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didnt see that coming

Oh man, you just had to put that idea in his head, didn't you?

I'm always sitting and have learned to reel down, get the rod tip close to the water, and set straight up. I get a lot better hook sets this way. And, I don't fall over backwards into the water trying to do a "geronimo" hookset. LOL

TMAC worms have totally replaced all othe trick worms in my bags. I'll buy "em even if the price goes up, as long as the plastic formula and colors remain the same.

Holy Cow!!!!! Another little Raider? Lord help us. Good luck man. Hope everybody stays healthy. Post up some pics; unless he comes out with a beard and a speedo.

I have about two inches left in a bottle of Blue. It's lasted me for almost two years. A special occasion drink for me. Just brought a bottle of JW Gold Resrve home from St Thomas, duty free. Haven't tried it yet. At the end of the spring semester, my graduating students bought me a bottle of Macallan 21. Very, very smooth and tasty. A new fav that I'm very much afraid is out of my price range.

I always have these with me, unless, of course, I'm not fishing. Space Monkey / Evo Shake2 jighead Lobster / T-rigged Baby Craw / finesse jig trailer Shellcracker / Rage rigged Menace / fin-tech jighead Cut-r worm / jighead or t-rigged or weightless

Doesn't matter how you set up your reel, with #17 line and MH Veritas, you are not going to do well trying to cast light weights. To cast effectively, the rod has to flex on the back stroke. This is known as "loading" the rod. In reality, this is storing energy in the rod blank, to be released back into the bait. If the light weight bait will not load the rod, you won't be able to cast well at all. A MH Veritas is equivalent to many other manufacturers heavy power rods. Not the right tool for the job.

I have a buddy who's notorious for throwing baits into trees. I've been telling him for years that squirrels are not in season.

Spudnuts, a local delicacy, cinnamon roll type pastry, made with potato flour. A small, family owned business in Bloomington, Illinois. Out of business for a lot of years. If I had a fresh Spudnut next to a fesh Krispy Kreme, the Krispy Kreme would get stale. The Spudnuts were that much better.

The statute of limitation should indicate that you need to shut up about those events, dude.

Space is a vacuum because the whole world sucks. This is known.

Now you're infringing on my theory. Our inverse is indeed a bubble, slowly expanding, of an irrelevant size. It's NOT in a mug of beer. That would be ludicrous. It is slowly rising in an extra-temporal ocean. The Big Bang that started it all? A cosmic shark fart. That would make a nice big bubble, and plenty of turbulence to get whole thing up and running..

Far out, man. Now don't Bogart the doobage.

Resistance is futile.

Thanks a lot for the reminder, Goose. Since I posted that, I bought another Tatula rod, won a Pinnacle rod at the RoadTrip banquet, and bought a nice used TD-Z. I did sell a rod to make "room" for the new Tatula. Justification, or rationalization? I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much. The rod I won was sitting in my rod rack, without a reel. I could not allow such a state of affairs to continue, could I? A TD-Z, without a handle, popped up in the flea market, for a very good price. I had a spare TD-Z handle just laying about, gathering dust. What's a guy to do when the planets align, but cooperate with the inevitable?. I have no will power.

Uh, because I like it that way?

That pic looks like the beginning of a redneck joke; "hey, watch this" The guy's very lucky he didn't have some body parts removed. The neck on one of those things is a lot longer than you think.

I use both depending on time. A little gas weber that heats up in about 90 seconds for during the week, a Brinkmanship smoker/grill, charcoal fired, when I have more time to do it right. And a smaller charcoal grill I use just for steaks. Real, lump charcoal is a must. If you're gonna use preformed charcoal briquettes, smashed together with who knows what, you might as well douse your steaks in kerosene, and torch "em off.

Raider, in a triple-caffeine induced state of apoplexy, will go into a rant, and then implode; creating a temporal chrono-synclastic infundibulum, leaving behind a size 15 pair of flippers, a snorkel, a speedo and a full length chinchilla coat; which apparently was what he was wearing when said rant began. How the rest of us will end is up for debate.

I told you about it, that evening, but the wine was flowing, so............. LOL I did some additional testing after the RoadTrip, and my conclusions were the same. No more Tatsu for me.

I should add that it IS possible I had a couple of bad spools of line, and had I tried a couple of different spools, I may have had a completely different experience. My take on that is simple. For 50 bucks / 200 yards, there should be NO BAD SPOOLS OF LINE. I will buy no more Tatsu.

You asked for it. LOL I took eight rods with me to the 2013 Bass Resource RoadTrip. (because that's how many fit in the rod rack I've built into my Jeep) Three reels were freshly spooled with 12lb test Tatsu. I went out with Big-O my first day, and took two of the Tatsu loaded rigs, along with two others. After about 15 minutes of fishing, I noticed my line, tatsu, was shredded all along the first 18-20" up from the pegged weight. Checked my rod tip guide for damage and found none. Re-tied, same thing. Re-tied, same thing. Cut the bait off, and tied it onto a different rig with a different line. I used the same hook, same bait, same weight, same bead. No problems this time, so it was not the weight or bead causing the abrasion; it was the cover we were fishing. I tried the other rig spooled with tatsu, and had the same problem. Big-O may be able to tell you how many times I had to re-tie. I don't remember, but it was a lot. Enough so that I retired those two rods, and fished with the other two rigs the rest of the day. With no line shredding problems I might add. The other line? That no good ,useless, stretchy, non-abrasion resistant, cheap Trilene XL.

I use a Fenwick Elite Tech walleye rod for trout fishing. It works nicely because it only says walleye on the top of the rod, where the trout can't see it.

I use 4lb test Invizx for trout fishing. Other than that, I have no use for fluorocarbon line; particularly Tatsu.