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We have one here in New Jersey supposedly opening sometime next year. I say supposedly because this has been going on for a dozen years ! 20 or so years ago we were going to have Cabela's up here in the Meadowlands Xanadu complex as an anchor store, well that never happened. At least now with Bass Pro they have started building the structure.

Fished a private lake in North Jersey, first time this year and what a difference a year makes. It was heavily weeded in, previous years there were not much weed. We were able to find a different area of the lake that was not as bad. Wound up with 16 fish, Largemouths, Smallmouths and a couple of perch.

I have 2 close friends who had their knee's replaced, both worked in the trades and could hardly walk. Both are doing great now and they both said they listened and did what rehab/Pt's had them do. Hip for me, shattered my pelvis in an accident and had to learn to walk again at 40. Rehab took months, but had a great PT and followed her instructions religiously, 30 years later kayaking, fishing and camping a lot. Having a good surgeon is important, but doing the rehab work is key.

I loosen mine after every trip when I get home and unload. Habit, from the days of felt and leather, 90% of all my reels are now carbon fiber with a light coat of Cal's on em. I test my drag when putting the rods on the kayak, but when retying or fixing what ever I messed up on the kayak I loosen it to pull line off the reel, of course then I have forgotten to retighten the drag and go to set the hook,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Fuzzy Nugget would be a great band name

Geez, I had to take a nap after just reading that

2 packs of blueberry belVita, 2 tuna sandwiches and at least 3 bottles of water and 1 or 2 frozen waters in my cooler. Trips are usually 6 hrs on the water paddle'in my kayak. Sometimes eat a sandwich on the way home which is 45 min to a hr.

Trout Mask Replica, wife thinks I'm insane !

You're not the only one

I'm all in on the Susky team. Strictly a paddle kayak fisherman, 2d sonar with gps. I look forward to every trip, sure I'd rather catch then not, but blessed just to be able to still do this. I don't weigh and hardly ever measure fish, unless I'm fluke fishing then measure for keepers and this is the only time I bring a net. I do keep count of what I catch. Enjoy the wild life all around while on the water.

PA has/had some of the strangest liquor laws, I reside in the Garden State (NJ)

It always blows my mind that some of you guys can get beer and liquor in gas stations

Ha, same as me, I had to grill some sausage for sausage and peppers for my upcoming camping trip. Saw my buddy and told him I'll just lay em out on the driveway, won't have to use the grill

Hitting right to 100 past 2 days, supposed to be the same tomorrow. Looks to break on Thursday, heading up that day to the Catskills for 5 days of camping and fishing. Friday up there looks like the high will be 64!!! Doing stuff outside in this stuff really drains this old man, have some other stuff to do but it can wait till next week.

First boat that I got a flasher on was a 14' Mirrocraft in the early 70's with a Ray Jefferson flasher, could't afford the Lowrance. Caught the saltwater bug, got a 17' Boston Whaler Montauk and got the top of line unit, Lowrance X-15 paper chart recorder. Man that was messy with the dust, and changing the paper but boy did that thing open up what's under the water!! Move up to a 23' cuddy cabin that was docked in the water, and I think the Lowrance was a X-16, still using paper. Had that until the early 90's, accident then derailed any boating for quite a few years. Been in a kayak now for since 2004, just using Lowrance 2d sonar with mapping. I'd be lost without it, not that I use it for "seeing" fish, though that does happen when fishing deep water in the salt or fresh, mostly just for depth, channel edges, flats, drop offs etc. Even on water I've fished for years ya never know what you might come upon, exactly what WRB said, eyes under the water.

Same here in NJ for me Ike, cut the lawn earlier this morning, after I was done went to take a shower and could barely get my t-shirt off, it was pretty much fused to me I don't feel too bad, neighbor is having his roof done, their doing a total rip off, guys have been working on it all day !

A couple tonight, girls had some Espresso Martinis, Maine Peeper was a father's day gift

That reminds me of night fishing for Bluefish on a party boat many years ago, got home and fillet'ed em and put the racks in a black plastic bag. It was the middle of summer and I went to sleep. Woke up in the afternoon, later was outside and saw that the bag was now like a giant balloon ready to burst. So in my infinite wisdom I sliced open the bag with my knife, well the stench that came out of that would gag a maggot, something I still remember to this day 🤮

Ha!! The concrete jungle , I worked in Parsippany for almost 20 yrs till retiring 3 years ago. The town I moved to was a small quiet town, now they can't build enough condo's/townhouses

I'm up on the Essex/Morris county border That's from Weather-***, I don't put a lot of credence in that, it seems to change every couple of hrs, just pretty sure it's going to be hot

Diving right into summer here;

Here in North Jersey we've pretty much have had a cold wet spring, temps lately barely breaking 60. Starting tomorrow we jump right into the middle of summer, low to high 90's for the next week

I can imagine someone reading that who knew nothing of bass fishing, they'ed think it was some kind of code, and you'd wind up on some watch list

At my age I'm pretty much am only interested in interactions with fish, people not so much anymore, dogs are cool too