J Francho

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I split the topic. Watching their videos never gets old.

You know what happens when you assume, so let's leave it there.

So, it toasts both sides of the bread?

Etnies Marana were my go to before DC. They are a great shoe that you can find around $40. They last forever as well. Grip tape is a bit finer grit than roofing shingles, but same concept. It's the toe and side "ollie caps" that I think must make the difference.

There's footage somewhere of one of Tony Hawk's body guards dropping in on his 14' vert halfpipe. He's around 350.

There's a difference in what people use for bass and what is marketed as for bass. What I'm getting at, is the original question was what is a popular bass rod that you don't have a use for, is being misconstrued.

I find that's true as well. My only real need for sneakers is for skating. I have learned to like them for playing drums as well. But at work (I'm a project manager) I wear casual dress shoes. At home it's flip flops, sandals, or steel toes. Funny story, the guys that did my garage roof all wore DC skate shoes. They said they lasted longer than anything else, and had better foothold than boots.

St. Croix Avid line is not marketed as a bass rod. Of the others, only the Daiwa specifically mentions bass fishing, though Dobyns is certainly a bass rod company. I told you so, lol.

Do you still have that Curado? I remember when the Green B came out, it was $10 more than the Citica B, and it was a hard decision whether it was worth that $10. How times have changed.

Last pair I bought came from my local core skate shop. Bought a pair of DC Lukoda for $65.

They aren't marketed towards bass anglers. They're almost always targeted at some other demographic. "Popular bass rod"

I'd argue that spinning rods over medium power are unpopular in the bass fishing market just based on the difficulty finding one.

It depends on the crowd. I have a signed first run Natas Kaupus deck from Santa Monica Airlines. It's well used, but the signature is not damaged. He signed it during the Cadillac tour, when we skated after the demo. It's the only deck that remains of the stacks I used in the 80s and 90s, other than a Mike V. "Burning Cities" from World Industries that I still use occasionally. The signed deck is worth a couple hundred bucks. Would be worth a lot more had I not used it. There are used original Bones Brigade (Rodriguez, Cab, Hawk, McGill, Mountain, Mullen, Guererro) decks from Powell Peralta that are selling for four figures. These aren't even signed or used by pros. My point is, most of you don't know who the heck I'm talking about. That's who Gary Yamamoto is to people outside of bass fishing. Maybe in 40 years, that hat will be worth something, if somehow the collectors run out of lures and reels and move on to hats. That hat in my profile picture is signed by the entire Ragetail team, including Denny Brauer and JVD. I wear it so much, the signature can be barely made out. I'm not betting my retirement on it.

By 90 or 91, Daiwa had a 7:1 reel in the PT series.

It's still about selling you and me things.

Forgot about these!

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There's two creeks attached to that lake. I'd be near them, looking for shoreline features nearby. I would NOT call that lake featureless, despite the bottom layout you describe. Looks like a shore fisher's dream.

It turns a half-bassed hook set into good enough. You know those sets. I know those sets. Just sayin'.

It was so long ago that I regularly threw tubes, that pretty much used 12 mono. I think either would be fine. These days, I throw them shallow for prespawn smallies using fairly light weights, and a spinning rod with 6# Tatsu.

The guys that are quick to give you their IG handle, lol. They usually have a GoPro attached to their head. Makes 'em easy to spot.

Or better, depending on who you talk to. Yes, it was always blurred, but it was tournaments that mainly defined what a pro was, and there was a definite path to that position.

I have plenty to keep me busy.

The rabbit goes around the hole three times, jumps in, does a right turn, then about face.....wait what?