Scott F

Get an iMac. Apples just work properly. No need for anti-virus software and they come with several good programs including a great video editing program iMovie. You can also run a Windows operating system on it. I don't know why you would, but you can.

In the Midwest, there are "Big Dude" and Zip lures. Basically they are the same baits. I don't know how well they work on winter smallies, but they are dynamite on everything else in the soft water months. I've tried every type of blade baits I could find. Silver Buddies, Cicadas, Sonars, BPS blades, none of them caught as many fish as the Big Dudes.

Depends on what you consider a good day. During the winter, one smallmouth might be considered a good day.

I had a local shop that I tried to support. He never had what I was looking for. He would order it for me, but it would take forever, and sometimes would never show up. The owner was not customer friendly. My point is, I support business' that take care of the customers. If it's a mom and pop shop or a big box store, they have to treat me right to get my business.

According to Rapala, Husky Jerks suspend. The original Rapala minnow floats, is one of the best selling lures, and has caught more fish than any other lure in history.

Your avatar, says differently.

I participated in a river clean up on a river that ran through an affluent community. One of the most common pieces of garbage I picked up from the river was plastic bags filled with dog waste. People pick up after their dogs where people can see them, then when they get out of site, they throw the bags in the river. This is done by some of the wealthiest residents in the area.

I fish for bass Northern Wisconsin several times a year but I've never weighed a bass. The fishermen in my group don't fish tournaments and we're all catch and release so we only put a ruler on them and almost never a scale. We consider an 18 inch smallmouth a photo worthy fish and a 20 incher to be the definition of a trophy. While I'm sure there are guys who target largemouth a lot more than I do and catch bigger fish than me, and 18 to 20 inch largemouth up there is a pretty good fish. Weight wise, I'd guess that these are 4 pounds plus.

I'm not sure why there is a preference for lines that stretch when jerkbait fishing. I want to be sure that all the jerking and twitching I am doing with my rod is transmitted to my bait without being absorbed by the line stretching. So I only use superlines, in the 8 to 10 pound strength.

The reason I like to pinch them down instead of grinding them off is that the little bump that is left after pinching makes it just a little harder for the hook to back out when fighting a fish. Another advantage to barbless hooks is that they penetrate farther, easier with no barb.

I pinch down the barbs on my wide gap hooks that I use when senko fishing. If a fish gets hooked deep, I can get the hook out very easily while doing minimum damage to the fish.

It doesn't happen often, but I caught a walleye on popper.

Carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel syndrome both comes from a pinched nerve. Carpal tunnel is a pinched nerve in the wrist, cubital tunnel is a pinched nerve in the elbow. A neurologist sent electric shocks down my arm from the shoulder to the fingers to see where the problem was. It feels just getting an electric shock from 120 volts about 20 times. As if it wasn't enough to do it on the arm that was having a problem, he did it 20 times on the arm that was fine.

In the places I frequent, $24 to $30 for full slab of ribs smoked for hours in a smoker is common. Ribs at restaurants that take short cuts are $18 to $20.

Why not? Braid is different than mono or fluoro and requires adjustments in the way you fish to get the most out of it. No stretch means you don't need huge sweeping hook sets. You shouldn't horse the fish in, steady pressure will keep you from ripping the hooks out. Don't set your drag too tight. Advanced anglers may use a variety of line weights and rods to fine tune presentations, but a medium weight rod and 20 pound line will work just fine for nearly any presentation you want to try to get you started.

It drives me so nuts, I refuse to use a leader. I don't really believe a leader is necessary anyway. I have little to no issues with abrasion, I don't believe fluoro is invisible or even if it was that bass are spooked by seeing line. The added hassle of an extra knot and the reduction of casting distance makes this an easy choice for me.

All braid, all the time, never use leaders. 20 pound test on baitcasters, 8 and 10 pound on spinning.

It didn't ruin the game for me. The Bears would have lost if Rogers had played the whole game.

See a doctor. I had similar symptoms and found I had cubital tunnel syndrome. I had to have surgery on my elbow. You probably don't have it, but have a doctor check it out. Numbness and tingling are not normal.

As a long time Bears fan it has been frustrating watching the Packers go from one future Hall of Fame QB to a second one without missing a beat. Since 1992 Favre or Rodgers have started 371 of 373 games including the playoffs. During that same time, the Bears have had 26 different starting QB's. Although you don't want to see players hurt, I'm not unhappy the the Packers are going to experience what the Bears have suffered through even though it might only be for a few games.

You can try short shank hooks which will probably make a bigger difference than changing the split rings.

Titanium leaders are not good. If you bend them, they do go back to their original shape, but they are very brittle and will just break. I've been making my own leaders from single strand wire for many years but the only ones I've ever had fail on me were the titanium ones.

I once spent $1,000 on a 4GB hard drive for my computer

A friend of mine used to have one similar to that but it kept getting stolen.

I've never used one, but the Rapala Scatter Rap Minnow may be what you are looking for. Long thin balsa body with a more erratic wobble