a beautiful fish. I love my Great Lakes steelhead, but there is something special about a native rainbow's colors

Touche, LOL. But the Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, and Cubs have trying to buy WS rings for more than a decade, and look how well that's worked out. In fact, its actual organizational farm team players that have really been the success story of big market teams. In some way, the economic downturn has resulted in smarter business by the big market teams....Cano, Wright, Cabrera, Joba, Robertson, et. al. The big name free agents have just been the extra edge. It would have been way too expensive to assemble a team of solely free agents for even the top four.

The other problem Kent, is player development. An NFL team realize a lot more potential out of a good draft pick than a MLB team. It takes years to develop a player, especially pitchers. They just do not have the arm strength and knowledge of pitching coming out of college. They really are very different sports, with a different type of athlete playing each game.

That's not true all the time. Many lower rung markets go to the playoffs, and many succedd. Here's the breakdown of 2009: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries. By your logic, it would be Yanks, Sox, Mets, Cubs in contention every year, and its far from that. Tampa, Col, Twinkies, D'Backs, Brewers, White Sox, etc. have all been in contention, and some have won the whole shebang in the past decade. Its the teams that choose to spend the profit sharing on players that end up doing well in the playoffs. Big market teams have no incentive to curb spending on players.

That fish was 6-1, and came from the small clearing in weeds below the over hanging willow branch. You'll know exactly the spot, knowing that's Port Bay, LOL. I was lucky, she never had a chance to tussle, had her up and over the weeds in seconds.

A cap would seriously threaten some small market teams livelihood, since they operate on profit sharing by larger, more profitable teams. Profit sharing is MLB's version of the salary cap.

I meant that the other way around, LOL. Left...Right....does anyone really know what's what? Just kidding there. Thanks for the correction, Wayne. Yes, mine is on the RIGHT! :-[ :-[ :-[ This is a little dark, but that thin strip on the right is the RTS. Obviously, nothing going on here when the photo was taken. I want to try and get more pics of the sonar when I'm out fishing. Just seems like I should be fishing, not shooting.

With single hooks like with plastics and jigs, I have brought some bass to hand that only had the very tip of the hook point in the maxillary bone. I can only assume that some fish that spit my lure prematurely were 'hooked' that way. I hear you there. Here's a jig fish I felt lucky to get to the boat...

I used to use the uni to uni for this but have switched to the Alberto knot (that Roadwarrior provided the youtube link for). It has proven a stronger knot for joining lines of differing diameters (in my experience). I've found the same. A friend turned me on to it a couple of years ago, but it took a while to completely convert. One tip, if you're sold on Uni to Uni connection (which are very easy to tie when time is of the essence) is to use a spider hitch knot to double up the braided mainline, so it matches the leader diameter better.

Both Humminbird and Lowrance (probably some others, too) have some version of a real time feedback. On my 383c, its to the left of the graph view. I rely on this more than the history, especially when fishing vertically. I can see my bait, and it rises on the screen as I lift up. Its pretty fast. For this technique, I have the graph set to 200 kHz, and ping speed turned up to max.

I guess even after fising cranks almost exclusively throughout the early 90s, and coming back to them the past three seasons, I still don't feel like I know what I thought I know. Trailing the bait, and being able to feel it? Could it be the visible perception of seeing this add some tactile perception to the scheme? When your bait is running deep, and out of sight, could the similar experience be that fish actually is already on the bait, and you're popping the hooks in with a short hookset. I know that's what I was alluding to in my crow supper post above. Another question. I hear all the time that when a big fish eats the whole thing, that "galump" strike that I'm sure everyone that fishes cranks has experienced, that unless you set the hook, the fish can merely expel the bait. I find that hard to believe that would be the norm, and in fact think it would out of the ordinary, if the hooks are properly sized to the bait, and very sharp. I'm not contradicting anything here, to the contrary, LOL. I'm seriously asking. This entire thread has me noticing what I do, and what I thought I did, and rethinking everything. Maybe Chris, Catt, Paul, Rolo, WRB, etc... can talk to this. Here is a fish, that totally took the bait. I saw it. Not a huge fish by national standards, but a big fish up here, at 5-9. It grabbed the crank, and ran at perpendicular to the retrieve. I simply reeled into pressure, and carefully brought it in, using side pressure, from my shore bound position. What would have happened if I set the hook? Would there be any advantages/disadvantages to the various hooksets? I personally think I chose the right path, since I got the fish to shore, and many, many other smaller fish that spring day. Working on not overreacting was something I imposed on myself that day. Was that wrong? Here is the fish. Most of the hook points were embedded in the flesh.

I made a comment oon hookset, because it sounded to me that the OP tried to whoopin' hookset on the fid=sh he lost. As with EVERYTHING else on this forum, its about trying to help. Some of you seem intent on simply being right. The hookset discussion has gone over here: http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1256327089/0 Its three pages long.