SirSnookalot

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What's the problem...............the fish are already wet, they don't care.

My local DSG carries Calico Jacks for about $55, my med 7' 8/17 rod has been serving me well for about 3-4 years. I use the rod for high banked canals both open water and Florida muck. Being an all purpose rod I use it for all techniques and lure types, this is my heavy bass rod used with 15# braided line. I have no desire to use any thing else, for the money I don't have to worry about babying it, but it's remained perfect catching thousands of pounds of bass, peacocks, and snakeheads. Since I purchased mine they have come out with a mh 10/20 rod.

Electrical or masking tape around the spool will prevent any slippage, I even tape convential reels with mono line. I go straight braid on my initial spool up, I don't reverse my braid because I get wind knots, line twist and abrasion. I use my reels quite bit, I add about 75 yards every couple of months for my freshwater fishing.

Nice pea..........I wasn't so fortunate. I start the day with a small snook about 5-6 pounds, then at sunrise I get tapped and see a pretty big jack swimming off. Then I did some peacock fishing and had several nice blow ups behind the lure, but didn't land one. Unusual for both jacks and peacocks not to take the hook.

I fish a lot of weedy areas that I have to fish weedless. Even though I often times carry a pack of senkos in my pocket I can't bring myself to use them, I get no excitement fishing that way.

I'm in this camp for sure. My lures are so banged up, scratched, rear hooks bent down from broken plastic, and they still catch fish everyday. Common belief peacocks like brightly colored lures, I catch many on duller colors.

So I've heard. I leave them be. Of the few I caught by accident using a lure, I thought the fight was lackluster. Don't care to target them, I've got a better chance of hooking into a 40# tarpon.

A real man carries what ever he wants. I'm not in the market I have year left on my contract, but I'm totally comfortable with the operation and size of my android. Mine has a 4.3 screen and the overall dimensions fit nicely in my hands, I carry it in a belt case. The future may hold a larger phone for me. Not withstanding to any phone operating system I would not have a car without bluetooth with on screen operation.

I run into a good buddy of mine yesterday, John must be about 73 or 74, he's strictly a saltwater fly fisherman and he is as good at it as anyone. He showed me some recent pics, one was 55" black tip shark caught wading, took him over an hour. At 68 I'm one of the younger guys of my fishing buddies, it really boils down to technique over muscle when landing some of the heftier fish. Other than myself I don't know anyone fishing freshwater in South Florida, I like both venues.

This is a good point. First off I fish braid, leader and swivel 100% of the time in fresh and with only 1 exception in salt. There have been quite a few times fishing from a jettie where I can't land the fish, to avoid being spooled I''ll break it off at the leader. My setup is 10 or 15# braid with a 20# floroclear leader, inshore set up isn't too much different. I prefer the leader as not wanting my braid getting tangled in the hooks, it can be a nightmare to untangle and that is lost fishing time. My knots are of the most basic, lure gets a loopknot, swivels get a standard clinch and braid to swivel gets a double wrapped improved clinch, knot failure is only due to an occasional user error. Fish in heavy vegetation to open crystal clear water, fish run the gamut size wise and haven't had the need or desire to deviate.

Not so sure that it's bad idea. Some of the very inexpensive spinning reels perform quite well. Case in point I own a Shakespere agility I got for my gr son, he never fished so I use it. I don't use it often but when I do it's my worm and jig outfit, the reel is exceptionally smooth, drag certainly not the best and not very precise, but for bass fishing it does me just me just fine. Totally disposable and costs around 30-35 bux, fine for the once in a while fisherman, as a primary reel I'd look for better quality.

I don't recall missing 10 days this year, but I'll be conservative a call it 340 days. Everyday starts in saltwater, there is no exception and I may only be out 4 hours counting driving time, I'm 30 minutes from most locations. Then it's freshwater in the afternoons, fishing times vary 1-3 hours usually. Next year will be less as I'm planning a lengthy trip that will not include fishing, I could do 1 day charter.

At 68 I'm still fishing offshore for larger fish, aj's, sails, cuberas and so on, plus my inshore and freshwter fishing I do everyday.............old?

I use nothing but spinning and have some wide spool ones. I did buy one several years ago and it was terrible and I returned it, not wanting to depress any one owning it I won't mention the brand. In it's place I bought wire spool Daiwa tierra, pretty decent reel and nothing to complain about. I own a Pflueger arbor 50 wide spool, it's a wonderful reel. Spooled up with 180 yds 14# copoly, casts like a dream, weighs but 12 oz which is very light for a reel 50 or 5000 series reel, more drag power than I'll ever need at 25#, drag settings are precise. This is a dedicated barracuda reel, 40-50" cuda will test your equipment and this reel has passed with flying colors, as with all my Pluegers never needing service or repair.

Quite true and I've been totally fixated on catching them without having to drive south. Knowing your quarry is all important, I've caught literally hundreds of peacocks before the freeze. I've been doing my homework where these fish should be located and where they won't be, for now. I found a spot (got permission to fish there whenever I want), I just knew they were there and it took 5 trips but I finally scored yesterday, just a matter of time until I catch a large one. I knew I was right because I know the species and the area.

As it stands federal, state, county and municipalities don't have enough revenue. Even if Americans had more disposable income, American business will still operate as they are doing now. Between loopholes, tax havens, and promotion of offshore investments that have been going on for many years, the system is rigged for the wealthy and against the middle class, it's always been that way and always will be. Middle class incomes have been flat lining for decades while corporate and executive incomes have been soaring.

It isn't just Walmart, it's every retailer buying an American product that's made elsewhere, I'd put the onus on American manufactures. I don't believe the consumer is the driving force, but the recipient of capitalism greed, not much different than service businesses using third world workers for tech support.

did the test twice with a few different questions and the results were almost identical. Detroit, Minnepolis and Buffalo.

Manufacturing is moved offshore for 2 reasons, less labor costs and the U.S. tax code, At issue is the U.S. tax code's treatment of profits earned by foreign subsidiaries of American corporations. Profits earned in the United States are subject to the 35% corporate tax. But multinational corporations can defer paying U.S. taxes on their overseas profits until they return them to the USA — transfers that often don't happen for years. General Electric, for example, has $62 billion in "undistributed earnings" parked offshore, according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Drug giant Pfizer boasts $60 billion. ExxonMobil has $56 billion. I've read reports that 1 out of 4 US corporations pay zero income tax, if true where would you manufacture your products to maximize profits. Business is about making money, not employing people, every self checkout at Home Depot and Walmart or bank atm machines reduces employment. Materials can be shipped any where in the world at a relatively low cost, don't think that has much to do with a reason to move an entire operation.

Had me in my original home area, Michigan. Some 50 years ago I lived in Kentucky for 2 years and acquired some of the local colloquialisms. Once I got back into an urban setting my vocabulary and accent returned.

I couldn't agree more. My wife does things without me, book clubs, museums, lectures and I wouldn't appreciate her going with another man, by the same token I don't think she would appreciate me having a female fishing partner. Temptation is not the issue, respect is.

As good a tip that I've learned on here is bending the blade on an in line spinner, thanks to Goose.

I have no downtime here, equipment is fine unless I get a whim to buy something. Only thing changes are the species I target, this winter my project is to catch peacocks.

If I haven't learned how to catch fish over the last 60 years there isn't much that's going to help me now. The hardest part of fishing is locating them, knowing the nuances of species one fishes for IMO is the paramount factor in catching them, not that they always cooperate. Rods, reels, lures, techniques and the actual landing of fish are secondary concerns for me, that's the easy part of fishing.