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To the OP, yes I do consider this to be poor etiquette. Whether it's a boater doing it to another boater, two people on the same boat, or people on the bank. So many fishermen are so totally clueless when it comes to etiquette. I've been downright followed in my boat before by other boaters looking for fish. In these instances, and I'm not kidding, I will literally drive my boat in circles and see how long it takes for my followers to realize.

Ha! This happens to me before I even have a fish boated! It's like as soon as my boat hits the water, every single other boat on the lake immediately turns the motor on and heads right towards me.

Bought one over the winter. It's spooled up and ready to go, but I haven't been able to get out and use it yet due to the lakes being frozen. Everything I've used from Pflueger I've liked in the past, so I'm sure this reel will be nice.

If they're polarized, it will most likely say it. It's a good selling point for sunglasses.

First on my list of dream fish has to be the goliath grouper. I also really want to catch an arctic grayling.

I have a converter that I plug into my truck's outlet, and the converter allows me to plug the TM charger into that. I usually charge it 20-30 minutes on, hour off. Just because I don't like idling my truck. Its lasted me for 4 day trips, fishing every day almost all day. But I do try to conserve as much juice in the battery as possible when I'm using the TM.

The acting in this is better than in the real movie.

$0.75 Gamakatsus?!! Good score! Where did you find them?

The one near me has a smallish flyfishing section.

If you are visiting NY, you have to visit the Adirondack Mountains. Beautiful mountain range with all kinds of lakes, rivers and streams and 90% of these waters are loaded with smallmouth. Lake George, Great Sacandaga, Schroon Lake as well as the Hudson & Schroon rivers are all great options when targeting smallmouths, and there are countless other small bodies of water that have some great fishing. I know there are more than a couple bass guides on Lake George, and I assume some for Great Sacandaga as well. If your wife's idea of NYS is that its all city, then the Adirondacks are the perfect place to show her its not!

Yes.

One just opened near me within the last year. Huge selection of fishing gear. It is just as good as any BPS or Cabela's that I've been to. It doesn't compare to a regular DSG. They have a huge selection of rods, a decent selection of reels, and they carry a lot of brands that DSG around me didn't carry before. My ONLY beef with F&S (I am there all the time) is that the staff are just as clueless when it comes to fishing as they were at DSG. But this seems par for the course when it comes to big box stores. Not just fishing tackle either. They have a huge selection of fishing clothing as well. Huk, Columbia, Under Armour, and Field and Stream fishing apparel. I would definitely recommend browsing at a F&S. If its anything like my local one, you probably won't be disappointed.

I use 40 and 50 lb Power Pro.

I wear the Buff UVX mask. It has holes for the mouth to keep sunglasses from fogging. It doesn't completely eliminate fog on your glasses, but it really helps. http://buffusa.com/shop-buff/men/masks-category/mask-family.html

While I do fish in the mountains a lot, I also do a lot of urban fishing. My couple "home" lakes are in urban areas, and during the right time in the right season these lakes can be totally overrun with people. Other fishermen, pleasure boaters, shore fishermen crowding the boat launch....it gets crazy. I have found that the crowds usually don't show up early on in the season, and most people hang it up when summer is almost over. So during spring and fall I often have the lake to myself. I'm also known to be on the water well before dawn, and it's a very rare occasion that I have to share the water with anyone during those early hours-except maybe a loon. I don't know if there is anything better than being the only boat on the lake, in the middle of thick fog before the sun is up and hearing that eerie cry of a loon.

Seeing these words makes me turn into a little kid on Christmas morning. And I see these words a lot!

How about a 6'6" Medium-Fast for throwing top waters?

I believe you're talking about the knot being reeled all the way into the reel? If so, I never reel my leader in that far, although I will reel it through the guides. But I imagine there would be a small bump where the knot lays. I use the same knot for backing to braid and it leaves a small bump on the spool but it quickly disappears after a couple layers of line are reeled over it. I think this is what you mean?

This mostly describes me. 99% of the time, if I'm awake I'm doing something fishing related. If I'm at work, I'll play fishing videos on YouTube on my phone and just listen to them while my phone is in my pocket. I'm constantly looking for places to fish, checking the forecast in the dead of winter as if I'd even be able to fish. I'm constantly making lists of fishing items I need to buy, always reorganizing tackle, and sometimes I just stare it, just looking at my tackle for 20 minutes straight. It really is an addiction, one that many of us here share. Bass fishing is on my mind 99% of the time while I'm awake. Even during that 1% of the time when fishing really shouldn't be on my mind, sometimes it sneaks in

Currently unburying my truck out from what seems like 10' of snow.

The knot I use for braid to leader is the Albright Special. I've never had a need for superglue.

Never came

Something tells me my food will not be arriving, and I can absolutely not blame them. If I was a delivery driver, I would hate me for ordering food.

I am I bad person for having just ordered delivery? If it helps my case I'm gonna tip well.

We already have 6" here and they're calling for another foot today and a couple more inches overnight. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with more than 18". More snow today alone than all of last year and this year combined. To think that I already started charging the batteries for the trolling motor, got every reel spooled and every rod rigged. I really thought I was close to that first trip of the year.