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Lake George by a long shot Lake George offers good bass fishing around its entire perimeter as well as the St Johns River north & south of the lake. Three notable sites along the west coast of Lake George are Salt Springs Run, Silver Glen Run and Juniper Creek. Also excellent is Ninemile Point on the eastern shore. The St Johns River north of Lake George (downstream) is renowned bass water from Georgetown through Palatka to Green Cove Springs. Roger

A Dink is a sub-legal bass; but there's a large white space between Dink and Toad. A Runt is a bass that's shorter than the lure Roger

In my opinion, BPS lost the ball to Tackle Warehouse about 3 years back. With today's exorbitant shipping costs, one-stop shopping is where it's at. BPS does not inventory many of my favorite lures and has dropped many that they once carried (this hurts BPS, not the consumer). Roger

We're located midway between Raul & Gene...and luvin it Roger

Just found this post. Nice going fellows, breaking 9 lbs during a cold-front is over the top Roger

We've done lots of chain-chasing in New Jersey. If you're serious about catching a trophy chain pickerel, I know of no lure better than a jig & dead minnow. The minnow can be any species: a chub, sucker, shiner, saltwater killy....all a pickerel asks is that it's fresh. A good delivery is a slow bottom drag with occasional twitches. Pickerel will hit virtually any artificial lure, but all artificial lures are not equally effective (big difference there). Our best artificial lures were various forms of spinner & fly and spinner & bucktail combinations, (Think miniature musky lure). Roger

If you like a nose-down fall, you might take a peek at the Jackall TN/70. It has tungsten weighted lips that get it to depth quickly and keep it upright even on the bottom (like a Spro). It also has a fast, tight, shad-like wiggle and loud rattles. The low note is price Roger

Great story. To that you might add, Dean Rojas came to Florida one day and set the BASS 1-day stringer in 'your' backyard (Shingle Creek) Roger

Therein lies the value of a forum, it teaches us that the differences aren't as great as we might think Roger

I've always had a keen interest in the sciences, and was quite young when I learned of man's relative insignificance in the cosmos, but this gave me a sense of power rather than a feeling of insignificance (knowledge is power). I entered this thread with what I believed were thought-provoking questions regarding the size & shape of infinity. Quite frankly, I don't even know what disagreement you're alluding to, but I do know the covenants in this forum. You may have the last word Roger

Welcome aboard South Basser. I have no experience with Lews reels, but see no reason why a line-burrowing incident should damage your reel. I suspect it's something simple that can be remedied by resetting the spool tension, magnetic and/or centrifugal drags. One other thing, did you lose a lot of line during the break-off? If so, that in itself can reduce your casting distance. Roger

The universe isn't a byproduct of man, but man and the marvels of life are byproducts of the universe. The universe doesn't owe man any explanation or even recognition, where it's mankind has the burden of knowledge. One thing is unarguable, the universe preceded man and the universe shall succeed man (all planets & stars ultimately die). It's unlikely that man's absence will even be noticed by the universe. This brings me full circle to the same unanswered questions: > What is the shape of the entire universe? > What do we call the space that lies outside the universe? > What's does something that extends without bounds look like? (what's the universe sitting in? - what's outside of nothing?) Roger

You're not paranoid, just observant. I remember the first rod I bought that was fitted with wrap-resistant guides. I was about to bend the guide frame to get the insert perpendicular to the rod. Then I noticed about a half-dozen other guides with the same forward slant Roger

I enjoy working soft-plastics more than winding plugs, but there are many times when catching bass on a lipless crank can be as easy as taking candy from a baby. For this reason, I always have a lipless plug tied-on and ready to go. In years gone by I threw a slew of different brands, sizes & colors. But since I use them cheifly for aggressive fish, I've found that I do just as well with one brand, one size & one color. For many years my staple crank plug has been the Spro Aruku Shad (a super crank), but now I'm using the Jackall TN/70 exclusively. Roger

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Most are too young to remember, but New Jersey set "TWO" world-world pickerel, the first one in Green Pond, then it broke its own record with a pickerel from Lower Aetna Lake (Medford Lakes). During that time, a statewide poll found the eastern chain pickerel to be the state's most popular gamefish. The best pickerel fisheries in that era were Green Pond, Lower Aetna Lake, Wading River, Mullica River and smaller waters like Bamber Lake, Chatsworth Lake and Double Trouble. Roger

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To help wash down my lunch, I always take along a liter of gin. It definitely helps my fishing, in fact I can't remember the last time I got skunked (jk) Roger

Out of curiosity, what role does the swivel play when fishing a fluke?

You're loaded for bear Good luck on the water

"Yes, I believe that red hooks do catch more". I'm paraphrasing a hook salesman of course Roger

The best jighead to use really depends on the cover you're dealing with and whether you're fishing the bait as a subsurface, mid-depth or bottom lure. For example, an exposed-hook jighead wouldn't travel 10 ft in the cover we fish. Roger

As K-Mac pointed out, we're moving in several directions at once while fast asleep. The rotation of the earth (day), earth revolution (year), solar system orbit, galactic circuit & the cosmos through space. When we take one step, we're moving in at least 6 directions at once. As a kid I was big on astronomy (when Palomar was an observatory, not a knot). The last slide in that zoom-out series reignited my most bewildering question. You'll notice that the "universe" in the last image never ends, but extends to all sides of the image border. So what does the end look like? How can the universe possibly end? How can the universe NOT end? Let's pretend the outer limits of the universe was a mile-wide rock wall. Fine, but what lies on the other side of that wall, and what lies beyond that, etc, etc, etc. Dad was little help, and told me that the answer is beyond man's comprehension, I'm afraid he was right Roger

I used to purchase Slider worms & Slider grubs direct from Charlie himself (he passed in year 2000 I believe). His book "Slider Fishin" is a good read, which explains Charlie's 'Do Nothing' technique. Roger