Bluebasser86

I was just going to suggest some cheap mono until you get a feel for it. Braid will still cast differently when you do switch over so be ready for that.

Baitfish don't get darker in dirty water. If anything they get lighter. I'm typically imitating a baitfish with my hardbaits, so I stick to the usual colors. Crawfish patterns are different, but those colors I change more by time of year than I do water color.

The town I live in doesn't allow boats in the driveway but you can park them in the grass on the side of your house or behind the house. You can't put gravel down because it's against code but you can pave it. I had my boat parked in the driveway for 3 years before they decided to make it an issue. There's not enough room between the houses to even park my boat without being on the neighbor's yard, and the idiots who build 3/4 of the houses in town made the garages so small that anything other than a compact doesn't fit (my wife's Nissan Altima was such a tight fit she had to walk around the car before she shut the garage door or she wouldn't be able to get inside). It's a smaller town and there's lots of outdoorsmen here, so I made a presentation, asked as many people as possible to come to the city hall meeting. I went and spoke at city hall and had a bunch of information and research as to why it's a ridiculous rule. Myself and a couple others got exemptions and the code was suspended until it could be further discussed. When the city council took a vote on it, they ended up changing it from no boats or trailers, to allowing up to 2 boats or trailers in a driveway. There's lots of restrictions as to what is within the guidelines to prevent huge yachts, or broken down boats or RV's from rotting in someone's driveway, but a majority of halfway decent fishing boats are within the new code, so it was a mission accomplished.

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Not the fish I was hoping for, but watching a big channel cat eat a bladed jig next to the boat is still pretty cool!

I used big dog ticks when I was little to catch sunfish and creek chubs. There's not much a sunfish won't eat.

I like the show, I have no problems with any of it. It's one of the few I like enough to DVR.

I've never felt a need for a trailer hook on a jig, day or night. If I'm missing fish on a jig, small fish are almost always the cause and I don't really care to catch them anyways. I have the opposite problem of fish missing the jig at night. Usually when I get a jig bite at night, it ends up looking like this.

I night fish a lot, never needed a trailer hook. It would be a nightmare to fish that through the weeds and trees I fish. A bass' other senses take over for their loss of vision at night, similar to bass that live in dirty water.

Twitch it moving the rod tip down and make sure to allow the line to go slack as soon as you move it so it has the freedom to glide. It walks very easily.

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Yeah, that's why they inserts

I have a Diawa Lexa 4.9:1 I'll sell you really cheap. I bought it new and got about half a dozen trips before it started making an awful noise and grinding to a stop on the cast. It looks perfect on the outside, just does that about every 10 cast or so

I don't do anything with my TRD's, just fish them. The fish do plenty of rubbing and stretching I'm not worried if mine float, they rarely hit the bottom or stop moving anyways. The Power Minnow was my original Ned Rig before I knew what a Ned Rig was

They're good baits. Becoming a big fan of the fighting frog.

If you're talking about the black reel next to the 70 XG in my picture, it's a a Scorpion HG, which is a JDM Curado like kickerfish said.

I was there, got to grab the fish, it was a sweet fish catch.

St. Croix has the Triumph X on sale for $60 with free shipping on the website right now.

BPS Pro Qualifier is a good option for half that when they're on sale.

Only thing I change when it starts raining is changing into my rain gear. Their taste don't change because it's raining. They will get more active a lot of the time though, so you can usually get a bite going on moving baits.

Sort of.

I would suggest at least a 7'. Don't want it too long because it becomes clumsy and unwieldy when you're trying to walk the frog, but a few extra inches will give you more lift to keep a big fish's head over the vegetation.

You could, but I wouldn't. I don't like leaders on casting gear. I'm either going straight braid, or straight fluoro. That leader knot is just one more thing to fail and the high impact and abrasion from hooksets with heavy gear and dragging across cover almost ensures it will eventually. Plus, as often as you'll need to retie your leader, that's going to be a real pain.

And a pack of TRD's will still outlast them by a long shot.