Basswhippa

Kick him in the nuts then push him in the water.

Sounds like a fun time creating a memory of a lifetime!

I would probably send it in to Lews for replacement of the defective one you bought and then from now on get yourself a Shimano.

To the OP, after ignoring your dad, well, "It's what you get"! To all you others who get sick, it's all in your mind. It's psychological. Not real, as evidenced in the prior post. One person smells the puke from someone who is legitimately sick from a virus or something and then others start puking. JUST KIDDING I get sick myself on big water. My great uncle was in the Battle of the Coral Sea. He told me that he sucked sweet pickles and ate crackers for two weeks as he suffered from sea sickness in the huge swells of the Pacific and was told that would help cure it. Once he did that for about two weeks, he said "I got my sea legs" and never had a problem. I take that is that after a while, you will get your equilibrium. He was awarded metals from pulling so many people out of the water after the Japanese sunk one of our destroyers. Hard to believe there are people walking around still that fought Japanese while others of us, including me, love their craftsmanship. We treated them well after the war and they are our best Asian ally. Says a lot how to treat people.

Guessing here, but I would say around $4,000. That is with a borrowed boat from my dad. I have a 14 year old who is highly skilled and thinks little about grabbing $5 Hack Attack jigs and $7 spinnerbaits, whether he or I pay for them. It is usually me paying though. I figure I have him for just a few more years in the house and if his portion of the cost is $2,000 in total, that is cheap insurance on keeping him out of trouble and serves as an incentive for him to do well in school and get a high paying career. He recognizes how much things costs and normally buys his own rods, reels and quite a few of his lures. One day we were filling up the boat and truck and a beater truck pulled in and put 1 gallon of gas in his truck and then buzzed off. He couldn't figure why someone would do that. I told him "because he's broke". We are two hours from Guntersville so we figure if we spend a night or two in a one star hotel, we will save truck gas. The sweet spot for us seems to be two nights at the hotel = three days of fishing. We save about 30 or 35% that way, so the third day costs nothing, not to mention the savings of wear and tear on the truck. One trip to and from the lake vs three trips is gas/truck wear savings. Just have to allocate the days.

I hear they aren't bad as far as throw away reels go. Use it til the plastic clutch breaks then buy another.

Bad info. The ever popular C series are still made in Sweden. The Revos. Korea. The BCX is the only one made in China that I am aware of. The C's are a real value reel.

Ya'll quit lying to a CA fellow and tell the truth. Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, the Dakotas are where it's at!

14 YO son just caught and released his PB and it is being mounted at Lake Fork Taxidermy. This was just last Saturday, and it weighed 8.35 pounds, length 24.5". I could not be more proud. Depth - 6' estimated Lure/Hinge 3/4 ounce double willowleaf SB Color -- Shad White with no trailer Moon phase - within 3 days of new moon. One has to remember when Doug Hannon wrote this that a lot of people were preaching "you have to fish deep structure to succeed". He basically said all things being equal, the bass is a shallow water sunfish and that is where you will find them, again all things equal. It is relative and the bass is highly adaptive. Their comfort zone is making short bursts to kill and eat meal expending the least effort as possible. Where better than sitting behind a shallow stump or log waiting for a bluegill or shad to come by? If you take away the deep man made lakes and focused on natural lakes and riverrun lakes, you will see what he says is mostly true and even if you add the deep lakes, it still is mostly true.

Do you and your bass fishing buddies a favor and inflict fatal injuries on any bass you catch before releasing them if you want larger bass. With so much competition for forage the forage is wiped out. A few that are lucky grow large enough to forage on the small bass and there will be. few giants to be sure. Your only hope is using large lures to keep all the little bass from striking before the big ones can. Normally a lake like this has giant bluegill. MN has some screwed up lake managers.

Flyfisher if it makes you feel better I know plenty of rh people who reel baitcaster with their RH and reel spinning reels with their right as well. Just the way it is. Interesting topic. Maybe a physical therapist or doctor can explain. Maybe even a psychologist. Lol

I can pitch and cast right or left. I am right hand dominate. To me casting right and holding rod in my left hand makes it easier to fish a long day.

It is a conspiracy perp'd by Zebco when they invented the right handed Zebco 202 that most people start with when they are toddlers.

Discriminated against.... Harsh words. Demand is why. They don't work for the vast majority so they do not sell so they are bit built.

Thanks Bama!

I remembet when 4.7 was high speed. I am mid fourties.

My family vacation was planned for this week. My wife and I have taken off work. We were driving to the Grand Canyon and to Wyoming, back through the Badlands back home on a 12 day trek. It was to be our longest trip and we are seeing our 18 year old daughter off to college. It was going to be special. Friday morning my mother in law was put into critical care and is in a medically induced coma. We were supposed to leave Friday night. We still have hopes that she will come to and we will fly out, bypassing Grand Canyon and heading directly to Wyoming, but I kind of doubt it can be salvaged. Scenerio, after spending three days at the hospital, my wife said you might want to take our son fishing. We fished Guntersville some over the spring, fishing around Goose Pond and we can be to the hospital in Nashville in 3 hours in an emergency. Problem/question, with all the high and presumably muddy water (up to 16 " of rain in up lake in east TN), if we get to even go, which area of the lake should we fish to have a decent opportunity? Again, normally we fish the river channel and North Sauty around Goose Pond. I am slightly familiar with Seibold and somewhat familiar Browns Creek. Which area of the lake would you go to fish and get away from the mud and rough current/debris and salvage a vacation. I think I can figure this stuff out, but it will take at least a precious two days. Thanks for your help.

Interesting!

Interesting!

War Eagle, what do you mean by "connected feel" as opposed to smooth? I have never heard of this. I find it to be an interesting concept. Is a smooth retrieve not as conected? Thanks!

I am speaking of retrieval smoothness only. War eagle. What do you mean by "connected feel". Retrieval smoothness is everything. Of my family's five citica E one is as smooth as curado b's, two are close, one is geary, rougher than any 15 year old curado b I have and one is a coffee grinder, even after never been abused and serviced by Shimano. My son had one citica e and two curado e 7's. I let him use my roughesy curado b and he was stunned how smooth the retrieval is compared two his e's. Personall I think it has to do with reel mass/weight.

The E's don't compare to the old B's in terms of smoothness and long term low maintenance. I own em all. I'm betting the new Chronarch CI4 won't be as good as the old 100A's and SF's in terms of retrieval smoothness.. JMO

20 pound braid on a baitcaster? I would think it is to small in diameter. I could be wrong but start at 40lb and go up from there. Braid won't hurt your setup BTW.

I added the driveshaft bearing. Nobody with any Curado ever made nor a Chronarch 200E will beat me because of the reel. It is comparable in every way that matters. Some think the Citica handle is even superior, due to simplicity and lack of maintenance of the bearing in the handle.

Dont be so sure you will catch it again. .. even ib a pond.