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It depends on what vintage that reel is. You can tell by looking at the number stamped into the bottom of the reelfoot. The older ones might be as low as 3.8:1, 4.7:1 or up to 5.3:1 for a newer model. If it's in good shape those 2500C's fetch pretty decent dollars on Ebay.

Yep, who needs more of this? I DO!

I'm using an Extreme ETX05 on my jerk bait rod this year. Nice feel to the reel, sorta finesse like. Looking forward to using it and some Pro Qualifiers I bought. I haven't used a BPS reel in years so this is a major experimentation for me.

I've been thinking about cindy Garrison all day since reading this thread this morning. Gotta think about something else......hmmm....baseball.....

Well, I agree with the talent and physical beating they take but driving a stick is actually pretty easy. Those cars are not stick shift cars though, they have an electronic gear box, shifting is done with buttons on the wheel. Most of those cars have paddle shifters mounted on the steering shafts so the driver need only flick it with his fingers so he doesn't have to take his hand off the wheel. He still has to clutch the thing though. See that? I learn somthing every day! So how does the paddle work? It isn't a "mechanical" connection to like, the linkage is it? I always assumed it was all electronic, up shifting on one side, down on the other. The paddle makes alot of sense. Are F1 cars the same? This is originally the car I had in mind. * I know Cart7 would chirp in to correct any misconceptions and sure enough,....right on cue... Electromechanical and in F1's case, the transmission is operated by hydraulics as is much of the operating components on the car. Both F1 and WRC use the shifters. IIRC, BMW had them available on the M series line starting with the M4.

Well, I agree with the talent and physical beating they take but driving a stick is actually pretty easy. Those cars are not stick shift cars though, they have an electronic gear box, shifting is done with buttons on the wheel. Most of those cars have paddle shifters mounted on the steering shafts so the driver need only flick it with his fingers so he doesn't have to take his hand off the wheel. He still has to clutch the thing though.

World Rally Drivers are argueably the best drivers in the world. As you saw from the video, it takes cat like reflexes and you've got to be thinking several hundred yards down the road to go that fast. Miss a turn and you go off a cliff. Makes oval racing downright boring.

Yes, just what we need, more Roland Martin and less Cindy Garrison. I imagine if the gals on the womans BASS tour looked more like Cindy we'd see ALOT more coverage of that tour. ;D BTW, I have no problem watching Cindy's show. I could care less about the content, I'm usually drifting off visualizing her in the boat with me on the water, with her in one of those great bikini's she's got and that half hour is over way too fast.

The Lindners and Stange all grew out of the old Fishing Facts magazine. The Lindners, basically contributing writers to Fishing Facts, struck out on their own with the in-fishermen series. Stange bought them out. Spence Petros, one of the editors of the old Fishing Facts magazine turned that mag into the North American Fishing club. Anglers edge is still on the air. Pretty good show, keys mostly on Northern lake and river fishing.

Missouri has already documented a hybridized version of the LM/Spotted bass in Table Rock lake. I did a little googling and KY has indicated they've seen the same cross breeding between the LM and SM with spotted bass.

Astroglass became Astro when the Brunswick (Mercury folks) bought them out. They were bought from Maidencraft who also made Procraft. Brunswick dropped the glass part off the name and eventually the whole brand. Look for soft spots in the floor, motor mounting bolts sunk into the transom, rust eminating from the motor bolts, get up on the cavitation plate of the motor and bounce it real good, you should see no flex in the transom. The Astroglass/Procrafts of that era and earlier were pretty bad for bad transoms and stringer systems.

At a time when the number of kids entering the sport is on the decline, I'm all for anything that might get them interested in the sport. The gun deal is completely hokey and it's not that surprising Roland would try and hawk the thing.

A friends cousin bought a used pleasure boat a number of years ago from a local dealership. On his first trip out, he took off from the ramp and had barely gotten several hundred yards away when smoke began pouring out from under the I/O engine cover. Another boater and I came running with fire extinguishers in hand. Blown head gasket it turns out. The dealer fixed it, for a small fee and then that boat proceded to break down on him numerous times on the water after that. Some dealers check 'em over good, some don't. Their reputation usually precedes them.

Sage advice from 2 posters who know how to "just go for it".

Couple questions Mike. $15k for all those lights, or is that per light? If that's the total for the whole project I can't believe you couldn't get someone like BPS involved in helping in the funding. 2nd question, as cool as it looks and as great as the potential fishing might be, I wonder about the safety of it. Those piers will be extremely popular places to fish, especially during the summer months at night. I can think of a couple lakes here in Missouri that those lights would work great on but I'd never want to be fishing under them at night on the weekends due to the possibility of drunken, summertime, night cruisin pleasure boaters hitting me. LOZ and Tablerock are the two lakes in specific I'm talking about. Good luck on the project.

I use backing on almost all my reels. I buy a spool or two of el-cheapo shakespeare line at Walmart for about a buck or two and half fill the spool and then use the premium line for the rest. I get quite a few reel fills out of one spool of premo line and I can change out line midseason without it costing me a ton.

I used to think 14lb line was the only way to go on a reel. Nowadays, I spool up with mostly 12 with quite a few rods with 10. I suppose if I was fishing clearer lakes I'd probably see a bigger difference in catch rates.

Chart/White for me, I'll mix the blades up.

Looks like a chatterbait with a piece of frog shaped plastic... Using that concept you could have a chatter crawdad, chatter lizard, chatter sweet beaver, chatter Senko, etc.

The original Rebel Deep Wee R's, also the Super R. Buzzin Rex spoon Original Lunker Lure Wooden Spence Scouts Older Devils Horses Original Storm Wiggle Warts Fliptail worms Ditto Gator Tail worms Just to name a few.

If you can't surf the web or check your email with it while you're at the lake, I'd say forget it.

Replace it with a cable control motor. That should fix the problem.

Here's a great example. If you took one of the new Shelby GT Mustangs or even a new Ford GT, stock, out for a weekend of road racing you'd melt the brakes off of it before the weekend was over and you're tires would be shot. Those cars are more than equipped to run off the showroom floor on the street or even some very light racing but would not be prepared for serious, competition racing unless new brakes, suspension mods and adjustments and transmission mods were made.

I use two of these which I cram all of this into The antique Icebox is full of soft plastics and misc junk. and then, it all goes into this

Shimano Citica Garcia Revo S Pflueger President BPS JM reel, you can find bargains on ebay with these. BPS Extreme ETX10, great bang for the buck.