Bankbeater

Around here fishing with no hooks is called letting the fish learn the bait.

Sound almost like some of my fishing trips. At the end of the day, you're glad to be back safe on dry land.

Sometimes, if you are casting around brush, a small limber tree branch will get caught between the lip and the line tie, It sort of feels like a fish pulling back on the bait until you clear the branch and the crankbait comes free.

Every spinning reel I have ever owned or used has had an a/r switch. The only time I have used it was when I accidentally flipped it without knowing it. I'm actually looking forward to trying a reel without a switch.

My dad and my grandpa each had 2 Zebco 33s. One of my dad's reels went into the drink, and the other one wore out after about 35 years. One of my grandpa's reels eventually broke, but I have his last one down in a drawer. It was my daughter's first reel.

Just sick.

Welcome to the forums.

I fish red and orange when the water is murky also. It doesn't matter what time of year.

Get better and do what the doctors and physical therapists tell you.

First off Congrats!! I wouldn't leave that outside. You're liable to come out one day and find it missing and the contents dumped out on the ground.

A Palomar knot or a Uni knot for me. Palomar for jigs and hooks and the Uni knot for spinnerbaits, and moving baits.

Rooster tail, small marabou jig, or a live worm under a floater.

This time of year I'm happy if there is no ice and it's warm enough to wet a line.

I used to handwrite all of my logs then some years back I transferred them all to an Excel spreadsheet. It was a little labor intensive, but once the spreadsheets were built it was smooth sailing.

I'll be using a Zoom finesse worm, trick worm, or a Creme 6" Scoundrel. I'll be fishing them weightless or on a split shot rig.

That's how it's done!

I grew up fishing. I stopped fishing in the late 80's after I graduated college. Work and family filled my time. My dad was able to drag me out on the water maybe once or twice a year and that was it. In the early 2000's a BPS opened up near my house and that was big news. Some guys at work were talking about it and I stopped in one day just to take a look around to see what the hype was about. Walking through the fishing aisles jumpstarted my urge to get back out on the water again, and I've been fishing ever since.

The story says the pond was in Alabama. Don't they have gators down that way?

I've been keeping logs for years. I record every trip even if I didn't get a bite.

A cold front came through Friday night. So my trip on Saturday was on the chilly side

Found a Rapala Shadow Rap and what I think is a Strike King KVD Jerkbait. They were right on top of each other over at the lower end of the dam.

The Cordell Big-O comes in a 1/4 oz size. I use a ml or ul for casting that, depending on where I am fishing.

Bomber Cotton Cordell Strike King Bandit

That is some car parking skill right there.

I have prescription glasses with everything you have mentioned except the longer arms. The transition lenses turn extremely dark so even with them being polarized it is hard to see into the water. You may also want to ask about the material the lenses are made out of. My lenses are plastic and tend to expand in the heat.