Jar11591

Sounds like a weeping cherry.

I throw the Giant Dog-X. Doesn’t seem that giant compared to other walking baits.

Most of the waters I fish are clear. When I throw a walking bait it’s usually a lighter colored Rapala Skitterwalk or Megabass Dog X.

Welcome to BR from a fellow NY basser. I’m upstate.

Got slammed with a wet, slushy, sloppy nor’easter the last few days. What a mess. 2 week forecast calling for lots of high 40s and low 50s and rain, so I really hope we’ve finally arrived at spring.

Corned beef and cabbage is one of my favorite meals. Not just to be eaten at St. Paddy’s day!

The northeast just got whacked with a huge winter storm, so it’s possible that caused some delays? It seems like every single industry is still suffering the affects of the pandemic. The quality of everything has taken a nose dive. From shipping times to quality of produce. Nothing seems as good at it was before the pandemic.

We both think so too, so it was a fairly easy decision!

Thanks. I’m going for electrical construction. I know a couple people who have done the program and highly recommend it. Great for immediate job placement when it’s over. Definitely a weird feeling that I’ll be going to college in my 30s, and probably having to put my business aside for the time being but luckily I have a really supportive girlfriend, and it probably wouldn’t be possible without her. This should be much better long term. The few years of landscaping has already taken such a toll on me physically, I had to change something up! I don’t want to feel like I’m 60 by the time I’m 40.

I definitely get that. My main lake has a pair of loons that have lived there for at least the past 7 years. They’re constantly calling to each other from opposite ends of the 150 acre lake. I love it. I have so many close up photos and videos of them. I’ve watched their chicks grow up over the course of a year. They’ll swim right up to my boat while they’re hunting. They like to chase my spinnerbaits occasionally so I never cast if I’m in the vicinity of a loon. I’m lucky that at least 75% of the Adirondack Mountain lakes that I fish have nesting loons. If I hear a loon call, I know I’m in a good place on earth.

I’m going to college, only 15 years after high school.

One of my lakes I fish has a baseball field right next to the shoreline. I’m also a big baseball fan. I love fishing in the evening there when there is a game going on. They have the lights on, hearings the sounds of the announcer and the tink of the bat on ball while I’m in my boat close by is really cool. Baseball season and fishing season start and end about the same time up here, so they are very synonymous to me.

I miss the sound of the loon calls when I first launch my boat in the foggy morning almost as much as I miss sticking a hawg.

If you’re looking for a Jack of all trades rod, a 7’ MH-F is hard to beat like mentioned above. If you’re looking for a technique specific or oriented rod, let us know what techniques you’ll be using it for.

My favorite is Café Bustelo. Deathwish is great, and local to us but costs an arm and a leg. Starbucks ground coffee is really good too. And of course you can’t forget Stewart’s!

Like Mike Ditka once said, “coffee is the lifeline the fuels the blood of champions”. I drink coffee all day. It’s one of my absolute favorite things in life. I sometimes drink decaf during the evening so my caffeine consumption isn’t so ridiculous, but it’s rare that I don’t have a cup I’m sipping at any given time. And the combo of fishing and coffee? It’s a perfect match.

My main lake has pretty much everything for cover. Lots of lay downs, lily pads, hydrilla, milfoil, pondweed, elodea, and boat docks. For deep structure, my most productive spot is off a slow tapering point that gradually slopes to about 9’, then sharply drops off to 20’. I catch my biggest bass right on the sharp drop off in 11-15’ of water, which is right where the large bed of milfoil ends.

Last little order before spring. I should be on the water within 2 weeks. I’m foaming at the mouth.

Rage Structuge Bug YCB Senko Netbait Paca Craw Rage Craw Rage Swimmer

Actually just read this last night. No life straw needed. Seems like an unspoiled paradise, if you don’t count the fact that Vikings laid waste to all the forests on the island 1000 years ago.

Pike and other esox are abundant in most waters I fish. I can’t speak for snakeheads, but I can tell you from experience that pike can easily saw through taught braid, but have trouble cutting through thick nylon or fluoro. I still don’t use a leader for frog fishing, but for some techniques bite-offs are a main reason I use leaders. Another main one is abrasion resistance around rocks and logs.

I think bank fishing with a plastic worm is how many of us got started with the hobby. Texas-rigging an old Culprit ribbon tail is one of the first things my dad taught me how to do. Timeless way to fish.

My senko dedicated rod is a 7’ medium fast Fenwick Elite Tech spinning rod, Pflueger Supreme 25 with 8lb Yo-Zuri hybrid line.

@Jigfishn10 I’ll let her know you’re first on the list ?

I use 50lb Power Pro or Sufix 832 braid. A lot of people use 65lb braid for frogs, but I’ve never felt the need to step up from 50lb.