DeadEyeDavey

I look at those guys and laugh, spending their whole fortune just to stay on top. I have a 1947 Shaksphere Wonder Rod and a Mitchel Avocate, seems to me I catch just as many if not more fish than that guy.

Depens on what you're after, the time, fishing conditions, and the water itself. I tend to troll hot n' tots all day in a spring fed pond (water never rises more than 50 degrees) and tend to hammer the bass all day. In the rivers I'll toss out deep diving cranks in the late afternoon for drum and at about 5 the walleye run through. All and all it's a trial and error run, things that work for me will be different for you.

My story was 100% true, I wanted to see how many people would take it seriously.

You mean get it to do flips and spin on it's head

Try doing 3 steps with your skitter pop. I don't know if I'd be able to do the harlem shake with my pole, it's still recovering from teaching it how to dougy

Biggest tip for pike fishing: no matter what your friends say.... and I mean nothing they say should ever convince you to try to get a picture of you kissing the pike. Pike are impatient and will not miss the opportunity to bite you in the face.

So over this past summer I got big into topwaters. One night at a campground I was tossing out a skitter pop (I found it in a tree earlier that day, same spot actually) and every once in while I could get a hit by making it walk the dog. Well after many hours (3) with no hook ups I was about to call it quits, when over at the Karaoke contest I heard somebody start singing the cha-cha slide. Being a creative guy I thought to myself "why don't I make my lure do the moves to the song" and to the best of my ability I did. Sure enough, when I got to the second "criss-cross" and paused I heard an Explosion from the water then another loud crash. next thing I know I'm hooked into this big ol fish and I must have fought it for 10-15 minutes, got it five feet from shore (too dark to see what it was) and the line went limp and my skitter pop shot out of the water. Lesson to be learned: walking the dog has nothing on the cha-cha slide.

Go with an Ugly Stick, I have a Wonder Rod (1950s predecessor to the Ugly Stick) that I use for all species especially pike, and I love it.

I love curling, whether it be playing or watching. I even proposed a curling team at my high school, it didn't pass.

I was almost considering contacting you until I saw you were from Ohio....

Bomber Long A and Luck E Strike Tickle Tubes. They work the best for me all year long (except Winter dang ice), but if you find some Tickle Tubes ya better tell me I haven't found any in stores for over 4 years and I'm down to my last one.

My favorite mod was done by a sheephead on my favorite Hot n' Tot. The sheephead hit so hard that it put a huge crack in my Tot. The great thing about it is now I can let it sink and fish 20 feet of water from shore.

I don't use jigs, but that looks professionally made. Good job.

Everything is frozen up here too, luckly for me I have ice fishing stuff. Been slamming the Walleye on the Saginaw river lately, but lost my spud, now I'm sitting here reading about everyone else catching 'em.

My favorite rod is my 1950's Shakespere Wonder rod. It's simply, tough, and a good practical pole (exept it breaks into a one foot and five foot sections).