SirSnookalot

Somewhere I had heard snook and tarpon do not reproduce in freshwater, don't know if true or not. Where I live in Palm Beach Country I have not run across "freshies", there is elevation in the spillway gates. To my surprise I have seen quite a few times needle fish making their way into freshwater canals. We also have freshwater spillways with elevation, since the freeze I cannot catch a peacock bass west of these spillways.

Energy dragged the stock market down yesterday, hope not a trend starting. My preference would be higher gas and higher equity markets. Too low gas prices make me nervous.

Never have seen mullet in a landlocked pond, but in brackish canals...........yes. Curious as to the tarpon like fish, only thing that comes to mind is a barramudi but they are not native. I understand they have been stocked in some ponds, haven't seen one up close and personal.

WPB is known for monster jacks, I can personally attest to that, but we are in winter mode now and not a lot going on in the salt. Don't know where in WPB you are, but most of the canals and ponds hold some pretty good bass. Haven't seen a snakehead north of Palmetto rd, peacocks for the most part are further south too.

If only 1 person had a side effect it's listed, can be scary but it's a good thing, even a simple aspirin has side effects. As important as the side effect from a particular drug is the interaction of several drugs. I take diabetic medication, d**n glad I do. Pretty happy my wife took coumadin, if not she may not be my wife today.

A good fish story, I'd need to see the video on that one.

I always fan cast from shore whether it's in the surf or freshwater fishing. Too many variables to follow a set script of how many casts to a certain spot or how long a time I devote in an area before moving.

Send it into Quantum, excellent customer service and fast.

Performance wise the rod will be just fine. If it bothers you send it back, if possible I would probably take it to a local shop to have it straightened. I personally try to avoid buying a sight un seen rod on line but I have done it. I've had rods delivered that were broken but never guide issues.

Graphite comes from carbon, the same element diamonds come from. Graphite is used to reinforce a very large array of manufactured products. It's light, has a high degree of strength and stiffness, withstands a wide range of temperatures and doesn't rust. The internals of a reel is what really matters. Graphite sideplates should have no effect on the performance of any reel, the sideplates don't really get much pressure on them anyway. Shimano uses graphite on the side plates of some of their spinning reels, they work beautifully. A Shimano TLD is all graphite and one of the real workhorses of offshore fishing, not the smoothest as the internals are not the same as some of the more expensive models.

The only statistic that matters is team wins, personal accomplishments don't mean jack. Barry Sanders ran for 15000 yards in 10 years and never got close to the big show, had he been with a complete team it could have been different for him. I think we have already seen the SB played, when it's played for real it will be on a neutral field, GB v NE.

I've been "finned" a number of times. We have small fish here called a skip jack, get finned and the area blows up like a balloon.

Your thumbnail or pen knife work fine, but a split ring pliers is a better way to go especially if you get into some heavier split rings. There are very few lures where I change the hooks beforehand, stock ones work well for me. When I do replace it's either 3x or 4x hooks, no problem with Eagle Claw. My saltwater replacement are VMC 4x, they still rust but not as fast.

This is the reason I use a Bristol knot which is identical to an Alberto except the leader is wrapped over the braid.

Blue runners are in the jack family along with amber jack, crevalles, pompano, moonfish, rainbow runners and giant trevally. They each give a really good fight, these blue runners usually are small but we do catch them up to 5#, bigger than that off shore sometimes.

I don't use bait and floats (they don't call them bobbers any more?), my tackle box is a Rapala package with an extra lure in it.

Went out specifically targeting peacocks, did manage to catch one. I kept getting tapped like a pea on a bed, finally I hooked it and had never seen this fish before. Called a Black Acaria.

That's the coolest thing I've seen in ages.

If I was jonesing for bass real bad I'd be using a senko, easy to fish, produces well and no real wrong way to fish it.

I probably wouldn't change anything, although I don't use anything heavier than 15# braid for bass fishing. I'm big proponnet of using a leader with my braid, in all honesty I don't think it's really needed for bass. Many examples but my latest happened a few days ago, broke my leader off on snag. Instead of going back to my car for a fresh leader I just tied my jerkbait on my braid and continued fishing. The hook setting was no problem, the fish didn't mind.

Without a doubt. Down here we have mayan cichlids, small fish but ounce for ounce IMO outfight a peacock. As awsome as they are for their size in saltwater there are small fish like a blue runners that will give you all you can handle. Even a 1 pounder in the surf would be a heck of task on ml spinning outfit. I know better to fish that light for them.

Go on pier some time, you will know what a Googan is.

I do own a Cuban YoYo reel..........lol

There is more to the price of gas than the fluctuation of crude oil futures, unleaded gas futures too. Being in the scrap business basically I was a commodity trader, not buying and selling futures and options but the physical commodities like copper for example. These other commodities rise and fall just like oil does. There are other variables in operating a business that are either fixed costs or always rising. Labor, insurance, property taxes to name a few are expenses that generally rise year by year. These costs are driven by their own markets with no correlation to the commodity price. There does come a point when it costs more to pull something out the ground than it can be sold for. A case in point I remember well was 1974, the price of copper was so low that mines were laying off people some even shut down, the year prior to that copper was at at all time high. When dealing with large oil companies, commodity speculators and many aspects so over my head to comprehend, I couldn't possibly compute the price of gas based on just the crude price. Enjoy it now as it will rise again one day, it always does. Just hoping our good fortune at the present time does not cause economic problems in the future.

They do use them here, usually bait fishing but sometimes with spoons. Thought this was cool, guy using one with a surgical tube.