SudburyBasser

Sigh, ha ha. And I found a nice one but it was for baitcasters so I would have needed to buy one...though I was lusting after that Curado that was there. The funny thing is that our dollar and yours are basically at par. No, it's long been tradition that we get charged more regardless of what our dollar is doing. A few years ago when your dollar was trading at 90% of the Canadian dollar, the same vehicle went for several thousand more up here than it did down there.

That's part of the privilege of living in northern Canada. A short bass season and high-priced lures.

Just a place called Ramakkos up here in Sudbury, Ontario. I'm afraid it's not a chain, just a local operated outdoors store in northern Ontario.

Went out shopping today for a new crankbait rod but came home with: Red Eye Shad Chrome Sexy Shad Reg. 7.59, got it for 4.59 Red Eye Shad Red Sexy Shad Reg. 7.59, got it for 4.59 Red Eye Shad Chili Craw Reg. 7.59, got it for 4.59 Red Eye Shad Clear Ghost Sexy Shad Reg. 7.59, got it for 4.59 River2Sea Bubble Pop Popper Shad colour Reg. 6.49, got it for 4.87 SK Rage Anaconda 6 pack, reg. 5.99, got it for $2.99 SK Yellow Buzzbait, Reg 7.49, got it for 4.99 SK Rage Baby Craw in various colours, Reg 5.99, got 4 bags for 2.99 each Berkely Havoc 4" Pit Boss 8 pack, Reg. 3.49, got it for 1.99 Wake 4.5" grub 8 pack, reg. 3.49, got it for 2.49 10 pack of rattle beads, Reg. 3.39, got it for 49-cents Saved about $40 bucks! I'm trying to figure out, though if the Curado reel I was looking at was much of a deal at $149.

Wacky rigged. I've lived my dream...I got in on a thread about Senkos on BR before it was locked.

That was some good smack talk there. And considering how badly he pounded his group, justified.

I think I paid a few bucks for one that attaches to your rod. You can set the tension and away you go.

I believe it was Shaw Grigsby who said it best during the episode, love or hate him, you have to admire Ike. The thing with his shoe made me laugh out loud. Yes Mike, it is bigger than your shoe, ha ha.

Well people can't have it both ways. Besides, I am somehow able to catch plenty of bass when I'm on a lake where leaders aren't ill-advised and I use them..

If you have that many toothy critters in your neck of the woods you should be using metal leaders.

The best fishing trip I ever had was this past August when I was in the Turks & Caicos for my sister's wedding. As a belated birthday present she bought me a guided fishing trip with my brother-in-law and a mutual friend for bonefish. It was an epic day as we apparently could have caught fish by merely sweet talking them. Surrounded by sharks and barracudas trying to steal our fish, landing one fish after another, we ended the day sun burnt, tired and three very happy guys. Second best day came a few weeks later when I caught my PB smallmouth. Small for most of you but with an enormously reduced growing season up here in northern Canada, a decent sized fish.

I occasionally deal with an eBay seller named "bassnforchrist" who has Jackall hats, t-shirts and sweat shirts.Just search for the seller and then subsearch for Jackall and all shall be revealed.

That is pretty cool. I'm strongly considering ordering a shirt or two. EDIT: Or not. $25 for shipping to Canada? Egad.

Try some new to me techniques like drop shotting. Like the OP, I tend to favour Senkos and cranks. Ignore the bait monkey and buy less lures. Honestly, I have enough. Fish more.

I'm partial to Ko Man Chi spinnerbaits from Dr. Spinnerbait. Partly because its a Canadian company, mostly because I like the quality. Colour? White mostly.

T-shirt, cargo pants, baseball hat and sun screen.

Ha ha, I was cleaning out some old tackle the other day and I happened across mine from back then as well. Didn't have the heart to toss the plastics but I re-purposed everything I could -- hooks and the like -- so at least some of that gets some use. Even had the little red rattle I might shove into a tube bait.

That's a shame since you use dozens of words every day that Shakespeare coined :-) Some of the best writing tricks I ever learned were from A.J. Liebling, who often wrote about boxing, and M.F.K. Fisher, who was a famous food writer. I never wrote a word on either subject but I learned a damned lot by simply reading them. Don't limit yourself.

I won't advise you what to major in -- that's a major life decision and I made a bit of a hash of my mine when I was in university -- but I would strongly advise you to get interested in the "nitty gritty" of English. As a writer, words are your tools and the more command you have of them and the rules that govern them, the more effective of a writer you will be.

Interesting that you said that. I was thinking of buying a crankbait rod but I have an Ugly Stick sitting in a closet forlorn. If the US can be repurposed into a cheap and effective crankbait rod it would save me money.

If I were being tortured to pick one lure I'd flip a coin and either go with wacky rigged Senko-style bait or something with a jig. As others have said above, neither is perfect but they'd probably best fit your need.

That about describes what it is -- a four inch worm with a little curly tale and the time line is right. I'll post a picture of it perhaps.

I got the Bass Pro Shops Extreme Qualifier 370 (camo and red) last week and am very pleased with it. Holds a good deal of tackle. That said, if I ended up with the Cabela bag that was mentioned in the thread that roadwarrior linked to above, I would have not been displeased. The various sizes from Cabela makes your choice pretty customizable where the BPS 370 bag is limited to one size (though a generous one that can hold five 370 boxes in the main compartment and probably another three 360 boxes in the size compartments).

A bit of background first: Back in the mid-1980s when I first started fishing I essentially inherited my grandfather's tackle box. A lot of old stuff in there as he fished during the 1960s and 1970s. Anyhow, I kept most of the stuff because it was my grandfather's including stuff I never used. Today I decided to give it one final cleaning out -- there were rusty hooks and tools -- and I came across a bag of small plastics. In them were several curly tale red worms. On the curly tale it said REBEL while on one of the segments on one side it said "Slim" while on the other side it said "Jim". I did a search on the web but nothing came up. Anyone know anything about these plastics outside of the obvious?

We have a smallish one up here. I hadn't been to it in years and went last summer and wasn't all that impressed. Outside of a Quebec company that made their own soft plastics -- and got my money -- the booths mostly seem to be boats and ATVs. I don't mind either but I'm not all that interested in them. I'll consider not going this summer if I hear it's much the same.