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Saw this picture this morning, wife asked me if I was ok,,,,,,,,

Reading the Triline 4lb mono thread, my question to you all is what 4lb mono do you like and use? Back in the day I used Stren, but haven't used 4lb in years. I brought Sunline Super Natural 4lb and I'm not impressed with it at all, I can grab it and break it with very little force with my hands (Chuck Norris I'm not)

Got out today as this was my only chance this week, baby sitting the next 2 days then I have to cook a bunch of stuff for my daughters 30th birthday on Saturday. Hit up a lake I haven't fished in a couple of months, it's got a max depth of 12'. Kind of a grind with more wind then predicted and managed 6 fish. 3 largemouth, 1 smallmouth, 1 crappie and 1 perch.

Well, that's that, no brainer is right in my wheelhouse Thanks guys, I was going to do it, I've ordered from Smooth Drag before for my salty stuff.

I have a couple of older Pflueger Supremes with felt drag washers. What's you're thoughts on replacing the felt with carbontex? It's about 8 $ for each reel from Smooth Drag, other wise the reels are in good working condition. I have Daiwa, Abu and Penn reels with Carbon drag washers, which work great with those drags with a real light coating of Cal's grease.

I always back them off when putting them away after a trip, it's just a habit from fishing for over 60 years. I tighten them up when loading them up for a trip, and check again when on the water

Been exclusively kayak fishing for 20 yrs. Before that own several different boats and shoreline fished at lot too. So a lot of the time I’m fishing alone, though I do have several friends who I do kayak fish with at times. Unfortunately like many others here I have lost friends and some that due to health issues are unable to fish anymore. I don’t mind fishing alone though my wife is not too keen on it. I do miss at times the comradery when with others, sharing info and busting on each other. I’m just extremely grateful that I’m still able to get out and do what I do at 71

Got back a couple of days ago from a solo camping trip on the Delaware River. Arrived last Monday and by the time I set up camp didn’t have time to launch the kayak. So fished from shore off the campsite for a hr and was able to land 3 small Smallmouths. Launched the next day on the river and got 14 Smallmouths, took a while to get on them but changed to drifting the current in 7’ of water over gravel with a Nikko Hellgrammite on a 1/8 ned head was the ticket. Next day I headed to a lake I never fished, got a Largemouth and small pickerel right away, and that was it for the day, did lose a good one on a drop shot though. Next day back to the river again, but couldn’t get any kind of consistent bite, wound up with 6 Smallmouths. The last day I wanted to launch at a site that the road to has been closed all year for repairing the road, it was supposed to be opened on Monday, but now they said it would open on Friday, so I waited till after 9am to go there. Well the road was still had the road blocks up so it was now a change of plans. I decided to take a ride to a reservoir I had only fished once a couple of years ago. Wasn’t on the water till 11am, water had a 10’ visibility tried fishing relatively shallow for a while and got nothing. Spoke to a couple different guys on boats and they said it was real slow, they weren’t getting anything either. Fished a little more and couldn’t find anything, so I decided to head back to the ramp fishing along the way. I figured let me check the 28’ to 32’ line on the way back since nothing was happening shallower. Still miffed that the road to the other launch was closed, I probably looked like the kid walking down the dirt road with both hands in his pocket kicking rocks along the way. I finally saw a good size bait ball with some stuff on the bottom, so dropped down a drop shot in a hail Mary attempt. I hook up and it’s a good one, pole bent down into the water and drag going off. Have it on for a good while until I finally able to see it, a big Smallmouth and I even said out loud “don’t jump” I was able to land it and it was the biggest Smallmouth I’ve gotten in many years. Fumbling around for my camera for a quick pic, it shook around and I lost my grip on it and she swam away. Perseverance saved my day, made a great ending to a great trip. Got back to the campsite and spoke with the lady at the office, she said NPS finally opened the road at 1pm Sorry for the long post.

Buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to go fishing up by one of the lakes by him in Northwest Jersey, well yeah,,,,,,, The choice was between one with bigger fish or the smaller lake with numbers. We chose the numbers lake as we did well there a couple of weeks ago. Temp in the morning was 52 with a pretty stiff NW wind, it was a little chilly. Clear and high sun. We did pretty well, I landed 26 and he got 21. Nice size crappie for up here, with a bunch of small to decent size bass with a couple of nice pickerel to spice things up, no Rock Bass were harmed during this outing. Most were caught on a 3" Swing Impact on a 1/8 ball jig.

Wow, nothing in New Joisey once again

Not much compared to some of ya, do I really need it, that does not compute 🙂

Looks 😃, I don't bring a bump board with me or even own a scale. I did a quick measure with a tape on my paddle, 18" which is a good sized one here.

Had to hit the reservoir again today before the rain tomorrow. Wound up with another 12 fish day, 6 Largemouths, 5 Smallmouths and one Rock Bass. Lost about 6 fish on the jump. One was really nice Smallie that I hooked and thought I lost it, it was charging the kayak and I thought it wasn't on, well it was and kept coming up and I lost it on the jump. I got hung up on the bottom and had to retie my drop shot rig as I lost the whole rig, of course I loosen up the drag to retie, cast it out and got a nice hit,,well it went zzzzzzzzzz and no fish, forgot to tighten up drag From what I can see on this thread we should always post a pic of of Rock Bass