SirSnookalot

I never ventured into a retail business because I didn't want to wait for people to walk into my store, there is just so much advertising that can be done. I always wanted to be able to go out and find business, not wait for it. There us a reason why Black Friday is called that, it's the day of the year when retail stores go from red into the black. I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying, some retail do make it and do quite well. ClackerBuzz is right, most business fail because they are under capitalized, whether it's retail or any other kind of business.

I'm grumpy everyday.......hehe. I just don't see the point in weight guessing, if one really cares about the actually size and weight, just measure and weigh it and post the results. I don't weigh or measure them, I seldom have a camera with me anymore, even 30" or 30# fish have been posted by me before, no reason in doing it again. Yeh I'm grumpy, don't even look at many photos any more, making a fish look twice it's size is deception not reality.

When it comes to bass fishing both Walmart and Dick's with their limited inventory have what I ever I need. I only use flukes, jerkbaits, top water lures, I can buy those anywhere. BPS carries a bucktail called hotlips, I like them a lot and run about $6.00 for a 3 pack, I buy them on line. Last time I was in Dania they had them in the bargain bin, 3 packs for 99 cents, I stocked up.

If it were me I would prefer my rods to be 7' for the majority of uses in a boat, especially trolling. I'm not familiar with that particular Shimano except to see that it's fairly inexpensive, which would not be a deterrent just to see if you like trolling or not. I haven't done any freshwater trolling in many years, I'd be concerned about the water depth and vegetation when selecting rod power. I personally think a 30 lb class rod is more than adequate.

Only if you want one.

An experienced fisherman can do it just about everything with 1 spinning combo that would be able to span several fish species. I don't do this often as I own what I want for each specific situation. I fish at the ocean every morning and one of my favorites is a 7'6 med spinning rod casting from a 1/4 ounce to an ounce using a wide variety of lures. Hard baits, soft baits, jigs, spoons, topwater and some I can't think of off the top of my head. I catch fish from 1 lb to 40#, just matter of knowing how to land them. I won't have a preferred bass set up with me but I'll stop and do some bass or snakehead fishing using the same rod with a variety of bass type lures including frogs. I don't see any overwhelming difficulty in pulling a good fish our of cover, a good fisherman is not going to struggle and not going to miss many fish. About the only thing I can't do is throw heavy swimbaits, but I don't really care to anyway.

A significant difference between bank and boat is landing the fish. From boat quite often one is pulling the fish out of cover into open water, from the bank pulling it back into thru cover. High banked canals or a sea walls poses a different situation than lipping, netting or gaffing from a boat.

Quantum offers on warranty reel repairs 48 hour turnaround time for freshwater and 24 hours for saltwater, pretty good too. I did send a reel in once for a routine cleaning and it came back fairly quick, with an expected charge for service and freight. I'm sure many others have experienced this as well, for a cleaning Pure Fishing very often just replaces the reel if it's something they have in stock. Out of stock they will clean it or repair it. I've sent in $150 reels and have gotten a new replacement for a simple cleaning several times. It would seem the actual cost of the reel is cheaper than their bench time, wouldn't surprise me if that were the case.

Not a new lure but used these quite a bit this year with great success, a jigging spoon. I jig them in deepwater, troll them and cast them what I think are incredible distances, their motion reduces line twist on spinning gear. I've caught fish of all sizes and species.

Personally I wouldn't worry about repair on a sub $50 reel, but if one is a Pure Fishing product would be my choice. Any of the name brands in this price range are going to be decent performers, picking one over another is just personal preference. As mentioned size is relative to rod and line.

Recently I attempted to clean my Pflueger arbor 50, in hindsight what for the reel was perfect. I discovered I was not a reel tech and broke the clutch spring and some other part, simple fix so I take it in locally. 2 months later the reel was not fixed or even had any attention paid to it, I pick it up. Exactly 7 days from the time I mailed it to Pure Fishing the off warranty reel arrives at my home fixed and cleaned, no charge and they paid the shipping back. You gotta go some to beat this kind of service.

