Bassn Blvd

I sent mine back to Cabellas 2 weeks ago and still waiting for a response. I cleaned and oiled it but no luck. I sure liked that reel, even with the screetching noise.

Try the ANTIQUE store?

I'm running around the house going crazy, waiting for westpalmdude to get over here to go SNOOK fishing. YEEEEEEHAWWWWWWW BABY! The fight is gonna be on like a pot of neck bones. I emptied ALL the bass gear from the boat and loaded the SNOOK gear. I'll post results, camera is plugged in.

Good one..

I do mine tomorrow at 11am. I see a few more Loomis' in the very near future.

Looks like cellulite pressed into a slice of lunch meat.

They said everything of importance will burn upon re-entry.

I have this one and like it. BCFR893

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I cannot tell if it's photochopped or not but most certainly CRAZY.

Sound like you had a productive and fun time. Oh yea, while you are at the store dropping of your PROTOTYPE, how about picking up a ???????

Best of luck on your adventure. We are expecting a cold front by end of this week. Should drop to lower 70's.

Below are pic's of my neighborhood lake. This is one of the 2 neighborhood lakes I fish when I decide at the last minute to go fish, usually an hour or so before dark or when I don't have time to go far. This lake is at least 25 yrs. old and max depth, that I found so far, is 30 feet. Average depth is about 8-10 feet. The lake is very clean and clear with visibility at times up to 10 feet. The bottom, and I mean darn near entire lake bottom, is made up of grass. The grass begins at the waters edge and is found as deep as 15 plus feet deep. It gets to 3-4 feet in certain ares of the middle and as deep as 9-12 feet within a few feet from shore in other areas. The biggest Bass I know of being C&R was 13lbs. It may have been caught and kept since then but I don't know. I sure the heck haven't caught it yet. My lures of choice are Watermelon seed worms, Beetle Spins and small Rapalas and small diameter line due to the clear water. I have yet to try live bait. These are just a few different parts of the lake. it's actully fairly decent in size. This is grass is about 4-5 below the surface.

Sounds like fun Korea. I'm in. I have a lure ready to go but who do I mail it to?

Yea, but you gotta give the fish a sportin chance.

Wow! What language is that?

I gotta get one. And I thought my Benelli semi/auto was fun to shoot.

Always fishing. Used to be girls (close 2nd to fishing) until I got married. Was thinking of getting back into the rod building business but it's been a long time and I know there is a bunch of new stuff out there that I would have to weed through.

Call and ask them.

Nice catchin dude. Night fishing can be a blast.

Beautiful scenery fishdaddy. Yep, 82* tomorrow. I have the boat all hooked up for the morning bite. I figure to be back in by 10:30 to relax in the A/C.

Near Lantana and 441 in Palm Beach .

6'2 and 216..

Hey now, easy does it.

Westapalmdude, Jason, and I went to my neighborhood lake this evening to have some fun catching 1-3 pounders on beetle spins with #6 mono. Let me start by describing this lake. Max depth= 34'. Water visibility= 5-10'. Vegitation= Eel grass. Springy angel hair pasta looking grass. Biggest bass I personally know of being caught and released from this lake was 13lbs. Lake is at least 25 yrs old. On to the story. I caught 2 dinks about 1/2-1lb on the beetlespin. Jason and I had a few other short strikes but nothing major. The wind was blowing from the east which blew the bait to our end of the lake. The minnows/shad would scatter across the top as our line cut through the school. I made my cast into about 10' of water and began the retrieve. My beetlespin came up the drop to about 4' when all I felt was something extremely heavy on the other end. I never had a chance to even set the hook and quite frankly didn't have to. This fish made a wake as if you were dragging a boulder behind your boat just under the surface. She headed due east along the bank about 15' from shore. The drag was SCREAMING so I tightened down a bit, actually d**n near hammered. I fill my spools to the max so I had about 105 yards of line. I looked down at my reel and could see metal through the line. OH CRAP, I'm being spooled. Now SHE jumped and made a whale of a splash and continued her run. Jason and I took off RUNNING along the bank towards her, trying to gain some line. Just as I almost have her directly parallel to me, she turns and hauls azz North to deep water and ain't slowing down. All that line I gained is now GONE and I can't turn her. She bogs down in the heavy grass and all I can feel are head shakes. I try pulling her in and managed to get about 5' of line when she pulls, taking back 7'. Now she stops and I can't budge her. She is buried in the grass and still shaking her head but I can't pull her in. Now I have caught hundreds and hundreds of Snook. This is a Snook as well as Tarpon, Sea Trout and Redfish while wading the flats using U/L gear but let me tell ya, this monster was easily double digits. Jason and I, to no avail, made every effort to get this BEAST in. Jason even tried to find a Jon boat in someone's backyard that we could use to track her down. But, no boat. It's been a good, hard 15 minutes and she still tries to make short runs. I'm able to raise about 20 yards of line up and out of the water and the line is covered in eel grass. The remaining 70 or so yards of line has tunneled through the grass. I'm done. My only chance is to swim down to her. I empty my pockets and into the water I go. I wade out a bit and realize it gets deep quick and the grass is THICK. No way a can safely go further w/out risk of drowning in the grass. I get out of the water and and slowly start walking backwards while holding the spool, testing the rod and line strength ( Loomis warranty lets you test your rod to the extreme). I can still feel her head shakes and I get a good amount of line in and then, OOPS, hook pulled. I get the beetlespin in and noticed the hook is actually bent. Man, what a disappointment. This was the biggest freshwater fish I have EVER hooked and I got my azz KICKED. I only hope she stays in this general area because Jason I are most certainly going back for a rematch. Here are a few pic's Jason took. These are me just hopelessly watching my spool and Jason as she peels line. This is me trying to get line back and thinking hard about going for a swim. She is about half way across the lake. Oh well, always tomorrow. Thanks for reading.