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medium rare with no sauce. Can't wait to start grilling.

What is your first name name Zeus or something???

Deal. What do you like? Churchill, Robusto, Torpedo etc? Light, Dark?

Sorry I guess that reads wierd. 55 is the speed limit on the road I travel. I don't drive under the limit. I usually just set it at the limit. People that drive under the speed limit make my blood pressure spike. That's one thing I don't understand and there seems to be alot of people that do that here in MA.

So Tokyo I just have to ask is there a price that gas would reach that would make you slow down. Say $4.00 a gallon. I'm just kinda getting intrigued by this whole gas price thing. When I started driving you could get gas for .99 a gallon and I'm just getting to the point where I'm fed up with the prices.

But it's better for the life of your engine to let it warm up rather than drive it form a cold start. At least that's what I've heard. I'm no mechanic. lol

I hear ya key chain. I use to be horrible for going 15 to 20 over the speed limit. Now when I set the cruise at 55 I feel like a turle going down the road. I like to think I'm saving my self an adequate amount of money. Plus it's safer and don't have to worry about getting a speeding ticket.

Speeding on the highway adds a surprising amount to your fuel costs. With gas prices rising, gas-saving advice abounds: Drive more gently, don't carry extra stuff in your trunk, combine your shopping trips. This is all sound advice but there's one driving tip that will probably save you more gas than all the others, especially if you spend a lot of time on the highway: Slow down. In a typical family sedan, every 10 miles per hour you drive over 60 is like the price of gasoline going up about 54 cents a gallon. That figure will be even higher for less fuel-efficient vehicles that go fewer miles on a gallon to start with. The reason is as clear as the air around you. When cruising on the highway, your car will be in its highest gear with the engine humming along at relatively low rpm's. All your car needs to do is maintain its speed by overcoming the combined friction of its own moving parts, the tires on the road surface and, most of all, the air flowing around, over and under it. Pushing air around actually takes up about 40% of a car's energy at highway speeds, according to Roger Clark, a fuel economy engineer for General Motors. Traveling faster makes the job even harder. More air builds up in front of the vehicle, and the low pressure "hole" trailing behind gets bigger, too. Together, these create an increasing suction that tends to pull back harder and harder the faster you drive. The increase is actually exponential, meaning wind resistance rises much more steeply between 70 and 80 mph than it does between 50 and 60. Every 10 mph faster reduces fuel economy by about 4 mpg, a figure that remains fairly constant regardless of vehicle size, Clark said. (It might seem that a larger vehicle, with more aerodynamic drag, would see more of an impact. But larger vehicles also tend to have larger, more powerful engines that can more easily cope with the added load.) That's where that 54 cents a gallon estimate comes from. If a car gets 28 mpg at 65 mph, driving it at 75 would drop that to 24 mpg. Fuel costs over 100 miles, for example - estimated at $3.25 a gallon - would increase by $1.93, or the cost of an additional 0.6 gallons of gas. That would be like paying 54 cents a gallon more for each of the 3.6 gallons used at 65 mph. That per-gallon price difference remains constant over any distance. Engineers at Consumer Reports magazine tested this theory by driving a Toyota Camry sedan and a Mercury Mountaineer SUV at various set cruising speeds on a stretch of flat highway. Driving the Camry at 75 mph instead of 65 dropped fuel economy from 35 mpg to 30. For the Mountaineer, fuel economy dropped from 21 to 18. Over the course of a 400-mile road trip, the Camry driver would spend about $6.19 more on gas at the higher speed and Mountaineer driver would spend an extra $10.32. Driving even slower, say 55 mph, could save slightly more gas. In fact, the old national 55 mph speed limit, instituted in 1974, was a response to the period's energy crisis. It was about more than just high gas prices, though. The crisis of the time involved literal gasoline shortages due to an international embargo. Gas stations were sometimes left with none to sell, and gas sales had to be rationed. The crisis passed, but the national 55 mph speed limit stayed on the books until the law was loosened in the 1980s. It was finally dropped altogether in 1995. (The law stuck around more because of an apparent safety benefit than for fuel saving.) Despite today's high gas prices, don't expect to see a return to the national 55 mph speed limit. The law was unpopular in its day, and higher speeds have become so institutionalized that even the Environmental Protection Agency's fuel economy test cycle now includes speeds of up to 80 mph. Driving 10 miles per hour faster, assuming you don't lose time getting pulled over for a speeding ticket, does have the advantage of getting you to your destination 50 minutes sooner on that 400 mile trip. Whether that time difference is worth the added cost and risk is, ultimately, up to you. ------------------------- Around town my driving hasn't changed much. For the majority of the time on the high way I set the cruise on the speed limit which is usually 55 around here and let it be. So has anybody changed the way they drive since gas prices have started going up? If not do you plan to if it reaches a certain point?

YOU HAVE NO IDEA! Iv been just watching it on TV so much that im getting this anger thing...Watching fishing is nothing like fishing! You can say that again. I watched so much fishing over the winter that I haven't really wanted to watch anything for the past month or so.

Just my opinions.

Just wanted to confirm cause I haven't seen it anywhere in the thread. Launch is at 7a?

What kind of toyota do you have? I was reading on another forum that Toyota is doing a buyback program on 95-00 model year Tacomas due to frame rot. The guy that ended up having the problem on the other forum got 1.5 times the Kelly blue book value for his truck plus a $1000 voucher towards a new truck. Toyota ended up cutting him a check for $16,000!

Awesome pigs man! Congrats.

N What gate do you plan on fishing out of?

Another vote for the BPS Crankin Stick. I've got a 7 foot Medium and love it. I've got it paired up with a Calcutta 150 and have no problems casting 1/4 oz and up. For $60 you can't beat it.

I've got Kansas over UCLA in my brackets but I think NC is gonna take it home.

X2 Tight Lines 8-) X3 As of right now it's fine. Thanks for the update Fluke. I figured if it was a site thing you guys would be on it.

And you'll get some much more bang for your buck at a BR Roadtrip. Being able to meet up with the memebers and their comraderie is something you just have to experience to fully understand. It really is a family we have here.

Just wondering if it was just my pc. I'm seeing around 45 secs to over a minute load time. Anybody else?

Awesome!! With any luck at selling our house my wife and will be moving back to KY this year. Either way I"ll be there.

That thing is a PIGBEAST. Congrats man!

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Was it their Flurocarbon or Fluroclear? I can handle their Flurocarbon but the Fluroclear is crap in my opinion. Also what lb test are you using? Maybe dropping down 2lbs may make a welcome difference. Finally I don't know how well it works because I haven't used it yet but I picked up a bottle of Reel Magic to try out this season. Just something else to think about.

Welcome to the best bass fishing website on the net! Welcome aboard!!

We're not here to catch dinks either. ;D I picked up a 6in Huddleston and am going to pick up a Mattlures perch in the coming weeks. If I only had one I'd definately want something in a yellow perch pattern here in New England.