J Francho

At the very least wear UV coated protection. I know a few old timers that have had their eyelids removed due to cancer from sun exposure.

I run both. Heck at one point I had three kayaks and two boats. I'll always have a kayak. At some point I'll be adding a monster boat to the mix, plus I'd like to get a light pack canoe.

Some of my older rods are way worse than that and work fine.

There's plenty of bad YouTube videos out there. If you can get PBS, check America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, Milk Street, Patti Finnish, and Lidia. Those shows all have cooking books that more than just recipes. The book mentioned above is pretty solid as well.

I have to look into those readers. I'm there, lol.

In short, no, but the hype over other stuff can be real. The only difference in price points is the coating and lens material - the linear polarization is the same. I wear Maui Jim exclusively, but carry a couple of cheap $20 pairs around and they work as well at cutting glare.

Looks pretty weathered to me. Treated with U-40.

I would say it's more about surface area and weight, along with submerged hull design. My 18' Xpress Hyperlift blew around a lot less than my 21'10" Bullet, bucking conventional wisdom. These boats are outliers though. The former a heavy, pad hull aluminum, the latter a very light carbon Kevlar hull. Your typical light, 16-20' deep V with high gun whales will likely blow around more than a typical 18-20' glass bass hull. Some of these top end bass boat can sit pretty high, with quite a bit of stuff to catch the wind though, but I'd argue being twice as heavy plays a big factor in the wind. Keep in mind, some of those deep V hulls draft in quite a bit of water, further resisting wind, though not current. It's really beneficial to ride in a ton of boats with different layouts and hull styles in all sorts of conditions. When buying, I can't imagine not test driving a boat, but I've only ever bought used. fun fact, my Xpress could go shallower than most glass boats, including my buddy's 20' comp hull Bullet that weighed less than 1000 lbs.

this is the type of homework you need to do yourself. You've got three locations and some seasonal advice. No one can spoon feed you everything.

Yep

Always wash your Levi's inside out with cold water.

$750 is t bad, all things considered. I paid that for an issue. Dude spent more time working up a quote to replace all the drains than to resolve the issue. He left his leak bucket behind, so I win. It's been very handy to have.

I still like a flasher. I wish that mode worked as fast as the originals.

We had a mid 3s a decade ago. Felt like a train going by.

I want to see a $100k+ boat with a Lo-K-tor bolted to it.

Anyone that I know that has used Master Braid swears by the stuff. It'll be 2060 before I run out of braid, so I guess I'm good without it.

The thumb bar and knobs are just the right "over the top" that make it all work. I dig it.

Nothing here in WNY, but I was on a call with a colleague from LI and she felt it.

Granulated activated carbon could be anywhere there's supply water. Ugh. My under sink water unit did the same thing (the housing later actually burst, another story) from high water pressure. Luckily, only the ice maker and a small drinking water tap were affected.

#braidshaming Lol, pretty sure the question is about price point. Almost all braid is Dyneema or Spectra, and over engineered. I generally just use the brands that feel "right" to me and perform as expected without a care in the world where they're made or who made them. Farm to table braid isn't necessary. Sorry OP, I can't really say what KK braid is closest because they stopped making the braid I liked. I do see the irony here. Still using out of date PP and Smackdown with no issues or complaints.

Coltrane gets kittens and precocious children for treats. High protein and totally natural. JK, we like Buddy Biscuit PB and Greenies.

They're used to dropped passes there.