fish-fighting-illini

Hey fishing P any chance you could take the 13 yr old old w/o the dad on occasion? That way at least the kid gets a taste of fishing. You wouldn't want to undermine the buddy of course, but maybe this would take the pressure off of everyone.

I figured this would be a 5 post and out topic. It has turned out to be quite informative. I'm not 100% sure on how to reply. Marriage is a partnership and thus a 2 way street. It is only common courtesy and common sense that everyone respects the partnership. From the posts it appears that " the partnership " is different for everyone. Much like the Shimano, Diaw, Pflueger & Abu preference their is no one patented answer everyone is different. I also have seen on many many occasions how something reads in print comes accross quite differently than the spoken word in person. On that note I have a buddy that I fish with a lot. Every time I ask him if he wants to go I always here in the background " is it ok if I go fishing with Matt". It bugs the crap out of me and it shouldn't as she has never ever said no. Its a matter of semantics really, maybe I'm just finicky or a little odd! LOL I run it by my wife and my fishing crave is pushing the envelope in recent years. With 6 women and 3 of them teenagers in the house, and a still fairly recent job setback I must fish to survive. It is kind like blue collar "yoga " if you will. If I ever thought my spuse "required " me to have her permission I'd have a lawyer arrange the permanent permission. Bottom line: to each his own FFI AKA - Matt Crum

LBH, she's pretty active in her own right. She plays softball and bunko regularly and does the annual trip with her girlfriends, but these are just hobbies, my fishing is closer to an obsession. We meet the great the one and only Daniel ( whatever it is this week ) in person ( ok in print ) in the flesh. Not to mention the wonderful spouse!

Mkae sure he lets you play with some of his kid's toys. I saw some pictures a while back and they were awesome! Have fun, be safe, say hello to Raul in person for the rest of us

when people expect to sell a boat or something too large to ship in the flea market but don't post where they live? Just a pet peeve of mine I feel better

First of all Andrew welcome to the forums. In answer to your question yes that might be a decent reason to use braid. Another along the same thinking is to get the fish out of the heavy weeds quick to keep them from getting all tangled up. The braid can come at a price though as it is not avail in clear so fish can possibly see it easier. I've used Spiderwire some but it seemed to unravel after time. The color also seems to fade fairly easy. I look at Power pro ( have not used it ) and it seems to almost have the same texture but I could be wrong about it. What I like the best is Stren Braid as it is round and seems to cast the best for me. It doesn't give me any problems. If you are using a baitcaster another option is a non braid Yo-zuri hybrid ( Yo-zuri ultrasoft for spinniing ) as it is virt clear and has a very small diameter for lb rating. It's spec also list a MUCH higher breaking point that the lb rating of the line ex 6lb line might not break till 12lbs. Thus you could use maybe 15lb test and still pull out of weeds. I don't have a lot of experience with this line I plan to use it more this summer.

LOL I thought it was an exclusive only deal. Whatever makes people happy is what's best!

Saw some info in another thread and didn't want to hi-jack it so... Burley and a Pflueger? :-? No wonder you were gone for a while it took you that long to recover from the Shimano fever!

x 2 plus its a way to make light of our fishing " addiction " which gets " the monkey off your back " a little ( pun intended )

The LPGA tour? Tin, Have you ever seen Natilie Gilbus (sp?) and a couple of others model? That is not boring. Ok as a true sport it is but as a "spectator" aka old guy watch and drool sport, it is not boring! LOL

Good one Robert that is a classic!

Absolutely hated soccer until I played it. Then and to this day I love it. I don't follow certain teams per se but I'll flip it on and watch a game ( match ). I didn't start to play untill I was around 30 and haven't for a while! 1st team I was on we had 2 Nicaraguan illegal aliens on it. You could just about stand still smoking a cigar and drinking a beer in front of the goal. One of the 2 "real" soccer guys would dribble around the 32 other guys on the floor ( indoor) and send a perfect centering pass for you to kick in LOL! Man they were fun to watch!

Hmmm! First no sign of him now looking at other threads you can't shut him up! To all of those who preferred it the other way I apologize. Just kiddin Burley welcome back. If your wife liked it better the other way tell them it was RW's idea to get active again! LOL

how about Shimppro or Line-guru

I may not be a drummer but have been in jazz in the past. All I can say is holy crap! That kid is good and needs to be on Leno / Letterman ASAP You'd think the low volume stuff would be really hard with the headphones on.

Yep donovan took some hits but gotta give him credit he just kept getting up and making plays. I just thought Wisconsin's O-line dominated most of the time that I watched. Give credit to Tenn though they would bend but would not break and kept Wi out of the end zone.

Apparently pretty well?? Go big ten

You can't have this many redneck winners in one day! God I hope not anyway LOL Never knew about the hookem down in you other thread, pretty funny. I just always figured you were a Texas fan! oops!

I'm not sure about the Steez and the MBR but all the rest were fairly easy to come buy IMOP. The $99 Avids Reeds had ( mentioned on this site) was shipped to your door. Citica's are on this site and e-bay regularly. Just need to watch the flee market and e-bay. Beginning of November seemed to be a hot time for E-bay. Might watch again shortly after the holiday after x-mas settles down. P>S> Dhark keep that monkey away from me so with you is just fine. This year I've bought 1 BPS qualifier so so rod ebay $30 shipped 2 BPS qualifier so so BC reel used ebay $25 shipped 3 Pflueger Medalist spin reel brand new ebay $38 shipped 4 Pflueger President spin reel brand new ebay $35 + ship 5 Shimano Citica BC used on forum $50 shipped 6 Shimano Symetre spin $55? shipped brand new ebay 7 BPS Extreme BC rod $50 used from forum shipped to my door 8 St Croix Avid spin $99 shipped from Reeds 9 Fenwick HMG $59 brand new + tax local

I'm not sure the best team won but the team that scored the most points did. I just thought this was a heck of a fun ball game to watch! I watched through most of the 7-7 and when I turned it back on Tenn was up 21-7 not sure what happened during that time. I had some gaps in my watching but everytime I watched WI was killing them over RT or RG. Tenn didn't break though when it counted as Wi didn't score for a long time.

Maybe the best advice so far

I love to fish and the fight of the fish and I've been a fan of the Illinois Fighting Illini for 40+ years. Fig'd it would tell where I'm from at the same time FFI AKA - Matt Crum

The big problem that I see is that I happen to like carrots. If these rods really catch on a bag of carrots will go up to $12 / bag!! lol OUCH!!

Good thinkin never though of that kind of stuff add a fishfinder that has GPS to my list how could I miss that add a Cardinal spinning reel too as I have a feeling they might be underated. a boat with more than 15hp