Much of the root problem is economics, not necessarily a blanket statement but so often in poor areas we see home sites terribly littered. Homes run down, cars on blocks or rusting out somewhere on the property, trash and garbage not tended to correctly, a simple disrespect for their own environment. This attitude transcends into our public roads, lands and water ways. It is not isolated to any one ethnic group or area of the country, it's everywhere. I've been to some really beautiful countries, the littering was terrible and often times adjacent to 5 star resorts. Some 40 years ago I took several trips into the wilderness of northern Canada, as pristine as it was a trail of beer cans was always evident. I may add there was heavy industrial machinery just rusting out, again it's economics but not from the poor. It's more cost saving to take the depreciation of the equipment than to physical move it.

Hahaha............I know a guy that knows where Hoffa is buried too.

In both the sahara and symetre the max drag is 11 in the 2500 and 15 max in the 3000, not that should make any difference.

I'd be buying the size that fits the rod the best, I wouldn't want too light a reel on heavier longer rod or too heavy on a shorter lighter rod. You should not see enough difference in casting distance on the spool sizes, the rod does the work in casting. All said it's really much todo about nothing, only thing that matters is the combo is comfortable to use.

^^Pretty darn good.^^ As for me I may never bass fish again. My season of serious bass fishing starts about 11/1 and goes about 3 months, not that I haven't been catching some nice bass but just haven't been all that excited to catch them. Yesterday I got attacked by fire ants, not the first time, and vowed never to bass fish again as I was walking home in pain cursing on the top of my lungs, lol. I may be rethinking it once the snook stop hitting, they're getting slow now, haha.

I had Boga copy, minus the scale (I don't weight fish) that worked great for holding fish. I didn't have the strap on my wrist and pretty good sized Jack swam off with it when it slipped out of my hand. Bit on the heavy and awkward side for my beach use, but for boat use it's a great tool.

I'm a braid user with only 1 exception, baits that constantly rotate 360 degrees, I can then troll out my line using mono or copoly which I do after each outing. 10# braid with 2' of shock leader works just fine for me, the braid is plenty strong, hook sets require less effort and I like the way I can work my lures.

My first post didn't survive either, I can sum it with one statement, " when the going gets tough, the tough get going". Speaking only from my own personal observations these traits are often times handed down included in our own DNA. Directions we take in life can be attributed to how we are raised from early childhood. My father was as mentally tough as any one I had ever seen, I picked it up from him. Was I as tough as him, not even close. I was raised with privilege meaning, food always on the table, warm clothes, 2 parents that nurtured me, didn't want for much and education was stressed above everything else, I was raised for success. My dad on the other hand grew up during the depression, quit school in the 8 th grade, picked up coal on the train tacks to heat their home and all kinds of odd jobs and so much more, that's pressures I never experienced, they called him 1 shirt Harry cause he owned only 1 shirt. When I whined to father about business being really poor in times of recession, he simply said and not near this delicate, "get off your fat butt, the action is out there", he was always right. I don't think motivation can be taught in school, we get it from our family.

Call them or have them send a tech out, or call Belkin. Normally having both computers select the correct gateway and dns works, but sometimes conflicts occur.

Are you saying Lady Bird Johnson and Haliburton were behind Kennedy's assassination? It's a well know fact there was no love lost between JFK and LBJ, and LBJ was on the ticket for the southern vote. To say Lady Bird was behind the demise of Kennedy so LBJ could be president is a theory I've never run across.

If you had said pulling in 10# jack cravelles on every cast, which I've done, yeh your going get tired. But if ya get tired pulling 5# bass that takes no more 60 seconds to land, one is in not very good shape. These professional bass fishermen having been catching fish since before they could walk. I doubt very seriously if they get tired and sore, they may not be athletes but their fishing muscles are in perfect shape. Landing a bass is not a major undertaking, especially with heavier rods and heavy braided lines, thick vegetation is the hardest part of it.

Wouldn't argue one way or the other about x- ship, have yet to use it. I did find the choice of reels interesting in that video, a stradic and a sustain neither of which appeared to be a bass sized reel. Only if I'm right and those reels were 4000's I would have selected a different species like permit in the flats to depict cranking power. Staying with the theme of bass I think a 2500 or smaller reel would have been more appropriate, just my opinion. I did enjoy the outstretched arms and exuberance displayed.

I don't think 30# braid will have any negative affect on a medium spinning rod, personally I use 15# braid as my max for bass fishing.

Don't remember my first but I remember my last, was this morning. 30" snook on 1/2 oz hot lips bucktail jig.