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Virtually all the money I've spent on red bass baits has been wasted. It simply doesn't produce here.

I came to say just this. I've had the best luck with a superline EWG hook and a big lizard.

Some vintage and otherwise cool things I got from my late brother in law. I also plan to fish creeks/small rivers this year since I lost access to the private honey hole. So some smaller lures, swimbaits, grubs, etc.

Bass like them. Buzz a Torpedo or Jitterbug early and late.

Wind is the bane of kayak fishermen. I won't even go to bigger bodies of water if the winds will be sustained over 10 MPH. Occasionally, if there is vegetation or stumps, etc. around I'll use them as an anchor. You learn after a while how to use the paddle with one hand to make corrections and not put the rod down. I suppose a drift sock would help, but you'll still move. You can also seek shelter in coves if there are any and fish shallower places. Other than that and using an anchor, which to me is more of a bother than paddling, I just deal with it. Paddle, paddle, paddle, cast, repeat. That's a great buddy who buys his friend a fishing kayak, even a cheap one. I will say, having owned a 12' and now a 10' kayak, the 12 footer tracks and takes the wind better.

Various T rigs. Rage Bug and Lizard mostly.

blindly casting a small body of water. I fish from a kayak. For years I've been fishing the same 30 acre lake. I have no electronics so I've mentally mapped the bottom by fishing it for 10 years. I've also caught enough fish there to know what I need to target, like isolated wood cover. When that's not working I resort to blindly casting to areas I think might produce. When I go to a new body of water it's just casting and casting until I start to form a pattern. But some of my best catches have come from "nowhere" places I blindly cast to that never produce again.

It's just like racing. If you get in front of the camera enough it doesn't matter if you're winning. TV hosts have good sponsors too.

There is nothing holding a woman back in the sport these days except their desire to do it. The vast majority of women simply don't want to go on the road or fish 300 days a year or deal with less than ideal conditions most days. I believe most sponsors would jump at the chance to gain a new demographic.

I went through my dad's stuff after he died and used some of it just to feel close to him. He was not into spending a lot of money on fishing so most of it was nothing fancy. There were some good lures and a nice, but oversized, old Shimano Bantam reel. He also had a 5500C Abu reel that I kicked myself for selling. I offered to pay more to get it back but the guy already bartered something else with it.

It's shaped exactly like the Creek Chub Injured Minnow. But those all have the name on the backside. This has no marking. So I'm guessing it's a later Heddon copy or maybe even a cheaper knockoff. Mine also looks like it has cheaper hardware.

Yeah, I was thinking the "Big O" looked like something from Walmart.

Yes, I said that. I was asking about the bottom two. Check this out. Looks like mine is a plastic knockoff of an old wood bait called the Injured Minnow. But the old one is probably also a knockoff of another brand.

The 2nd from the top is a JC Higgins brand, which was the Sears house brand of sporting goods. They ceased to use the name in 1961, so it's at least 62 years old. From what I can find online it may be called a Paw Paw. I was mainly asking about the bottom two. I think you're right about the Big O. But it looks like the line tie is a little further away from the bill than the Big Os I see online. The other one is not as fat as the pic makes it look. It's quite small with flat sides (top & bottom).

My sister in law told me to go look at her late hub's fishing gear and take whatever I could use. He was a bit of a pack rat so I took a pretty good bit, some of it vintage. I know the top is a Heddon Cobra, the next down is a JC Higgins (Sears house brand, not made since 1961)) S model??? But the crank and the Torpedo looking lure have no markings other than "Japan" on the bill and the propeller. They're both plastic so I doubt they're older than late 70s. The bottom one may be a version of the Torpedo. I also got a fly combo and his fly assortment as well as a bunch of other lures and bags of soft plastics.

For me, jigs, T-rigs and frogs, depending on the tip. I have a frog rod that's really too stiff for any kind of finesse, so I have a jig/T-rig rod too. In winter I'll use the frog rod as a second deep jig/T-rig rod for the heavy stuff like swing jigs and football jigs.

Warm and rainy here. Interestingly, some Facebook memories of late have us in shorts this time of year and in one was fishing from the kayak with bare feet. I remember once when I was a kid we went to my grandmother's (less than a 1/4 mile away) for Christmas dinner. It got so warm I walked back home and changed into shorts. It reached 90 that day.

I've caught one twice in about an hour. I know it was the same fish due to some very distinct characteristics. But for most bass I would say Hunger or reflex will betray them at some point. I imagine they mostly clam up for a few days. But they gotta eat and they don't have hands.

I'm not one who can be good at a lot of things. That's why I settled into bass fishing. That said I like to keep it simple as possible. I usually take 6-7 rods with me and almost never change baits. It is a thrill when you try something new and succeed.

I'm so right dominant I greatly prefer a RH BC to a LH spinning rod. My left just won't do exactly what my brain tells it. I also can't cast LH, so I use the LH spinning anyway.

You stopped short of reading my entire post. I did not forget that. I said the acquisition and disposal of battery materials is problematic. I try to see the whole picture and not cherry pick the points I want to make.

I think the PHEV would be the best of all worlds. I'd prefer one.

The agenda they're pushing is that hybrids work right now. If every car owner in America drove a hybrid tomorrow, the grid would not care. Power outages would not affect driveability. If every person drove an EV tomorrow, most wouldn't get to work and back many days.

Found it. It's not the cost for you to drive it. It's the total operating cost of an EV. this says $17/gallon. I've seen higher claims though. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/study-fueling-electric-vehicles-17-gallon Mind you, 92K is already high cost compared to practically, any ICE in the same class. So it immediately costs you tens of thousands more to drive it than a comparable ICE. Admittedly, I don't know what class of luxury your Tesla is in or comparable to.