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I have one in the 40 size. And fish will eat it sometimes-often not. Like most topwaters, you'll get more bites in a shallower, weedier body of water. I've even caught dinks on it. It is a heavy bait so a rod with some backbone and/or length is in order. When I tried it on my usual medium topwater rod, the rod loaded up too much for my liking. It worked much better on my MH that I usually use for spinnerbaits.

I wouldn't throw it away. It was my Christmas gift. It makes the crispiest chicken skins I've ever had. I like to do whole wings in it and sometimes I'll whip up some frozen fries or tots. I haven't made a pizza in it yet, but I will. I'm just looking to expand how I use it. The wife is on a low carb kick at the moment and I don't want to tempt her too much. It's also the only toaster we have now. It's this one. It has a lot of settings, so it gets used for much more than frying. https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/airfryers/toa-60

That sounds awesome.

I spray the basket with PAM, season the non-skin side of the salmon fillet and cook it skin-down on air fry setting, about 375 degrees for maybe 12 minutes. It takes longer than grilling. A booklet came with my air fryer with some recipes. But I basically just used it to get the temp and time.

Traditional fish fry breading isn't working in the air fryer. It won't brown, nor will it stick to the fish, even after I coated the fish with oil.

I bought the pitching stick of this line. I like it so much I'm going to replace my older heavier rods with it. I have an older LowRider so I knew the quality was going to be good for the money.

That is promising. Just one question. I used the Louisiana regular this last time and it was so spicy I had to cover it in ketchup to get it down. It was good, just too spicy. Is this one the same?

Agree on both counts. I'm just trying to get my $$$ worth out of the fryer. I'm the only one in my family that eats fish that I catch and don't want the hassle of the deep fryer. Also, don't want to stick up the house with fish. BTW, they actually do taste good. They just haven't been golden brown yet. I think the answer is just to season and cook them without a coating. Or bust out the deep fryer for just myself. I can give the extra to my next door neighbor. But only after they're cooked. He doesn't want to catch, clean or cook any. ?

Frog-frog-FROG

I've been experimenting with cooking bass and crappie in my air fryer. They aren't the usual fatty fish like salmon that are best in the fryer. I've tried just putting a cornmeal based fish fry ion them and cooking them. The coating won't brown. It still tastes OK, but it's not optimal. I gave the fish a light coat of olive oil, then applied the fish fry. Still not really "good". I haven't tried panko or bread crumbs yet. I suppose I could just do them like I do salmon, just season and cook them. But they'll be dry and I'll feel I wasted them. Has anyone come up with a good method for bass and/or panfish fillets? Thanks.

It never ends here. The bite does get really tough though. I'll go a few times a winter on nice days with little wind. You're usually fishing for one bite in the bigger lakes/reservoirs. But they really start getting active in March and spawn through April, even into May if it was a cold spring. I saw a few beds last Sunday so they're ramping up.

I always use braid. If you feel you need fluoro every now and then due to visibility in clear water, you can just use a leader of fluoro on a main line of braid.

Not better, just different. There are techniques that the 6.4:1 will work well with. I like the 7+ reels for most techniques though. If you intend to use it for frogs and heavy cover, the added speed helps you take up line quickly to yank the fish out. It's also good to have speed for search baits. If you crank all day, you would turn the handle 1/6 fewer times.

Given how often fish shake my treble lures before I bring them to hand, I's say very good. have you ever noticed how often, when you land a fish on trebles, the hooks move in and around the fish's mouth?

Lipless crank Jig/craw Spinnerbait Trick Worm or Fluke Pop R/Chug Bug Frog (Not in that order)

We have one local state managed lake that the water level appears to have been intentionally lowered to keep trailered boats out. That's the only one. I really have no idea why. The gate isn't locked and I was told by my buddy there were kayaks on it. It may be that DNR officers are expecting to be used as auxiliary regular LEO.

Tie a Trick Worm, weightless on your spinning rod and don't take it off. They like the bubble gum color a lot. Aside from that I use mostly the same baits everywhere. I also fish a lot of topwaters in ponds. Since they're usually shallow, bass will be in that zone where they're more likely to hit a surface bait. Most ponds have some weedy cover so the frog is a real killer. Add to that a spinnerbait and you have the basics.

