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7'2" MH/F casting with 15# flurocarbon (texas rigs, jigs) 7'0 M/F casting with 12# mono (treble hooked lures, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits) 7'0 M/F spinning with 15# braid/8# fluorocarbon leader (NED rig, trick worms, grubs, tubes

I use a 5.4:1 for cranking and 7.1:1 for everything else.

I grabbed one of the TP from Cabela's as well. Probably should have bought two for that price!

2014 Legend SS 1860 vbass 2013 Evinrude Etec 150 with jet lower unit I'm a river guy if you couldn't tell.

1/8oz rabbit hair jig in black that I tied up

I played the crap out of that game. Heck I remember even winning some free games and baits in some online tournaments. Bassins Black Bass is my favorite for the SNES. On the Genesis, I played King Salmon Fishing a lot. I never could get past the last level where your goal was to catch a 100+ lbs king salmon.

Same answer for me as well.

I'm paying my boat off four months early with mine.

I'm a fan of longer rods, even if I am floating. Everything I use is 6'6" to 7'2".

I'm not really from the STL area but 1.5 hours west in Gasconade County. I mainly fish the Gasconade and Osage River.

Bass taste fine, especially out of cold water. I enjoy eating fish as much as anybody but I always keep the small guys for eating and put back the big ones. That goes for all species.

I've caught several of my biggest pond bass during February for whatever reason. My favorite pond bait is a Trigged green pump or watermelon brush hog or a pumpkin lizard with chartreuse trail. The fish in my avatar was right at 8 pounds and caught in late Feb on that pumpkin/chartreuse lizard pitched next to a big log. A few days later I caught another one that was 5-6lbs on a brush hog in another pond.

Sight fishing with a weightless trick worm. My favorite non-bass way of fishing is snagging paddlefish on Tablerock or Lake of the Ozarks.

Topwater or weightless plastic would be my choice. Last year when the local rivers got high and muddy, a lot of bass were hugging tight to the shoreline in the grass and I had good luck catching them on a buzzbait.