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Keith, I buy all my decals from Golden Touch. I have no problems with this guy's decals, other than me getting them applied straight. No need to seal them or apply anything over them. Just put the epoxy on right over them. peel and stick lots of folks still use water slide decals, but they just give me grief. I have the jigs to do checkers, and still have a difficult time getting them even.

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Mick, I make grips for my own rods a little larger diameter than most factory rods. Having large hands, most factory grips are too small to be comfortable to me. Mike, I haven't fished the MVT seat long enough to tell, but it feels just like their textouch seat. I need to fish them side by side, but at this point I'd say there in neither a functional nor an ergonomic difference between the two. I really like the textouch seat. It what the Fuji ACS seat could have been.

Rainshadow Eternity 7'2" M-F blank

Rainshadow Eternity 6'8" M-F blank

Rage Tail Menace. Just cut off part of the body to fit.

Next time you want some pork chops, get a knife, and go kill a pig. Betcha he fights back harder than a rod and reel. LOL

A note for you about insurance. You have to include an invoice. If you send a rod, without invoice, they don't care how much insurance you paid for. They will determine what it's worth, and what they pay. I live just just south of BFE. FedEx and UPS are better than a two hour round trip, so I uses USPS. Never had problem with them, and I ship quite a few rods. The cheapest was $19, insured, to Kentucky. The highest was $54, insured to Granolaville.

Pickwick is an easy drive for you. The state park, with marina, is a fine place to stay.

I fail to see why anybody would regard trolling as evil or cheating. And, if you think it doesn't take old fashioned skill to be successful trolling, you are sadly misinformed. I don't do it for two reasons. It bores me to death. And, Ive never taken the time to learn to do it properly, probably because it bores me to death.

I'll agree with everything Mick said. I'm happy I started this, and very fortunate to have a dedicated space for a small shop. For insurance purposes, I recently put together a spreadsheet, detailing what I have in this little cabin: rods, reels, tackle and rod building stuff. The total for fishing gear didn't surprise me. The total for rod building gear did. There always seems to be something I can buy to either make it easier, or make it better. And I can't seem to resist. Beware! The shop monkey is every bit as tenacious as the bait monkey.

That makes perfect sense to me. When I go on a trip, I normally take one spinning combo, unless I'm going trout fishing. I take all spinning for that. I spooled up my extra spools with different line than the main spool. Usually one step lighter, just in case. When I took one spinning rod, I took along the correct spare spool. When I took more than one, I took along all the correct spare spools. Never used one. I stopped filling them with fresh line every year, and stopped carrying them with me.

Three of my five spinning reels have spare spools. Ive never used one. Spooled them up with fresh line every year for several years. Finally stopped doing that.

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Nice!

Clinton Lake, in central Illinois, has the most aggressive bunch of crappie cops I've ever seen. I quit fishing there twenty year ago. I was checked for license every time I fished. Every time, dozens of times per year, for about ten years. Even had the same one check me five days in a row. The final straw was my last trip to that lake. Was below the spillway. There were two others there fishing when here comes the same wing nut who had checked me five days in a row. One dude had a basket almost completely full. Mostly crappie, but several under-size bass and walleye. The crappie limit was 15, if memory serves, and he was way over that. The wingnut released all of the fish, most of which were dead, and sent him on his way, with no ticket. The other dude had no license. He was also sent on his way, with no ticket. I had a license, and no fish, but got a ticket for fishing in a restricted area. The fence marking the restricted area had been removed due to damage, and hadn't been replaced. Go figure.

Ain't it the truth!

Welcome back dude. It's been way too long. Hope to see you here frequently.

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I'll give a simple answer to the original question. Nothing!

Nice. Doesn't look like you need much help.

If it broke at the knot, it likely not the knot. Sounds like you need some practice. tie a knot, and then break it. Repeat until you feel it get stronger. Do this for every knot you use.

You can use a Palomar for all three knots of a c-rig, just start by tying the leader to the swivel. Then slide the weight and bead on the main line and tie it to the swivel. You can figure out the rest.

SCIII is where St Croix starts getting good. I would not recommend anything less from them.