They must be witches, Practitioners of the Left Hand Path. Be very wary of them. ? It actually looks to me like the dad has his glove on the left hand, which would make him right handed. Maybe they were trying to level the playing field by imposing that rule for batters or making it more fun.

We got a Keurig and never looked back. I alternate between 8 O'Clock, McCafe (I detest McD's food, but their coffee is good) and Starbucks Pike Place. I forced myself to get used to it black to cut some calories so it needs to taste pretty good by itself. . If I'm going fishing I usually won't have any because I'm on the kayak and it's not convenient to have to go. I keep some 5 Hour Energy and I'll take a sip before I leave home or maybe while I'm fishing. Not too much though because it will screw with your heart. If I'm fishing later in the day, no coffee necessary. Just a water bottle or two if it's really warm.

You can get all of that cheaper. I probably will go kayak fishing some time in the next week. But I'll do it a lot cheaper. Heck, I'd buy a pretty nice used jon boat, trolling motor and trailer for that dough. Since I already have two kayaks.

Monster worms, dropshot, Senko, jointed swimbaits. I will occasionally wacky rig a stick worm to sight fish or toss them at bedding bass. But just as a lure on its own merit, it doesn't do as well for me as it seems to for the rest of the planet.

Gotcha. But he did say something along the lines of "A bass don't care about the of main line" didn't he? Notice I was trying to type with his accent. LOL

My dad took me when i was a wee little lad. My mom used to make him because, like me, he liked to fish more than bait others' hooks. But I caught on fast. We mostly used live bait for crappie on cane poles and had good success. All of my dad's friends used to comment on how serious I was about fishing, even as a little kid. So, while I was still a young'un, I went with crappie fishing my dad and his buddy in his buddy's boat. To keep me occupied, they gave me a white curly tail grub on an 1/8 oz. jighead to throw on my Zebco 33. I wore them out and they didn't have another jig in the boat, or even another rod and reel. They stopped off at a store on the way home and bought them out of curly tail grubs and it was on. I saw my dad's buddy a couple years ago and he asked me if I still like to fish that much and I said "yessir, maybe more". Thus began my love for chunking and winding. I guess it's what eventually led me to want to fish for bass.

Get yourself an assortment of 3/8-1/2 oz spinnerbaits in combos of willow and Colorado blades and white, white/chartreuse and solid chartreuse colors. Then go get yourself a gold double willow blade War Eagle in gold shiner color as the wild card. On second thought, get the War Eagle first because I keep it tied on and haven't found the place it won't work. I don't use any trailer, but do use a trailer hook unless I'm in heavy wood cover. I've landed many that just got the trailer hook by the time they made it to the boat. You should be fishing this bait near cover and bumping every snag along the way. It triggers strikes. I even catch crappie and bream on it. They ain't cheap and big fish will damage them. Buy 2. A couple PB's ago was the fish in my pic that I caught on this bait and it wrecked the bait. Dig the gut on that fish. I'm pretty sure I've caught it twice. https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/war-eagle-custom-3-8-oz-spinnerbait?campid=71700000050238199&adgroupid=58700004916746674&device=c&keyword=92700042923896399&Channel=pla&gclid=CjwKCAiA44LzBRB-EiwA-jJipEoNJqKUT7LSqx9XwGXsYYgu1kVPne77qDFomCNsqr2mKzL4SqTxhRoC5poQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#repChildCatid=21597

Plan a trip to Okeechobee with a guide who uses live shiners. Fish the spawn and don't have a conscience about sticking a big bass off the bed. That's the best time of year for most big bass make their presence known. Be fishing NOW. Big gals are feeding up for spawn unless your water is hard. This is a case of fishing for maybe 1 or 2 good bites all day. Maybe no bites, but it's better than sitting in the house or going shopping with the wife. Amirite? Most of us don't really fish for PB's. We fish for a combination of numbers and the occasional larger fish. We fish the techniques we enjoy rather than the ones that actually produce more large fish. Playing the odds is fishing for numbers because we don't like getting skunked. Really fishing for only large bass means there will be days, even at a stretch, where you don't catch fish. Watch everything on YouTube and read as much as you can related to the subject.