ROCbass

No wonder he wasn't enjoying the date.

My grandparents live on a lake that is primarily a smallmouth/walleye/northern pike lake. The first bass i ever caught was a smallmouth out of this lake when i was 7 years old and I've been hooked ever since.

Being on the wrong side of 35 and having all those neck problems, Manning is likely done IMO. That's not to say he won't try to find another team and get signed somewhere, but i have serious doubts he'll ever be anything close to the player he once was. That being said, I hope Miami picks him up too. Of course, being a Bills fan who thinks he is likely to fail, my reasons are probably different than yours.

The story itself is inspirational, yes. Where the video lost me was all the slow boring music over shots of guys lifting weights and doing agility ladders in between sentences. If the video was about half as long and the story was told steadily instead of having all those long pauses, it would have been much better. JMO.

That video reminded me of baseball in one way: I was bored less than 2 minutes in.

It could be worse. When I was about that age, I ratted my dad out to the cops. At that time, you had to be 5 years old to ride in a car without a booster seat. Usually my mom picked me up from daycare, so the carseat was in her car. Something came up, however, so my dad had to pick me up and he ended up getting in a fender bender with me in the front seat with no carseat. When the officer who responded to the accident asked my dad how old I was, my dad said 5. I said "No daddy, I'm 3!," and my dad got ticketed. To this day we still laugh about it.

In my experience when you're told to stop hitting a female with your white lizard, its best to listen. Otherwise, you'll be the one leaving the bed.

I'd let you have my old brain, but unfortunately i need it and its the only one I've got.

The best part about the game last night for me was that the 2011 football season ended with it, meaning it is now the 2012 season and my BIlls are undefeated! WOOHOO! Go Bills!

I have the Mojo 7'MHF and I love it as a jig/worm rod. Some people say it's tip heavy, but I find it balances nicely with a reel in the 8oz range. make sure you try it with the reel you'l be using on it before you buy. I haven't used the moderate one, but I've been thinking about getting one as a crank rod as well

At this point, 6 more weeks of winter means we'll be having 6 total weeks of winter. I'll take it.

Many stores have a publicly stated policy of lowest price marked is the correct price. I believe Dicks is actually one of them. Even in stores where this is not stated policy, in my experience if you point out that you think the sticker is wrong, most stores will sell it to you for that price anyway. As long as you're not being shady about changing stickers yourself a la The Natural, I see nothing wrong with using this customer service policy to your advantage whenever possible, but you should at least mention that you think the sticker might be incorrect.

This move makes no sense to me. The Raiders just traded away their top pick in what was already going to be a thin draft for them due to several other recent trades for a guy who has been sitting at home since the end of last season and had his best seasons 5-6 years ago. He's unlikely to step in and be great right away while learning a new system this year and not having been on a football field for 10 months, and he was threatening retirement if he didn't get traded so I'm not sure his heart is in it long term. If it works out great for the Raiders, but the price they paid seems really high for a guy whose been an average QB in recent years with so many question marks.

Let's ask Mike Gundy:

Vibram Fivefingers KSO.

Haha J, that picture reminds me of when they were building the BJ's in Greece. I was an immature teenager at the time and was going somewhere with my parents when I saw the sign from 390: BJ's COMING SOON. Of course I started laughing uncontrollably and my parents asked me what was so funny, so I told them. My dad started busting a gut too, but my mom wasn't quite as amused as we were

My peers don't like when I hit them with casts no matter what reel i'm using.

I usually repair mine until they're completely unusable and then throw them away, but if you're willing to trade me beer for trash I might take you up on it. :lol:

Casting: Abu Garcia 4600 C4/Acadia F Series 7'MH/15lb mono- spinnerbaits, traps, small to med. soft swimbaits Shimano Curado E5/Fenwick Goldenwing 6'6"M/12lb mono- cranks, jerkbaits, topwater Ardent C400/ St Croix Mojo Bass 7'MHF/50lb braid-jigs, plastics, frogs BPS Carbonlite/ St. Croix Avid 6'6" MHF/ 30lb braid- jigs, plastics Daiwa Advantage 150H/ Shakespeare Ugly Stik 6'M/12lb mono-general purpose leave in the car rod Spinning: Pflueger Trion 4730/ Acadia F Series 6'6" M/20lb braid-tubes,dropshot,weightless plastics Gander Mountain metal series reel/Shakespeare ugly stik lite pro 7'M/ 8lb mono- treble hook lures too light for casting gear i.e. original rapalas, #5 shad raps, etc. This covers everything I throw just fine, but I'd like to add a cranking specific casting setup and 1 more general purpose plastics spinning setup, so I can have a tube and a dropshot tied on at the same time.

A self proclaimed noob who usually catches 3-10 lb'ers? I need to fish where this guy is fishing.

For swimbaiting with spinning gear, Fish Chris is the guy you want to talk to. Try sending him a PM if he doesn't comment on this thread.

Lots of people are saying that the 7' MHF avid is tip heavy. I don't have this rod, but FWIW I do have the 6'6" MHF Avid and the 7' MHF mojo. The mojo is noticeably tip heavy with a light reel, but perfect with reels in the 8-9oz range IMO. I don't find my 6'6" avid to be tip heavy at all and I have my lightest reel on it, a BPS carbonlite. When I was originally looking at Avids I wanted the 7' MHF too, but I ended up with the 6'6" instead for the simple reason that it was on clearance and the 7' wasn't. I use mine for jigs and plastics mostly, and I have not yet encountered a situation where I felt the extra 6" would have made a big difference. If you're set on a 7 footer don't let me change your mind, but you might find that a slightly shorter rod balances better and still does everything you want it to do.

I suppose its possible that you unknowingly loosened the pawl cap while trying to detangle the line, which would explain why tightening it solved the problem.

No idea. In fact, until I saw the title of your post I had no idea there were 80's music aficionados either.

Without knowing your exact situation, it seems like unless you want to do this long term, the startup cost for a legitimate lawn cutting business (truck, trailer, mowers, etc.) would be prohibitively high, and the type of lawn cutting "business" I had when I was 14 or 15 where you just mow a few neighbors or family friends lawns wouldn't earn you very much money. Since the title of your post is summer job options, let me tell you about some summer jobs I've had that you might consider. The best summer job I've had as far as money and hours was as summer help for a mechanical contractor. I got over ten dollars an hour an hour and worked a normal 7-3:30 monday through friday schedule driving materials and tools from the shop to job sites and doing some pre-fab work. It was a good job and I usually found it relatively enjoyable. I loved the hours and the pay and I met some interesting characters, but I only did it for a year. For the past 3 summers, I've worked as a counselor and climbing wall instructor at a summer camp for kids with special needs, and I absolutely love it. The hours are much longer than the summer help job I had and the pay isn't as nearly as good, especially if you calculate my weekly salary into an hourly rate, but its a ton of fun and one of the most intrinsically rewarding things I have ever done. Also, although I don't make as much money, I also spend a lot less because I live at work and meals are provided. Another job I had before the summer help mechanical contractor job was as kitchen staff at a summer camp. I did a little bit of everything, from prep and service to scrubbing pots and pans. This was another fun job with a normal workweek, although the pay wasn't as good as the summer help job.