89MJ

Next time I will put a warning on the thread title. ;D

I caught this fish the other day, it had line coming out the hole on its belly. I pulled the as much of the string out as i could until it wouldnt come anymore and then i cut it close to the hole leaving about .5" outside the fish. I didnt want to keep pulling and injure the fishes insides but didnt want to leave it out and have the fish get tangled on something. Was this the right thing to do? the reason i left a little out was in the hopes it would help the fish pass it if he could. heres a pic:

Caught my new best today. Was about 19-20" but I dont have a scale. Casting a senko under a waterfall. Yes, he was released to fight another day. He had another hook and line in his mouth which i removed; also had a shiner halfway down his throat.

Teaching her to use soft plastics she will have alot of fun. My daughter loves to fish weightless texas rigged senkos. It's hard for me to get her to fish anything else. This year I am gonna try and get her to fish with some swim baits, I got her a sebile magic swimmer for x-mas. Just be careful, since I taught my daughter to fish the senko she out-fishes me on occasion.

My 10yo daughter comes with me all summer and will stay all day and into the night. So for christmas I got her a st croix triumph and a daiwa capricorn spinning combo.

Some 4/0 EWG offset hooks with some senko style worms

Any good deals besides what was in the flyer?

Since they will now be going to the fishing derby, does this mean you can use some used stuff too?

Very nice. One year i brought a bunch of starting line up figures to hasbro childrens. I was kind of surprised when i called, they couldnt tell me who I should talk to or where to bring the toys.

Jim Madden 36, Live in Pawtucket Just got back into fishing late this summer. Was getting out about 5 days a week. Work 2nd shift so am up for some early morning fishing during the week. Plan to get a jon boat before next spring. Also want to start fishing salt water next year. Am always willing to tag along and learn something new.

Is there a way to have google earth label bodies of water? like the way you can have it name streets?

I would definately record ant further phone calls that way when you do get to talk to someone higher up the ladder you can show them how ignorant there employees are. HEAT DAMAGE!!! from being on the dash? that is rediculous. they are $200.00 glasses. I have 2.99 convenience store glasses that i leave on the dash and dont get heat damage.

Does anyone else use one of those knot tying tools for doing their uni knots? I got one the other day and did some test knots with it and I like it.

When I was a kid they would erase your detention if you got suspended. So in my infinite wisdom as a teenager, when I gathered up around 60 nights detention I would try to get suspended so that I could get all my detention erased. It always turned out to be a waste of time because my first day back I would have detention again.

I would say as long as it is still drinking and not getting dehydrated I would give it a few days. Because it is so small if it isnt drinking I wouldnt wait too long.

How did everyone do at the tourney?

I was having no luck until a week ago. The 3 weeks before that were horrible. It still hasnt been great but this week I caught 4 bass (2 in the 1.5 to 2.5lb range) and a very large pickerel all on tubes except one, that one was on an ika.

I am going to clean a reel for my first time this week. I bought the penn oil and grease (it is a penn reel). Since Penn is most popular for their salt water reels I figured their oil and grease is made to hold up under salt water conditions. But i could be completely wrong. Hopefullt someone will LMK if i am.

With the one piece it would have to go in the bed of my truck; with the 2 piece I could put it in the cab. I was looking at the avids too, but I didnt notice that much of a difference compared to the difference in cost (altho I was just going by feel and havent fished them). Maybe the avid will go on sale before christmas and then I will definately move up and grab it.

I have decided to take the advice of alot of guys here and build a few quality rods. I am going to start with a spinning set up that will be used for worms and other plastics but will be a decent all around rod. I am planning to buy a 7' St Croix Premier Medium Power Fast action and pair it with either a stradic or a symetre. I am not sure if I should get a one piece or a two piece. Is there a loss in sensitivity with two piece rods? What do you think of this combo? Jim

I got some of the 3.5" tubes and finally broke my 3 week drought.

The citica says C1-200 Bantam and the curado says CU-200 Bantam. Is that the model?

I got some reels used a little while ago and there was no paperwork with them so Im not sure what the best size line to use is. I want to make sure they are on the right rod and have the right size line. One is a curado 200 and the other is a citica 200. What size line should I use? i also have a Penn spinning reel I need to re-string. The spool has a little hole in it and under/inside the spool there is a screw holing in a little fork type thing. Am I suppose to run the line thru the hole and tie it to the fork thing?

Thanks Everyone. I will use RW's method in the future. Is a little more accurate than what I have been doing.

A leash is a good idea. especially since she will be holding the rod in a completely different way and since it is weighted on top instead of the bottom. I would really appreciate the info on how to do it.