Tuckahoe Joe

All I've ever used (so far) is mono. If the spool is getting low, I'll pull off line till the spool is about half full, cut that line off, tie the new line to the old using an Albright knot and re-spool. I figure most reels hold 100 + yards of line and I'm not casting more than 30 yards or so, This way, I get new line on my reel and I get 2-3 uses out of each new spool of line I buy.

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Nice fish...congrats on the PB!

I'm gonna go against the grain here and say that this is the pretty much the only way I fish senko style baits. I can count the number of bass that I've caught on the traditional hop-pause-hop-pause senko retrieve on one hand, on one finger actually. Yup...just one the traditional way. After coming up empty with that technique on numerous occasions, I started using them t-rigged and weightless with the slow steady retrieve like you said and I started getting bit left and right. To each his own though. I know there are tons of different ways to fish different baits, everyone has their own fishing style, and confidence plays a big part in it. This is what just happens to work for me.

Nice fish...she looks like she just wants to get it away from her though!

Congrats man! I love catching my first fish on a new rod. Heck even catching a fish on a new lure is fun!

Nice fish...can't wait til I catch my first 5 pounder!.

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Forgot one. At the end of last summer when the shoreline weeds were still really high and thick I lost a Bandit 200 crankbait 5 feet from shore but just couldn't get at it. Early spring of this year I'm fishing the same spot but since it was still cold there weren't any weeds yet. After fishing for a while I end up looking down and I notice something embedded in the half frozen mud and it turned out to be my crankbait. Slapped some new hooks on it and it was good to go.

Dude, that thing is crazy looking...I wanna catch one now! Why do I have to live in stupid Maryland?

Good looking fish!

Welcome to Bass Resource! Be sure to check out the Maryland thread in the Northeast section. There are quite a few western MD guys on here.

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I've found various soft plastics that were still in useable condition. Also quite a few hard baits. Mostly Rapalas. Found an X-rap Shad, Shallow Shad Rap, and Countdown Minnow, a Hula Popper, and a frog that I think is made by Snag Proof. One time there was a Rat-L-Trap up in a tree that I couldn't reach so I reeled my worm hook up to the tip of my rod, used it to grab the lure and pull it tight and used my bait knife tied to a long stick with a stringer to cut the line holding it in the tree. I also found a pretty nice multi-tool. Put it in my wife's tackle bag and a couple weeks later she ended up leaving it at the lake so I guess we paid that one forward.

Nice!

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That things nice! I gotta get me something like that. All my rods are just leaning in a corner of our spare bedroom.

Amazing! One of those could be a fish of a lifetime for a lot of us here and you go and catch 2 of em on the same rig...unbelievable!

That's pretty funny...welcome to Bass Resource!

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Congrats on your new PB...nothing wrong with a 3.3 lber either!

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Looks painful. I've never hooked myself but I got hit in the stomach with a 1/4oz roostertail that I had got caught in a tree. The thing came slingshotting back, hit me in the gut, and here we are 5 months later and I still have a bit of a bruise even though I was wearing 3 layers of clothes including a thick hoodie. It could have been a lot worse in both our cases. Glad it wasn't your eye.

Happy birthday man!