SirSnookalot

I've had many tackle bags of all prices, the zippers either break or get corroded, at present my Browning isn't too bad, I only use it for offshore. For my kind of fishing a tackle bag is a burden, I really like my set up. I use a fanny pack with 6 plastic lure boxes, each box has several lures in it, spoons, bucktails, storm swimbaits, jerkbaits, topwaters,and metal swim jigs or gotchas. In separate pocket I have spools of leader lines and swivels, on the belt is sheath with pliers, attached to one of the zippers are steel leaders. I have about every thing covered that I use.

The grass is always greener elsewhere, personally I think Weston is a dynamite area to fish. I happen to know an excellent fisherman from Coral Springs, he comes up to fish Delray and I sometimes go to Coral Springs, go figure. I get around to fish a lot of places, there is no place like home. I do as well in and around Delray as anyplace, and my home base is the Boynton inlet, I just happen to click better there than even Hobe Sound. That said for me it's challenge, catching different species in different places, that's why I put on a lot of miles.

HAHA, just a perk of retirement. The flip slide, countless times I had to leave the water or golf course to see an account or couldn't get a way in the first place. I go thru heavy withdrawal without at least one fish day.

I did some canal fishing in the rain yesterday, one of the better bass days I've had. Other than having my sneakers soaked thru it wasn't bad. My feet are always wet even from the dew, slip on totes is a good option for me.

Really ? lol Not a marketing ploy but something some of the lure companies are doing now, I've see it done for years by fishermen, both in person and tv, I like it, Siwash hooks on spoons have been popular a long time but single hooks on hard lures is just gaining popularity.

I think 10# braid may get little more of bow than 20# because it's thinner and lighter, but it might not be too significant. I use 10# slick on 1 combo and reg 10# PP on another using leaders about 20". I try and keep the wind at my back and the rod low to the water, aids in reducing the bow and keeping the line straight, a bullet weight may help some too. However positioning yourself with the wind at your back isn't always possible to do.

I've seen the apple tv and it's really nice. I was thinking about chromecast and from what I understand you can transmit what's on your google chrome browser from computers, phones and tablets. You still have to subscribe Netflix or Hulu, well worth the money if interested in using those services. At least for now my PC will suffice for the few You Tube videos I watch, can't muster up the need for it but in time I'm sure I'll have it. What is MLF, before I put my reading glasses on I thought it was MILF.

This is the exact rod my friend has with the exception of being 7' and spinning. I put way more stock in a review from people I consider to be excellent fishermen and use a piece of equipment daily. Seeing this rod handle some really nice fish, using it myself, and 0119 comments leads me to believe for 99 bux this rod is a winner. I don't care if the rod ratings are off, most of my med spinning rods have pretty much the same specs and I exceed the max lure weight on them too without any problems. If I can have a wider range of lure options, all the better for me. I don't need to compare any rod to another, just have to like what I'm using.

Rod and reel wise an abundance of sophistication isn't needed to catch most fish, but if one's budget allows it why not. One of the most economical lures is a spoon, barring any loss only the hook needs to be replaced. Storm wild eyed shad, 3 pack for about 5 bux, catch a lot of fish and with some luck will last pretty good. A $3 bucktail jig will catch about anything that can swim, quite a few toothless fish can be caught before they need to be replaced. My #1 pick is a 2.99 jerkbait I use, has caught more bass and peas than all my others. Unlike my Rapalas I never break the lip off, I cast under bridges and make a lot of bad casts, the lure is like a timex, keeps on ticking.

I've ice fished many times with my dad when I was kid, I thought he was out of his mind, and I still do. I found absolutely nothing exhilarating about it. Maybe the most excitement is being on the ice at lake St Clair, wind pick up and the ice breaks apart leaving you stranded. Got kick out of that because we weren't there then, always some yo-yo out there when the ice wasn't safe.

Don't know if it's that particular rod but a good buddy of mine uses a spinning 7' TFO 6-12# lure weight up to 3/4 oz. He does use it for bass fishing but he is primarily a saltwater angler. I have seen him catch 20# snook on it as well as bass. He tosses lures up 2 oz effortlessly and this rod flat out casts a ton, way past my comparable rods. I've used it a few times and I'm impressed, so much when I'm in the market I may buy one. Not that I want 1 of my rods to break, but I don't think I'd be too upset switching to one of these, only negative for me is a split grip with a shortish butt. On side note, I know quite a few fly fishermen that do nothing but saltwater fly with 40 or more years of experience, several of them having been changing over to TFO fly rods, they really like them.

One thing I don't miss is working outdoors in sub zero weather when I lived in Michigan, but that was just part of being in business, you do what you gotta do. Bit nippy in Fla, 41 with 26 mph winds at sunrise, be the first time eons that I won't head out to the ocean to fish. Pity, have the outgoing tide and I caught 2 snook yesterday............maybe I'll go, lol.

Couldn't agree more. Easy does it with long flowing casts especially for lighter lures. When I snap it without thinking, that's when the problems occur.

For a few pennies a disposable lighter works great, also puts a bead on the tag that can help eliminating pull thru. Don't real men use their teeth on mono?

I couldn't remember exactly how we attached it with a clothespin, but we did.

Bet you attached a playing card on the spokes so it would make noise.

I think the alberto works well to connect backing plus it's pretty thin knot too. It's as strong as about anything I can think of and if bass fishing a good chance the knot will not be exposed.

I have nothing against b/c except I don't care to fish with them, I'm a spinning guy. What others prefer is up to them, but this is why I prefer spinning. I can use a spinning rod appropriate to handle any lure style, weight and technique, for example 1 of my rods is a mh 1/4-2 oz lure (not my heaviest spinning rod), can use a small spinner or 5000 reel. I can fish a light weedless fluke or a heavier jig, spoon or lure, pretty good versatility. I like the reel on the bottom, no reel twisting the rod with a larger fish on the line, plus I have my stronger arm on the rod at all times. I prefer the cranking handle on a spinner to that of a b/c with, 2 small knobs, that said the Shimano tranx is a really nice reel. I also feel spinners give nothing up in regards to drag and I don't have to concern myself with braid digging in. Being enthused I do own more than 1 combo, have ones good for bluegill and others good for sailfish, covers the gamut for me. Bottom line, use what you like.

I don't use backing myself. The line capacity specs are for a complete spool up to the top, recommendations for the most part is to leave at least an 1/8" from the lip, so you are really not using that much line, especially on a size 30 reel. Whether a reel is braid ready or not, braid or mono line, spinning or conventional, I always put tape on the arbor.

At home the scissors, out fishing a lighter.

I've been there, played golf at Playa del Carmen but didn't fish, it's the Yucatan Peninsula not too far from Belize. You might be a bit too far from Cancun to buy anything, I think it's about 45 minutes. I can't really say what the beach conditions are like there but the flyrod sounds like a pretty good option if the winds from the east aren't too bad. In that area a trip to Xcaret is a worthwhile adventure and you are pretty close to Cozumel.

Peacocks seldom if ever hit at night.

Was inspired to make a few up yesterday, small one is real similar to a crappie jig, don't recall the weight of the jig heads I had on hand.

No one ever caught a fish before FC was invented?

The water isn't the problem, it's possible grit and sand. Fishing in the rain is not the same as having a reel dunked. I have yet to service a freshwater spinning reel, they've never been dunked. Saltwater reels stay pretty healthy too if they haven't been dunked. On a spinning reel only the bail gets wet from the line, I don't always rinse them down unless there is salt air blowing around or they get splashed. Those reels get serviced only when they need them.