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Catt I am in N Y. Cool all summer compared to the Good Ole Boys in Lake Charles, La. A pocket of shallow back water might reach 85 on a very hot day. So your bass do the night shift. The LM have big laterial lines for sensing baitfish & crawdads

Do people still test drive a boat anymore ?

Since I fish local waters I do use the U L almost all the time from a river bank. Some of the =15 POUND CARP & CHANNEL cat have opened up a fishing tackle shop with my lost struff

This has been a great topic. There are several fish that are just cooked & have no flavor. Need seasonings & spices to make them edible. Farm raised fish & some GMO are kind of bland. They are raised for profit & very long shelf life. Flavor is the first thing eliminated in modern food. Season it to death. Modern apples sold in chain stores in the north east stores have almost no flavor. But they are kept in giant buildings for years refrigerated.

Love the use. Makes total sense.

Fish-fighting. Who died & put you in charge of my opinions ?? No one asked you to belittle me & my thoughts. I have ridden to hospitals with far better people. Peer Pressure is not what he needs. I certainly do not need any from you. Catch & grease Do what you want. What ever it is. You need to be comfortable with it. Posting here took a lot of good backbone. I support what ever decision you make. My best wishes for you. Rich

Playing a non money making sport is not the same obligation as working at a job for enough money to support yourself. Or a family. People quit jobs all the time.......... You were not put on this planet to be forced by anyone to stay on the team. It is a OPTIONAL INTEREST for as long as it interests you. Another person can not wait for you to leave. You owe the team nothing. The team certainly owes no player nothing. You DO OWE YOURSELF the undeniable right to leave whenever you know it was over long ago. This pressure from other sports people is called PEER PRESSUIRE. They are trying to make you live out a guilt trip. Do what you want........At this point with the team ? You are not giving 90 %.. Time to let your charged up replacement give his 120% for the team. You will get these guilt trips from all people who enjoy telling others how to live out their lives. Do what you want. You are not guilty of doing anything wrong. Edit As a coach. Do you want a team made up of people being FORCED to stay on a team by parents & others ? The drive of the team is useless to him. Better to have the 120% gung ho people even if the have less athletic abilities.

I am a Clearwater yankee. So I can use almost anything. But if I lived in thick stemed weeds & huge lily pads ? 120# braid & a BEEFY saltwater spin rig to pull the whole dam plant up. It would probably break the basses jaw. So I would catch & eat a lot.

Jon I am constantly changing rings to the smallest I can use. No scientific reason. better the shape. more strikes ?

anything acting not normal gets nailed. Even baitfish jump a lure doing back & forths. I use a wet fly with the flyrod tip underwater & about12 to 18" of line out. After catching a couple of shiners a NICE LM darts out & grabs the next hooked shiner. Funny. I let him take some line to a stop place. wait. then slowly increase pull. He is coming along nicely. ZIP He is gone. I have my wet fly back.

Well I am a Macho He Man. I can crank any reel handle forever with a Bull Shark going the other way. I use a very heavy non-detergent oil in & on everything. Gearbox, spindle, spindle sleeve in the spool. Only thing I do not lubricate is some friction discs. I call the factory for their procedure. Which is...........Replace them. Then they usually will say what to clean with & relubricate with. Any CLEAN parts with CLEAN oil is always better than dirt & water crunching around. I almost completely fill a gearcase with oil. Never have found a dipstick on any spinning reels

Any fish in it there ? Was great 30 years ago.

I was ORDERED NOT to come to anymore fly fishing club meetings. Seems My catching several giants with a large Muddler Minnow in the public waters stream where " Match the hatch is only allowed " BY CLUB MEMBERS. Used up all my elitist Snot . Good riddance. Weird people.

I sure would not want him as a doctor or anything else. Cheapshot hothead on a grant ?? Dump the loser. Better exfootball people around

Scott F Has it best ....I think. If the plug & socket are in the EXPOSED deck area ? Then the Hydrogen & Oxygen bubbles coming out during a recharge. HOPEFULLY are far enough away from a accidental spark. Also the plugs should be polarized. So there can not be a backward charger connection done. Good setup Scott.

I find SIZE of the lure always determines minimum good action speed. My 1.5 " floater wiggle like crazy compared to the 13" perch floater minimum speed. I do knot tune lures for 10 mph retrieves.

Many 4# lines are good for up to a breaking load of almost 10 pounds with a great knot & a smooth surfaced metal eye.

Thank you Snakehead. Rich

O K guys. This is how lures work. They catch you. You still have to get the fish to bite it.

I use the Whimpy wire hooks. Have some chance of straightening them out to save a lure. Too big of a pike with a heavy line & drag WILL straighten them enough to loose him in heavy weeds. All part of the sport. I fish with some lures that have no hooks.. The real test is finding & getting a clamp down strike. The rest is so easy a caveman can do it.

I carry 2 different rods ready to go with the right lures . 4# & 1 1/2" floater . Rebel / Rapala 40 year old Ande pink 60# on a big Penn saltwater reel With a huge floater that is colored like a perch When a big guy starts grabbing the perch ? I feed him the sucker. Not a sure cure. Some big fish get caught 3 times in a row. Pike are all mouth & stomach. Not much fear when they can load up on free perch & be released. I have 1 pike spot where they know the boat & me sitting & casting for perch. They WILL ? DO follow behind the boat. Stupid ??? Not really. They are grabbing the perch while I reel and yank as fast as I can. If they want the perch. They do run it down. Another senior was standing on the 30' cliff watching me cast for small fish. He yells down to let the perch struggle out there. Said a huge Pike or muskie was trailing most of the fish to my boat. I saw nothing seated in the shallow hulled Lowe 15 " transom boat. I have caught several over 36" pike on Flicker Spinners & 4# test. I use very different tactics on them & 4# test. Pike are almost always deep dense weed ambushers. Most Flicker Spinner hook ups are the TOUGH outer lip grisle or the very far back corner of the jaw.

My very clear rivers. I can catch anything that travels in........LARGE SCHOOLS.....1/2 hour before sunrise to about 1.5 hours after sunrise. Then they leave the choice feeding places & scatter into smaller groups. Sun down is a waste compared to all other times. Any cover is loaded or they are cruising just off the bottom from 10 to 4 pm out in very open areas. Structure is not used by these fish. Fully exposed to other larger predators. All species. Almost all are wearing sunglasses.

I spoke to B & M factory. Said Bucks Deluxe telescope would be what I wanted & were for sale at Walmarts. The telescope is a HUGE plus on the 19' boat. Could just buy 4.... 12' & I am set for spring. Thank you all. Rich

Came back from BP. It is either Bucks telescopic or B & M telescopic. Bucks did show the reel seats & locks. The B & M did not show any reel section. Just a oversight ? on the B & M picture ?

I have 4 kids swinging perch in as fast as possible. So Do new adults. There are times I ask them to slow down to make it tolerable for me. Even breaking off 2 of 3 hooks on a treble & crushing the barbs. The kids soon get competitive & & the perch are hanging in air & dumping. Tall kids get shorter rods. Short get long. All you tournament guys should take kids out for a trip at least once a week. Thank you all. The crappie rods sound like the perfect answer. Will go with them. BP & Walmart get the order. Really hoped guys like you would save my trying to do a complete rod build. 2 X. MANY sincere thanks. Rich