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I will be visiting family the second weekend of april in Mebane NC and was hoping someone in the area with a boat would be willing to take me out. I'll help with fuel and pay launch fee should we need one. I've been to graham-mebane lake 2 years ago but only bank fished it. I'm fairly knowledgeable and a really nice guy but beware im a talker lol

i have a question about this process. What for glue would you use to put the new carpet down on fiberglass?

The figure 8s might be best these baits were making are coming out of a 3D printer and will me half and halfs and they will have pillars and corresponding holes on the other half for the pillars. So i could just make it to where the 8s just slide over the pillars to hold them in place. Anyone know of the best glue/epoxy to put the halfs together?

My friend and I are going to be attempting to build our own hard plastic lures. We're starting off with just a square bill and we have an extremely cheap and effective way of manufacturing them but the part im stuck on is the hardware for them. Hes an engineer i'm the fisherman and the marketer essentially. He drew it up and now were wondering what to use for the eye lets on the lip and underside to attach the split rings to. If any one has any info i'd love to hear from you bc the first prototype will be done here in a day or two.

Most swim jigs have a pointed nose to the front of them and most companies now a days put "eyes" on them and their hooks come straight out of the back of the head where as a flipping/arkie style/football jig the eyelet of the jig will be at an angle so when sitting on bottom or going through cover the hook is less likely to get snagged You can go on tackle warehouse and compare jigs that companies will label for either flipping or swimming. Personally i use Santone Lures jigs. Their M series jigs are great and the Sam Rayburn swim jigs are fantastic

In Pa i can fish year round if there's open water or i can ice fish. Its been a weird winter as of now ice has open holes and its not even an inch thick. But here in the spring they have no harvest and no tournament law from April 16th through June 17th. Its a stupid law in my opinion because of the countless studies done to show that fishing during the spawn doesn't effect it. We still go out in the cold and chase spring lunkers, last spring we were fishing in 43 degree water and it was snowing out and i caught the chunk in my profile pic

They're in there and I mean there's some really nice LMB too. Where are you launching from?

If your a sucker for smallies there are some hamers in Raystown. I've seen a 5lber on a planer board pulling for Stripers on my dads boat, hands down the biggest one that I have ever seen in person. And just 2 weekends ago my buddy was fishing a tournament up there without me because I was an idiot and was down at Ocean City, MD lol but he caught a 4lber I'll post a pic here in a second

I'm sooooo happy I've never been in this position. Well either one of them really. Props to KVD getting it out for him though that's why fishermen are quiet possibly the best people in the world. We help anyone out when we can.

Took my brother and his best friend fishing to a lake I fish all the time and has a bad rap for being a hard lake to fish or like I hear all the time "It has no fish in it" or something along those lines all the time. Anyways took them out in my wannabe bass boat and pretty much just guided for them that evening. On a three fish limit my brother had almost 9lbs and his buddy got his PB. My brother didn't get his PB per say bc he does a lot of pond fishing and I have 2 categories for PB's pond fishing and lake/ tournament real world PB's. So it made me feel really great seeing how excited he was catching those fish

Honestly out of everything you had in your list as I was reading it I was thinking I was going to tell you to stick to the T-rig. Use it and only it, it's probably the most versatile rig you can use in any situation. Fish it deep, shallow, in hard cover, weeds, and there is no right way or wrong way to fish it. Some days I've caught them dragging it real slow with the reel and pausing to let them get a good look at it when fishing is hard in the dead of summer, pop it two-three times then pause, hop hop hop, you let the fish tell you what they want. Some days you'll figure it out quick some days not at all. Fishing is fishing it's not catching unfortunately. Get yourself a confidence bait then move to other techniques. The t-rigged senko was my first

I love my santone lure finesse jigs. Local lake I fish a lot on has a ton of rocks on the breast of the d**n it goes from 2' - 20' and we kill them on jig, shakeyheads, and now the Ned rig, all finesse style rigs.

Only time I need a brake is after an 8 hour tournament when you go through all the stages of tournament fishing. Really wears on you specially if you get skunked. But other then that I'm headed to the river today then I'm heading to another tournament Saturday

I go usually 2 times a week. Monday and then Thursday after work, but Sunday is my first tournament of the season in my series and I didn't get to go this Monday so I'm pretty much dying right now. Bu then after this Sunday I'll be on the water every weekend in June and then almost every other weekend till fall for tournaments and probably once during the week between them.