ROCbass

I've only ever heard it as a girl's name, but if you and your wife like it, go for it. Since you're going with a more conservative middle name, worst case scenario if you (or he) end up not liking it, he can be one of those people who goes by his middle name and signs official documents with his first initial. J. Paul Endless has a nice ring to it.

I haven't noticed a difference in how my knots smell no matter what kind of hook it is.

Rod companies can use less raw materials and charge more for the rod because they "look cool."

frogs and buzzbaits. I also "invented" a new (to my knowledge at least, I've never see or heard of anyone else doing it before) way to rig a senko that I'm itching to try out.

What is a Chelsea boy? Is it like a Nancy boy?

Ours turned to snow overnight up in WNY.

Yeah, I handled one in BPS the other day and was more impressed than I remember being with the casting rod I have now when I first handled it in the store. It's just a matter of saving up my pennies for it now.

My St. Croix Avid 6'6" MHF casting rod. It's by far the nicest rod I own. At the time I bought it, I didn't think I would ever buy a rod over $100 and didn't see a need to, but I got a heck of a deal on it (70 bucks!) at Gander Mountain. Now I like it so much I think my next rod I buy will be another Avid, and I would be willing to pay full price for one. The one I'm looking into is the 6'8" MXF spinning rod.

They've got themselves in quite the hole right now.

This is what I got this weekend as well. I did both surveys but only got one package so far.

What's a halfway decent machine you would recommend for a beginner run? My dad has wanted to get into this for a while. We live in an old farmhouse and he's convinced that if he digs around where the outhouse used to be, he'll find old coins that fell out of people's pockets and down the hole while they were having their morning constitutional.

That's exactly why as great as it is that walmart is starting to carry some nicer rods, I probably will not be buying one there. The way they cram the rods into those awful lazy susan rod racks is asking for broken tips when the racks are spun and the rods slap into and tangle with the ones on the rack next to it.

is there any way you can get the receipt from your aunt?

YUUUPPPPP!

You need new fishing buddies if they threaten you for gut hooking fish.

Take a picture of the break, then do your repair. If you fish the rod after the repair and hate it, send in that pic with your 45%+$9.95. Heck, even if you like it after the repair, if it were me I still would be tempted to get the replacement if I had the money. If you don't have to send the old one back and can still get it replaced, you really can't lose.

If the line rubs on the frame when you crank, its too full. Ok, now for my serious answer. 1/8" from the spool lip.

Yep. I work at the climbing tower at a summer camp, and we use the uni to back up the figure 8 knots the kids clip into when climbing. A uni-uni connection is also used to join two ends of utility cord to make a prussik loop, which is used to ascend a rope, or in rescue applications. Climbers usually refer to it as a fisherman's knot instead of calling it a uni, but its the same knot.

I'm partial to Great Sacandaga, due to the fact that my grandparents live on it and I've been fishing there just about my entire life. Largemouth are rare, but it had a decent smallmouth population. Good walleye and pike fishing too, although the pike get tough to catch in the summer.

I have 2 combos I'll fish a jig on: St Croix Mojo 7'MHF, Daiwa Advantage 150H, 50# braid St Croix Avid 6'6"MHF, BPS Carbonlite, 30# braid The mojo also serves as my frog rod, but other than that whichever doesn't have a jig on will usually have a texas rig on.

I've never given my inline spinner rods much thought really ,but I usually throw size 1 and smaller blades on my ultralight, which is just a cheap shakespeare 5 footer. Size 2 and up i use whatever M power spinning rod I have handy.

This is not something I still do, but I was too old to be doing it when I did it. Three years ago (I was 21 at the time), me and a bunch of my friends from work all went out go-karting. The place we went must have bought all of the indoor playground equipment and obstacles from a local Discovery Zone after that chain went out of business, because they had it all set up inside exactly how DZ used to be. I was in hog heaven reliving my childhood running and climbing through all that stuff, and I ended up going down a slide that ended in a ball pit. When I stopped on the end of the slide, I stood up and jumped into the ball pit. It was much shallower than I remember them being when I was a kid, and when I landed I rolled my ankle on one of the balls and heard a snap, followed by intense pain. I ended up tearing the ligament in my ankle that attaches the tibia and the fibula, and breaking my fibula.

They're finding it in 2008. This is an old, recently revived thread. Check the dates on the posts prior to this page.

The hooks being removed didn't really bother me. The part that skeeved me out the most was that they were putting their hands all over the dude's bloody arm without gloves on. I'll gut deer without gloves all day long and it doesn't bother me one bit, but when it comes to touching another person's blood there's no such thing as being too careful IMO. I'm surprised none of those guys had gloves in their boat's first aid kit.

2/0 and 3/0 are my most common go-to sizes for worm hooks. I don't feel the need to go any bigger for any of the plastics I use regularly for largemouth or smallmouth. I don't use the big 10"+ worms though.