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Thanks for the reminder! I loosen them all before storing. Looking forward to seeing some of your brown tanks!

My Menderchuck opened a couple of days ago; which is sooo surprising due to the long, long cold winter we had. I woulda bet no soft water until the 14th or so. I plan on going out next Sunday. Should whack em pretty good!

I'll be the odd man out here and say 360 easily. I can see so much more on it. I fish structure and I know there's fish there. I can't get into this whole "don't cast until I see a fish" thing. If there's a rock pile, there's gonna be fish on it.

I have Mega360 and FFS and I prefer the 360 honestly. It may be just the way and areas I fish but I'm always looking at it.

@A-Jay And anyone else in the area. My thoughts and prayers go out to anyone affected.

I'm so sorry to hear. Sending you comfort and strength. 🙏🙏

Just popped on here to see what's what and am just floored by this news. He's one of those guys who you just thought would always be there...be around forever...so sad. Yes, well said @Glenn and others. RIP WRB; my thoughts go out to his family.

Glad to hear that's under control.

One of the best things I ever did for my fishing was to keep a log...and yes, count fish. Not so I could post an e-brag on social media about how many fish I caught, but to tell me what worked and what didn't. For the past 25 or so years, I've kept a very loose log and it's helped me immensely. Date, lake name, weather, water temp. Areas of the lake I fished, what I used and how many I caught. This does so much for your fishing. It not only tells you what worked but also what didn't; you also start to learn seasonal areas, habits, baits etc... So then, I would look at this log before every trip (past 3,4,7 years of the same date) and I could put together a pattern before even getting to the water. If, in the past 7 trips out on a certain date, you can expect the water temp to be the same, and I show I did well, there's a good chance of repeating that again. DISCLAIMER: I know some will say, "Never fish history"...while that can be true, you also need to take that with some salt. True, just because I wacked em on a certain flat one fall, doesn't mean they will always be there. But, if I've done well with certain baits, at a certain water temp consistantly for the past 9 years out...guess what I'm tying on the night before? **Steps off soapbox**

Same Dunno why...actually I probably do. As mentioned, the "new thing" and "oooh shiny" gets me every time 🙁

You, sistah, are on 'em!! Well done Unfortunately this has been a very busy start to the eason for me; only logging 1 trip out. My usual "right after ice-out" trip. Did well but haven't been able to get out again. Hopefully this weekend.

I hear ya brother. This started long ago unfortunately. 40 years ago, when my Grandparents were alive, they owned a house in Boston and a summer place on Cape Cod. We would go down and fish lakes on the Cape. The fishing was amazing! We would seine up live bait when we arrived and 1 pass on the shoreline would give us far too much bait for the day. We would catch so many LMB, crappie, white bass etc... One day we noticed the green, green lawns flowing to the water's edge. Next we noticed tanker trucks literally labeled Chem Lawn spraying fertilizer on these lawns. Then we started seeing these huge wads of algae and started finding dead fish with this algae stuck in their gills. The bait went away and so did the predator fish. It got so we were lucky to seine up 10 or so minnows in as many passes. My Grandparents have long passed and I haven't been there since. I'm sure nothing has changed. The lawns are far more important than life in some communities.

Thanks Glenn; about 3 years ago I bought all the terminal to Neko....and have never even tried it. I will this summer!

I remember RoLo; very sad indeed

I hadn't heard anything A-Jay...what went on?? Are you and your wife ok? Local friends and such ok? Ice storm?