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I guess it's time to drop by Cabela's and order my Christmas present from my wife - Old Town Discovery 133 canoe. Want to put it on my Cabela's Card for the points... they seem to be the same price everywhere. Along with paddles and PFD's, it'll be around $1200, plus shipping to my house (I think. not sure on that yet). That's the only way I can get it shipped - they don't ship to store for canoes, and they don't stock them at the store. Lot's of kayaks, but no canoes.

Sunday was 69°. Nice. Monday was 14°. Tuesday was 22° with 2" of fresh snow on the ground in the morning. By Friday we might hit a freezing 32°. No thaw to worry about around here yet.

I use my Salter digital kitchen scale. Mine is old enough that I can't find anything that really looks like it any more. The one that has won in testing twice over the last 3 years on America's Test Kitchen is the Oxo Good Grips food scale with pull out display (available on Amazon for $50). Like my Salter, it can be set to weigh in 1 gram or 1/8 ounce increments, and has an 11 pound capacity.

Last summer I had no problem throwing most weightless plastics with a Diawa Tatula CT 100XS 8.1 on a 6' medium Ugly Stik. I found my limit when I tried a 4" curly tail... just couldn't load the rod with such a small bait. Everything else seemed fine for me, but I'm new to this so I don't have anything to compare with to know if I was doing pretty good or just didn't know that my casts were mediocre. I was able to reach most of the areas of my little town pond casting from shore, so when I get out on a lake in my canoe this year, I'm not at all concerned about being about to use most any bait I want. (I will have a second baitcasting rig this summer - Tatula CT100H 6.3 but no rod for it yet) When I do need those smaller plastics, I'll tie them on my spinning rig.

They had better. I'm keeping mine for as long as I can still drive it, barring any accidents. From what I see around here, a 10 year old truck is just broken in.

Drove up to Cabela's yesterday... maybe a mistake. Went for a couple of boxes to try and get some sort of sense to my tackle storage. Ended up with a Whopper Plopper, couple of Spooks, several Rapala jerkbaits from the closeout rack.... did get the Plano boxes too. Oh yeah.... also a Daiwa Tatula CT 100H 6.3:1. Been watching for one to be in stock to complement my 8.1:1. Now I just need another rod to put one of them on. My planned $20 trip came out to a $200 trip.

Me.... blue truck, camo colored canoe carried on top. Not worried about what anyone thinks. I could easily afford a boat, just don't want the hassles that go with one. That's just me.

Yep... that makes it attractive to me as a canoe guy. I don't have to mount it until I need it. Don't even have to have it in the boat most of the time.

I like it. It might be just what I need for my canoe - assuming that I decide to do any extended night fishing. It would be easy to put an eye bolt on the bow deck (which would be the rear deck when I'm paddling solo). Easier to mount I think than the Yak Attack one as I don't have any accessory rail on the canoe. As long as I have a decent light with me, I'm not too worried if I get caught out briefly after dark. The regulations here only require that I have a light that I can turn on to warn off a boat in time to prevent a collision, and I always have some sort of waterproof tac light in my tackle box, so I'm covered for any unexpectedly late paddles. Generally, if I'm out that late I'm going to traveling pretty close to shore anyway.

Amen! Got an awful lot of very hard water around here yet.

Maybe a modification of that to: The effect of line diameter on strength for different compositions. Since it can vary by brand, even just different brands of mono can have differing breaking points for the same diameter of line. Or maybe do a comprehensive testing of knot strength with commonly used line types and tests.

Mine loves Nat Geo Wild (especially anything about wolves), and any commercial with a dog in it. When a dog goes off the side of the screen, he'll race into the bedroom looking for it.

And those early morning shows are worse the farther west you live. A 6 AM show for you is 4 AM for me.

This is golden. I don't understand why some have to be so secretive about where they hail from. Sometimes that can be the key to getting a useful answer.

I'm not a pro at anything fishing wise, but I have no trouble at all fishing cranks with an 8.1:1 Tatula CT. I guess that's because I've never had but one rod and reel at a time most of my life, so I made it work for whatever bait I was using. It feels almost decadent now that I have one casting and one spinning combo, and I'm actually planning on a second baitcaster this spring. The new one will be more of a mid-low range, but for me, that's a convenience, not a necessity.

It's not only a case of which do you prefer in a given type of water, but time of day, time of year, weather, and just the sometimes notional nature of fishing - they all impact choice, and even when that's all sorted out, preferences still differ from one person to another. I watch MLF and see 6 guys fishing 6 different lures and all catching fish. Tends to tip the scales toward presentation being the key - putting the bait in the right place with the right look - even more important than the specific bait used. Most of the comparison threads I've read here seem to run a similar course. As someone who is relatively new to the technical aspects of modern bass fishing (much of my bass fishing experience is 50 years out of date), it can be confusing, but I feel that I've gotten better at sifting out what seems more relevant to me and my preferences. I'm still taking baby steps at the moment, so I'm focusing on a few general ideas and saving the details for when I actually have more experience.

Trout are bred in hatcheries in every state I'm familiar with. Historically here in Colorado it's been mostly rainbow, but they do others too. I do know that they have done some stocking of warmwater species, but I don't know if they grow them here or get them from somewhere else. The most recent stocking of largemouth in the 3 or 4 lakes in my area was 2015, as far as I've been able to tell from the P&W website.

Done.... actually I set my Hopper for the whole series a couple of weeks ago.

Stayed up til 1 AM last night watching "Josie Wales".... "Seems like when you get to disliking folks, they ain't around long neither." Chief Dan George as Lone Watie

What is their reasoning behind leaving it so low? I mean, if it's optional, why would they not want it bank full? Out here where I live on the Colorado prairie, lakes are lowest in the fall because they are drawn down during the summer for agriculture, then fill during the spring snowmelt runoff from the mountains - how full they get is mostly determined by Mother Nature and the legal pecking order for water rights, not as often by community decisions.

Thanks for this topic. Somehow I missed this show when it was on, and I'm regretting that. I have to wonder why ESPN would be so averse to either showing the show in reruns or syndication. Seems like it would be a winner, and certainly as entertainment, it's not time sensitive. I just ordered the book.

I was practicing my panning technique and he was at a fast trot on a scent - probably a rabbit, he's death on cottontails. I was using a 1/20 second shutter speed and tracking by hand. I wanted to get his face in focus, and I did that, but everything else was moving in different directions and speeds. I liked the way it came out.

You may get kidded about talking to a poster who hasn't been around in a few years, but if the topic is relevant, I don't see an issue with it. I'm fairly new here too, so much of the past content was lost in the back pages of the forum, and I often enjoy reading some of those threads when someone revives them. Just watch the dates and start your post with something like "I realize that this is an old thread, but...." It does help to reduce clutter. One golf forum that I'm on actually prefers that you resurrect old threads if there is one that is relevant, rather than adding clutter to the forum with what are nearly identical questions or comments.

One of my favorites, one which for some reason is rarely shown on TV, is The Cheyenne Social Club with James Stewart and Henry Fonda. The interaction between those two old fashioned cowboys cracks me up every time. Also loved Josie Wales... Chief Dan George was a hoot. Most by Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a good story too. Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin and his horse put on an Oscar winning performance.

I can tell you that if I had planned to buy a boat, this would probably have been the one I got too. I went round and round with it a couple of years ago and finally decided that age 70 was a bad time to be getting a boat for the first time. Should have started that a long time ago if I was going to do it. This boat and this price sure is a sweet temptation though.